[Cybertel-Ann] 11.5 :: Hope :: A Vote for Opportunism :: GaHoo! No More :: The White Vote :: [Rest of Subject Line is Over your Subject Line Cap] ::

Wed Nov 5 12:00:21 PST 2008

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"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." - Abraham Lincoln

A vote for broadband in the "white spaces", Google
All eyes are on the presidential election today, but another important vote just took place at the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 5-0, the FCC formally agreed to open up the "white spaces" spectrum -- the unused airwaves between broadcast TV channels -- for wireless broadband service for the public. This is a clear victory for Internet users and anyone who want
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/442599028/vote-for-broadband-in-white-spaces.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm#white

Welcome to the White Spaces - No License? No Problem!, CommLawBlog
The FCC has voted to allow unlicensed devices to use "white spaces" in the TV band for wireless broadband. Preliminarily, only devices that determine available channels based on geolocation and a database of existing users will be authorized, but procedures have been put in place to allow future approval of devices that choose available channels based on only signal-sensing.
http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/442714964/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm#white

FCC Approves White Space Devices: The Dawn of the Age of Opportunistic Spectrum Reuse, Sascha
Yesterday will go down in history as a bellwether moment. Few among us will soon forget the excitement of Obama's election. But there was an equally historic vote yesterday that for geeks, policy analysts, and technologists represents an entirely new trajectory in telecommunications. In essence, the FCC has begun the transition from command-and-control, single-user spectrum licensure to a more distributed system that holds the potential to eliminate the artificial scarcity that prevented widespread
http://www.circleid.com/posts/2008115_fcc_approves_white_space_spectrum_reuse/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm#white

Comcast 'P4P' Tests Boost P2P By 80% - Though there's still more questions than answers about Pando's 'new P2P', dslreports
The P4P Research Group (pdf), a coalition of most major ISPs, researchers and Pando networks, is working on a more efficient P2P protocol that saves transit time by only serving file parts from local peers to reduce hops. Pando and the new coalition believe they can speed up P2P transfers by as much as 235% across US cable networks and up to 898% across international broadband networks. In Verizon tests, Pando increased the percentage of data routed internally across their networks from 2.2% to 43.4
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-P4P-Tests-Boost-P2P-By-80-98859
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

AT&T Jumps Into The Metered Broadband Game, Techdirt
As was widely expected, AT&T has officially jumped into the metered broadband game, initiating a system in Reno, with caps ranging from 20 to 150 gigabytes per month, depending on tier, and overage fees at $1/gigabyte. These caps are significantly lower than Comcast's caps, though higher than we've seen elsewhere. At this point, it's become pretty clear that all of the major ISPs seem to want to adopt such tiers and overage fees, which I still think will come back to bite them. It would be an opportunity for others to
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081104/0118402732.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm

Frontier Confirms Cap Plans - CEO: $1-$2 per GB only way to stay profitable…, dslreports
Earlier this year, customers of Frontier were annoyed to find that the carrier was planning to implement 5GB per month caps for their DSL services starting this winter. Customers discovered the plans due to references in the company's acceptable use policy, though the company really wasn't willing to talk in detail about their cap plans. Despite the negative reaction, Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter has more on
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Frontier-Confirms-Cap-Plans-98815
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm

AT&T Tries On Data Cap, Ecommerce Times
AT&T, the country's largest Internet service provider, is testing the idea of limiting the amount of data that subscribers can use each month. AT&T will initially apply the limits in Reno, Nev., and see about extending the practice elsewhere. Increasingly, Internet providers across the country are placing such limits on the amount of data users can upload and download each month, as a way to curb a
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/65047.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm

United States still lags behind in international broadband penetration, Speed Matters
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has released its latest international broadband statistics and the findings remain grim for the United States.
http://www.speedmatters.org/blog/united-states-still-lags.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm

Ending our agreement with Yahoo!, Google
In June we announced an advertising agreement with Yahoo! that gave Yahoo! the option of using Google to provide ads on its websites (and its publisher partners' sites) in the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, both companies agreed to delay implementation of the agreement to give regulators the chance to review it. While this wasn't legally
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/443306337/ending-our-agreement-with-yahoo.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm

Yahoo! Announces Termination of Services Agreement by Google, Yahoo
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that Google has terminated the advertising services agreement the companies announced in June. Yahoo! continues to believe in the benefits of the agreement and is disappointed that Google has elected to withdraw from the agreement rather than defend it in court. Google notified Yahoo! of its refusal to move forward with implementation of the agreement following indication from the Department of Justice that it would seek to block it, despite Yahoo!'s proposed revisions to address the DOJ's concerns.
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=345734
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/yahoo.htm

Egypt - Two years for a blog : that's enough ! - 5.11.2008, RSF
Reporters Without Borders today renewed its call for the release of Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer, aged 24, sentenced in 2006 to three years in prison for “insulting Islam” and one year for “insulting the president”, who will have served half his sentence on 6 November 2008.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29192
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/africa.htm

FCC Just Couldn't Stop Voting, Techdirt
Well, it's election day and apparently the FCC commissioners liked voting so much they took votes on just about everything. Amazingly, it looks like they even made some good decisions. The big one, of course, and the one that will get the most press, is the unanimous vote to free up television "white space" spectrum. While the NAB made a last ditch effort to stop this, the FCC made the right call here. This spectrum can be put to much better use, which can have a huge impact on increasing innovation and
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081104/1612362737.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Who Will Be Obama's CTO?, Internet News
At least one observer thinks Google's Eric Schmidt could be tapped.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/KpT5M1uFnX8/3782861
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

Propelled by Internet, Barack Obama Wins Presidency, Wired
Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States Tuesday night, crowning an improbable two-year climb that owes much of its success to Obama's command of the internet as a fundraising and organizing tool.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/442906743/propelled-by-in.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

No “Technology Czar,” Please, Tech Liberation Front
Over at OpenMarket.org, Wayne Crews has a good post arguing against Obama’s plan to appoint a “Technology Czar“:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/443516536/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

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