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Fri Dec 5 17:47:03 PST 2008

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"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."  Hubert Humphrey

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Copper Thieves Threaten U.S. Infrastructure, FBI says, Wired
The FBI releases a unclassified report detailing U.S. crop failures, power outages and tornado-siren warning failures due to copper thieves getting huge returns for their crimes. The report, however, is released the day global mining stocks tumble as mining operations announced cutbacks and a 50 percent
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/474186739/copper-thieves.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

FBI: Copper Thefts Threaten U.S. Infrastructure - Reason number 1,237 to deploy Fiber to the home?, dslreports
A 500% spike in the price of copper since 2001 has resulted in thieves grabbing it wherever possible -- even if it's sometimes still in use. That means a flood of stories each year about idiots being electrocuted as they try to strip wire from live utility poles, or phone and broadband outages galore when the thieves target telco poles. In 2006, I was a victim of the flooding in upstate New York, and while people were busy
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FBI-Copper-Thefts-Threaten-US-Infrastructure-99498
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

The Story Behind The Sprint/Cogent Feud - He said, she said, followed by an Internet blackout..., dslreports
In late October, Cogent had yet another in a long history of peering feuds, this time with Sprint, who accused the company of failing to pay and shirking contractual obligations. This was after Cogent issued a press release blaming Sprint. Forbes now has a good piece online exploring the fight in more detail, saying the two companies were both engaged in a "year long game of chicken," that resulted in millions of
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Story-Behind-The-SprintCogent-Feud-99461
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/backbone.htm

Steve Schultze on why the AWS-3 spectrum censorship plan will fail, Tech Lib Front
I was about post something more regarding why Kevin Martin’s AWS-3 spectrum filtering plan will fail, but I can’t say it any better than Steve Schultze does here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/474738167/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/waws.htm

Clearwire’s Wolff: ‘full speed ahead’ with WiMAX, Muni
Despite what you may have read, heard or thought, there is no chance of Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWRD) abandoning WiMax technology anytime soon. Though Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff did talk Monday about the possibility of adding support for Long Term Evolution (LTE) to Clearwire’s technology mix sometime in the future, in an interview Thursday morning Wolff left no doubt that Clearwire is solidly
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/475144858/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

Child Safety on the Internet, CISCO
A substantial report called ‘Safer Children in a Digital World’ was published today by the Byron Review which set up by the British Government last autumn. The report looks at child safety in respect of video games and their use of the internet.
http://blogs.cisco.com/gov/comments/child_safety_on_the_internet/#When:17:25:11Z
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

Fooling filters, BBC
Pupils find it easy to bypass school net controls
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/education/7763268.stm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/filters.htm

Australia's Internet filtering too ambitious, doomed to fail, Ars Technica
The Australian government wants to work with ISPs to do nationwide content filtering, but it's highly unlikely that a system this ambitious could work. A look at the difficulties inherent in large-scale filtering inside.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081205-australias-internet-filtering-too-ambitious-doomed-to-fail.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/filters.htm

Scott Cleland: Google Using 21x The Bandwidth They Pay For - Paid baby bell consultant ain't gonna let you use his employer's pipes for free!, dslreports
If you recall, the network neutrality debate truly took off in the States back in 2005, when former SBC (now AT&T) CEO Ed Whitacre told Business Week in an article that Google wanted to use Ed's "pipes", for free. "I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it," insisted Ed at the time. The comment confused a hell of a lot of people, given that both Google and
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Scott-Cleland-Google-Using-21x-The-Bandwidth-They-Pay-For-99475
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Response to phone companies' "Google bandwidth" report, Google
Earlier this week I thought that the announcement of a broadband access "call to action" was an encouraging sign that the phone and cable carriers could set aside their differences with Internet companies and public interest groups over network neutrality, and focus on solving our nation's broadband challenges. Unfortunately, a report issued today suggests that some carriers would still rather point fingers
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/-f39BxtL3gc/response-to-phone-companies-google.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Net Neutrality Fans Press for Gains Under Obama, Internet News
As a new, tech-savvy administration begins to take shape, warriors for the open Internet hope to fill key positions with sympathetic officials.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/BSpPZIiXhtY/3789041
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Can we get some better telecom shills please?, Ars Technica
Imagine that I proposed to you the following argument.  I have (let's pretend) added up all the fuel consumed in the process of getting WidgetCo's widgets from the factory to consumers. There's all the gas burned by the trucks that bring the widgets from the factory to the retail store.  And then there's the gas each consumer burns driving to and from the store for widgets. And having added up the costs of all this
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/journals/law/~3/ka3qj5oAfLw/can-we-get-some-better-telecom-shills-please
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Is Google Really Using 21x The Bandwidth It Pays For?
, Techdirt
Scott Cleland is a "telecom analyst" who, in reality, is actually paid a large sum of money by the telcos to slam Google. He's become sort of a joke in DC circles. In the past, we noted his ridiculously bad math in claiming that Google fleeced taxpayers out of $7 billion, as well as his claims that "open spectrum" is somehow anti-American. His main issue, of course, is trying to dispense bogus arguments for why net
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081204/1453233022.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

