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- Climate change denial: only in America? Then, there's global cooling...
- Climate change denial is as global as global warming. Even in obscure corners of the world the political battle is being fought. From the British Broadcasting Company to American mass media, the new...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Change Denial, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Why regulations are important
- I'm making a trip to Europe next week, landing in Shannon Airport near Limerick Ireland Sunday morning then moving on to London that following Tuesday. In a way, it's like returning home, as I used to live in Limerick and know the Shannon airport and Limerick areas very well. In...
- Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Network, Europe, Regulation, Charge, Net Neutrality, Geneva, Government, Regulations, Cable, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Cable companies and competition
- The FCC announced yesterday that they would ban exclusive agreements with apartment complexes that enabled cable companies to lock-out competition through long-term contracts that prevent residents from using alternatives. I do know that this often meant such complexes banned installation of satellite dishes anywhere on the property, which was the...
- Tags: Cable Company, Regulation, Government, Regulations, Vertical Industries, Cable, Enterprise Software, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Local govts. target Wi-Fi piggybacking
- Local govts. target Wi-Fi piggybackingHeight of stupidity!!"Laws are necessary because piggybacking is probably not illegal."Oh. Everything that's not illegal must be made so? This is dumb! How about just enforcing the laws that protect certain categories of private information? Wi-Fi "piggy-backing" should be perfectly fine as...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Routers & switches, wireless, Wi-Fi, broadcasting
- Discussion threads 2007-01-09
- Doctorow: HDTV is a Trojan Horse. DRM is the payload
- Doctorow: HDTV is a Trojan Horse. DRM is the payloadI believe it's referred to ..as dinosaurs mating.Funny how, wherever these big dinosaurs are (entertainment, telecom), there are regulations and laws nearby to prolong the death.dbTraditional media ...... is just a bunch of control freaks fighting against the inevitable.The best...
- Tags: digital-rights management, Doctorow, DRM IS, HDTV, regulation, trojan horse
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- An anti-telco blind spot
- An anti-telco blind spotBe afraidI would agree and do not like the prospect of turning over additional power to the government - but having spent a huge chunk of my career in telecom, the telcos are not to be trusted. The PUC public utility commissions are full of reports...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, telecommunications company
- Discussion threads 2006-05-25
- Net neutrality and market interference
- In a previous post on the subject of AT&T's proposed merger with BellSouth, I suggested "net neutrality" rules might be a better way of dealing with the concerns posed as reason to block the move. This led to a response via email by Matt, a web developer in San Francisco...
- Tags: merger, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-03-17
- UK balks as EU moves to regulate Internet broadcasts
- ZDNet UK reports that the British broadcasting minister, James Purnell, is resisting proposed changes to the EU's Broadcasting Without Frontiers directive. Drafted in 1989, the directive makes no mention of the Internet and some EU countries want to update it. The Commission has proposed...
- Tags: James Purnell
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
- A la carte TV
- A la carte TVA la carte TV - It's a good thing.I don't see how breaking the bundling is a bad thing. Take the ESPN/ESPN2 bundling thing. If ESPN2 had anything worth watching, it would be delivered without having to be bundled with something that people would actually watch.As it's...
- Tags: Network technology, TV, cable
- Discussion threads 2005-12-05
- Unshackling telecom innovation
- Unshackling telecom innovationDon't forget about FiberYou make a lot of good points, but you forget to mention that the baby bells, Verizon in particular are building out Fiber to the home networks to compete with the cable companies. Providing very high speed data access, and Voice and soon video...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Telephony, cable, cable company, phone, telecommunications, telephone company, AT&T Corp., Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2005-08-15
- Are FCC radio spectrum policies obsolete?
- In my previous blog on "Getting beyond the WiMAX hype", I tried to put WiMAX in to some proper perspective of what it can and cannot do. From some of the responses that I've gotten, it appears that my WiMAX blog has thrown some cold water on the dream...
- Tags: spectrum, radio
- Blog posts 2005-07-22
- High court declines media ownership appeals
- High court declines media ownership appealsThe airwaves belong to the people,not the broadcasting companies. They merely license space from the American people. Nice to see the Supreme Court backing up our rights, our ability to get a variety of viewpoints and hopefully a clearer picture of the truth...
- Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, Gannet, FCC, clearer picture, government involvement, American People, airwave, High Court
- Discussion threads 2005-06-13
- Bells' fiber plans spark political flame war
- Bells' fiber plans spark political flame warIt's called -- competition!Cable companies can just get over it. But I'm sure there will be plenty of Senators they can buy to pass a few more stupid laws that will ultimately hurt the consumer. Thanks to Republican Party!It is time to slap down...
- Tags: TVs, Network technology, TV & Home Theater, Taxes, point in time, Wired Communications, TV, cable, fiber, cable company, government, broadcasting
- Discussion threads 2005-04-20
- New threat to Net's future?
- New threat to Net's future?TelecommunicationsWhy should the internet be ANY different from other means of 'broadcasting'? Why shouldn't net phones, radio, TV and PPV movies broadcast over the net fall under the FCC? All of these services take up HUGE AMOUNTS of internet bandwidth. These companies do not...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, tax
- Discussion threads 2003-12-22
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