Category Archives: Broadband Bytes

• USF to be repurposed to expand rural broadband. http://nyti.ms/fWLWPo #
• Cell tower equipment goes on a serious diet. http://bit.ly/hlT74W #
• Hulu serves up twice as much online video all all broadcast networks combined. http://tcrn.ch/eRcLcQ #
• HTC drops a $40M check on OnLive's desk. Now you can game your way past a mobile cap. http://bit.ly/gLlVvu #
• Washington, DC is running a profitable muni broadband network. http://bit.ly/gtLsmg #
• Feds seek veto power over new TLDs. http://bit.ly/gsuGhJ #
• Per-byte billing is hampered by more than angry customers: the meters don't exactly work well either. http://bit.ly/ewWvqB #
• Hey Cable? If a new tech breaks your business model, it's time for a new business model. http://bit.ly/dSkZEN #
• USF changes could put more money in the pockets of big incumbents. http://bit.ly/gT66Qb #
• Want to revitalize your town? Turn those empty buildings into data centers. http://bit.ly/hw5UAN #

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• FCC wants #netneutrality suits dismissed. http://bit.ly/gt6qat #
• Congress still wants an Internet kill switch. http://bit.ly/eHVCg8 #
• Amazon could be going head-to-head with Netflix. http://gizmo.do/dVBnNn #
• Time Warner loses cable subs while Netflix cleans up. http://bit.ly/gQrM9I #
• Spectrum squatting is causing an artificial shortage. http://bit.ly/fMeXGe #
• Comcast adds more IPv6 users. (But where are the routers?) http://bit.ly/gXDo5f #
• Final IPv4 blocks are allocated. It's IPv6 or bust, folks. http://bit.ly/hG2Nxh #
• AT&T may have been billing wireless data that wasn't even used. http://bit.ly/fx3k4z #
• Good heavens: Google offering 16TB storage plans. (No, not a typo.) http://bit.ly/dLLk8R #
• Transfer caps in Canada means it's now cheaper to send a hard drive with the data by next day air. http://bit.ly/esaNAe #
• Dish wants to drop a cool billion on a bankrupt satellite company. But why? http://bit.ly/esaNAe #
• Comcast puts SDV plans on hold. http://bit.ly/dKZGgd #
• All signs point to fiber as the most economical broadband choice. http://nyti.ms/ikp1YZ #
• US company will download and burn large files for Canadians to evade their new metered service. http://on.mash.to/i0c8Vq #
• EFF points out the obvious problems with how the FCC is pursuing #netneutrality http://bit.ly/hb9Mm1 #
• Are you a WiFi leech? You're not alone. http://bit.ly/fIu4eI #

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• Qwest goes cherry-picking. http://bit.ly/gSesmD (via @communitynets) #
• Interesting bill to watch: SCR4. It would ask the FCC to not phase out TV translator stations in Utah. http://bit.ly/eSPjRn #
• The Qwest-CenturyLink merger spells disaster for their DSL. http://bit.ly/fPknqm (via @KarlBode) #
• An ISP that keeps no logs and forces you to encrypt all your traffic via proxies. http://bit.ly/fhmSd4 #
• Hulu may be giving up on being innovative. http://bit.ly/eF6AQg #
• Another challenger in the online game rental space. http://bit.ly/eetMxY #
• Some good reading on rural telco subsidies. http://bit.ly/gTd4UG #
• Broadband stimulus winners choosing Ethernet over GPON. http://bit.ly/gOTBCe #
• Is there a market for high-quality phone calls? http://on.mash.to/gRoxWN #
• Feds have a bi-polar approach to online privacy. http://bit.ly/hb1CwP #
• A new Senate push for #netneutrality I'll bet it's DOA. http://bit.ly/es0c5G #
• Feds want to mandate ISPs keep logs. You know, for the children. http://bit.ly/gwGDFh #
• A bit of perspective on the mess in Burlington and on muni networks in general. http://bit.ly/ghV3UD #
• Nine companies score white space access, including @Google. http://on.mash.to/eO7zEO (via @cboyack) #
• Egypt proves you can shut down the Internet, but it's really, really hard (and almost impossible here). http://bit.ly/hvRiZd #
• UK ISPs take a que from Sweden, set up mandatory VPNs to protect customer privacy. http://is.gd/wCFnBY #

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• Get IPv6 ready or risk losing users and customers. http://bit.ly/g39zlI #
• Curious what TV shows are the most pirated? http://aol.it/i46nLG (via @nbcchuck) #
• Comcast/NBC merger is on. I hope everyone is watching for the inevitable broken promises. http://bit.ly/eGKzje #
• Qwest may be seeking to make a video play. http://bit.ly/fs4Lhm #
• Companies that support domain name seizure. http://bit.ly/f4ap5L #
• Roku to directly sell a cable channel. How much longer until we have an a la carte OTT paradise? http://bit.ly/fH0mCB #
• Qwest shows us some true workmanship in their install process. </sarcasm> http://bit.ly/h06HUM #
• Google allows you to port your number to Google Voice. http://engt.co/eRrLxA #
• BitTorrent creator makes unicast do what multicast was designed for. http://bit.ly/fOWjyq #
• Lack of bandwidth is hurting software downloads. http://bit.ly/geynkr #
• Comcast merger conditions are meaningless fluff. http://bit.ly/hBiyAG #

