[Cybertel-Ann] 10.24.6 :: COPA Back in Court Again :: Kennard is not Neutral :: Wikiwatia? :: Must See IPTV :: Sorry Wrong Number ::

Tue Oct 24 19:40:48 PDT 2006

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"What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a
global network exchanging digitized data in such a way
that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a
device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck
choking on a kazoo" – Dave Barry

Verizon: Make Way for ViOS, Light Reading, 10/24/2006 
In an exclusive LRTV interview taping at Light
Reading's Ethernet Expo on Monday, Verizon Business 's
VP of Advanced Data and IP Services, Tom Roche, let
slip that his company is cooking up a new brand of
fiber-based services for business called ViOS --
Verizon Integrated Optical Services.
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=108054&WT.svl=news1_1
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fiber.htm

Fiber enjoys out-of-the-way successes, IHT, 10/24/2006

Fiber optic cables may be the fastest Internet
technology, but that does not mean they should be
limited to the wealthiest or largest nations.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/22/business/broadside.php
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fiber.htm

AT&T gets fiber envy, Telephony, 10/24/2006 
With Verizon's fiber-to-the-premises initiative
barreling along, and AT&T's fiber-to-the-node project
still hovering, analysts say AT&T insiders are
increasingly pushing for a shift toward more FTTP and
less FTTN to ensure more bandwidth to the home.
Increasingly, elements within AT&T think more
aggressive deployment of FTTP is needed, though senior
management wants to stay the course, wrote Simon
http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_att_gets_fiber/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fiber.htm

WiMAX roaming off and running, Telephony, 10/24/2006 
Though the number of WiMAX subscribers globally
remains miniscule, proponents of the emerging
broadband access technology already have started
calling for guidance on how to allow seamless
subscriber roaming between multiple network operators.
The subject came up in the U.S. this summer when
Clearwire and Sprint both committed to deploy Mobile
WiMAX at 2.5 GHz in their respective markets, and it
surfaced
http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_wimax_roaming_off/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

COPA re-examination underway in Philadelphia, CW,
10/24/2006 
Despite a previous finding that the Child Online
Protection Act is unconstitutional, it's headed to
court again in Philadelphia. This time, the Supreme
Court has asked a district court to examine whether
any changes in filtering technology might have changed
the law's constitutionality.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004382&source=rss_news10
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/copa.htm

'Net neutrality' would be Democrats' pet, AP,
10/24/2006 
A Democratic takeover on Capitol Hill would be good
news to those who say the government should prohibit
telecommunications giants from playing favorites with
Internet content.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_go_co/internet_equality
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Democrats appear to favour ‘Net neutrality', Globe and
Mail, 10/24/2006 
Lobbyists for big companies that control most of the
Internet in the U.S. are worried about a change on
Capitol Hill
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061023.gtnetneutrality23/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20061023.gtnetneutrality23
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Dissenting from Chairman Kennard's Statement on Net
Neutrality, PK, 10/24/2006 
As the chairman of the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) during the Clinton Administration,
Bill Kennard tried to do the right thing on a number
of issues in the face of daunting odds.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/687
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Bill Kennard misses the cluetrain, Isen, 10/24/2006 
Back when Bill Kennard chaired the FCC, I asked him
whether he was a dynamist or a stasist. (These were
Virginia Postrel's terms, from her book, The Future
and its Enemies. He and I had just heard Postrel speak
at Vortex.) It was hip to be a dynamist, it was square
to be a stuck-in-the-mud lover of the status quo. But
Kennard, unflappable, said, "I'm a regulator so I
guess I am a stasist." Fair enough.
http://isen.com/blog/2006/10/bill-kennard-misses-cluetrain.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Legislator counters proposal to tax online virtual
communities, America's Network, 10/24/2006 
The Republican head of a congressional committee said
it would be a mistake if the Internal Revenue Service
introduced regulations to tax virtual economies such
as Second Life and World of Warcraft, a Reuters report
said.
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=381210&ref=25
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/tax.htm

AT&amp;T earnings surge 74% on strong wireless growth,
America's Network, 10/24/2006 
AT&amp;T Inc.'s profits in the third quarter soared
74% to $2.17 billion, mainly attributed to last year's
acquisition of its former corporate parent and strong
growth and profit margins at Cingular Wireless, an
Associated Press report said.
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=381209&ref=25
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm

