Dead? Hardly. Ruling all but ensures net neutrality
Network World – As I predicted last month, a federal appeals court recently overturned the fines imposed by the Federal Communications Commission on Comcast in 2007. The ruling was overturned on the grounds that the FCC lacks jurisdiction over telco Internet access offerings. This decision has a number of ramifications, which I’ll go into shortly. [...]
Broadband plan, Palm dreams, more Facebook woes
IDG News Service – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan captured our attention this week and will undoubtedly continue to do that in the weeks (and months and years) ahead. In other news, Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein says that his company could have given the Droid a run for it’s money, only if. [...]
FCC wants 120MHz of spectrum from TV stations
IDG News Service – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will seek to take back 120MHz of spectrum from U.S. television stations in the next five years and reallocate it to wireless broadband providers in a voluntary program that would allow the stations to share or keep spectrum auction revenues, under a national broadband plan [...]
FCC should expect opposition to broadband plan, official says
IDG News Service – As the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins to implement its first national broadband plan in the coming weeks, it should expect opposition from nearly everyone in the tech and telecom communities to some parts of the proposal, said the leader of the team that put it together. When the FCC [...]
FCC’s national broadband plan released
IDG News Service – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission officially released the nation’s first national broadband plan Tuesday, but the document will be just the start of a long process to extend broadband service to millions of U.S. residents. The broadband plan, about 360 pages long, includes six long-term policy goals and dozens of specific [...]
Troyak takedown, security blues, ICANN meets
IDG News Service – The Troyak ISP, which has been linked to the Zeus botnet, was briefly taken down this week. The takedown occurred on the heels of the RSA Conference last week, where there was much talk about the “cat-and-mouse” game of trying to squelch cybercrime. Otherwise, things got a little testy at the [...]
Google offers to help run a ‘white spaces’ database
IDG News Service – Google is soliciting the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for the company to be an administrator of a database that would allow devices to access broadband Internet on unlicensed TV signal spectrum, known as “white spaces.” The position is a reversal for Google, which said in February 2009 that it did not [...]
Study: US among world’s leaders in broadband use
IDG News Service – U.S. residents rank among the world’s top in broadband use per month, meaning the broadband picture in the country isn’t as bad as some critics might make it, a telecom trade group said Wednesday. Much of the recent debate about broadband in the U.S. has focused on subscriber numbers and speed, [...]