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You Heard It Here First

by Daniel Taylor on 1 December, 2010

We’ve been saying for years that we’re going to have Network Neutrality — at a price. And the days of paying $30 a month for unlimited Internet video streaming will be over…soon enough. Today, it looks like we’re a step closer.

Termination Fees For Internet Video?

by Daniel Taylor on 30 November, 2010

Widget-enabled television sets are running $1,500 these days, and the best Comcast can come up with is termination fees for Internet video traffic.

Goodbye Open Internet

10 August 2010

While everyone else is telling you that — with Google and Verizon behind the effort — we now will have Network Neutrality and an Open Internet in perpetuity. I’ll say the exact opposite. This proposal is the death knell of the Open Internet.

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Net Neutrality is Dead, Long Live Net Neutrality

4 August 2010

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Other times, you have to kill something in order to make it live. With Verizon and Google poised to sign the first of many content-to-connectivity digital media deals; it’s apparent that the future of network neutrality will lie in tiered pricing.

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National Broadband Yawn?

22 March 2010

Okay. So the FCC finally pulled together its hopeful plan for a future that we’ll almost certainly never see. 100 Mbps in 100 million homes within ten years? Sounds great! Why do we need it? And who’s going to pay for it?

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A Synopsis of Internet Regulation

2 November 2009

Bob Cannon at the FCC has a great post summarizing forty-some odd years of data (now Internet) regulation. If you feel inclined to Tweet about Net Neutrality or to weigh in about some form of Internet regulation, you might want to read his longer paper about the Computer Inquiries.

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Finally, A Real Study About Behavioral Targeting

1 October 2009

Thanks to researchers at Penn and Berkeley, this New York Times article is the best one I’ve seen written on consumer attitudes toward online behavioral targeting (BT). So what’s next? Will this get rolled into Net Neutrality regulation? Or will the FTC take the lead and suggest a different avenue?

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Net Neutrality: Keep Your Pants On!

21 September 2009

Why a speech and a proposal are far from legislation. And why regulation doesn’t always work as intended.

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