[Cybertel-Ann] 10.6.6 :: ADA :: Fiber Grows :: Verizon Discovers a limit to "unlimited" :: FCC Playbook ::

Fri Oct 6 07:25:25 PDT 2006

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"When morality comes up against profit,
    it is seldom that profit loses."
	       -Shirley Chisholm

A review of the Target ADA case: California federal
court denies motion to dismiss lawsuit over website
accessibility, Internet Cases, 10/6/2006 
In the case of National Federation of the Blind v.
Target Corporation, the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California has held that it will
allow in part, and dismiss in part, a lawsuit brought
against Target by an advocacy group claiming that
Target's website violates the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA).
http://www.internetcases.com/archives/2006/10/a_review_of_the.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ada/

FTTH Con: Fiber-connected homes top 1 million,
Telephony, 10/6/2006 
The number of North American homes connected directly
to fiber has surpassed 1 million, according to a
report released Thursday by Render Vanderslice &
Associates
http://telephonyonline.com/fttp/marketing/fiber_connected_homes_100506/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fiber.htm

FTTH Con: How the price of PON will fall, Telephony,
10/6/2006 
Though optics make passive optical network (PON)
gear--the most widely deployed fiber-to-the-premises
(FTTP) technology in the U.S.--significantly more
expensive than DSL, PON costs will follow the path of
DSL equipment costs downward, according to Dan
Parsons, marketing director for chip maker Broadlight,
who addressed a crowd at the Fiber-to-the-Home
Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday
http://telephonyonline.com/fttp/technology/ftth_pon_ont_100506/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fiber.htm

AT&T faces key test next week in bid to take over
BellSouth, Mercury, 10/6/2006 
The drive by AT&T Inc. to take over BellSouth Corp. by
New Year's will be tested next week when the Federal
Communications Commission will either rule on the
merger or decide to delay taking action.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/15688065.htm
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/merger.htm

"Unlimited" Broadband, I Cringely, 10/6/2006 
How much Internet service is "unlimited" Internet
service? If you are a user of Verizon Wireless's
Broadband Access wireless Internet service,
"unlimited" means five gigabytes per month or less.
The company is quite specific in its advertisements
that the service is for unlimited e-mail, web surfing,
and corporate intranet use, but not for downloading
music or videos or running servers.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060928.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w3g.htm

Who's a Bandwidth Bandit?, Wash Post, 10/6/2006 
After several calls to Verizon Wireless, David learned
what others, including other consumer bloggers found
out through personal experience: The "unlimited"
service is limited to 5 gigabytes per month or 166
megabytes per day.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thecheckout/2006/10/bandwidth_bandit.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w3g.htm

Sprint Winning Wireless Broadband War, Broadband
Reports, 10/6/2006 
EVDO Revision A network cards are already on the
market. We touched on the release of the first Sprint
Revision A card, the Novatel Wireless S720, back in
August; since then we've seen the release of the
Sierra Wireless AirCard 595 and the Pantech PX500 PC
modem card. Novatel yesterday noted their full suite
of EVDO hardware should be on the market during Q3,
and Revision A phones should drop by the end of the
year.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/78545
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w3g.htm

WiMAX takes root in Canadian farming town, Network
World, 10/6/2006 
Hanna, Alberta has 2,996 people, 16 restaurants, 10
churches, seven motels, and six WiMAX towers.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/100506-wimax-hanna.html?fsrc=netflash-rss
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

BellSouth Expands Wimax Service - Albany, GA and
Paducah, KY by month's end, Broadband Reports,
10/6/2006 
BellSouth's 1.5Mbps pre-Wimax wireless broadband
service has gone live in two additional markets and
will be expanded in the New Orleans area, according to
a statement from the company.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/78607
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

Here's the FCC's Playbook for Burying Net Neutrality,
TPMCafe, 10/6/2006 
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is
planning in the next couple of weeks to begin an
inquiry into Net Neutrality.
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/specialguests/2006/oct/05/heres_the_fccs_playbook_for_burying_net_neutrality
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

