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Did Comcast Hire Public Stand-ins For Neutrality Hearing? – Napping,...
You’ve heard of a denial-of-service attack – read the following and see if it appears to you as though Comcast might have taken the same principle and applied it to citizen participation. Or, if you’re...
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Verizon not upfront on contract terms – Los Angeles Times
photo credit: thinkpanama David Lazarus of the The Los Angeles Times blasts Verizon today for withholding contract terms from customers until AFTER they have signed up for service – and some of the...
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BETA Perl script for Caller ID popups when using Linksys/Sipura devices
photo credit: bcostin PLEASE NOTE: This article has been updated as of December 30, 2008. This now works with a Mac or Win32 computer (and Linux computers with libnotify installed or readily...
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WTF?? DSLreports editorializes in favor of broadband caps!
At first I checked the calendar – nope, it’s not April Fools Day. Then I read the article to see if the title, “Editorial: Caps are welcome” was really a bit of headline sarcasm, and that the body of...
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The Unintended Consequence of Broadband Usage Caps
I think broadband providers had better be very careful. I’m old enough to remember a time when it seemed like almost everybody hated the phone company, with the type of hatred that today might be...
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The most important article you may read this year
If you care anything at all about the future of the Internet (and all the services provided via the Internet), drop everything and go read this article: If ISPs Meter, Who Verifies Meter Accuracy? I...
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Killing the Golden Goose
I wonder how many folks saw this article yesterday on the Stop the Cap! site: Cable Companies’ Big Internet Swindle: They Charge You $40 For Broadband That Costs Them $8 To Provide I had sent this...
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Great Lakes IT Report: Upstart Phone Companies Upset With New Telecom Tax
It appears some of Michigan’s smaller phone companies are upset about House Bill 4257, which has been passed by both the Michigan House and Senate, and is awaiting the Governor’s signature. From the...
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A modest proposal to solve (some of) our broadband access and bandwidth problems
I have a modest proposal for how to solve our broadband access and bandwidth problems. Okay, maybe not all of them, but at least two: The current inability of people in rural areas (with dialup access...
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Is Michigan going to get screwed on broadband mapping? (UPDATE 3)
Crain’s Detroit Business reports today that Michigan is going to get $1.8 million from the feds “to launch an initiative to map and plan broadband service.” Now, you should be wondering about the...
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Random thoughts on various topics
Today I just want to post a few quick thoughts on various topics, none of which are sufficient for a full article: THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS: Before you vote, or if you are thinking of not voting, you...
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Before you even think of signing up for Frontier DSL service you might want...
Image via Wikipedia From Stop the Cap!: Exclusive: Frontier’s California Confuse-o-rama: Residents Victimized by Frontier’s Changing Stories And when I read something like that, my thought is, if they...
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BETA Perl script for Caller ID popups when using Obihai devices
Quite some time ago, I published a BETA Perl script for Caller ID popups when using Linksys/Sipura devices. Time marches on, and now the new Obihai devices (the OBi100 and OBi110) are on the market,...
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Link: Get Ready For ‘Super Wi-Fi’ To Be A Big Thing In 2013
Quote: … it’s a new kind of wireless network running on unused or underused spectrum known as “white spaces.” It’s championed by the likes of Google and Microsoft. Get Ready For ‘Super Wi-Fi’ To Be A...
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Computerworld: Opinion: Keeping a lid on broadband
Computerworld correspondent Robert L. Mitchell has come out with a scathing critique of communications deregulation in the United States: Will you get the bandwidth you need? If your business is in...
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No love for Verizon in The Consumerist today
The Consumerist had not one, but two articles about Verizon today. The best one contained an embedded video, in which a guy phoned up Verizon Wireless fifty-six times to ask two basic questions about...
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DSLreports.com: Is Connected Nation A Phone Industry Sham? – Looking more...
From DSLreports.com comes a heads-up on another organization that may not be what it seems: You may have heard of “Connect Kentucky,” a plan developed to bring broadband services to rural areas of...
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The slippery slope of metered pricing for broadband
There have been a few reports surfacing this week that Time-Warner intends to try a metered pricing scheme for broadband service down in Beaumont, Texas. I’m not sure why they picked that town but...
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Petoskey News-Review: Making connections: Some eye regional cooperative to...
Those of us who live in places where there are two or more choices for broadband access may sometimes forget that there are large areas of Michigan where no broadband access is available. The people...
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Talk about AT&T’s internet filtering plans is not an acceptable topic on...
They stopped the taping when the audience indicated they were not in favor of AT&T’s filtering plans! The story is here: Talking About AT&T’s Internet Filtering on AT&T’s The Hugh Thompson...
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