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• Are companies you do business with willing to stand up for you? http://bit.ly/eiqzGv (via @BenWinslow) #
• Is Facebook the new telco? http://bit.ly/fdXuG8 (via @windley) #
• Mobile broadband to his the billion mark. That's a lot of backhaul needed. http://bit.ly/dLdFsd #
• Would you trust Uncle Sam with your login credentials? http://rww.to/gMQqV8 #
• Since Australia's attempt to censor content worked so well, the EU has decided to take a crack at it. Good luck, guys. http://bit.ly/e7XQqR #
• Internet-connected TVs could fail pretty badly. http://on.mash.to/fEzXwH #
• Sony shutters a CD plant because of the shift to digital downloads. http://bit.ly/exTEv6 #

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• Comcast already playing dirty with retrans. http://is.gd/jXNMB #
• Kindle lets you loan books. Big step towards resale parity with the dead tree version. http://is.gd/jXPBv #
• Are you paying hundreds of thousands for cable TV? Yep. http://is.gd/jXRHw #
• Customer service FTL. RT @FrontierCorp: Enjoying being back at work after (almost) 2 weeks off!! #
• ISPs continue telling media companies to pound sand on copyright policing. http://bit.ly/emzhSp #
• Et tu, coax? Cable companies can't make HFC plants give them enough bandwidth. http://bit.ly/gISVzr #
• 80% of broadband users say their connection doesn't meet their needs. Does that sound like a working free market? http://bit.ly/eWyVWR #

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• Making a cool $1M from suing spammers. http://gaw.kr/g9M2cZ #
• Surprise: wireless carriers are already low-margin dumb pipes. http://bit.ly/eqXLS2 #

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• CNN can't figure out why online live TV isn't happening. Hint: it's the greed, stupid. http://bit.ly/hczBiC #
• Over-the-air is the new black. http://bit.ly/eXWvt9 #
• Smartphones mean smart shoppers. http://bit.ly/fCzcUm #
• Even with a solid case for net neutrality, it still isn't a substitute for competition. http://tcrn.ch/ifBHJ6 #
• The Comcast v Level 3 fight lacks transparency. http://bit.ly/eud5NS #
• ICE domain seizure documents show that they were MPAA stooges. http://bit.ly/eoWvRc #
• Mass copyright lawsuits may be in their death throes. http://bit.ly/g6EmDd #
• No news here: US broadband still sucks. http://bit.ly/e2PGHq #
• A side effect of Wikileaks: more decentralized systems. http://bit.ly/fMqo0j #
• Why launch bombers when a virus can do just as much damage? http://bit.ly/ggBXnK #
• More 700MHz spectrum available this summer. http://bit.ly/f66S1I #
• McDowell: #NetNeutrality will give us all of this bad stuff! (Oh wait… it already happened? Huh.) http://on.wsj.com/dU1w9z #
• AT&T scoops up spectrum leftover from the shuttered FLO TV service. http://bit.ly/hcloTL #
• UK learns exactly zilch from Australia's failed filtering push. http://bit.ly/evGtTg #
• There's a lot of ways that the new "net neutrality" legislation fails us. http://bit.ly/hMNVQk #
• Your ISP's provider (or their provider, or their provider, etc.) could force you offline. http://bit.ly/fkIxQz #
• What if the FCC had been in charge of Rome's policy on barbarians? http://bit.ly/gssTFE #
• Days after voting for it, the public can take a look at what passes for #netneutrality around the FCC. http://bit.ly/hqDKEi #
• Comcast to offer a $10/mo tier to low-income households. http://bit.ly/e7Pgdf #
• T-Mobile set to hit 42MBps next month. http://bit.ly/eTguhD #
• Majority of those 25-29 don't have a landline. http://bit.ly/hnJwuV #
• A disturbing trend: MPAA/RIAA looking to get Mastercard to police alleged infringing sites. http://bit.ly/hnYybq #
• Surprise! People really will pay for content. http://bit.ly/dTuuN8 #
• CableCard is still a flop. http://bit.ly/hmkDfy #
• Hulu dumps IPO, any hope of doing anything really interesting with streaming video. http://bit.ly/dTrlIp #

