It will take time for truly-neutral networks -- muncipal, wireless, Google - to to come on-stream. But once they are there, and consumers see the difference between The Real Internet and the phony IMS variety the phone and cable opolists are pushing, the older companies will be well and truly dead.
Republicans may prefer to think it Reagan's legacy, but it was Nixon who built the beliefs that must be broken. The idea of the enemy. The enemies list. The media, the academics, the nay-sayers, sex, drugs, moral relativism. The idea that if we just kill enough of "them" then "we" will finally be "free."
In terms of raw political power, the "out" party is practically much closer to power than was the case 40 years ago.
My favorite news story this week is this one. The Macon Telegraph reports that a 45 foot tall American chestnut has been found, thriving, on Pine Mountain in FDR State Park, just a quarter-mile from one of the former President’s favorite fishing holes. As late as the 19th century a canopy of chestnuts, up to […]
You paid for the phone network, not them. You licensed the cable operators, and without your approval they would not, could not exist.
QoS will continue, regardless of the outcome of the network neutrality debate.
If you want real growth in wireless, the correct approach is to increase the supply of unlicensed spectrum. Cisco will make money, Microsoft will make money, and a host of new services will be created. New value will be created, and prices will be kept low.
The historical relationship between stock and bond prices is being re-established, historical patterns are being re-established, and if you thought the last five years were a bear market for stocks (as I do), well you haven't seen anything yet.
If AT&T decides to sell what are, in effect, private network services and call itself an Internet Service Provider, who will defend the Internet's meaning?
Those without demand a share in what others have, at minimum the chance to earn one. When their political and economic systems fail to deliver answers, where negotiation is rejected, arms are taken up.
