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US National Broadband Plan

US National Broadband Plan

Resources and discussion of the US National Broadband Plan. Every American has a stake & is called to contribute via the FCC by June 8, 2009
Michael R. Bernstein
Fwd: Wireless Networking in the Developing World - http://wndw.net/download.html (via http://friendfeed.com/webmave...)
Fwd: Wireless Networking in the Developing World - http://wndw.net/download.html (via http://ff.im/c7bPo)
Michael R. Bernstein
"In September, Free Press submitted a filing with the Federal Communications Commission in response to its inquiry into whether broadband is being deployed in a "reasonable and timely fashion." While preparing this filing, we dredged up some stunning numbers on the cable industry’s Internet windfall. [...] Let’s first look at cable operators’ obscene profit margins for broadband service. Some financial analysts and institutions have noted that the profit margin for cable Internet subscribers is on the order of 80 percent. In other words, your cable company charges you $40 for something that costs them $8 to supply. [...] In our research, we found that for the second quarter of 2009, Comcast had a profit margin for its cable Internet service of about 70 percent [...] Outrageous, right? Getting a little PO’d?" - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet
Michael R. Bernstein
Telcos to FCC: give us billions, but don't make us share lines - http://arstechnica.com/telecom...?
Telcos to FCC: give us billions, but don't make us share lines
"AT&T and Verizon are up in arms about a "slanted" survey of global broadband practices done for the FCC which concludes that mandatory line-sharing rules produce better Internet speeds and penetration rates. Is it possible the US could (again) force ISPs to open their networks?" - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet
Michael R. Bernstein
FCC outlines seven biggest barriers to broadband adoption - http://arstechnica.com/telecom...
FCC outlines seven biggest barriers to broadband adoption
"So how do we get to somewhere near number one? The Federal Communications Commission's broadband task force has identified seven "gaps" or roadblocks along the path to the Holy Grail. The document doesn't offer any specific solutions to these problems. But the analysis offers clues as to where that National Broadband Plan the Commission has to crank out by February is going." - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet
Michael R. Bernstein
Fwd: Broadband stimulus cash going quickly—who's making a grab? - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/telecom... (via http://friendfeed.com/silas21...)
Fwd: Broadband stimulus cash going quickly—who's making a grab? - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/11/broadband-stimulus-cash-going-quicklywhos-making-a-grab.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss (via http://ff.im/bjC4M)
"Attention all broadband stimulus grant shoppers: the good news is that the Obama administration says it's fast-tracking the schedule to fork out over seven billion dollars in high speed Internet stimulus money. The other news is that if you haven't applied for this windfall yet, you've only got one more chance. Instead of handing out that dough in two additional rounds, as originally intended, the new plan is to do it in just one more—and it's probably coming soon." - Michael R. Bernstein
Jay Cuthrell
Columbus III and Xtera to upgrade Southern US/Europe SLTE links to (n) X 20 Gbit/s DPSK
Columbus III and Xtera to upgrade Southern US/Europe SLTE links to (n) X 20 Gbit/s DPSK
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Jay Cuthrell
Would you like 50Mbps broadband for $49.95? Move to Monticello, Minnesota. - http://www.telecompetitor.com/tds-lau...
Would you like 50Mbps broadband for $49.95? Move to Monticello, Minnesota.
"Monticello, Minnesota" - Jay Cuthrell from Bookmarklet
Jay Cuthrell
Jay Cuthrell
Interesting speculation on AT&T Wireless data congestion #fb - http://blogs.broughturner.com/2009...
