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I’ll be speaking at the eComm2009: Emerging Communications Conference in San Francisco next week:
The world’s leading-edge telecom, Internet communications and mobile innovation event built to both showcase and accelerate innovation; and to explore radical new opportunities – together.
eComm deals with the Telco 2.0 world in which telephony is software and networks are multi-purpose and [...]
Archive for February, 2009
I’ll see you at eComm
February 26th, 2009 
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Perils of Content Neutrality
February 24th, 2009 Richard Bennett Via Scott Cleland I see that Adam O’Donnell has written a nice piece on the side-effects of net neutrality regulation, Why I am against pure net neutrality
While it may sound like treating all ISP traffic equally is a good idea, mandating strict net neutrality hurts computer security for all of us.
Adam was in the audience [...]
Neutralism is the new S-word
February 23rd, 2009 Richard Bennett Scott Cleland has done some interesting quote-diving from the works of the neutralists, offering up his findings in a new study. Without using the term “socialism” Scott provides the evidence that this is largely an anti-capitalist movement. The fact that a few highly-profitable capitalist enterprises have found a way to manipulate a rather traditional [...]
DTV Transition Starts, World Doesn’t End
February 19th, 2009 Richard Bennett Contrary to the expectations of Congress and the FCC, the first phase of the DTV transition took place without major incident. Some 23% of American TV stations stopped sending out analog signals Tuesday at midnight, and only 28,000 calls came into the centers the FCC and the cable and satellite providers have established for transition [...]
Nice Outings
February 19th, 2009 Richard Bennett My talk at the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group went very well. It was a huge room, seating probably 500 or so, and over half-full. I talked about how some of the crazier ideas about net neutrality are potentially becoming mainstream thanks to the politics in the nation’s capitol and some of the personnel choices made [...]
Speaking at MAAWG in Frisco tomorrow
February 18th, 2009 Richard Bennett I’m on a panel tomorrow at the General Meeting of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, the organization that keeps the Internet from being overrun by spam and malware:
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group is a global organization focusing on preserving electronic messaging from online exploits and abuse with the goal of enhancing user trust and confidence, [...]
Court protects the right to bluff
February 12th, 2009 Richard Bennett In a rare move, the DC Circuit has upheld an FCC decision
The cable industry has won a big legal victory in the fiercely competitive phone services market. An appeals court has supported the Federal Communications Commission in its ruling that phone carriers—in this case Verizon—can’t try to lure back customers after they’ve initiated a service [...]
Thought you had no alternatives for broadband?
February 4th, 2009 Brett Glass One of the most common claims made by proponents of government regulation of the Internet (AKA “network neutrality”) is that it is necessary because broadband is a duopoly… Enter wireless consultant Brian Webster, who has embarked upon a project to compile a map showing the coverage of terrestrial, fixed wireless Internet providers (WISPs) throughout the United States. The results are impressive….
Digital Britain and Hokey Tools
February 4th, 2009 Richard Bennett It’s helpful to see how other countries deal with the typically over-excited accusations of our colleagues regarding ISP management practices. Case in point is the Digital Britain Interim Report from the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which says (p. 27):
Internet Service Providers can take action [...]
Doubts about Broadband Stimulus
February 3rd, 2009 Richard Bennett The New York Times has a front page story today on the broadband stimulus bill which features an extensive quote from Brett:
Critics like Mr. Glass say the legislation being developed in Congress is flawed in various ways that could mean much of the money is wasted, or potentially not spent at all — arguably just [...]
