[Cybertel-Ann] 10.15 :: Feel the Power of Oprah!! :: 5c per GB :: Political Stunt Didnt Accomplish Much :: Comparing Ipv6 to Toxic Waste ::

Wed Oct 15 12:22:47 PDT 2008

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Is the root of all evil today
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Senate Guts Broadband Data Bill, Techdirt
You may have heard recently about the new Broadband Data Improvement Act, passing through Congress, as it basically put into law what the FCC had already decided: the cutoff for what should be considered broadband needed to be raised, and the data collection methods for broadband penetration needed to be updated, from the clearly bogus methodology it currently uses.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081009/2202482510.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/706.htm

Internet transit prices, Telecom Industry and Regulation
David Clark's paper on the incremental cost of IP service at the recent Telecommunications Policy Research Conference was quite interesting, so this item over at Telegeography caught my eye. According to their research, transit prices have been declining over the past year and vary significantly across the world. The figure below captures some of this data.
http://telcom2935.blogspot.com/2008/10/internet-transit-prices.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/backbone.htm

Intercarrier Compensation Reform' Means Higher Rates - FCC's Martin to once again wade into decade old fight…, dslreports
According to the Associated Press, the major phone carriers have convinced FCC boss Kevin Martin to once again attempt an overhaul of the fees that phone companies pay each other when they connect calls. The existing "intercarrier compensation" system largely favors smaller telcos, and baby bell lobbyists have been pushing the FCC to change this for some time -- though the solution will have many
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Intercarrier-Compensation-Reform-Means-Higher-Rates-98443
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/rcomp.htm

FCC report negates free Internet interference claims, CNET
Report from commission engineers boosts plan to auction spectrum for free wireless Internet by dismissing concerns it would interfere with existing providers' signals.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10063866-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/waws.htm

FCC's Smut-Free Broadband Plan Goes Forward - Tests show that system won't interfere with other services...., dslreports
FCC boss Kevin Martin and M2Z Networks' plan for a smut-censored free national wireless service recently ran into opposition from T-Mobile, who claimed that the technology being used (Time Division Duplex (TDD)) caused interference. This claim was made despite the fact that T-Mobile has used this same technology extensively overseas, and was generally seen as a transparent effort to derail the project. The FCC has now come back with their testing results, and according to a press release by M2Z, there is no interference threat:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCCs-SmutFree-Broadband-Plan-Goes-Forward-98382
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/waws.htm

Giganews Deconstructs Cuomo's Child Porn 'Crackdown' - Political stunt over-emphasized problem, didn't accomplish much, dslreports
Over the summer, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo got a lot of attention for waging war on ISPs and newsgroup child porn, even though his highly publicized crusade resulted in ISPs, by their own admission, doing absolutely nothing differently. Really, all the crusade did was result in more ISPs using child porn to justify their decision to stop offering free Usenet to save a buck. In a few cases, the AG had carriers block some useful newsgroups (AT&T now blocks the entire alt.binary hierarchy "for the children"). User uid://475801 points to a delayed retort over at the GigaNews blog that lays the sm
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Giganews-Deconstructs-Cuomos-Child-Porn-Crackdown-98446
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/cppa.htm

Bill Signed by President: S.1492 Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, Open Congress
A bill to improve the quality of federal and state data regarding the availability and quality of broadband services and to promote the deployment of affordable broadband services to all parts of the Nation.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1492/show
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/cppa.htm

Congress Thinks of the Children: S.1738 PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008, CT 
In the middle of the country’s ClusterF#@k to the Poor House, Congress took some time out to Think of the Children.  (The Power of Oprah)
http://cybertelecom.blogspot.com/2008/10/congress-thinks-of-children-s1738.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/cppa.htm

Bandwidth caps, Telecom Industry and Regulation
For the past several months, there has been much discussion about carriers such as Comcast imposing bandwidth caps on their users. The stated motivation for this is to rein in the highest bandwidth users, and perhaps to set the stage for price discrimination, where users would pay more for
http://telcom2935.blogspot.com/2008/10/bandwidth-caps.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm

Something better than IPv6, IP Convergence
Johna Till Johnson at Network World cleverly compares IPv6 to the U.S. Financial crisis in this article. She believes that IPv6 may well have been an ill conceived solution to the problem and cites John Day's research into a whole new solution to the problem.
http://blogs.globalcrossing.com/better-than-v6
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

FBI: Several nations eye U.S. cybertargets, CW
The chief of the FBI's Cyber Division says cyberthreats have grown in sophistication in the past year.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=6f8231cb568b8b143d966d88b81f57d9
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm

Opinion: FTC's new Red Flag Rules cast wide identity theft net, CW
On Nov. 1, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission's Red Flag Rules will take effect requiring any institution that extends credit to implement a program to detect, prevent and mitigate instances of identity theft.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=5b76a28f7cc5e15d902f767e2feeae4d
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/idtheft.com

FTC Shuts Down, Freezes Assets of Vast International Spam E-Mail Network, FTC
A U.S. district court has ordered a halt to the operations of a vast international spam network that peddled prescription drugs and bogus male-enhancement products.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/10/herbalkings.shtm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/enforce.htm

FTC, New Zealand hit one of world's largest spam operations, CW
Government agencies in the U.S. and New Zealand say they have sued the people behind one of the world's largest spamming operations.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/click.phdo?i=d59b02f73438f22a7dd03281b5db0042
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/enforce.htm

Palin ordered to save e-mails, CNET
A judge in Alaska is ordering Gov. Sarah Palin to preserve her private e-mail messages regarding state business, until a lawsuit requesting that they be made public is resolved.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10064409-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

YouTube rejects McCain request for DMCA takedown fix, CNET
Google-owned video site is unwilling to give presidential campaigns special treatment, saying they should rely on their rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10066738-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

New 'Economic Stimulus' Plan Includes Universal Broadband - Democrats try to score points with new infrastructure plan…, dslreports
After already handing out billions in taxpayer dollars to the financial industry, Democrats in Congress are cooking up a new $150 billion economic stimulus plan that would include money for cash-strapped states, but would also include cash for infrastructure upgrades. Nancy Pelosi has compared the package "to Jefferson's push to build roads and canals, Teddy Roosevelt's establishment of the national park service and Eisenhower's interstate highway initiative -- with modern day equivalents like
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/New-Economic-Stimulus-Plan-Includes-Universal-Broadband-98438
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

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