Lawrence Spiwak offers an important caution about OECD Broadband Rankings and analysis of broadband and wireless. The data is useful, but the analysis is flawed.

Consumers may be fooled by web popups unless a standardized and secure out-of-band notification system is developed.

It’s one thing to have pretty graphs and fancy charts, but substance should always trump superficial looks.  Unfortunately, too many people are citing the latest estimated broadband rankings without analyzing what the numbers mean or ever question if the numbers are right to begin with.  When we compare real-world Akamai results versus synthetic speedtest.net tests [...]

Comcast has announced that they will begin to test a new monitoring system called Comcast Constant Guard that looks for botnets on their network.

Does the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 give government too much control over the internet? A Congressional staffer who works on the issue says the vague language does not make the legislation innocuous.

Congestion pricing might be one solution to 3G congestion, but prioritizing lower usage subscribers over the heaviest subscribers is a better way to manage congestion.

Most young people these days have little recollection of broadcast television much less UHF. Yet in the era of on-demand streaming video over the wired Internet, there’s still a place for wireless broadcast television.

Three economists Everett Ehrlich, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, and Wayne A. Leighton have written a paper on “The Impact of Regulation on Innovation and Choice in Wireless Communications”. The paper examines the state of wireless competition in the U.S. relative to the world and the effect of regulations sought out by Skype and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

Akamai has released its 2009 Q2 State of the Internet report.

While the Oxford broadband report may have compiled some useful data, the fact that the latency values appear to be completely arbitrary and unnecessary means that the BQS rankings may be inaccurate.