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The US Senate is expected to vote on Joint Resolution 6 this week. You mean you’ve forgotten about this? SJ 6 is a one sentence piece of legislation that succinctly expresses Senators’ (read Republicans’) desire to stomp on the FCC’s … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s Q&A session at the House Communications and Internet Subcommittee felt a little bit mockumentary, a little bit reality TV show with a few movie stars making appearances. Yes, the Republicans were playing “we’re just folks”, taking on the bumbling … Continue reading →

The New York Times’ indispensable business reporter, Joe Nocera, slipped in a story about net neutrality just before the long holiday weekend.  The normally dependable Nocera—he’s been completely vigilant in his reporting on the financial crisis—really lost his way in … Continue reading →

Is this what Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg metaphorically whispered into the Google founder’s ear?  I’m still reeling from the Google-Verizon non-aggression pact and what it will mean for a  competitive and open Internet.  Some have pointed out that the proposal … Continue reading →

So there wasn’t an agreement between Google and Verizon, as reported by The New York Times, on price tiers. Instead the two companies released a modest proposal and legislative framework for an open Internet.  I like the boldness of their … Continue reading →

Not according to, er, AT&T.  “Intellectual contradiction” and “noisome trumpeter” and other mean words were lobbed at Google by AT&T in a letter to the FCC in September 2009.  You get a little dizzy reading this contrivance especially when AT&T … Continue reading →

After the FCC lost its net neutrality case against Comcast, I put on hold a project to review a series of YouTube videos involving Chairman Genachowski. The rough plan was to gain some insight as to how the FCC would … Continue reading →

Sections 201, 202, and 208. These fundamental provisions collectively forbid unreasonable denials of service and other unjust or unreasonable practices, and allow the Commission to enforce the prohibition.  Long before the Comcast decision, access providers supporting an information service classification … Continue reading →

I had two shots of espresso and then  tackled  a few parts of the U.S. Court of Appeals decision favoring Comcast.   I am an  informed technologist with no legal training.   It does appear to this blogger that the FCC’s … Continue reading →

Yesterday the Official Google Blog revealed plans for a 1 Gig fiber-to-the-home network. Their project sounds almost tentative and in the spirit of knowledge for knowledge’s sake: …the purpose of this project is to experiment and learn. Network providers are … Continue reading →