If Microsoft actually launches a $200 Windows Media Center box, this could be the best news they’ve had in a while considering how poorly executed and overpriced the Google TV devices have been.

Nearly a year late to the party, Nate Anderson repeats the myth that the FCC concluded that higher speed broadband is turning into a Cable DOCSIS 3.0 monopoly outside of Verizon FiOS fiber to the home (FTTH) territory because the fiber to the node (FTTN) VDSL2 technology used by other Telcos can’t compete.  This is [...]

TechCrunch predicts a matter of time before Google becomes a wireless carrier. But is Google prepared to raise their capital expenditures 20-fold and employee headcount 10-fold? Are they prepared to halve their profit margin and stock valuations to get into the carrier business?

The FCC just declared paid Prioritization legal and illegal at the same time by giving it two arbitrary names. Defined as “Peering” or “Interconnection”, it’s legal but not if it’s called “Paid Peering”. The FCC’s justifications made even less sense.

The French are looking to impose higher fees on Google for its YouTube service because of its high bandwidth which would overturn the correct price set by the market, but where are they getting these awful ideas? If the FCC can try to set peering and transit prices, why shouldn’t the EU do the same but in a way that favors European companies?

Why should Paid Peering be illegal when CDNs fit the FCC’s definition of Paid Peering perfectly? The Internet has always been a medium where companies who paid more got their packets delivered with higher priority. Why is that fundamentally wrong now?

Yesterday, on the day that the FCC passed “Net Neutrality” regulations, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proudly stated “I am proud of this process, which has been one of the most transparent in FCC history”.  Given that the public was never allowed to see the proposed rules before the vote, and that we still can’t see the [...]

David J. Farber and professor Gerald R. Faulhaber have articulated one of the most important points in the Net Neutrality debate by pointing out the dangers of the “Dead hand of regulation”. They note that “innovators are better at fighting it out in the market with better products rather than fighting it out in front of the FCC with high-priced lawyers”.

Now that the FCC is set to vote on Net Neutrality regulations this week, the “real” Net Neutrality hardliners are no longer hiding their true intentions. They want CDNs, app market, and devices to all be regulated under the Net Neutrality banner.

I sent a Letter to the Editor of the Seattle Times in response to their post “Web surfers beware of the fee tsunami”. While I’m thankful they posted the letter, I thought it was odd that they titled my letter “Beware of Internet tolls” since I provided a title “Broadband prices shouldn’t subsidize content distributors”. I would have at least titled it “There are no free tolls on the Internet”.