Tag: net neutrality
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To maintain South Korea’s lead, the country’s Science Ministry recently announced a $1.5 billion initiative to upgrade Korea’s mobile infrastructure. By 2020, the government predicts, it will be 1,000 times faster — so fast you could download a feature-length movie in approximately one second. In the same time frame, the Federal Communications Commission hopes to…
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TECHNOLOGY / The state of the Internet
As President Obama noted in his State of the Union address, the federal government has played a crucial role in the growth of the Internet and our most innovative businesses. The technology at the Internet’s core was funded by a Defense Department program, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Silicon Valley has been a substantial…
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Tim Wu on Monopolies and Information Industry
Info-monopolies tend to be good-to-great in the short term and bad-to-terrible in the long term. For a time, firms deliver great conveniences, powerful efficiencies and dazzling innovations. That’s why a young monopoly is often linked to a medium’s golden age. Today, a single search engine has made virtually everyone’s life simpler and easier, just as…
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‘Net pioneers: Open Internet should be separate – Steve Wozniak, Regulation, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Internet service providers, internet, government, Google, free press, David Reed, David Isenberg, Clay Shirky, Chris Riley, Bruce Perens, broadband, Apple – Good Gear Guide
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should allow for an open Internet separate from specialised services that may prioritise IP traffic, a group of Internet and technology pioneers have recommended. via ‘Net pioneers: Open Internet should be separate – Steve Wozniak, Regulation, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Internet service providers, internet, government, Google, free…
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F.C.C. long-anticipated bill to be public this week
…the commission’s recommendations will include a subsidy for Internet providers to wire rural parts of the country now without access, a controversial auction of some broadcast spectrum to free up space for wireless devices, and the development of a new universal set-top box that connects to the Internet and cable service. via Vast F.C.C. Plan…
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Net Neutrality update
Google/Verizon say that the Internet should function as an “open platform.” That means, to them, that “when a person accesses cyberspace, he or she should be able to connect with any other person that he or she wants to—and that other person should be able to receive his or her message,” they write. The ‘Net…
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Good News for Net Neutrality and by Extension, the Economy
The Federal Communications Commission chairman, Julius Genachowski, will announce the proposed rules in a speech Monday at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, the official said on condition of anonymity because news of the announcement had not been formally released. The proposals would uphold a pledge Barack Obama made during the presidential campaign to…
Barbara K Iverson 