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Thu Feb 1 09:04:29 PST 2007

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ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. 
George Washington

Speed Matters: Affordable High-Speed Internet for All,
CWS, 2/1/2007 
The report spotlights the critical need for a
comprehensive national high speed broadband policy if
the United States is to move beyond 20th century
Internet and join other nations in building 21st
century high-speed networks.
http://files.cwa-union.org/speedmatters/SpeedMattersCWAPositionPaper.pdf
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

What does 'unlimited' mean?, Guardian, 2/1/2007 
When it comes to broadband, it almost certainly
doesn't mean what you think it does. As SA Mathieson
reports, ISPs are increasingly managing how customers
connect
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2002668,00.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

San Francisco’s Fiber-to-the-Premises Study Released,
MuniWireless, 2/1/2007 
The city of San Francisco has released its
long-awaited Fiber-To-The-Premises (FTTP) feasibility
study, estimating buildout costs of over a half
billion dollars. After poring over the 200+-page
report
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/84566987/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fiber.htm

Broadband Satellite Launch Explosion, Broadband
Reports, 2/1/2007 
A commercial Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket disintegrated
"in a fiery catastrophe" aboard its ocean launch
platform (a converted Norwegian oil-drilling rig)
yesterday, destroying a sophisticated
telecommunications satellite payload.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/81333
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/satellite.htm

Web Giants Urge State Dept. to Fight Censorship,
Ecommerce Times, 2/1/2007 
American technology giants urged the U.S. government
Tuesday to do more to confront China and other
countries about Internet censorship. Microsoft, Yahoo
and Google also defended themselves against
accusations that they have helped governments such as
China's crush dissent in return for access to booming
Internet markets.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/55473.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

The Internet Will Collapse And It's The Fault Of
People Pushing For Network Neutrality?, Techdirt,
2/1/2007 
Eleven years ago, Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of
ethernet, wrote in a column that the internet would
collapse in 1996 due to a variety of things that would
all pile up and destroy it. A year later, he ate his
column in a very public demonstration...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070131/171856.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Boucher: Net Neutrality Must Be Resolved, IP
Democracy, 2/1/2007 
Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) said today that
broadband companies can’t expect to move any
legislative initiatives in Congress until the issue of
net neutrality is resolved. Speaking here at the
Congressional Internet...
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2007/01/31/#002282
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Telcos Find Link Between Google, Net Neutrality, and
Al Qeda, Tales from the Sausage Factory, 2/1/2007 
As others have chronicled, the people who brought you
“Net Neutrality Is In Its Last Throes” and
“Deregulated Telecoms Will Be Greeted As Liberators”
have now launched a new campaign based on the highly
successful tools of ...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/712
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Lawmaker: Net neutrality a top issue, Info World,
2/1/2007 
The U.S. Congress still needs to deal with network
neutrality, and supporters in Congress are willing to
block any legislation favored by broadband providers
until the issue is resolved, a leading Democratic
lawmaker said Wednesday.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070131/tc_infoworld/85614
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Net neutrality, broadband taxes top House tech agenda,
CNET, 2/1/2007 
Rep. Rick Boucher's plans include sanctioning
city-sponsored Wi-Fi, weeding out bad patents,
settling Net neutrality debate.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6155100.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Lawmaker: Net neutrality a top issue, CW, 2/1/2007 
Congress will block telecommunications legislation
without a Net neutrality compromise, a Democratic
congressman said.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/84588631/article.do
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

FCC Releases Data on High Speed Services for Internet
Access., FCC, 2/1/2007 
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today
released new data on high-speed connections to the
Internet in the United States
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-270128A1.doc
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm

House Bill Would Ban Connection Taxes, Internet News,
2/1/2007 
Eshoo legislation calls for permanent bar on Internet
access taxes.
http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3657276
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/tax.htm

One-Tenth of China Online, Clickz, 2/1/2007 
L-A-R-G-E N-U-M-B-E-R-S
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1004531
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm

Revealed: FBI Internet Surveillance More Extensive
Than Previously Known, Democracy Now, 2/1/2007 
The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet
surveillance technique that collects far more data on
innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed.
http://www.pacifica.org/component/option,com_programguide/station,WBAI/op,segment-page/segment_id,210/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm

Click Fraud Reportedly Up, Clickz, 2/1/2007 
Click, click, click, click, click, click, click,
click, click, click, click, click....
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1004530
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fraud.htm

U.S. identity theft losses fall: study, Register,
2/1/2007 
Americans lost about $49.3 billion in 2006 to
criminals who stole their identities, an 11.5 percent
decline that may reflect increased vigilance among
consumers and businesses, a study released on Thursday
shows.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-02-01T145636Z_01_N31383185_RTRUKOC_0_US-IDTHEFT.xml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/idtheft.htm

Dutch botnet hackers sentenced to time served, CNET,
2/1/2007 
Court sentences pair of hackers deemed responsible for
hijacking millions of PCs to sentences that equal time
served. Both are sent home on probation.
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6155251.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/worms.htm#bot

'We aren't waiting for Viviane Reding': Awayphone,
Register, 2/1/2007 
"The trend of voice call costs is to be free,"
Awayphone CEO Sherry Madera says - a pioneer of
roaming call charge reduction, aiming to beat the
European Commissioners to a fair deal for business
travellers. Awayphone sells subscribers a SIM card
which routes over the internet whenever possible and
offers a local phone number in foreign territories.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/25/awayphone/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

Cable VoIP prices drop, Telephony, 2/1/2007 
Cable VoIP services are getting cheaper, when sold as
part of a service bundle, and are close to the prices
charged by Internet VoIP players such as Vonage,
according to research firm Pike & Fisher.
http://telephonyonline.com/home/news/cable_voip_prices_013107/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

Why So Many Undervotes in Sarasota?, Freedom to
Tinker, 2/1/2007 
The big e-voting story from November’s election was in
Sarasota, Florida, where a congressional race was
decided by about 400 votes, with 18,412 undervotes.
That’s 18,412 voters who cast votes in other races but
not, according to the...
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1115
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/

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