A recent story in the Boston Herald says that Verizon is again saying that if they don’t get a state franchise bill passed soon that they won’t be able to wire FiOS into much of the state. Hell, many parts of Mass don’t have dsl or cable now, so how would this be different?
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There’s another AT&T sponsored Cable Franchising Bill in Tennessee, this one being pushed by the Telecom Astroturf group “Connected Tennessee“. It’s not the only Tennessee Cable Franchise bill, but it is the one getting the most press and attention, probably because of the dough that’s being slung around, and now that telecom money is being […]
Nwitimes.com is reporting that in Indiana, after passage of one of the ubiquitous ‘Cable Choice and Competition‘ state level bills written by the phone companies, and pushed into passage by the phone companies deploying a swarm of lobbyists and handing out lots of chunky campaign contributions at the local level, the only neighborhoods that have […]
Right now the FCC is looking into Comcast’s packet spoofing to shut off BitTorrent traffic, which Comcast says is for the purpose of “managing the network”. Never mind that there are other ways to accomplish the same thing. Oh, and might I mention that LEGAL uses of BitTorrent are in direct competition with one of […]
The small local independent papers are full of news that is NOT being picked up by Big Media, and when you put these pieces together it shows how broken things are. First are the stories about the big telecomms steamrolling into statehouses and buying state congressmen right and left, not to mention Governors, to get […]
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