Tag: Open Internet

The FCC Show

By Editor February 17, 2011 September 30, 2011

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 …

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Deep Packet Inspection and Revolution

By Editor February 14, 2011 October 1, 2011

One of the corporate blogs I review on occasion is Cisco’s The Platform.

In a post published on Sunday, and in time for the press deluge coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cisco pre-announced its new “framework” for mobile operators, called MOVE or Monetization, Optimization, and Videoscape Experience.

Run of the mill marketing prose. My attention was instead engaged by a product referred to in some of the MOVE marketing material, Cisco’s ASR 5000 “gateway mutlti-media platform.”

The impressively engineered ASR 5000 could probably stop a Facebook inspired revolution at the speed of a mouse click. And as a propaganda minister, you wouldn’t have to take your country’s Internet off the grid to accomplish this.Continue reading

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Back at the FCC

By Editor February 4, 2011 October 1, 2011

On Tuesday, the DC Court of Appeals denied Verizon’s request to have the same judges who decided Comcast vs. FCC hear its challenge to the …

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Zoom Telephonics Tests Open Internet

By Editor February 1, 2011 September 13, 2011

Back in November 2010, Zoom Telephonics, makers of cable modems, filed a complaint with the FCC against Comcast.

The modem manufacturer cited anti-competitive practices in Comcast’s new Physical and Environment (P&E) acceptance testing of their modems. According to Zoom’s filing, “Comcast’s P&E testing regime contains a host of unreasonable, irrelevant, time-consuming, and costly requirements.”

Current statutes in the Communications Act (Title VI, section 629) allow cable operators to restrict the use of modems to those that do not cause network harm or enable service theft. Zoom says that its modems are being excluded based on testing criteria involving, ahem, modem weight, labeling, and packaging.

With the approval of the FCC’s new Open Internet rules in December, Zoom seems to have a new line of attack. Continue reading