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.

After posting this article on American broadband caps in perspective, it seems we’ve attracted a few angry responses.  Advocacy group Stop the Cap’s Phillip Dampier pulled out all the stops to denounce me and our executive director Jon Henke that we’re essentially selling broadband consumers out.  So what’s the reason for Dampier attacks?  It turns out that Dampier’s Stop the Cap campaign wants the bill HR 2902 passed which would outlaw usage caps, and they can’t afford to have someone point out that every …

Update: We need to be reasonable about broadband usage caps
Recently, Chiehyu Li and James Losey of the New America Foundation put out this comparison of Internet usage caps between the U.S. and Japan which paints a dire picture of how screwed up broadband in America is.  While there’s little doubt that Japan is way ahead on the technology curve on broadband deployment compared to just about any other nation, Li and Losey’s analysis is problematic and it fails to put the usage caps in a …

We’re doing an all day conference today on the FCC Broadband Deployment Workshop live blog today.

Mass media and blogosphere hysteria ensued after several ISPs (including AT&T) responded to customer complaints and blocked an IP address that was transmitting massive amounts of Denial of Service (DoS) traffic. For something as routine and essential as blocking a malicious attack from a computer on the Internet, all hell broke loose because the IP address belonged to a popular image sharing site called 4chan whose members are infamous for perpetrating porn flooding pranks on YouTube as well as organizing DoS attacks against other websites.