The Power of YouTube Video in Net Neutrality Fight, IP
Democracy, 10/6/2006 
Courtesy of the 463, this article by Daniel Reilly in
Salon gives a longish look at the net neutrality
issue. Although it plays up pro-net neutrality
advocates as a “rag-tag army of grass-roots” soliders
(as opposed to the cable industry, which claims it was
“born of a rag-tag group of dreamers”), it’s a pretty
balanced recap of the debate so far.
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2006/10/06/#002016
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Media conglomerates threaten Internet neutrality,
Polytechnic Online, 10/6/2006 
We all take for granted the freedom that the internet
gives us to access any piece of information, ranging
from the smallest website to the largest. Most
importantly, we take for granted the freedom it gives
us to share our opinions.
http://poly.union.rpi.edu/article_view.php3?view=5002&part=1
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

The war on poker: Internet gambling is on its last
legs, Triangle Online, 10/6/2006 
No more PartyPoker. No more Pokerroom.com. No more
online gambling, period. On October 11, Congress
passed The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
of 2006. The bill prevents you from using your credit
card to place any sort of wager online.
http://media.www.thetriangle.org/media/storage/paper689/news/2006/10/06/EdOp/The-War.On.Poker.Internet.Gambling.Is.On.Its.Last.Legs-2336290.shtml?sourcedomain=www.thetriangle.org&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/gambling.htm

Law Is Unlikely to Corral
Internet Gambling, WSJ, 10/6/2006 
Last week's passage of a federal law to explicitly
restrict Internet gambling -- a ban on using banks,
credit cards and online money transfers to pass money
between bettor and "unlawful" gambling site -- shows
how tricky regulating the Internet can be.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116000171991583025.html?mod=todays_us_page_one
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/gambling.htm

P:  Randal C. Picker , Who Should Regulate Entry into
IPTV and Municipal Wireless?, SSRN, 10/6/2006 
We are at an unusual moment in telecommunications. We
have two very live cases of entry: Internet protocol
television (IPTV) and municipal wireless broadband.
IPTV will create new competition with cable, satellite
and over-the-air broadcast TV, promising lower prices
and new services. Muni wireless makes it possible for
local communities to add new broadband capabilities to
compete with DSL and cable broadband.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=931495
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ipv.htm

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC),
Subcommittee on Biometrics, Announces Launch of
www.biometrics.gov, OSTP, 10/6/2006 
Biometrics.gov hosts a suite of introductory documents
on various aspects of biometrics technology, including
the just-released report, The National Biometrics
Challenge. The National Biometrics Challenge
acknowledges the successful work of the biometrics
community in delivering security solutions since 9/11,
and identifies key research and development challenges
faced in delivering more robust identity management
tools, and identity governance principles.
http://www.ostp.gov/html/pr_2006_biometrics.pdf
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

Computer System Under Attack, Wash Post, 10/6/2006 
Hackers operating through Chinese Internet servers
have launched a debilitating attack on the computer
system of a sensitive Commerce Department bureau,
forcing it to replace hundreds of workstations and
block employees from regular use of the Internet for
more than a month, Commerce officials said...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100501781.html?nav=rss_technology
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm

Software Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S.,
NYT, 10/6/2006 
A consortium of major universities, using Homeland
Security Department money, is developing software that
would let the government monitor negative opinions of
the United States overseas.
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/us/04monitor.html&OQ=_rQ3D2Q26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=74dc25efQ2FQ2BQ5DQ604Q2B!iTBQ27iioQ24Q2BQ24sspQ2BzsQ2BsQ7CQ2BnBQ2BsQ7C(ikvoiQ27Q3Blo(Q7B
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm

ITU and OASIS run Public Warning workshops and demos,
Developing Telecom, 10/6/2006 
Demonstrations will show standards-based
implementations already providing all-media,
all-hazards public warning in various societies
worldwide, in particular using the Common Alerting
Protocol (CAP) OASIS Standard.
http://developingtelecoms.com/content/view/581/26/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/eas.htm

Municipally funded fiber-optic network UTOPIA may be
struggling, but its impact is growing., Salt Lake City
Weekly, 10/6/2006 
That kind of affordable broadband connection is
increasingly available in Japan, China and—Harris
notes with envy—in some Utah cities that signed up to
be part of the Utah Telecommunications Open
Infrastructure Agency, better known as UTOPIA, a
city-backed network that plans to run fiber-optic
cable to every home and business in 14 participating
communities.
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2006/cityweek_1_2006-10-05.cfm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/states/ut.htm

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