[Cybertel-Ann] 1.5.7 :: Welcome to WiFiVille Pop 300 :: Congressional Me-First! :: "Why Yoo is So Wrong" :: "It Could Have Been Worse" ::

Fri Jan 5 09:04:38 PST 2007

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It's not Stupid! It's Advanced!! - Invader Zim

Welcome to Wi-Fi-Ville Pop. 300 towns and growing,
Time, 1/5/2007 
Citizens of Corpus Christi, Texas, can thank a
snapping dog for the free wireless Internet they enjoy
around town. After the pooch took a piece out of a
utility meter reader, officials decided they needed a
Fido-free system. The city built a small
wireless-fidelity (wi-fi) network that transmits meter
data from homes via the Web.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1574164,00.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

Powerline Broadband in Syracuse - $28.95 for
symmetrical 5Mbps, Broadband Reports, 1/5/2007 
Several Syracuse, New York suburbs (Geddes, Fairmount
and parts of Camillus) will get BPL (broadband over
powerline) connectivity thanks to a deal between
National Grid and New Visions Powerline Communications
Inc. According to the Post-Standard,...
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/80725
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/power.htm

How to protect yourself at wireless hot spots, CW,
1/5/2007 
It's all too easy to fire up your laptop and use it at
a public hot spot just like you're at work, but that's
an invitation to disaster, says Preston Gralla, who
offers a surefire plan to avoid security breaches.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/70952212/article.do
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

S.49 Title: A bill to amend the Communications Act of
1934 to prevent the carriage of child pornography by
video service providers, to protect children from
online predators, and to restrict the sale or purchase
of children's personal information in inter, Thomas,
1/5/2007 
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.49:
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/cppa.htm

S.92 : A bill amend the Communications Act of 1934 to
prohibit the unlawful acquisition and use of
confidential customer proprietary network information,
and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Stevens, Ted [AK]
(introduced 1/4/2007), Thomas, 1/5/2007 
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.92:
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpni.htm

Internet toll lanes appear less likely, LA times,
1/5/2007 
Edward E. Whitacre Jr., then chief executive of SBC
Communications Inc., ignited an impassioned online
debate about creating toll lanes on the Internet in
late 2005,...
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-neutral5jan05,1,2170840.story?coll=la-headlines-technology&ctrack=1&cset=true
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Why Yoo Is So Wrong on AT&T Net Neutrality Condition,
Tales from the Sausage Factory, 1/5/2007 
Professor Christopher Yoo of Vanderbilt sent an email
to Dave Farber's Interesting People list explaining
why the inclusion of network neutrality conditions in
the AT&T/BS merger agreement violates the
Administrative Procedure Act (APA). I usua...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/692
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Economides, Nicholas , "Economics of the Internet",
SSRN, 1/5/2007 
We discuss salient economic aspects of the Internet,
including the possible abolition of net neutrality by
local broadband access networks as well as potential
incompatibilities and degradation of connectivity in
the Internet backbone.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=954446
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Senators aim to ease up on Net, phone taxes, CNET,
1/5/2007 
One bill would make a ban on levies on Net access
permanent, while others would sweep away remaining
taxes on local phone service.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6147393.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/tax.htm

Retired FiberNet chief rips Verizon, Charleston Daily,
1/5/2007 
Talk to Virgil Parsons about competition -- or the
lack of it -- in the telecommunications business and
the soft-spoken executive's eyes flash. He picks his
words carefully and then tosses verbal grenades at the
powers that be.
http://www.dailymail.com/story/Business/+/2007010418/Retired-FiberNet-chief-rips-Verizon/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm

Turkmenistan may lift internet ban, Sydney, 1/5/2007 
President-for-Life Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled the
Central Asian state with an iron fist until his sudden
death on December 21, restricted people's...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/turkmenistan-may-lift-internet-ban/2007/01/05/1167777261546.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

Repairs finally begin on Internet cables, Bangkok
Post, 1/5/2007 
Five repair ships have arrived in Taiwanese waters to
fix earthquake-damaged undersea cables that have
slowed down internet traffic in the region, but the...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=115754
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm

Internet TV: A Million Channels, Zero Cable Networks,
Ecommerce Times, 1/5/2007 
Within five years, cable and satellite television
providers will be facing a formidable competitor in
their market: the Internet. By 2011, TV programming
delivered over consumer broadband connections will be
a "viable alternative to cable,"...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/54998.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ipv.htm

S.93 : A bill to authorize NTIA to borrow against
anticipated receipts of the Digital Television and
Public Safety Fund to initiate migration to a national
IP-enabled emergency network capable of receiving and
responding to all citizen activated emergency, Thomas,
1/5/2007 
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.93:
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/emergency.htm

Congress Aims To Extend 'Net Tax Ban - And completely
eliminate Spanish American War tax..., Broadband
Reports, 1/5/2007 
As Congress gets to work, apparently one of their
first orders of business is to, perhaps surprisingly,
extend tax breaks on Internet and telephone service. A
temporary ban on state Internet access taxes was first
created back in 1998, then...
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/80743
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/

S.101 : A bill to update and reinvigorate universal
service provided under the Communications Act of 1934.
Sponsor: Sen Stevens, Ted [AK] (introduced 1/4/2007),
Thomas, 1/5/2007 
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.101:
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/

'It Could Have Been Worse' Hardly Seems Like A Defense
Of E-Voting Technology, Techdirt, 1/5/2007 
With a new report coming out that highlights many of
the problems that voters using e-voting machines faced
in the last election, it's more interesting to look at
the response from supporters of those machines. An
article in the Houston Chronicle...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070103/144201.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/

Matthew Fagan. The Federal Election Commission and
Individual Internet Sites After Shays and Meehan v.
FEC, JSTL, 1/5/2007 
http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/scitech/volume121/documents/Fagan_EIC_WEBformat.pdf
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/

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