[Cybertel-Ann] 10.23.7 :: 700 AT&T :: UnWimax :: Comcast :: Clinton Not Net Neut? :: $275 Cowboys :: Burmese Internet ::

Tue Oct 23 04:47:51 PDT 2007

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AT&T Hesitates About Joining Spectrum Auction - May
not be a good business decision, DSLreports,
10/23/2007 
AT&T recently acquired enough 700Mhz spectrum from
Aloha Partners to make it the company owning the most
of that spectrum at the current time. Their leadership
in this area may end after the upcoming 700 Mhz
auction if they re honest in their announcement that
they may not bid in the auction.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Hesitates-About-Joining-Spectrum-Auction-88621
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

U.N. telco commission approves WiMAX, MuniWireless,
10/23/2007 
WiMAX got a thumbs up last week from the United
Nations telecommunications agency in Geneva in what is
being described as a 'victory" for Intel and a
"defeat" for Qualcomm and Ericsson.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/173451078/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

College Blocks Blog Critical Of Chancellor; Now That
Blog Is Mainstream News, Techdirt, 10/23/2007 
"A new Chancellor was selected to lead a Community
College District in northern Harris County, Texas. A
critical blog was set up to blast the new Chancellor,
who quickly had IT block it on all campus computers.
As these things always do, it backfired.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071019/103624.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Why a Net Neutrality Law is Not Enough, CircleID,
10/23/2007 
Once we decide that Network Neutrality is a good thing
to (re)enshrine in law, then we need to ask how to do
that effectively. One way would be to pass a law
saying, "Thou shalt not discriminate." That's the
current approach. But network operators will say that
they must manage their network, and if, in the course
of network management, they were to disadvantage some
source, destination, application, service or content,
they might be accused of violating the law. So any
Network Neutrality law must have a Network Management
Exception...
http://www.circleid.com/posts/net_neutrality_law_not_enough/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Comcast Traffic Jamming Heats Net Neutrality Debate,
Ecommerce Times, 10/23/2007 
Comcast actively interferes with attempts by some of
its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files
online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of
treating all types of Net traffic equally. The
interference, which the Associated Press confirmed
through nationwide tests, is the most drastic example
yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service
provider.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/59914.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Associated Press Confirms That Comcast Blocks Some
BitTorrent Traffic; Despite Comcast Denials, Techdirt,
10/23/2007 
Back in August, there was a report that Comcast was
throttling certain types of BitTorrent traffic making
it difficult to impossible to seed a download. In
response, Comcast vehemently denied this was
happening, despite many people saying they were
experiencing it. Specifically, Comcast said: "the
company doesn't actively look at the applications or
content that its customers download over the network.
But Comcast does reserve the right to cut off service
to customers who abuse the network by using too much
bandwidth." The EFF went and spoke with Comcast and
got the same story.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071019/115242.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

EFF replicates Comcast discrimination via TCP
spoofing, Isen.blog, 10/23/2007 
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has replicated the
AP's finding that Comcast is sending TCP RST messages
in direct violation of the Internet's end-to-end
principle.
http://isen.com/blog/2007/10/eff-replicates-comcast-discrimination.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Quote of Note: Comcast Terms of Service, Isen.blog,
10/23/2007 
"We reserve the right to refuse to upload, post,
publish, transmit or store any information or
materials, in whole or in part, that, in our sole
discretion, is unacceptable, undesirable or in
violation of this Agreement."
http://isen.com/blog/2007/10/quote-of-note-comcast-terms-of-service.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Comcast Caught Blocking File Sharing, CircleID,
10/23/2007 
Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by
some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share
files online, a move that runs counter to the
tradition of treating all types of Net traffic
equally. The interference, which The Associated Press
confirmed through nationwide tests, is the most
drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S.
Internet service provider. It involves company
computers masquerading as those of its users.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/comcast_blocking_file_sharing/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

