[Cybertel-Ann] 6.17.6 :: Lieberman Sells Out :: Reaction to AT&T Merger Conditions :: Solar Google ::

Tue Oct 17 14:56:02 PDT 2006

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hope for further development" - Julius Frontinus in
the first century A.D.

Does High Tech Require High Fiber?, Time, 10/17/2006 
With consumers showing an insatiable thirst for
broadband services, some companies are betting
billions on faster wires
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,1546311,00.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fiber.htm

Joe Lieberman Sells Out the Internet, Isen, 10/17/2006

I just got a letter from my senator, Joe Lieberman,
dated Oct. 6, that indicates that he's completely
flaking on network neutrality and other key telecom
reforms. The letter says that he supports the
principle of net neutrality, but underneath the
letter's tricky language he's saying that he will vote
for the telecom industry's telecom bill (S. 2686), the
bill approved by the Senate Commerce Committee last
summer without any net neutrality provision.
http://isen.com/blog/2006/10/joe-lieberman-sells-out-internet.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

OECD Broadband Statistics, June 2006, OECD, 10/17/2006

In June 2006 there were 181 million broadband
subscribers in the OECD, corresponding to 15.5
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants. Subscriptions were
up 33% from one year earlier. In June 2006, six
countries (Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland, Korea,
Switzerland and Finland) led the OECD in broadband
penetration, each with at least 25 subscribers per 100
inhabitants.
http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,2340,en_2649_34223_37529673_1_1_1_1,00.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm

AT&T’s promises to FCC are full of holes, ZDNet,
10/17/2006 
Memos and follow-up bouncing around between AT&T and
the FCC appear (keyword-appear) to have AT&T pledging
that if the FCC breaks its 2-2 deadlock and approves
the acquisition of BellSouth, then AT&T will be good.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1275
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att_bs.htm

AT&T suggests possible merger conditions, Ars
Technica, 10/17/2006 
After AT&T and BellSouth had their merger approved by
the Department of Justice, the deal looked all but
done. The only obstacle ...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061016-7999.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att_bs.htm

Bell buyout blocked, Seatle Times, 10/17/2006 
Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps, the two
Democrats on the five-member Federal Communications
Commission, have thrown a monkey wrench into AT&T's
proposed ..
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2003303600_fcced16.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att_bs.htm

AT&T Makes Network Neutrality Concessions, Internet
News, 10/17/2006 
AT&T is willing to adhere to the Federal
Communications Commission's (FCC) network neutrality
principles for 30 months ...
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3638121
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att_bs.htm

Joint Statement by House Commerce Chairman Barton and
Senate Commerce Chairman Stevens on AT&T-BellSouth
Merger, Senate, 10/17/2006 
We are concerned by the Commission's failure to act on
the application this week after such a thorough review
and a complete record.  We certainly hope that the
delays requested by Members of the Commission are
substantive in nature, although the Commission has had
ample time to debate the merits of AT&T's acquisition
of BellSouth.
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=248688
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att_bs.htm

Google to convert headquarters to solar power, Globe
and Mail, 10/17/2006 
Project will require installing more than 9,200 solar
panels and are expected to produce enough power to
supply the equivalent of about 1,000 homes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061017.gtgoog17/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20061017.gtgoog17
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm

32 per cent active internet users rely on the internet
as the primary source of information and for research
(India), IAMAI, 10/17/2006 
32 per cent active users of the internet in India use
the internet as the primary source for information and
research in 2006, a considerable jump from just 20 per
cent in 2001, when the primary drivers of internet
traffic were e-mail and chat.
http://www.iamai.in/section.php3?secid=15&press_id=1252&mon=10
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

Chinese Government Relaxes Its Total Ban on Wikipedia,
NYT, 10/17/2006 
China last week lifted its block on most of the
English-language version of the online encyclopedia,
but the Chinese-language site remains blocked.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/technology/16wikipedia.html?ex=1318651200&en=ff16408103d54a91&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm

EU 'threat' to internet freedom, BBC, 10/17/2006 
Internet broadcasters should not be subject to the
same rules governing television, peers have been told.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6056942.stm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ipv.htm

FTC Launches Blog in Advance of Upcoming Tech-Ade
Hearings, FTC, 10/17/2006 
The Federal Trade Commission is hosting a blog to
provide information and a forum for feedback about its
public hearings on “Protecting Consumers in the Next
Tech-ade,” to be held November 6-8, 2006, in
Washington, DC.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/10/techadeblog.htm
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fraud.htm

Major BellSouth Outage, Broadband Reports, 10/17/2006 
According to these two threads in our BellSouth forum,
customers are seeing a significant outage (including
DNS, mail, everything) that BellSouth says began late
last night around 11:30 (earlier, according to our
users), and has continued through this morning.
BellSouth says they are investigating the outage, but
have yet to give an official cause.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/78867
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/reliability.htm

FCC Announces Pilot Program to Build Broadband
Telehealth Networks, ATSP, 10/17/2006 
The FCC has announced a pilot program to help public
and non-profit healthcare providers build state and
region-wide broadband networks dedicated to providing
healthcare services and then connect these networks to
Internet2. The networks will benefit telehealth and
particularly telemedicine services to those areas of
the country where the need is most acute
http://www.atsp.org/government/programs.asp?ContentID=1878
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/

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