[Cybertel-Ann] 3.26 :: $16B Termintes :: WiFi Sharks :: WiMax a "Disaster" :: Comcast Bankrolls WiMax Venture :: WiFi Killed My Baby! ::

Wed Mar 26 06:55:14 PST 2008

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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to
and you have found out the exact measure of injustice
and wrong which will be imposed upon them. - Frederick
Douglass

Brief Update On $16 Billion Termites, Tales from the
Sausage Factory
SO it turns out in 2003, the FCC amended the rules —
but only with regard to higher power services governed
by Subpart F. These higher power services were
explicitly made secondary to any new entrants
following the digital transition. (See 47 CFR
74.602(h)(3)). But the lower power wireless
microphones governed by Part H (47 CFR 74.800 et seq)
were not so designated.
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1125
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

700 MHz Aftermath: Verizon, AT&T & the $16 Billion
Termites., Tales from the Sausage Factory
Imagine you just spent a fortune on some excellent
beachfront property, only to discover some termites in
the basement. Now imagine that the only way to get rid
of the termites involves some toxic chemicals that may
arouse the ire of the environm...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1123
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

WiFi Hotspot Surfers Beware: Sharks Patrol These
Waters, Ecommerce Times
WiFi features are as standard on today's portable
computers as built-in modems used to be. Laptop users
have become accustomed to the ability to connect to
the Internet from practically anywhere to reach
e-mail, Web sites and music download portals.
Consumers even use wireless routers to connect to the
Internet from anywhere in their homes. The problem,
however, is that many portable computer users are
completely clueless about the dangers of unprotected
WiFi connections. They think that they can surf the
Net with the same impunity as having a wired
connection.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/62283.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

Comcast and Time Warner to bankroll WiMax joint
venture, CNET
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Comcast and
Time Warner are in talks to help a joint venture
between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to build a 4G
wireless network.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9903411-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

WiMAX PR disaster: Airspan strikes back, Muni
This is not what WiMAX, hardware vendors, service
providers and customers need at this time — a war of
words between a service provider and a vendor about
who screwed up.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/258199395/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

WiMax Critic Gets Blowback - Hardware vendor blames
ISP for poor WiMax experience
, dslreports
News reports began to surface this week in which an
Australian ISP CEO stated that WiMax was a disaster,
suffered from miserable line of sight performance and
latency, and was a technology "mired in opportunistic
hype." Given that Intel and others have been hyping
the technology as "the most important thing since the
Internet itself" for a better part of the decade, you
just knew there would be blowback.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/WiMax-Critic-Gets-Blowback-92971
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

Wi-Fi Killed My Baby! - California town gives in to
fear, dslreports
The town of Sebastopol, California had planned to
throw up a few wireless access points downtown, until
a few locals, obsessed with "electrical sensitivity,"
derailed the effort. According to the O'Reilly blog,
said locals banded together and signed a petition
against the project, citing research that shows Wi-Fi
is hazardous to your health.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/WiFi-Killed-My-Baby-92938
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wimax.htm

A common sense approach to Internet safety, Google
Over the years, we've built tools and offered
resources to help kids and families stay safe online.
Our SafeSearch feature, for example, helps filter
explicit content from search results.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/257905470/common-sense-approach-to-internet.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Palfrey on trends in global cybercensorship, Tech
Liberation Front
I previously mentioned the excellent new book, "Access
Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet
Filtering," which is edited by Ronald J. Deibert, John
G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain.
It is a comprehensive survey of the methods
governments are using to stifle online expression. The
contributors provide a regional and country-by-country
overview of the global state of online speech controls
and discuss the long-term ramifications of increasing
government filtering of online networks.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/258339664/043514.php
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

It's Good To Be A Monopoly: Bell Canada Tells ISPs To
Shut Up And Accept Traffic Shaping, Techdirt
Remember how Bell Canada had decided to start traffic
shaping without telling any of its ISP resellers?
Well, in a meeting with those resellers, the company
both admitted it and told them there was nothing they
could do about it, even if it meant that those ISPs
were violating their own terms of service and promises
to customers. It's good to be a monopoly, you see.
Since those ISPs have nowhere else to go, Bell Canada
is able to do whatever it wants to the network, and if
those ISPs don't like it, they're pretty much out of
luck.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080325/155924648.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in January, 2008,
Clickz
Rankings of the top 50 Internet advertisers by media
value in January 2008.
http://feeds.clickz.com/~r/clickzstats/~3/257705844/showPage.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

AT&T's Spam Filter Gets A Bit Too Aggressive, Techdirt
You can certainly understand why ISPs offer spam
filters. It's a service for users who don't want to be
totally bombarded with spam. But what I've never
understood is that these ISPs rarely give the user a
chance to circumvent the spam filter themselves. If
most people want to ignore it and assume all spam is
spam, then so be it. But what if some users want to
make sure no legit emails are getting through? Witness
the latest chatter about AT&T's "upgraded" spam filter
that is apparently eating up a ton of legitimate
emails with no indication to the receiving party. It's
surprising that AT&T would do this, knowing (as it
must) that back when Verizon became too aggressive
with its spam filters, it lost a class action lawsuit
and had to pay out a few million dollars to annoyed
users. Either way, it's a reminder not to use your
ISP's email solution.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080325/002950640.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm

Syria tightens grip on Internet use, Globe and Mail
Security forces jail bloggers, blocks websites, order
Internet cafes to record clients' full names, ID or
passport numbers and computer used
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/258319849/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/me.htm

YouTube and the rise of geolocational filtering,
OpenNet Initiative
YouTomb, a project of the MIT Free Culture group that
studies takedown notices by the video-sharing website
YouTube, has identified a mechanism used by Google to
restrict video content in specific countries. This
appears to be the method YouTube is using to filter
videos on behalf of governments and private actors
that request it.
http://opennet.net/blog/?p=232
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

Encryption Wars II?, PK
On March 19, I was invited to a symposium at Penn Law
entitled “Copyright and the Internet: Solutions for a
Digital World.” The panel before mine was dedicated to
reconciling copyright and the first amendment in the
areas of filtering, takedown notices, and fair use.
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/257972941/1475
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crypto.htm

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