It ain't over till it's over, Telephony, 10/24/2006 
AT&T and BellSouth got a bit of a nasty surprise on
their way to a quick merger. It appeared the way was
cleared when the Department of Justice shocked many in
the industry by approving the merger without any
conditions. As it turned out, two Democratic members
of the FCC were shocked enough to put the brakes on
what could otherwise have been a fast train to
Mergerville for the two communications
http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_aint_till/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att_bs.htm

Vietnam tightens grip on Internet, San Jose Mercury
News, 10/24/2006 
A climate of fear exists in Vietnam as the government
clamps down on political activists -- many of them in
the Bay Area -- who use the Internet to challenge the
country's one-party system ...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/15834695.htm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

Link by Link: The Internet Black Hole That Is North
Korea, NYT, 10/24/2006 
While other restrictive regimes have sought to limit
the Internet, North Korea has chosen to stay off the
grid entirely
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/technology/23link.html?ei=5088&en=ddfb36d2f8248b7a&ex=1319256000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1161702581-lKgcMoQ3HGCx6u1dd6Ge0g
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?, Chronicle of
Higher Education, 10/24/2006 
As questions about the accuracy of the anyone-can-edit
encyclopedia persist, academics are split on whether
to ignore it, or start contributing
http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i10/10a03101.htm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

IPTV: Almost Ready for Prime Time, Ecommerce Times,
10/24/2006 
Despite the multiple millions of dollars being poured
into its development, Internet Protocol Television is
still not an eminent threat to old fashioned cable --
but it is edging closer to "prime-time" status.
Microsoft is billing its TV IPTV Edition as "better
TV, not 'me too' TV." Nortel, Cisco and their various
competitors are peddling IPTV appliances. AT&T and its
rivals are rolling out IPTV solutions as part of
communications bundles. Google is hiring software
engineers to work on television technology.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/53745.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ipv.htm

OECD Foresight Forum on Next Generation Networks,
OECD, 10/24/2006 
The OECD's Information, Computer and Communications
Policy Committee (ICCP) held a one-day international
Forum on "Next Generation Networks: Evolution and
Policy Considerations", which took place on Tuesday, 3
October 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. Forum agenda and
presentations are available on this page.
http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,2340,en_2649_34223_37392780_1_1_1_1,00.html?rssChId=34223
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/ngn.htm

Cross-border Enforcement of Privacy Laws, OECD,
10/24/2006 
The OECD has undertaken an examination of challenges
posed by cross-border aspects of privacy law
enforcement. As a first step, a Report on the
Cross-border Enforcement of Privacy Laws has been
released. It examines the law enforcement authorities
and mechanisms that have been established with a
particular focus on how they operate in the
cross-border context. It describes existing
arrangements to address the challenges and identifies
a number of issues that require further consideration.
http://www.oecd.org/document/25/0,2340,en_2649_34223_37571993_1_1_1_1,00.html?rssChId=34223
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

Did Shaquille O'Neal Raid The Wrong Home For Child
Porn Over Mistaken IP Address?, Techdirt, 10/24/2006 
A year ago, reminiscent of the computer bug in the
movie Brazil that created a mixup over whether or not
someone named Buttle or Tuttle was responsible for a
crime, a Cox Internet employee gave police the wrong
info about an IP address, leading a completely
innocent couple in Wichita, Kansas to be accused of
distributing child porn.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061023/123049.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm

DOJ official: Cybercrime cooperation advances, CW,
10/24/2006 
In a recent interview at this month's G8 24/7 High
Tech Crime Network meeting, the deputy chief of the
Department of Justice's computer-crimes division spoke
about the progress of law-enforcement partnerships,
which threats are on the rise, and where the crooks
are.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004383&source=rss_news10
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm

Policy Brief: Protecting Consumers from Cyberfraud,
OECD, 10/24/2006 
E-mail and online shopping and banking have become a
fact of life.  How does cyberfraud impact the digital
economy and what can governments do to protect
e-commerce and use of the Net?
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/9/37577658.pdf
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fraud.htm

'ID theft risk' on bank websites, BBC, 10/24/2006 
Three UK banks are failing to prevent the possible
theft of online customers' identity, a security
company warns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6076248.stm
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/idtheft.htm

RELEASES FUNDING YEAR 2007 ELIGIBLE SERVICES
LIST FOR SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES UNIVERSAL SERVICE
MECHANISM. (Dkt No
02-6). (FCC No. 06-158)., FCC, 10/24/2006 
Erate Eligible Services List
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-158A1.doc
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/erate.htm

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