[Cybertel-Ann] 12.30 :: Martin Pulls Filters from AWS :: Fairpoint Flare Up :: de facto Common Carriage :: Clumsy-to-Clueless :: and we are outta here for 2008! ::

Tue Dec 30 06:56:34 PST 2008

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Telecommunications Relay Services, Speech-to-Speech Services, E911 Requirements for IP-Enabled Service Providers, Fed Reg
The Commission addressed several issues relating to the Commission's Internetbased TRS Order, which adopted a system to assign users of Internetbased Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS), specifically Video Relay Service (VRS) and InternetProtocol (IP) Relay, tendigit numbers linked to the North American Numbering Plan (NANP).
http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-12-30-E8-30999
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ada/fcc.htm

Martin Pulls Smut Filters From Wireless Plan - May have FCC vote again in January, dslreports
Just a few days after conducting an interview in which FCC boss Kevin Martin admitted his free national wireless broadband plan was all but dead, Martin speaks to Ars Technica to inform them he's pulling the filtering aspect of the plan. The plan involved auctioning off spectrum in the AWS-3 (2155-2180 MHz) band, with the condition that whoever buys it must deploy at least 768kbps, smut-filtered wireless to 95% of
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Martin-Pulls-Smut-Filters-From-Wireless-Plan-99917
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/waws.htm

Martin drops filtering from Wi-Fi plan, FCC meets today, Isen
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has told Ars Technica that he wants to move ahead with his nationwide free Wi-Fi plan so badly that he's willing to drop the requirement for a smut filter. Matt Lasar of Ars T says Martin told him
http://isen.com/blog/2008/12/martin-drops-filtering-from-wi-fi-plan.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/waws.htm

Fairpoint Flare Up, Next Net Neutrality Flare Up Or Another Misunderstanding?, Tales from the Sausage Factory
I am seeing in a few places such as App Rising and Slashdot that Fairpoint is planing to force subscribers to use its webmail portal even if they get Yahoo, MSN, or AOL email. This would, of course, be a major violation of the FCC's “Four F...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1424
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Do Transparency and Non-Discrimination Requirements Impose De facto Common Carriage Duties?, Telefrieden
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http://telefrieden.blogspot.com/2008/12/does-transparency-and-non.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

NN Misconceptions, Isen
Boy, howdy! Network Neutrality news blankets the bloomin' blogosphere. Steve Schultze has compiled 20-some blog articles triggered by the WSJ's clumsy-to-clueless article.
http://isen.com/blog/2008/12/nn-misconceptions.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

My Simple Net Neutrality Fix., Tales from the Sausage Factory
In what Rob Friedan accurately describes as an obtuseness so thorough it looks suspiciously like deliberate misinformation, the Wall St. J. has yet another piece on what it imagines the network neutrality fight is about and why the best thing in t...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1422
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

The meanings of Network Neutrality, Isen
Ed Felten has posted a nice taxonomy of the several meanings people take when they use the term Network Neutrality, briefly:
http://isen.com/blog/2008/12/meanings-of-network-neutrality.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Australian Net Censorship Plan Delayed Temporarily, Techdirt
There's been plenty of protests against Australia's latest plan to censor the internet, but it appears that the reason the filtering plan has been delayed yet again has little to do with tone deaf government officials suddenly having second thoughts -- but much more to do with the government's own inability to get its censorship act together in time. The whole process has been a bit of a mess from the beginning, so no
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081228/2301083225.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

Sunshine Act Meeting; Open Commission Meeting Via Conference Call; Tuesday, December 30, 2008, Fed Reg
The Federal Communications Commission will hold an open meeting via a conference call regarding Commission announcements, Tuesday, December 30, 2008, which is scheduled to commence at 11 a.m.
http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-12-30-E8-31141
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Why Lary Lessig's FCC Reboot Will Crash., Tales from the Sausage Factory
On of my favorite die-hard Libertarian writers these days is David Friedman. Part of that is because we have known each other 20 years or so (albeit in a somewhat different context), and it is in part because if he can teach law and economics wit...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1423
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Maryland Suing Diebold/Premier For Money It Spent To Fix Its Voting Machines, Techdirt
Things just keep getting worse for Diebold's e-voting subsidiary, that was laughably renamed Premier Election Solutions to avoid all of the baggage associated with the Diebold name. It seems that the state of Maryland is suing the company and demanding $8.5 million to cover the money the state had to pay to fix its faulty e-voting machines. You may recall that Maryland has been at the forefront in fighting
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081229/0113533227.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/

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