Law and the Open Internet by Adam Candeub, Daniel McCartney :: SSRN

Law and the Open Internet by Adam Candeub, Daniel McCartney :: SSRN: they haven't read the book (!), but they make a very nice reference to my work on peering, and it's a well-thought through paper that rips into conventional economic analyses.

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Neelie Kroes Tells Vodafone's Colao More Regulation Is Good for Customers, Good for Him

Neelie Kroes Tells Vodafone's Colao More Regulation Is Good for Customers, Good for Him | PCWorld Business Center: if he can't rip you off on roaming, he'll throttle your data?

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Korea telecom against net neutrality for video: Youtube, Internet TV

KT reviewing network fees on Youtube, Internet TVs | Reuters: ""We want to set a rule that we can equally apply to every platform operator that offers data-heavy content as those services threaten to black out our network. They should pay for using our network," Kim Taehwan, vice president of KT's smart network policy task force, told Reuters in an interview. "Payment could take various forms, from sharing a portion of advertisement revenues or profits to settling network usage fees. We are open to discussing that and are focusing our efforts on Internet TVs for a start before broadening our target to other data-heavy services such as Youtube.""

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SOPA and Network Architecture: Andres Guadamuz

SOPA and Network Architecture: a timely reminder that US corporations own the majority of Internet infrastructure, and that what happens in Washington...affects all of us.

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Net neutrality research in action? French regulator proposes quarterly reporting of peering agreements

LINX Public Affairs » French regulator proposes quarterly reporting of peering agreements:

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SEC denies carrier attempts to block shareholder net neutrality votes

SEC denies carrier attempts to block shareholder net neutrality votes: which is nice, will produce a vote against net neutrality, but make for a noisy AGM....the vast letter file is available here, dated 13 February with a great deal of Verizon legal verbiage from 10 February attached.

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Smug and chagrined: Susan Crawford blog

Smug and chagrined: by Susan Crawford: I just picked up on this (well January I was in Bali...;-) excellent analysis by Susan Crawford, , one of the more strident and provocative thinkers in US telecoms. Thinking outside the cable box, you might say - and as the fibre route to the home becomes more clearly stuck on the kerb with DOCSIS3.0 cable, it seems highly appropriate reading from here in Australia, home of the NGN.

Naughton: Real hero of the Facebook story isn't Zuckerberg, it's the internet

Real hero of the Facebook story isn't Zuckerberg, it's the internet | Technology | The Observer: Amen. What makes me really happy is that he 'stole' $100billion from under Uncle Rupert's MySpace. Happy thought.

Cambridgeshire releases £100m next-generation broadband plans

Cambridgeshire releases £100m next-generation broadband plans - Public Service: this is a county that takes broadband seriously...unlike much of the country.

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thinkbroadband :: The Best in Europe Scorecard that Ed Vaizey is confident about

thinkbroadband :: The Best in Europe Scorecard that Ed Vaizey is confident about: it's going to be another fudge like UK government-commissioned Booz Allen Hamilton production for its 2005 broadband target...which it also missed

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I quit this masquerade, says rapporteur, as EU signs ACTA

I quit this masquerade, says rapporteur, as EU signs ACTA:

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