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Baller Herbst List: 4-17-07 AMERICA'S GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS Text of Broadband Stakeholders Group report on the need for FTTH in the UK - "[T]here is a strong probability that higher speed broadband will be crucial to maintain competitiveness. However, there is, as yet, no clear commercial model for widespread next generation access deployment. The policy instinct where there is a lack of evidence will be to do nothing. How- ever, if significant efficiency gains are derived from next generation broadband then it is pos- sible that nations that opt for accelerated deployment will gain sustained competitive advantage over nations that do not. Given the very long lead times involved in deploy- ing next generation broadband, the risk of action must be weighed against the risk of inaction." broadbanduk.org In the meanwhile, in the US ... "PC Magazine last week revealed that custo- mers across the country have received letters from Comcast warning them to limit their bandwidth consumption or face a one-year termination of service. The company, though, “is refusing to reveal how much bandwidth use is allowed, making it impossible for custo- mers to know if they are in danger of violating Comcast’s limit,” according to the article’s writer, Chloe Albanesius.” nytimes.com With growth in the US uncertain, Verizon and AT&T look abroad for new business bloggingstocks.com (Flashback: Until the FTC and Congress shut them down, the major private electric utilities of the 1920s created "'fantastic aggregates of geographically and socially unrelated systems scattered from hell to hallelujah,' including real estate companies, water companies, street and railroad ventures, and fuel and engineering firms, ranging from the Philippines to central and southern Europe and South America." baller.com BROADBAND FCC launches several proceedings to gather data on gathering data, examine broadband practices, determine whether broadband is being deployed rapidly enough fcc.gov Residential FTTH connections have doubled in the past year, according to updated report from FTTH Council and TIA; "the study shows that FTTH is being installed by a range of incumbent and competitive providers, not just large telephone companies. Accounting for more than 430,000 FTTH subscribers are small rural telephone companies, medium-sized tele- phone service providers and cable companies, private facilities-based competitive local ex- change carriers, and public entities such as municipalities and public utilities." fiberopticsonline.com More on "100 Megabits to the home by 2015" gigaom.com "BT Says No Need For Traffic Shaping Or Breaking Net Neutrality; Just Add Bandwidth" techdirt.com “An explosive rise in Internet access at the nation's public libraries has also led to a solid increase in the number of visitors," according to a study released Monday by the American Library Assn. "Far from hurting American libraries, the Internet has actually helped to spur more people to use their local libraries because it has increased our hunger for know- ledge and information," Loriene Roy, presi- dent-elect of the American Library Assn., said in a statement.” latimes.com WIRELESS Cox to provide wifi in two locations in VA washingtonpost.com Openairboston.net updates RFI and urges vendors to respond/clarify muniwireless.com "Wi-Fi business models are morphing into what many consider more practical, predictable plans for providing sustainable municipal mesh networks." wirelessweek.com Metro Wi-Fi for City of London theinquirer.net Singapore Wi-Fi vendors to share experiences earthtimes.org DOCSIS and WiMAX "like kissing cousins" cedmagazine.com More on Meraki in San Francisco gigaom.com VIDEO Editorial opposes FL statewide franchise bill news-journalonline.com PEG issues under debate this week in TN t-g.com NAB CEO seek to recast must-cary and down- conversion policy debate as forms of discrim- ination by cable operators against broadcasters multichannel.com VOIP Challenged Vonage patents (from Dan Berninger) scratchpad.wikia.com "Sprint may buy Vonage" dslreports.com COPYRIGHT Copyright Royalty Board upholds webcasting decision; dire threat for Internet radio stations . . . dslreports.com news.com.com techdirt.com . . . SaveNetRadio Coalition launched blog.wired.com OTHER NEWS Google's purchase of DoubleClick raises new privacy issues: "would create the world's single largest repository of details about people's behavior online" latimes.com gigaom.com "Days numbered for tax-free Net sales" news.com.com Top 21 U.S. ISPs by subscriber isp-planet.com "Cable's high water mark?" 247wallst.com ------ If you would like to join or leave our list, please send an e-mail to info@baller.com. ------ THE BALLER HERBST LAW GROUP A Professional Corporation www.baller.com ------