NARAL and the Christian Coalition Ask Verizon: Can You
Hear Us Now?, Save the Internet, 10/23/2007 
Unlikely allies NARAL Pro-Choice America and the
Christian Coalition have co-authored a Washington Post
op-ed calling on Congress to address the censorship
policies of phone companies like Verizon and AT&T.
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2007/10/17/naral-and-the-christian-coalition-ask-verizon-can-you-hear-us-now/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Where's Your Net Neutrality Proposal, Senator
Clinton?, Open Left, 10/23/2007 
If anyone has illusions about how horrific Clinton
will be as a President, disabuse yourself now.  Here's
Clinton's 'Innovation Agenda'.  Notice what's missing?
 That's right, net neutrality.
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1851
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Google Tops Nielsen's September U.S. Search Share
Rankings, eweek, 10/23/2007 
But Microsoft Live Search is the biggest gainer.
http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/tech/~3/173334016/0,1759,2204420,00.asp
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

Dallas Cowboys Return Cowboys.com After Thinking The
Price Was $275 Instead Of $275,000, Techdirt,
10/23/2007 
The domain name business is hot again, driving up the
price of popular domains names, sometimes to
ridiculous levels. However, it appears that no one
briefed the Dallas Cowboys on what these types of
things typically cost. The owner of the domain
cowboys.com recently sold it in a domain auction, with
the winning bid of $275,000 going to the Cowboys.
Apparently, on receiving the invoice, the Dallas
Cowboys are claiming that it was a mistake -- they
thought the bid had been for $275, not $275,000 -- and
therefore, they wish to cancel the sale.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071018/224033.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/

NTIA Renews .usTLD Contract with Neustar, NTIA,
10/23/2007 
After a three-month long competitive procurement
process, NTIA today announced the renewal of a
contract with Neustar to manage the .us domain space.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2007/Neustar_101907.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/us.htm

At the Poles, Melting Occurring at Alarming Rate, Wash
Post, 10/23/2007 
Fourth in a monthly series For scientists, global
warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at
the poles of Earth. The epic already has started. And
it's not fiction. The scenes are playing, at the
start, in slow motion: The relentless grip of the
Arctic Ocean that defied man for centu...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102100761.html?nav=rss_technology
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/environment/

AT&T Sues Vonage - And the saga continues, DSLreports,
10/23/2007 
In the continuing round of lawsuits involved Vonage
and claims of patent infringement, AT&T has chimed in
and filed suit. The company claims that Vonage
willfully infringed an AT&T patent related to VoIP
services. Perhaps AT&T is just hoping that Vonage will
settle out of court, as the company did earlier this
month in a similar case with Sprint.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Sues-Vonage-88641
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm

Internet Freedom and Burmese Bloggers, Open Left,
10/23/2007 
I just got through Pulling the Plug: A Technical
Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burma.  The
blogosphere in Burma played a big role in the crisis.
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2022
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

"Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet
Shutdown in Burma" - and its Implications for the
Future, Berkman, 10/23/2007 
Adding to their long history of the study of Internet
filtering, the OpenNet Initiative has compiled, and
today released, a bulletin on the recent
demonstrations in Burma and the Burmese government's
shutdown of the Internet there. The executive summary
of "Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the
Internet Shutdown in Burma" begins
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=2990
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

China Blocks YouTube During Major Political Event,
Tech Daily Dose, 10/23/2007 
The 463 Blog reports that "in celebration of the
Chinese Communist Party's 17th Congress this last
week, leaders there apparently decided that preventing
people from seeing cats flush toilets would make the
choreographed proceedings run all that much smoother."
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2007/10/china_blocks_youtube.php
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm

What’s Online: I Want My Web TV, NYT, 10/23/2007 
A growing number of people are watching TV online;
sometimes the future looks very different when it
arrives and more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/technology/20online.html?ex=1350532800&en=fefd8edf5fafd74d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Bloggers should be allowed to join the journalist
party, CNET, 10/23/2007 
Congress has passed a new bill allowing journalists to
gain full shielding, but bloggers were left out.
Technology journalist, Don Reisinger, believes this is
disgusting and explains why bloggers deserve every
right he has received
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13506_1-9800184-17.html?part=rss&tag=rsspr.6214423&subj=news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

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