Interesting speculation on AT&T Wireless data congestion #fb
Interesting speculation on AT&T Wireless data congestion #fb
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Jay Cuthrell
Ponder: goals/coverage/perception of lifelinesupport.org vs. safelinkwireless.com
Ponder: goals/coverage/perception of lifelinesupport.org vs. safelinkwireless.com
Jay Cuthrell
beware of the evils of social networking and video sharing!!! - Jay Cuthrell from Bookmarklet
Jay Cuthrell
Thank you to everyone who voted!!! - Jay Cuthrell from Bookmarklet
Jay Cuthrell
Jay Cuthrell
Down to the wire!!! If you see this in your FF stream and have not already voted -- please -- take 30 seconds to vote and take another 30 seconds to spread the word for Sacred Wind and the Navajo Tribe. Your minute can mean a lot more than you think. Thanks -- Jay - Jay Cuthrell from Bookmarklet
Jay Cuthrell
BBC article on ISP's, file-sharing, open wi-fi, guilt, and meaningless security acronyms - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
BBC article on ISP's, file-sharing, open wi-fi, guilt, and meaningless security acronyms
BBC article on ISP's, file-sharing, open wi-fi, guilt, and meaningless security acronyms
Jay Cuthrell
Ah yes, @Nemertes "research" and the #Exaflood gets called out finally - http://www.dslreports.com/forum...
Ah yes, @Nemertes "research" and the #Exaflood gets called out finally
Reference - Nemertes Still Pushing Exaflood Nonsense - http://www.dslreports.com/shownew... - Jay Cuthrell from Bookmarklet
Jay Cuthrell
Time Warner challenges Sprint in Triangle 4G race (was AT&T ever in it?) - http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangl...
Time Warner challenges Sprint in Triangle 4G race (was AT&T ever in it?)
Time Warner challenges Sprint in Triangle 4G race (was AT&T ever in it?)
Jay Cuthrell
If you see this in your FF stream -- please -- take 30 seconds to vote and take another 30 seconds to spread the word for Sacred Wind and the Navajo Tribe. Your minute can mean a lot more than you think. Thanks -- Jay - Jay Cuthrell from Bookmarklet
Jay Cuthrell
New iPhone Application Provides Work to Refugees (via @samasource and crowdflower.com) #fb - http://www.prweb.com/release...
New iPhone Application Provides Work to Refugees (via @samasource and crowdflower.com) #fb
New iPhone Application Provides Work to Refugees (via @samasource and crowdflower.com) #fb
Both CrowdFlower and SamaSource were at TechCrunch50 -- this is exactly the kind of mashup that moves the collective needle for good. - Jay Cuthrell from Bookmarklet
Jay Cuthrell
Gates Foundation mulls nationwide fiber-optic wiring of _123k_ public institutions #fibertails #ftth #ftti #bip #btop - http://blog.seattlepi.com/microso...
Gates Foundation mulls nationwide fiber-optic wiring of _123k_ public institutions #fibertails #ftth #ftti #bip #btop
Jay Cuthrell
The @TelcoTV Conference pages are updated. I'm on the "Dumb Pipe Strategy" panel #telcotv #fb - https://www.cmpevents.com/LRTV09...
Dumb Pipe Strategy: Does it Have Merit? - Jay Cuthrell from Bookmarklet
If you have anything you'd like to see asked during this panel -- post it here and I'll relay the ensuing fisticuffs. - Jay Cuthrell
Jay Cuthrell
Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC) Coverage Maps - http://mbc-va.com/coverag...
Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC) Coverage Maps
Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC) Coverage Maps
Jay Cuthrell
Please RT and vote for Sacred Wind: "Navajo Tribe Connection to Outside World" - http://shinealight.ivillage.com/sbo-pro...
