Level 3 won its bid on Netflix content delivery because it intends to break its contractual obligations on peering with Comcast and essentially resell stolen bandwidth to Netflix. Now it makes perfect sense how Level 3 managed to outbid Akamai since no CDN provider operating legally could outbid hot goods.

On Thursday, Dec. 2 — the 2010 Phoenix Center Annual U.S. Telecoms Symposium will be held here in DC, 8:30 a.m., to 12:30 p.m. at the University Club. It looks like an interesting morning. Blair Levin, who directed the FCC National Broadband Plan effort will keynote. Other participants are FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker; an Economists [...]

Comcast Internet services had a major Domain Name Service (DNS) outage yesterday across the Eastern states which essentially broke Internet service for most Comcast customers. This brought back some bad memories of a really bad week for Comcast in April of 2005 when Comcast suffered two DNS outages in the same week.

In yet another case of a made up conspiracy, OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch is misleading the public about Verizon Wireless supposedly blocking OpenDNS servers. I personally tested this accusation and verified that the Verizon Wireless network does not block OpenDNS.

In Scientific American, Tim Berners-Lee seems to argue right past the important policy issues facing the Internet today. Instead of describing actual policy or technology problems, he suggests implausibly apocalyptic outcomes.

The FCC’s apparent about-face on Net Neutrality is really perplexing. Over the past few weeks it looked like the Administration had acknowledged economic reality (and bipartisan Capitol Hill criticism) and turned its focus to investment and jobs. Outgoing NEC Director Larry Summers and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced a vast expansion of available wireless spectrum, [...]

Stacey Higginbotham of Gigaom reports that Verizon is launching a 150 Mbps downstream and 35 Mbps upstream FiOS broadband tier.  Not only does this give Verizon the “bragging rights”, but they can actually back it up with an all fiber network that has a lot more headroom to grow.  That might be an understatement since [...]

Glassman looks at the hotly debated issue of Net Neutrality and asks the pressing questions of what’s going on, where have we been, and where are we headed with the issue.

Mouline, the Chief Technology Officer of Gomez, recently posted an article in Business Insider pointing to his belief that there is no neutrality on the Internet.

To clarify things, China Telecom did not hijack “15% of all web traffic” or “15% of all Internet traffic” but they did hijack 15% of all the IP routes. That means traffic hijacking could have easily occurred but we don’t know for certain. The real lesson here is that the potential exists for easy traffic hijacking and the Internet’s routing infrastructure is insecure.