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As expected, the FCC has decided to reclassify Internet broadband as a telecommunications service. It’s approach is to apply Title II common carrier requirements to Internet broadband, but forbear most of the provisions except six, those associated with denial of … Continue reading →

Based on "anonymous sources", the New York Times is reporting that the FCC will reclassify cable broadband today as a hybrid beast, part information and part telecommunications service. This is based on the well known principle that voice (a transmission that doesn't involve a change in format) can infect the information part (a format changing transmission) and... forget it, it's too painful to go into. So you would think that information and content providers would uniformly welcome the FCC's new classification scheme as a way to preserve net neutrality? Not so fast. As I had argued in an earlier post, facility-less VoIP carrier are not going to be very excited about having the legacy telecommunications legal superstructure of Title II placed over them. If you dig into recent FCC filings, you'll see that at least one major VoIP provider, Vonage, has concerns about the FCC's helping hand. Continue reading →

I was lucky to get one of the few seats that suddenly became available for what I had thought was a sold-out  New York City Tech Meetup. I assume Spring fever infected a few early RSVPers. Anyway, I grabbed the … Continue reading →

I have been writing lately about my experiences setting up several unified communications applications, most recently one involving an open government project with hosted service provider Tropo. The projects were cell-phone centric, and assumed I would be issuing commands into … Continue reading →

A great weekend to be out biking the country roads of Hunterdon County, NJ

The O’Reilly Radar blog will be summarizing Gov 2.0 news in a week-in-review style post. And don’t forget O’Reilly’s Gov 2.0 Expo,  May 25 – 27, Washington,DC. And yes, I will try to put a together a more complete list … Continue reading →