Tag Archives: #utpol

• Like Netflix, Redbox is now moving from physical media to streaming. http://lat.ms/hOEin2 #
• Does your connection feel faster? It might not be your imagination. http://bit.ly/gxOu8e #
• Both CenturyLink and Qwest have sagging profits, but it won't stop the merger. http://bit.ly/iaPm4q http://bit.ly/gKyeuh #
• CenturyLink rolling IPTV in Las Vegas. Could it expand to Qwest service areas? http://bit.ly/fQb1hs #
• bitTorrent thinking about sharing P2P speed data on over 9K ISPs a la Netflix. http://bit.ly/heAbyX #
• Surprise! Rich 'burbs get better broadband. http://bit.ly/hmwWUG #
• Amazon rolls out streaming for Prime customers. http://engt.co/i4Ym48 (via @dane) #
• iTunes looking at masters-quality music tracks to please audiophiles. http://is.gd/bJwQgK #
• Court says rebroadcasting over-the-air video is illegal. http://is.gd/Pp3UNn #
• .@RepJimMatheson wants to gut redundant federal broadband programs. http://bit.ly/eWXk1q #
• DirecTV is making an OTT video play. http://bit.ly/gueeZC #

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• Free Monty Python videos on YouTube lead to 23,000% increase in DVD sales. Seriously. http://bit.ly/fBYVLh #
• iTunes still dominates online video rentals. http://bit.ly/g88nsU #
• Hughes gets gobbled up as satellite market further consolidates. http://bit.ly/gVa4ak #
• Thanks in part to @UTOPIAnet, Utah has the 2nd best rate of 1Gbps service in the nation. http://bit.ly/hwCUfZ (via @UtahBroadband) #

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• 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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