Netgear Helps Consumers Track Internet Usage
In August, Netgear Inc. plans to introduce a $190 router that will provide the first easy way for users to learn about their personal Internet traffic. Netgear said it will include the feature on...
View ArticleFCC Chairman Proposes New Net Neutrality Rules
The trade press was a buzz this morning awaiting a speech by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in which he outlined his plans to implement net neutrality and open Internet regulations. Genachowski asked...
View ArticleCourt Vacates FCC’s Order on Comcast and Net Neutrality
In a landmark decision yesterday, a federal appeals court ruled that the FCC lacks the authority to regulate network management practices, throwing into doubt the agency’s status as watchdog of the...
View ArticleOperators Get Creative with Broadband Billing
AT&T has received a lot of industry attention for its new, creative wireless billing proposal. The telco revealed its plans in a Wall Street Journal article, which ran earlier this week. AT&T...
View ArticleEuropean Regulators Look at Restricting Internet
A study report by the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) was released on May 31. The study concerned network traffic management and other measures that might restrict the...
View ArticleDOJ Investigates MVPDs
Articles in the June 13 online editions of The New York Times and, The Wall Street Journal revealed that the Department of Justice is engaged in an antitrust investigation to determine whether cable...
View ArticleNetflix Adds 3-D and Super HD to Content Mix – With Strings Attached
Netflix recently has been adding 3-D and Super HD titles to its inventory – but with the catch that consumers will only be able to access such content if their ISP participates in the Netflix “Open...
View ArticleToll-Free Data Plans for Viewers of Online Content?
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that ESPN is looking into toll-free data plans for mobile broadband users viewing its content online. If it comes to fruition, a consumer using their mobile...
View ArticleVerizon Claims It Is Not Throttling Traffic in the Wake of the Net Neutrality...
It was pretty much inevitable that in the wake of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision striking down most of the FCC’s Open Internet (a.k.a. Net Neutrality) rules that accusations would begin...
View ArticleThe Soft Underbelly of Net Neutrality: How the Comcast-Netflix Deal Shines a...
When policymakers and press reports talk about net neutrality, there has been, until recently, an understandable tendency to focus exclusively on the end user impact: “If Carrier X or Cable Company Y...
View ArticleSquaring the Round
Geeks, historians, and fans of the quirky may find humor in Indiana General Assembly Bill #246 of the 1897 session. The bill faced a bumpy road along the way to its ultimate demise. It was to be...
View ArticleAngels on the Heads of Pins and Splitting Hairs: The Winding Roads to...
There is perhaps no communications policy issue that generates more inflamed rhetoric and tortured logic than net neutrality. Everyone is for an “open Internet,” but that’s because each stakeholder...
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My Latest Improbable Link: Net Neutrality and the GTO
Photo illustration from Jalopnik.com. My latest venture into non sequiturs has nothing to do with speed, or “non-speed” as some in the net neutrality debate might describe. Rather, this has something...
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Leaf Raking and Net Neutrality
I have a Craftsman combination lawn vacuum/leaf blower which features a safety switch that kills the engine if a shield is not deployed. It is a fairly rudimentary affair: both the collection bag and...
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Girl Scouts Storm Cyber Monday
(Bismarck, N.D.) — I am somewhat proud to announce that I did not fall prey to Black Friday. Well, mostly not. I was at Home Depot by 7:30 a.m. on Friday to return some faucets, and I did take a cup of...
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FCC Votes Net Neutrality Order
A small camp braves brutal DC weather to support net neutrality. They and others inside the building showed a determined, if not defiant, face to the three inches of snow that fell on the Nation’s...
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The Psychic Cheshire Cat and Ubiquitous Milk: Net Neutrality at the Court of...
Marble statues of Hammurabi, Moses, Solon and Justinian adorn the marble wall of Courtroom 20 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where arguments on the 2105 FCC Open Internet Order were...
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