regulation

What The ALU?

by Daniel Taylor on 4 November, 2010

I had been working on a piece about how tone deaf the mobile and telecom billing communities are about media — namely in their concept that media consumption should be reduced to billable events, even though consumer behavior swings the other way. But then this whopper of a piece came through on the Alcatel-Lucent RSS feed.

National Broadband Yawn?

by Daniel Taylor on 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?

AT&T to Google: Time To Spend the Night in The Box

28 September 2009

The current Net Neutrality debate reminds me of the familiar line from Cool Hand Luke in which the boss explains the punishment for every infraction to be “spend the night in the box.”

In an equally harsh and draconian measure, AT&T’s plan for the future of Google Voice involves leveraging regulation from the past.

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