Please RT and vote for Sacred Wind: "Navajo Tribe Connection to Outside World"
Please RT and vote for Sacred Wind: "Navajo Tribe Connection to Outside World"
Jason Wehmhoener
"So, the answer to the overall question is that physics requires an apportioning of bandwidth between up and down, but economics can here route around physics: If a provider were committed to providing symmetry without lowering download speeds, it could have (for example) put in a second line when it put in the first. The trade-offs were made by the access providers, largely based on business concerns. For example, one reason we have asymmetric fiber may be that the providers have been charging such high premiums for symmetric access that they don’t want to lose that extra money, even as the technology makes symmetry more plausible. So, as was said by David Isenberg (who gave me permission to credit him): “Asymmetry is a belief system. The purveyors of connections looked at the Internet and saw TV, then acted according to what they saw.” That’s the infrastructure they built. That’s the infrastructure we’re currently stuck with. If we can get unstuck, we might at long last get ourselves some symmetry…or have broad enough broadband that symmetry doesn’t even matter." - Jason Wehmhoener from Bookmarklet
Even if you think of the Internet as a participatory medium, most social services are reflectors. One upload can be many downloads, and there's no reason to host the social service itself in someone's home, so asymmetric residential bandwidth makes sense to me. Even this here comment will be uploaded once (by me) and downloaded several times (by whoever subscribes to Jason's or my feed and happens to check FF). - ⓞnor
Yep. There are degrees between the extremes though. Having upstream capability is something we have less experience with, but I can think of a few applications off the top of my head. Video teleconferencing is an obvious one. - Jason Wehmhoener
Do you think the current degree of asymmetry is limiting for most residential broadband users? I don't think it really is, even for people into video uploads or chat. Upload speeds aren't what stops me from sending more video, it's more that it's fiddly to get working and (more importantly) I guess I don't really want to. Even if static IPs and symmetric bandwidth were widespread, I think it would still make more sense for people who want to run web sites to use cheap web hosting providers. - ⓞnor
I don't think it's limiting given typical current usage. It could be limiting for unanticipated usage, or expansion of certain current niche uses. I am a heavy telecommuter and therefore heavy user of screen sharing. We feel acutely the limits of our individual connections during our meetings. The problem would be more acute if we were doing HD video teleconferencing. - Jason Wehmhoener
The article is spinning asymmetric broadband as part of the narrative of Evil Television vs. Good Internet, and I don't think it's really that way -- I think everyone forgot about "interactive TV" long ago and they're just building for actual demand. The article also misses the technological point that some network technologies (Ethernet, wi-fi) reapportion bandwidth dynamically to whichever endpoint wants to transmit; others (fiber, 3G wireless) are statically divided into upload and download lanes. - ⓞnor
It would be pretty cool if we could all have metro ethernet to our homes. ;-) - Jason Wehmhoener
Or just some sort of mesh with good ad-hoc routing protocols. But community meshes never took off for some reason. Well, I guess the reason is that commercial broadband is cheap and convenient enough to keep a mesh from ever reaching critical mass. - ⓞnor
Outdoor WIFI has serious noise floor problems in populated areas. It has more to do with noise than a lack of need. My fingers are crossed for WiMax (that it won't be plagued with similar problems). - Jason Wehmhoener
Can I run my own WiMax cell? - ⓞnor
Early days for 802.16e. It's being positioned as more of a carrier technology for backhaul, or possibly as a 4G telecom technology. However, here's a 2005 article about home based mesh networking using WiMax: http://74.125.155.132/search... I haven't really done... more... - Jason Wehmhoener
Debi Jones
Vint Cerf responds to Genachowski speech on Broadband and Net Neutrality. http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009...
Jay Cuthrell
I'm presenting "2010: A Service Provider Odyssey" shortly (via http://friendfeed.com/qthrul...)
I'm presenting "2010: A Service Provider Odyssey" shortly (via http://ff.im/8VlwJ)
Jay Cuthrell
FORA.tv - Empowering Internet Users: Two Ideas to Reshape Broadband - http://fora.tv/2009...
FORA.tv - Empowering Internet Users: Two Ideas to Reshape Broadband
Jay Cuthrell
Atlanta-based start-up Skitter TV enters the over-the-top (OTT) "video for telco" race - http://www.skitter.tv/content/
Atlanta-based start-up Skitter TV enters the over-the-top (OTT) "video for telco" race
Michael R. Bernstein
Michael R. Bernstein
Fwd: Gov 2.0 Summit 09: Julius Genachowski, "Broadband as Platform" - http://www.youtube.com/watch... (via http://friendfeed.com/oreilly...)
Gov 2.0 Summit 09: Julius Genachowski, "Broadband as Platform"
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Fwd: Gov 2.0 Summit 09: Julius Genachowski, "Broadband as Platform" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQSoH6d-Up8&feature=youtube_gdata (via http://ff.im/8h2Lv)
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