Video: Wilson NC – a muni-broadband success story #broadband #muni #fiber
Guy Daniels, of TelecomTV, reports from Wilson NC, a city that decided to build its own fiber network to stimulate the economy and create jobs in the ICT sector.
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Video: Alex Goldman – The Internet’s Three Principles
Alex Goldman spoke at NYU on OneWebDay – Sep 22 2010 about basic Internet principles. A wide-ranging discussion on the state of the net followed.
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Video: Building Tomorrow’s Broadband @ ISOC-NY #structsep #fiber
On Nov 17 2010 ISOC-NY hosted a panel of broadband infrastructure builders – Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber, Joe Calzone of the ION Upstate New York Rural Broadband Initiative, and Louis Houle of Connect Quebec. Strategies and impediments were discussed. The archived webcast can be seen below. Now ad-free and downloadable.
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Video: Barbara Van Schewick – Internet Architecture and Innovation – Why Architecture Matters #netneutrality
Barbara Van Schewick’s talk at NYU Law School on Nov 10 2010, based on her book Internet Architecture and Innovation. Van Schewick, after giving a thorough outline of the principles that allowed innovation on the open Internet to flourish, suggests that for its continued generation regulation may be required that puts the reins of any blocking, discrimination, and/or access controls firmly in the hands of the users not the providers.
View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/343t_6yxlSI
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/WrtlcDsnluMF/
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Free eBook: 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web #kids
The Google Chrome team has published a short Ebook that explains everything you need to know about browsers and the web.
[Source: FutureLawyer ]
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Pre-Cartagena ICANN Policy Update Webinar – Mon 11/22 #ICANN
The GNSO Secretariat of ICANN has issued an invitation to a policy update webinar as the ICANN community readies itself for the upcoming meeting in Cartagena. ICANN staff will give a briefing on the background and current status of each major policy issue currently under discussion.What: ICANN Policy Update
When: Nov 24 2010 – 9am or 3pm EST
How: RSVP to gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org for call details
Topics:- Vertical Integration Policy Development Process (GNSO)
- Registration Abuse Policies Recommendations (GNSO)
- Registrar Accreditation Agreement (GNSO)
- WHOIS Studies (GNSO)
- Internationalized Domain Names PDP (ccNSO)
- Delegation and Re-delegation Working Group (ccNSO)
- Global policy for handling IPv4 address space (ASO)
Slides are here
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UK ok’s throttling, BBC will fight! #netneutrality #uk
After last week’s declaration that the European Commission would not enforce net neutrality, believing competition is sufficient to serve the public interest, the UK Government has announced that it will permit ISPs to offer tiered service to content providers, given transparency to the end user…
The BBC has reacted strongly, promising to add “trafiic lights” to its iPlayer that will indicate if any throttling is taking place.
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NYC Council first ever live webcast #nyc
In a historical move, today Nov 17 2010 sees the first ever live webcast of a NYC Council full meeting. To watch go to http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/webcasts/
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Mary Meeker Internet Trends Presentation at Web 2.0 Summit #internet
Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley analyst, Internet Trends Presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Nov 16..
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Video: Jacob Weisberg & Tim Wu – The Master Switch
New America Foundation presents Jacob Weisberg & author Tim Wu discussing the book “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires” at the Core Club NYC on Nov 12 2010.
cbemerine 5:26 pm on November 27, 2010 Permalink |
Thank you Guy for covering this fantastic and far sighted story. My guess is that businesses will respond and seriously consider relocating to cities and communities that follow Wilson’s lead and put in Fiber To The Home (FTTH). Thus communities with FTTH will recover faster than other communities over the next 3 to 5 years in America.
And we are talking all the way to and INTO the home, any other solution is a waste of time and money.
When Google announces their five cities in 2011 there will be just over 30 communities in the USA offering bi-directional synchronous Fiber broadband to the home. EPB has been working since the 1990s to give birth to their FTTH offerings.
This map shows you those communities: http://sn.im/1axal4 (In case other Americans are considering where to move to in order to find opportunity for themselves and their families.)
Most consumers simply do not know that their supposed broadband is restricted by their provider to below the FCC definition of broadband, 768Kbps. (Admittedly 100Mbps/100Mbps should have been the standard in 2000 and 768Kbps is very out of date with reality) Speed Tests lie and deceive, they just show you that you have the “chance” to get that speed. Those of us running DD-WRT, OpenWRT and Tomato firmware on a supported firewall/router see our actual bandwidth in real time. We see the lie for what it is. It is not uncommon (though it should be) to see a marketing promise of 16Mbps/2Mbps throttled to less than 40Kbps/10Kbps.
It should be against the law for those providers to call their service broadband if they do not meet their marketing bandwidth promises/targets at least 99.9% of the time. There is a solution, its called synchronous or bi-directional broadband…simply put the same speed upstream as downstream. That map shows you the communities that offer synchronous service. At best its false advertising, at worse it probably violates RICO statutes and should be criminal.
Thus is the state of broadband in America as of November 27, 2010! Sad, very sad!