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''Tiananmen Square has become a holy spot for Chinese
democracy. If we stay here longer, we will contribute
more to China's democratization, and increase our
influence. If we withdraw, we will let down the
citizens who have defended us. We will stay until our
victory.'' - Wang Dan, a student leader in Beijing.

Broadband Infrastructure Investment Would Have Ten
Fold Payoff - $100 billion investment would net
trillion dollar economic growth, says analyst,
dslreports
Michael Curri, founder of Strategic Networks Group,
claims that every dollar spent on broadband
infrastructure results in a tenfold multiplier impact
on GDP. In other words, pouring $100 billion into
deploying a national fiber network would result in a
trillion dollars of economic growth -- particularly in
rural areas where businesses leave should they not
have necessary connectivity. Here I was, thinking that
actually investing in your infrastructure was akin to
satanism. Hey Bear Stearns, can we have that $30
billion back?
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadband-Infrastructure-Investment-Would-Have-Ten-Fold-Payoff-94960
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Starbucks can't handle demand for free Wi-Fi, CW
The program to offer Starbucks customers free AT&T
Wi-Fi access started this week, but an overwhelmed Web
site meant many customers were unable to take
advantage.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/304548122/article.do
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

Post's 'Web Cops' Are Off The Beat on Net Neutrality,
pk
The Washington Post has again taken the low road on
keeping a free and open Internet. In its latest
editorial, the newspaper of record in the Nation’s
Capital again declined to view the reality of a
duopoly broadband market and a lack of consumer
choices.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/303230420/1595
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Heavy Internet Users Targeted, Wash Post
Cable service operators Comcast and Time Warner Cable
said yesterday that they would begin testing new
approaches that would slow Internet access for heavy
users and charge more to those who want additional
speed.
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/304247255/AR2008060303248.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Some Thoughts About Network Management, Verizon
The Washington Post carried an editorial on Saturday,
May 31 that argued against government regulation of
the network management practices of broadband
providers but suggested that more transparency
regarding such practices would be helpful.  I think
the Post has taken a thoughtful position for a number
of reasons.  The Internet is really a network of
networks, a set of commercial agreements or
“handshakes” between ISPs to interconnect their
networks.  Network providers agree to transport their
http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/LinkHoewing9/477/Some-Thoughts-About-Network-Management.aspx#When:18:54:50
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Metering Bandwidth and Stopping Fraud, Tech Liberation
Front
Time Warner rolled out data metering in Beaumont,
Texas on Thursday, a development that might inspire
many in the pro net neutrality regulation camp to cry
foul. However, bandwidth metering is probably a fairer
and more transparent way to deal with the vast
disparities in usage amongst broadband subscribers.
Rather than claiming “unlimited” service and then
proceeding to restrict access in a few dozen ways,
metering gives unlimited use to a point, and then asks
heavy users to pay their fair share.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/304128374/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Metered broadband: making a comeback like bell-bottom
trousers?, Muni
Om Malik posted an article today about American ISPs
offering metered broadband plans. He says that Time
Warner will be the first major US cable company to
offer such a plan. I supposed if all you do is check
email and occasionally look at websites, it’s not a
bad idea. However, from what I’ve seen in the past, I
would never go for metered broadband and I hope that
it never takes hold anywhere.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/303755958/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Vigilantes Against BitTorrent? Revision3 Taken Down by
SYN Floods, Peerflow
Revision3 uses BitTorrent to distribute legal Internet
television. It turns out using BitTorrent may be
enough to subject a company to crippling online
attack.
http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2008/06/vigilantes-against-bittorrent-revision3-taken-down-by-syn-floods.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

IPv6 and Airline Tickets
 Tales of Two Transitions,
CircleID
The internet bus continues to accelerate straight into
the IPv4 address depletion wall with spirited
discussions continuing on how to divvy up the remnants
of the address space. Obviously all five Regional
Internet Registries (RIR's) want to make sure they get
their fair share from IANA but what is a fair share
remains the subject of interpretation. In the mean
time, scenarios of a speculative land rush and
auctions of ever smaller address blocks abound with
unattractive consequences such as an explosion of the
size of the routing table and a stunted growth of the
global internet economy... In the meantime, the
airline industry completed a rather significant
migration of their own.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/86270_ipv6_and_airline_tickets/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Comcast Upload Speed Increase - 6Mbps/1Mbps and
8Mbps/2Mbps, dslreports
A Comcast insider tells me that sometime between today
and Thursday, Comcast will be boosting upload speeds
(users in FiOS areas may have seen the bump already).
6Mbps customers will see their upstream speeds boosted
to 1Mbps, while 8Mbps customers will see their
upstream speeds boosted to 2Mbps. "Customers with the
above packages will need to powercycle their modems to
receive the increased upload speeds," says the
tipster. "Marketing will begin two weeks after the
upgrade is complete - or sooner once this is read," he
jokes. The bumps mirror claims another tipster
provided me last month.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Upload-Speed-Increase-94957
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm

