I like to read history, including historical fiction, so I was happy when a friend turned me on to George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire, a four-volume-and-counting pastiche of Medieval Europe/Roman Frontier/Golden Horde, with a soupcon of magic and a few dragons thrown in, centered on sympathetic good/bad characters and realistically [...]

Goldstein reports that Verizon Wireless CEO Ivan Seidenberg has stated that data plan rates for Verizon’s new LTE 4G mobile data service have not been decided. Seidenberg has stated that, “…the company’s higher-end data plan could serve as a template for the offerings.”

There were quite a number of stories that inaccurately reported on the Comcast versus Level 3 peering dispute. Those stories inaccurately reported that Comcast was trying to charge an additional toll on the entire Internet (video in particular). The mistakes in the stories were understandable because so many analysts go it wrong but those stories do need to be updated and corrected.

In my video on the peering dispute between Level 3 Communications and Comcast, I made a number of key assertions that were deduced from FCC testimony and PR statements from both companies. Now Comcast has come out to add confirmation to my assertions.

Senators Snowe and Warner have introduced a bill to the Senate that will place Wi-Fi and femtocell access points in government buildings.

Virtual Takings: The Coming Fifth Amendment Challenge to Net Neutrality Regulation, by Daniel Lyons of BC Law School (available at SSRN and scheduled for the Notre Dame Law Review): [A]rgues that under the Supreme Court’s Takings Clause jurisprudence, the Commission’s proposed net neutrality rules effect a permanent physical occupation of private broadband networks and therefore [...]

Bloomberg ponders the question of “will Netflix kill the Internet”, but I think it has a misguided view of the effect of Netflix on the Internet. The evidence shows that Netflix is actually *growing* the Content Delivery Network (CDN) and broadband networks which are now a significant component of the Internet. In fact, entities like Netflix will force and enable this expansion to happen.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week announced that it had taken action against 82 websites “engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works.” “Action” means that ICE shut them down by getting a judicial order seizing the domain names under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2323 and associated laws, which [...]

This video gets to the bottom of the Comcast versus Level 3 Communications dispute by explaining how peering and Internet transit functions, and by examining the known facts surrounding this dispute.

Essentially because the FCC Net Neutrality proposal is surprisingly fair and seems to stem from compromise from both sides of the debate FreePress has decided the FCC is adopting ‘fake Net Neutrality”.