Late last week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its long awaited Broadband Network Competition Policy report and you can be assured that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Department of Justice, the three regulatory bodies that have dominion over competition and the Internet in the US, will be paying close attention to, [...]
Yesterday it was announced that Telus, Canada’s second largest telecommunications giant is in merger talks with BCE the parent corporation of Bell Canada, which is the largest telecom in Canada. If they merge the resulting company will control about 60% + of the Canadian telecommunications industry with the rest being made up of much smaller [...]
As one of my favorite web gurus, Jeffrey Harrow, used to say in his now defunct (sadly) Newsletter The Harrow Report, Don’t Blink
Rogers Communications on Monday said it has become the first wireless carrier in North America to offer video calling to cell phone subscribers.
The company, which is Canada’s biggest wireless provider, with more [...]
The CBC has a story today about the problems you can run into if you make a 911 call using a VOIP phone.
Some users of voice-over-internet protocol (VOiP) telephone services — which use a high-speed internet connection to place calls instead of a traditional telephone network — could encounter dangerous delays when making 911 calls.
With [...]
Net neutrality is under attack in Canada and its loss is almost a forgone conclusion with this Conservative government. I ran across this site and found one of the better metaphors for the effects of the loss of net neutrality for non-techies .
Consider a polling place, where the affluent were allowed to vote in priority, [...]
From an article on wireless ID for the FAA
“The threat from wireless devices happens whether…you have wireless deployed or not,” said Amit Sinha, chief technology officer at AirDefense. “You can have a simple Linksys access point that bypasses firewalls and provides a backdoor entry into your private network.”
Well it seems to me that if you [...]
Every country has networking challenges that need to be overcome through ingenuity and the efficient use of local resources, Scotland included. This one is for Stu.
For the rest of us there’s always RFC 1149
And for more tech silliness there’s always the list of April Fool’s Day RFCs
For the uninitiated RFC stands for [...]
Bill Moyers is hosing a Net Neutrality documentary special airing Wednesday, October 18 at 9 p.m. on PBS, called “The Net At Risk”
a great techno remix of Alaska senator Ted Stevens’ ignorant comments.
A couple of months ago I talked about how if net neutrality (such as it is today) goes away there was a risk of last mile providers censoring the net for political reasons. It didn’t take long to happen.
Wired is reporting that Myspace pulled the site belonging to Andrew Raff, the creater of [...]
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