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Nate Anderson
Calls for 100Mbps broadband likely to go unheard... this year
Submitted by Benton Foundation on September 29, 2008 - 8:03pmLast updated: September 29, 2008 - 8:04pm
The US broadband strategy is not to have a strategy. Not only will the market's invisible hand dig those trenches for us, and then lay down the necessary wiring (thanks, ghostly fingers!), but it will ensure that speeds shoot ever upward, and US broadband is the envy of the world.
Federal lawsuits take on the humble hyperlink
Submitted by Benton Foundation on September 18, 2008 - 7:32pmLast updated: September 18, 2008 - 7:33pm
A pair of recent federal court cases coming from Wisconsin and Illinois have threatened to turn the most primitive functionality of the web -- the hyperlink -- into an "ask permission before linking" system.
Group warns FCC: Comcast's good behavior just a "trick play"
Submitted by Benton Foundation on July 18, 2008 - 7:29amLast updated: July 18, 2008 - 8:01am
Free Press has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission noting that Comcast is lying, blocking, flip-flopping, and upping its speeds without making infrastructure investments ("window dressing"), but the company's recent public partnerships with companies like BitTorrent are merely a facade designed to keep regulators at bay.
Clearwire promises a fully-open,
Submitted by Benton Foundation on June 12, 2008 - 9:16pmSprint Nextel and Clearwire are promising that their new WiMAX network will support both open access and wholesale access and that it will reach 140 million people by the end of 2010.
Cable: deregulation good for consumers; Ars: like heck it is
Submitted by Benton Foundation on June 12, 2008 - 7:56amAccording to the cable industry, if the last 10 years have taught us anything, it's that the cable industry in the US is focused on openness, innovation, and customer satisfaction; but if we can't keep the government's knuckleheaded regulators out of our cable lines and off our Internet, cable's nearly absurd level of innovation will be throttled down more effectively than BitTorrent uploads on Comcast's network.
Broadband: other countries do it better, but how?
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 13, 2008 - 7:10pmOne of the ironies of the current broadband situation in the US is that staunch free marketeers defend the status quo even though the result of their views has been duopoly and high prices.
Wyden to ISPs: "Think twice" about 'Net neutrality... or else
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 8, 2008 - 8:41amLast updated: May 8, 2008 - 7:51pm
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) stepped in front of a group of tech executives in Washington to deliver a surprisingly sharp defense of Network Neutrality. Pledging to use "every ounce of my energy to protect Network Neutrality," Sen Wyden had a message for Internet Service provider (ISPs) who might be pondering new charges for various forms of access: "think twice." If ISPs start down that road, they might soon find that they lose key legal protections including "safe harbors" and tax freedom.
