Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

Reported by Tech Review, the DOJ has played Sock Puppet to the Telco Policy on Net Neutrality, despite overwhelming empirical evidence that proves that network buildout will happen only with Net Neutrality and Local Loop Unbundling. Harold Feld covered this more effectively than I can, in his article “The Bush Administration DOJ Just Can’t Do […]

I just had an interesting juxtaposition of two good articles to read. One tells why the other one is wrong, providing the FCC and Congress get our Telecomm Reform right this time, and the “market forces” telecomm sock puppet Congresspeople who take Telecomm Money get voted out of office.
The first one is “The Internet is […]

Lately the news has been full of stories of Hacked Apple IPhones, the chutzpah prize going to the 17 year old NJ kid who has a hacked phone for sale on ebay, which can be used on other networks, such as the T-Mobile Network, as well as internationally, without paying the AT&T Vig. Many of […]

If ever there was an argument for telecomm regulation reform by Congress, this is it.
Both MSNBC and the New York Times have reported that National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell has admitted that AT&T and Verizon, as well as other unnamed communications companies, have helped the Bush Administration spy on people. And during that time was […]

There’s a lot going on right now on the Telecomm/Big Media front.
Murdoch. Ugh. Don’t even wanna go there. I hope the FCC starts to do something about this manure. It stinks.
Harold Feld has a wrap up of the humongous heap of paper out of the FCC that documents the Spectrum Auction Rules. It’s a […]

Harold has written up his notes on the meeting yesterday at the FCC re spectrum auction rules, and given some preliminary analysis, though I’m sure he’ll be writing more about this, and thank the Big Kahuna he does, since his is one of the sane voices when it comes to Telecomm/Broadband/Spectrum Policy. And why does […]

First, Senator Durbin’s YouTube Video explaining his Experiment in Democracy.

Since Tuesday, Senator Durbin has had experts in all aspects of Telecommuncations, Broadband and Wifi/Wireless policy, as well as regular people like me, contributing to a conversation about what we want and expect our Telecom/Broadband/Wifi/Wireless Policy to be, what We, the People, deserve as a return […]

A nice, but misguided friend, Bill Simon of the Political Vine, sent me this link recently, since he hears me ranting about Net Neutrality all the time. The article, from Americans for Prosperity, which is a group that Bill has interfaced with, trots out all the same tired Telecomm Rhetoric that Hands Off The Internet […]

Well, it’s actually about the Spectrum auction, but it’s being publicized as an issue BECAUSE of the IPhone.
Give Markey a leg up . . . and watch.

In typical “letter of the law but not the spirit of the law” fashion, AT&T will now give customers the $10 a month aDSL, called FastAccess DSL Lite, that was mandated by the FCC as a condition of the merger with BellSouth. Problem is that very few people have succeeded in actually signing up for […]