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 […]
This may be the third rail of the conslidation debate. It is an issue that is not going away. The issue of the Internet is vital to ur citizens.
This is Cantrell Johnson. I’m proud to say he has been my neighbor for almost 23 years. He is a part-time pastor. He supports his family doing odd jobs. He used to tile floors. These days he often mows lawns. Rev. Johnson doesn’t just preach about Jesus. He tries to live as Jesus did. He […]
Once we have competition, in other words, in both the core and at the edges, the problems of the Bell monopoly are over, without the need for new legislation.
Unfortunately Enron’s oh-so-clever “bandwidth traders” didn’t know they were selling kittens. They thought they were selling an asset like oil or gas, something whose supply was limited and whose demand was growing. In fact they were selling something whose demand was constrained but whose supply was unlimited.
Cuban is right about one thing. We will not have true broadband in 10 years, we won't break the TV barrier on our Internet connections, unless something is done. But that something is not new technology. That something is to break the duopoly.