US Online Category Advertising Forecast, 2008 to 2013, Jupiter
Financial upheavals have hit the advertising market, affecting some categories more than others.
http://www.jup.com/bin/item.pl/research:concept/1215/id=100811/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

ISP Rankings By Subscriber Total - Comcast poised to be king, AOL totals still dwindling...
, dslreports
"On Tuesday, ISP Planet released their quarterly ISP subscriber counts. Most ISPs saw little to no growth from last quarter. The major exception to this within the top 5 ISPs was AOL. They fell from 8.1 million subscribers to 7.5 million, a drop of over 7%. They've been steadily
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ISP-Rankings-By-Subscriber-Total-99473
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

NRO Seeing Rapid Increase in IPv6 Adoption, Up 300% in 2 Years, CircleID
The Number Resource Organization (NRO), which is made up of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), announces today that the rate of new entrants into the IPv6 routing system has increased by approximately 300 percent over the past two years. This growth has been helped by the active promotion of IPv6 by the five RIRs and their communities; and developing economies, such as India, are playing an
http://www.circleid.com/posts/nro_seeing_rapid_increase_in_ipv6/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

DNSSEC, Incentives and the Color of Bicycle Sheds, IGP
It is the first day of the program of the Internet Governance Forum itself. The first workshop I attended was on “Understanding Internet Infrastructure.” It could also have been called “Everything you always wanted to know about the Internet, but where afraid to ask.”
DNSSEC, Incentives and the Color of Bicycle Sheds
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/security.htm

Google D.C. Talk next week: Opening government to citizen participation, Google
This past election brought more people than ever into the political dialogue -- as observers, commentators, voters, volunteers and contributors. Now how will that energy be transferred to the realm of governing?
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/zOs-lN0SFKs/google-dc-talk-next-week-opening.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/

Telecom Collapse, Techdirt
Hawaiian Telcom has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy (see this and this), FairPoint Communication’s CFO is under siege as the company looks for a new CEO and Qwest Communications is cutting another 1,200 jobs as it tells investors not to worry about massive debt repayment deadlines.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/474282590/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/

AT&T Cuts Staff in Focus on Wireless, Data, Internet News
Carrier to reduce workforce by 12,000 in light of business challenges -- but plans to beef up in several growing areas.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/gzKsegxXeog/3789166
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm

Comcast: FCC Boss Martin 'Intellectually Bankrupt' - The star-crossed lovers continue their epic romance..., dslreports
It's clear that Comcast has never liked FCC chairman Kevin Martin&#46 The FCC boss rarely sees a baby bell position he doesn't like (in part thanks to more sophisticated lobbying by AT&T and Verizon), but has consistently been a thorn in Comcast's side about everything from P2P throttling, to most recently, high
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-FCC-Boss-Martin-Intellectually-Bankrupt-99454
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm

DOJ Was Three Hours From Suing Google For Antitrust Violations, Techdirt
It was pretty clear back in September, when the Justice Department hired well-known antitrust litigator Sandy Litvack, that it had decided that it was going to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google, even if there were serious questions about what harm its ad deal with Yahoo would actually cause. Despite plenty of negotiation and totally rewriting the deal, the Justice Department was set on opposing it, leading Google to
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081203/1838283012.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm

Google Bandwidth Study Proves Very Little, Tech Lib Front
Precursor LLC released a study that claims to have calculated Google’s total bandwidth use declaring “Google uses 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for.”
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/474991672/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm

Lawless Canada Emerging as a Spam Haven, CircleID
My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, Ottawa Citizen version, The Tyee version, homepage version) focuses on the state of anti-spam legislation in Canada. It notes that the recent Facebook case has placed the spotlight on Canada's ongoing failure to address its spam problem by introducing long overdue anti-spam legislation. The fact that organizations are forced to use U.S. courts
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081203_lawless_canada_spam_haven/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/

Obama's Online Opportunities, Pew
There is no shortage of suggestions to the incoming Obama administration about what to do about communications policy in the United States. The body of research from the Pew Internet Project, dating to 2000, indicates that online Americans might have one more suggestion: Make sure the internet remains a
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/268/source/rss/report_display.asp
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

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