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• A number of crazy things could happen if we move to metered broadband. http://bit.ly/exbqJg #
• Mobile data demand being driven by high-end cameras in phones. http://reut.rs/fBqUFs #
• E-mail, meet the Fourth Amendment. You really should have been introduced sooner. http://gizmo.do/h22UNT #
• FBI may have paid contractors to place backdoors in OpenBSD cyrptography framework. http://bit.ly/hKVZz1 #
• A look at what's needed for smart grids. http://bit.ly/hFjggM #
• More evidence that Comcast is using purposefully slow links to shakedown non-customers. http://bit.ly/fz42G0 #
• The "does everything" STB: http://engt.co/eyqVd7 #
• Is Comcast trying to stop cord-cutters with their new STB? http://on.wsj.com/fX9JGj #
• .@FrontierCorp tries overbilling customers and hopes you'll just write them a check. http://bit.ly/i5gaBn #
• Qwest pushing for statewide franchise agreements in Colorado ahead of a video push. http://bit.ly/gU3CxB #
• Google delays fiber project announcement into early next year. http://bit.ly/hk97RW #
• Can DPI and paid prioritization be a good thing for users? It can when done correctly. http://bit.ly/fssbPW #
• Broadband is getting cheaper everywhere. Except for the US. http://bit.ly/hDVlPO #
• Surprise! Providing unlimited broadband means big bucks for ISPs. http://bit.ly/hDsDLw #
• TV and Internet use achieve parity. http://nyti.ms/eKgxjx #
• Shared headends (like @UTOPIAnet's) reduce municipal network operating costs substantially. http://bit.ly/hPTfJS (via @communitynets) #
• Lessons learned from Burlington. http://bit.ly/eNkL05 #
• Pro-censorship states China and Australia line up behind UN-backed Internet regulation. http://bit.ly/f5VKoq #

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• Comcast tries to pretend they aren't the bad guys in the Level 3 dispute. http://tcrn.ch/f3lS4I #
• Google's position on copyright slides toward the evil side. http://bit.ly/h99HMn #
• DirecTV starts offing little-watched channels. Remember how a la carte would kill channels with low ratings? http://bit.ly/fbiMja #
• Unable to figure out the video thing for themselves, Google just buys out another outfit. http://tcrn.ch/fR45HW #
• OnLive poised to be the Netflix of video games. How long before Comcast tries to shake them down too? http://bit.ly/f6RmN0 #
• FTC wants to make a "do not track" list. Advertisers, obviously, don't like it at all. http://bit.ly/gRsk1f #
• Verizon makes LTE near-worthless by letting you blow your entire monthly cap in a mere 32 minutes. http://bit.ly/hHQR6z #
• Movie industry moves to neuter Netflix. http://reut.rs/hHnTo0 #
• The FCC can now regulate the volume of commercials. http://bit.ly/ijFu6u #
• Hulu wants to go international. http://on.mash.to/gCr60o #
• Dish streams live TV to iPad. http://bit.ly/heZlWp #
• Pirate Bay founder proposes a way to bypass ICANN DNS shutdowns. http://yhoo.it/gtPBWc #
• Salt Lake City makes #2 on top digital cities list. http://bit.ly/geMYq0 #
• Microsoft working on a la carte video via the Xbox 360. http://bit.ly/fjzUGF #
• Muni network scores big win against national cable association. http://bit.ly/hhxSAL #
• Brace yourselves for more Comcast rate hikes. http://bit.ly/h7S2y5 #
• Infoworld calls wireles pricing what it is: confusing crap. http://bit.ly/fUjnoG #
• Google wants a cut of the E-book action. http://on.mash.to/etHIxX #
• Want your muni network to succeed? Start paying for your own use. http://bit.ly/esOS4v #
• @communitynets That the city pays for their usage is what I wanted to highlight. #
• @communitynets That's a good point. You can't use payments for the network as a stealth subsidy. #
• Does Wikileaks prove that the Internet has finally won? http://bit.ly/gcg7hI #
• Comcast says they don't plan to bill based on usage. So that 250GB cap? No way to buy more. http://reut.rs/ieQD7O #
• Comcast launches app for Android. Service providers, you all need something like this. http://gizmo.do/hT5eLt #
• OnLive isn't content to stream just games. http://engt.co/hvdQGA #
• Cell service sucks because your neighbors hate cell towers. http://bit.ly/gBiNO2 #
• Time Warner adds to the bottom line with high-end packages. http://tcrn.ch/eDyPzw #
• Infoworld takes a stab at what will make broadband faster next year. http://bit.ly/hf7qB3 #
• Verizon: "We don't NEED your guvmint bailout, but we'll take it anyway." http://bit.ly/eGNG0s (cia @DSLReports) #
• Fairpoint missed merger conditions. Any bets that @FrontierCorp will follow those footsteps? http://bit.ly/e87HL9 #
• Qwest CFO thinks competition is for suckers. http://bit.ly/frEMsM #
• Switching ISPs is often just spitting in the wind. http://bit.ly/eoL1pX #
• Europe may end roaming charges. http://bit.ly/e5T4Yn #
• Over 2/3 of Internet connections aren't legally broadband. http://bit.ly/dNveDI #
• Broadband pricing is holding up our economy. http://bit.ly/gUzvvk #
• The next big thing in Internet usage is good old-fashioned work. http://bit.ly/fQmufs #

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