The following are my notes from a talk by Bruce Kushnick at the Freedom2Connect conference on Monday. Bruce’s e-book, The $200 Billion Broadband Scandal, was the original focus of this blog. Bruce KushnickTeletruth Customers were overcharged $200 billion for a fiber optic, 45 megabit, bidirectional 500 channel service that was supposed to be offered to […]
What follows are my notes from Jeff Chester’s talk at the Freedom2Connect conference on Monday. Jeff Chester, executive director, Center for Digital Democracy Our democracy and communications system are at a crossroads. Currents are underway that will fundamentally change it. It’s beyond network neutrality. It’s time to step up and fight to take on a […]
From Monday’s Freedom2Connect conference in Silver Spring, Maryland. (More as it is copyedited.) Brad Templeton, chairman Electronic Frontier Foundation I want to talk about the invention of the Internet. Was it invented by Al Gore or the inventors of packet switching? I believe it was a business invention, the contract under which we operate. That […]
From yesterday’s Freedom2Connect conference in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Watch this space for the rest of the conference as I get it copy edited.) Ben Scott, policy director Free Press We have 230,000 members. We do public education on communications policy issues. I lead the office here, which is an advocacy group on the Hill and […]
From today’s Freedom2Connect conference in Silver Spring, MarylandRick Ringel, director of engineering Intertel Understand how ingrained freedom to connect is. We build communications equipment for the small and medium enterprise. Look at it from the point of view of the end user. What will he see? There are two ways to measure it. First we […]
From today’s Freedom2Connect Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland. Michael Calabrese, New American Foundation, VP I’m going to talk about the TV channels. It’s pending in Congress. It’s a proceeding Michael Powell initiated, that the current chairman is sitting on. This is not about channels 52-69 – those 18 channels are going to auction, with 4 […]
From today’s Freedom2Connect Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland. DeWayne HendricksI’ve been an advocate for wireless a long time. I speak at a lot of conferences. Three years ago I said wireless would be a much larger competitor and people called me out to lunch. But look at where we are today. This municipal wireless thing […]
Cynthia de Lorenzi , former CEO, Patriot.Net ISP I just got into this four years ago. My brother died four years ago and that got me into this. We were named for the New England Patriots, not the Patriot Act. This argument is about entertainment. It’s between the cable companies and the telecommunications company. They […]
Martin Geddes edits Telepocalypse, a telecomm blog. The title of my talk is Neutrality Schmootality I strongly believe that within the current framework of how we fund and build networks it is an error, one that takes you further from freedom to connect. It’s supposed to be a tactical solution. There definitely is a problem […]
Tim Wu professor law at Columbia University Is this a fad? In answer to that I want to talk about some of the issues of how the underlying issue of discrimination has existed in telecommunications history. Third I want to comment on legislative proposals. The label network neutrality is not that important. In fact the […]
