To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (21684 ) 5/30/2007 12:39:53 PM From: Frank A. Coluccio Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 46821 Baller Herbst List: 5-30-07 BROADBAND More on N.C. bill: "The short title of the bill is 'The Local Government Fair Competition Act,' but the honest title should be 'The Monopolies Protection Act.'" wilsontimes.com Tullahoma (TN) Utilities Board readies bond issue for FTTP network; construction could begin by fall tullahomanews.com "U.S. broadband market on the decline" tinyurl.com "Now what would you do with bandwidth, if you had it" tinyurl.com Comcast PowerBoost lasts for only the first 10MB of any file dslreports.com "JupiterResearch predicts that 70 percent of US homes – some 86 million households – will have broadband Internet access by 2012." tekrati.com WIRELESS Baltimore planning citywide wireless, in cooperation with Towson University tinyurl.com Wireless Silicon Valley project "tangled in delays, setbacks; leaders blame complexity of the plan" tinyurl.com New device called Slupr "makes use of 6 wireless interfaces to slurp up open networks in your area and aggregate them into one large broadband connection, obviously increasing download speeds." . . . dslreports.com . . . "This might get you arrested six times in one day" wifinetnews.com More on Economist municipal Wi-Fi article wifinetnews.com Prague municipal wireless network approved muniwireless.com More on Ketchum, ID municipal wireless mtexpress.com "Will 802.11n bring back the Wi-Fi wars? Fatter access points are needed to handle the faster standard." tinyurl.com Sprint plans commercial WiMAX rollout in Q2 2008 tinyurl.com VIDEO Nevada state franchising bill passes Senate unanimously, heads to governor for signature multichannel.com "Verizon—clearly one of the most aggressive FTTP (fiber to the premise) advocates—is using an RF overlay architecture for its FiOS TV service, while putting in place the hooks to get to IPTV when ready. Thus far, Verizon’s bet is paying off." tinyurl.com OTHER NEWS Google says it needs to hold on to users' search data for up to two years for security and commercial reasons after being warned it could be violating European privacy laws by doing so tinyurl.com More on FTC's review of Google-DoubleClick tinyurl.com ------ If you would like to be added to or removed from our list, please send an e-mail to info@baller.com. ------ THE BALLER HERBST LAW GROUP A Professional Corporation www.baller.com ------