Comcast Begins Testing 'Protocol Agnostic' Network
Management - Leaked memo identifies Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania and Warrenton, Virginia tests, dslreports
I've learned that Comcast will begin testing their
new, "protocol agnostic" network management solution
starting on Thursday in two markets. Comcast
originally came under fire after one of our users
discovered the company was forging TCP packets to
disrupt BitTorrent communications. If you recall, the
FCC's investigation into these practices prompted the
carrier to declare it would shift to a "protocol
agnostic" solution by the end of this year.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Begins-Testing-Protocol-Agnostic-Network-Management-94962
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm

Time Warner’s internet cap is to gas prices as
, Lost
Remote

Americans are to Europeans? My European friends laugh
at our “high” gas prices. Now, they have something
else to rib me about - the seeming imminence of
consumption-based pricing for US web access. Time
Warner is starting to test consumption-based pricing
in Texas, and Comcast has been threatening to test
this for a few months. Again, this is something that’s
been happening in Europe. (They’ve always had higher
ISP fees, too.)
http://www.lostremote.com/2008/06/03/time-warners-internet-cap-is-to-gas-prices-as/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/tw.htm

Syria - Youth held for past year because of comments
posted online - 3.06.2008, rsf
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the
detention of Kareem Arbaji, a young business
consultant, for the past 12 months because of comments
he posted on the online discussion forum Akhawia
(http://www.akhawia.net/). The arrest of Arabji, who
is due to appear in court on 8 June, has only now been
drawn to the organisation's attention.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27285
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/me.htm

Prince Issues One Takedown Too Many, EFF
It's a familiar story: A fan uploads a video shot at a
Prince concert to YouTube, and that video promptly
disappears the moment Prince's lawyers issue a DMCA
takedown notice. It may seem silly to many fans, but
the DMCA instructs content hosting sites to respond to
copyright complaints by instantly removing disputed
content.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/06/prince-issues-one-takedown-too-many
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm

Imagine There’s No Fair Use, Tech Liberation Front
The controversy centers around a segment about an hour
into the film. Science advocate PZ Myers argues that
greater science literacy would “lead to the erosion of
religion,” and expresses the hope that religion would
“slowly fade away.” The narrator, Ben Stein, asserts
that Myers’ ideas aren’t original. Rather, he is
“merely lifting a page out of John Lennon’s songbook.”
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/303238125/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/fair.htm

Spying Telecoms Receive Billions in Government
Contracts, EFF
The telecoms who are being sued for their cooperation
in the government's illegal warrantless surveillance
program have received billions in government
contracts. According to Washington Technology
magazine, Verizon received $1.3 billion, Sprint $839
million and AT&T $505 million in federal prime
contract revenue for fiscal 2007, for a total of $2.6
billion. While the companies have been government
contractors for a long time, it still represents a
significant increase in revenue.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/06/spying-telecoms-receive-billions
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.htm

Nigerian 419 Advance Fee Scammers Move To...
LinkedIn?, Techdirt
It still seems difficult to believe that anyone falls
for those "Nigerian" advance fee 419 scams, but time
and time again we read about smart people who should
know better who fall for them. And reports come in
about just how much money these scams make. And, the
really amazing thing, is that many of the victims are
so convinced by the scam that even after it's all
revealed, and they've lost all their money, they still
believe the scammer's story. However, times are
getting harder to convince people about these scams
over unsolicited email, so apparently they're starting
to move onto social networks, including business
social networks like LinkedIn. Perhaps I just use
LinkedIn in a very different manner than most people,
but I find it hard to believe that if some random
unknown person suddenly "connected" to you on LinkedIn
and offered you a cut of a multi-million dollar stash,
you wouldn't be suspicious.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080602/0003451286.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/nigeria.htm

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