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How to Get $23.99 AT&T Dry Loop DSL - Customer
retention offer only...., DSLreports, 9/27/2007 
Though AT&T has been talking a good game when it comes
to unbundling its DSL and landline services, most of
their speed tiers still aren't available as standalone
products. While the company is offering a 1.5Mbps DSL
and wireless bundle in seven trial markets, a few
weeks ago some users in our Connecticut AT&T forum
noted that existing customers could get 1.5Mbps dry
loop DSL for $23.99.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/How-to-Get-2399-ATampT-Dry-Loop-DSL-87863
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/dsl.htm

WSJ on why free Wi-Fi is failing, PFF, 9/27/2007 
In today's Wall Street Journal, Ben Charny has an
article discussing why "Free Wi-Fi [is] Still an
Elusive Goal."
http://blog.pff.org/archives/2007/09/wsj_on_why_free.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

Potential Bidders Demand FCC Change Wireless Spectrum
Auctions, Internet News, 9/27/2007 
Proposals include plans to prevent large carriers from
dodging open device access requirements.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/161532863/3701781
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

How Much Taxpayer Money Is Wasted By Grandstanding
Politicians On Unconstitutional 'For The Children'
Laws?, Techdirt, 9/27/2007 
For quite some time now, we've been pointing out how
ridiculous it is that state after state after state
passes "for the children" laws which clearly are
unconstitutional. These laws are always thrown out by
the courts.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070925/175707.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Verizon Tempts Fate, Blocks Naral's Message, IP
Democracy, 9/27/2007 
In an unbelievable move, Verizon Wireless has rejected
a request by Naral Pro-Choice America to participate
in a text messaging program, according to this great
article by The New York Times' Adam Liptak.
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2007/09/26/#002674
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Verizon Rejects Messages of Abortion Rights Group,
NYT, 9/27/2007 
Verizon Wireless denied a request from Naral
Pro-Choice America to use its network for a
text-message program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/us/27verizon.html?ex=1348545600&en=800fc3af2fc8265d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Verizon Blocks Pro-Choice Text Messaging, Save the
Internet, 9/27/2007 
We’ve just been handed another view of Verizon’s
gatekeeper tendencies with a report today that the
company’s wireless arm is blocking pro-choice text
messages.
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2007/09/26/verizon-blocks-pro-choice-text-messaging/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Lowes Tries To Silence Sucks Site For Complaints About
Lowes, Techdirt, 9/27/2007 
We've covered a variety of cases involving so-called
"sucks sites," where someone registers as a domain
name the name of a company and appends sucks to the
end in order to create a complaint site
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070924/040616.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/acpa.htm

Court Realizes That Criticizing A Trademark Is Not
Trademark Infringement, Techdirt, 9/27/2007 
For quite some time now, there's been a push to extend
the meaning and purpose of trademark law to make it
more like copyright or patent law -- granting the
holder of the mark much more control over its usage.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070926/175956.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/trademark.htm

Anti-Online Gambling Law Challenged In Court,
Techdirt, 9/27/2007 
A year ago, as part of a larger bill that was supposed
to be about "protecting our ports," Congress banned
online gambling. While there's some back and forth
over the law (and some politicians seem interested in
changing the law), representatives of the gambling
industry have gone to court to get the law declared
unconstitutional, violating an individual's right to
gamble in the privacy of their own home.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070926/164252.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/gambling.htm

Bush administration endorses eternal Net tax ban,
CNET, 9/27/2007 
The day before a preliminary Senate vote to extend a
soon-to-expire prohibition on Internet access taxes,
Commerce and Treasury chiefs urge something more
lasting.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9785652-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/tax.htm

Vonage Death Vigil: Two Blows in Two Days, IP
Democracy, 9/27/2007 
Vonage is in so much trouble that I'm almost rooting
for the scrappy VoIP pioneer to turn things around in
a big way. The latest set of woes afflicting Vonage
are, of course, legal in nature.
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2007/09/26/#002672
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm

Court orders Vonage to pay Sprint in patent case,
America's Network, 9/27/2007 
Internet telephone company Vonage Holdings was ordered
in federal court to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in
damages for infringing on six telecommunications
patents owned by Sprint Nextel, an Associated Press
report said.
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/Daily+News/Court-orders-Vonage-to-pay-Sprint-in-patent-case/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/460245?ref=25
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm

Bloggers Expose the Turmoil in Myanmar, IP Democracy,
9/27/2007 
As the simmering resentment against the totalitarian
government of strategically important Myanmar boils
over into outright revolt, bloggers in that nation are
invaluable conduits for news and information. And
they're fulfilling this public service at great risk
to themselves.
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2007/09/26/#002673
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

Bloggers poke holes in Myanmar censorship, Globe and
Mail, 9/27/2007 
Despite tight restrictions, computer users are getting
photos and videos of anti-government demonstrations
out onto the Internet
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/161474195/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

China Clamps Down on ISPs - To quiet dissent before
17th Communist Party Congress
, DSLreports, 9/27/2007 
Chinese web censorship authorities are cracking down
harder on Chinese ISPs of late, thanks to the approach
of the 17th Communist Party Congress, a major
political gathering where leaders "generally prefer to
meet undisturbed by criticism."
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/China-Clamps-Down-on-ISPs-87873
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm

Ofcom looks to future of fast net, BBC, 9/27/2007 
Regulator Ofcom launches a consultation into how the
UK should roll out super-fast broadband services.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7013022.stm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/europe.htm

ISPs Selling Your Information Again, Techdirt,
9/27/2007 
In the past, when ISPs have attempted to make money
off their users' clickstream data, they have met with
fierce objections. Now, a new company, NebuAd is
asking ISPs to provide not only clickstream data, but
also your personal information such as physical
location
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070925/180614.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

Los Angeles weighs anchor tenant options in city-wide
Wi-Fi, MuniWireless, 9/27/2007 
EarthLink might have put the brakes on its municipal
wireless broadband deployments but Los Angeles hasn't.
The California city is continuing with a feasibility
study and cost analysis on a plan for city-wide
low-cost access that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
proposed earlier this year.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/161694876/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/states/ca.htm

Another VoIP Carrier Calling It Quits... - But
apparently only Packet8 knows who, DSLreports,
9/27/2007 
8x8, provider of Packet8 residential VoIP service, did
something today we'd not seen yet: they issued a press
release stating that they would be the preferred
provider for customers of a competing VoIP service
that's going out of business. Oddly however, 8x8
didn't mention who the provider is,
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Another-VoIP-Carrier-Calling-It-Quits-87909
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

Walks Like a Telco, Yalks Like a Telco
 Must be a
Telco, CircleID, 9/27/2007 
Vonage's latest woes are written up by Om Malik in
Vonage: How Low Can You Go. More interesting than Om's
reportage (Sprint wins case, Vonage ordered to pay
damages, stock drops to $1.30) is the commentary
afterward, in which one reader takes Om to task for
the "gleeful" way in which he reports the demise of
the VoIP companies...
http://www.circleid.com/posts/792614_walks_like_telco_yalks_like_telco/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

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