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"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is
up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money."
- Joe Weinstein

ISP Lobbying Group: What Rural Broadband Problem? -
Move along folks, there's nothing to see here
,
dslreports
Those of you in rural America who can't get broadband
have simply miscalculated, according to the US
Internet Industry Association, a Washington lobbying
organization for ISPs and Internet industry. "The
accepted political dogma that America has in some way
failed in its efforts to deploy broadband is based on
a series of miscalculations," insists USIAA CEO David
McClure in a new report. Chock full of industry
think-tank science, the report seems little more than
an effort to blow smoke up consumers' collective
ethernet ports:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ISP-Lobbying-Group-What-Rural-Broadband-Problem-92407
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Denver Airport Slammed For Wi-Fi Filters - Same
standards being applied to Sudan and Denver?,
dslreports
The Denver airport is being criticized because their
free Wi-Fi network prohibits surfers from browsing
such dangerous websites as Boing Boing and Vanity
Fair. The blockade was first discovered by Talking
Heads frontman David Byrne. The airport is using the
same filtering products used by governments who censor
web-access. The filters aren't too bright, and cast a
pretty wide net in trying to filter Internet nudity:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Denver-Airport-Slammed-For-WiFi-Filters-92414
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Hearing on Net Neutrality and Free Speech on the
Internet, PK
The House Judiciary Committee Task Force on
Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws will hold a
hearing on Net Neutrality and Free Speech on the
Internet.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/246205228/1427
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Cable Telephony Tops 13 Million Subscribers - And a
good chunk of those are baby bell customers
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dslreports
Last we checked, cable controlled roughly 70% of the
VoIP market, a number we're sure has risen since the
stellar fourth quarter VoIP additions most cable
providers reported. AT&T, Verizon, Qwest and Embarq
are collectively losing roughly 2.6 million landline
customers per quarter, and about half of those users
are converting over to cable VoIP. All told, cable
operators now report more than 13 million phone
customers. While the price of cable VoIP is steep
compared to indie VoIP,
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cable-Telephony-Tops-13-Million-Subscribers-92415
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

Kaput: What Your Domain Becomes if U.S. Treasury Says
So, Peerflow
So that's that. Register your domain name through a
U.S. company and your business goes kaput if the U.S.
Treasury Department decides it doesn't like you. It
doesn't matter if you're based in Spain, your servers
are in the Bahamas, your customers are mostly
European, and you've broken no laws. No warning. Just
kaput.
http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2008/03/kaput-what-your.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/

South Florida Comcast Upgrading To DOCSIS 3.0 - Though
Comcast mothership remains quiet about plans
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dslreports
As we just got done saying, Comcast has been pretty
tight lipped about DOCSIS 3.0 deployment plans,
officially only saying they'll have 20% of their
footprint wired with the speedier connectivity by the
end of this year. While corporate PR isn't commenting
on launch markets, smaller Comcast markets apparently
didn't get the memo. Comcast South Florida has
announced they're preparing to upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/South-Florida-Comcast-Upgrading-To-DOCSIS-30-92373
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Comcast Greets Former Insight Customers With Rate Hike
- Hi, welcome to Comcast -- we're now raising rates
because we can
, dslreports
Insight Communications in January transferred half of
their customer base to Comcast after the two companies
unwound a longstanding partnership. Many of those
customers are now being welcomed to the Comcast family
in the form of 6% cable TV rate hikes. One
Springfield, Illinois paper gets Comcact to admit the
price hikes had nothing to do with more expensive
programming; they simply raised rates because they
could:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Greets-Former-Insight-Customers-With-Rate-Hike-92387
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm

Comcast Injects 9/11 Into Broadband Mapping Debate.
Really., PK
A Maryland lobbyist for Comcast yesterday added a new
chapter to the company’s recent illustrious history of
corporate diplomacy by invoking the Giuliani defense
into a discussion of broadband deployment.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/246394643/1428
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm

Clearwire and Sprint: Squeezed together?, America's
Network
Amid the credit crunch, their continued partnership
may be essential for both to make their WiMax dreams
come true
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/BusinessWeek/Clearwire-and-Sprint-Squeezed-together/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/500678?ref=25
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/sprint.htm

Vonage Fights To Avoid Bankruptcy - Renegotiating $253
million in debt with creditors, dslreports
Cable VoIP competition, high customer churn and large
patent violation payouts continue to trouble Vonage.
But according to the Washington Post, the company is
negotiating with its creditors to change the terms of
$253 million of debt in an effort to avoid bankruptcy.
The company's high churn currently means they're
having to replace a third of their customers every
year, and despite Vonage boss Jeff Citron
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Vonage-Fights-To-Avoid-Bankruptcy-92375
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/vonage.htm

FBI director acknowledges more surveillance abuses,
CNET
Senate told to expect more revelations of past phone
and e-mail surveillance abuses stemming from Patriot
Act authority beyond what has already been made
public.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9886448-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm

FBI Gets DS3 Backdoor Into Verizon Wireless Network? -
Another whistle-blower exposes surveillance project,
dslreports
Wired's Threat Level blog is reporting that a major
wireless carrier offers the FBI direct, high-speed
access to the company's voice calls, data packets and
company records. A whistle-blower who worked as a
network security analyst at the company in question
(which the blog strongly hints is Verizon Wireless),
says the company "got squirrelly" when he asked about
a mysterious DS-3 line linking its most sensitive
network to an unnamed third party.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FBI-Gets-DS3-Backdoor-Into-Verizon-Wireless-Network-92421
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm

National Dragnet Is a Click Away, Wash Post
Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating
the foundation of a domestic intelligence system
through computer networks that analyze vast amounts of
police information to fight crime and root out terror
plots.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503656.html?nav=rss_technology
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm

DHS five years later: So, where's the beef, guys?,
CNET
Department of Homeland Security celebrates fifth
anniversary with a gala event. The truth is there
still isn't much to celebrate when it comes to
cybersecurity.
http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9887620-60.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm

Plaintiffs Speak Out Against Telecom Immunity, EFF
The Bush administration and its supporters have
repeated complaints about "greedy trial lawyers" so
many times that they're beginning to sound like one of
those clips on the Daily Show -- you know, the ones
that show talking points being repeated so many times
that it becomes painfully obvious how politicians use
catch phrases to manipulate public opinion?
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/03/plaintiffs-speak-out-against-telecom-immunity
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/fisa.htm

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