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08-02-15-FreePress-FCCShouldNotTolerateISPDiscriminatoryPractices.txt 08-02-15-LARIAT-CallForDismissingPetitionForNonDiscriminationgISPPractices.txt 94-03-15-ColumbiaU-Noam-TheImpendingDoomofCommonCarriage.txt 99-09-08-TheRegister-NortelStopsWorkOnPowerlineNetworking.txt ==========> 00-02-00-CACM-PartnershipsInTheUSTelecommunicationsIndustry.txt========== Partnerships in the U.S. telecommunications industry Varun Grover, Pradeep Vaswani February 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 2 Strategic motivations range from adding local access to long-distance services, to sewing up millions of new customers, to claiming a piece of a potentially hot new technology. The enormous capital requirements and inherently global nature of the ==========> 00-04-00-CACM-APatchworkOfTelecommAndInternetRegulation.txt========== From Washington: a patchwork of legislation and regulation Neil Munro April 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 4 Corporations tout consumerism against citizenship. America Online's takeover of Time Warner is another great coup for Steve Case and his colleagues. This success was made possible by AOL's use of technology, its good understanding of its customers, clever marketing, and astute political ==========> 01-03-21-TheRegister-SiemensStopsWorkOnPowerlineInternetTechnology.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/17775.html Siemens pulls plug on Net over power cables technology By: John Leyden Posted: 21/03/2001 at 16:15 GMT Siemens has said it is pulling the plug on development of a technology that can allow the transmission of Internet traffic of power cables. The giant German electronics and engineering group said it saw a greater ==========> 01-04-00-CACM-AgentBasedTelematicServicesAndtelecomApplications.txt========== Agent-based telematic services and telecom applications Stefan Fricke, Karsten Bsufka, Jan Keiser, Torge Schmidt, Ralf Sesseler, Sahin Albayrak April 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 4 A toolkit for realizing rapid development, deployment, and management of agent-based systems and services. The telecommunications market is expanding rapidly and players in that market ==========> 01-04-00-CACM-AgentOrientedTechnologyForTelecommunications.txt========== Agent-oriented technology for telecommunications: introduction April 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 4 The vision of the telecommunications market today is "information at any time, at any place, in any form." Within this open market of information services, the aspects of service customization and instant service provision are of fundamental importance. Moreover, the provision of telecommunications services will be a key component in future business successes. In this context the new paradigm of agent-oriented programming is gaining momentum. The main actors in ==========> 01-07-17-HR2535-SpectrumAlloc.txt========== 107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2535 To permit wireless carriers to obtain sufficient spectrum to meet the growing demand for existing services and ensure that such carriers have the spectrum they need to deploy fixed and advanced services, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 17, 2001 ==========> 01-10-19-CyberAtlas-DSL-Penetration.txt========== -- Tuesday, November 13, 2001 -- Home : Wired Devices : News 35 Million Broadband Users Predicted By Michael Pastore Managing editor, CyberAtlas October 19, 2001 The troubles being experienced by some broadband providers aren't ==========> 01-11-01-allNetDevices-EU-DSL.txt========== - Tuesday, November 13, 2001 -- Home : Wired Devices : News Study: Euro Broadband Faltering By allNetDevices Staff November 01, 2001 European broadband vendors are deterring, not discouraging use of faster Internet access and the in-home applications that go with it, a new study by Datamonitor released Wednesday maintains. ==========> 01-11-09-svinternet-SBC-DSL.txt========== siliconvalley.internet.com Back to http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article/0,,3531_921161,00.html Calif. ISPs Balk SBC's Jurisdiction Claims By Michael Singer The war of words between a coalition of Internet service providers and Pacific Bell and its parent company SBC Communications (NYSE:SBC) is turning into a question of who is in charge of DSL lines in California. ==========> 01-11-13-CyberAtlas-DialUpOK.txt========== Life in the Slow Lane is Just Fine By Michael Pastore Managing editor, CyberAtlas November 13, 2001 Nearly three-quarters of the dial-up Internet subscribers in the United States are content with the quality of their Internet service, which is bad news for high-speed providers trying to convince consumers to switch to broadband. ==========> 01-11-14-WashPost-Dereg.txt========== Tech Groups Urge House To Bag Broadband Deregulation By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 14 Nov 2001, 3:54 PM CST A coalition of lawmakers and technology companies today urged Congress to postpone a pending vote on a controversial broadband deregulation bill, arguing that passage of the measure could eliminate jobs and dampen an already ailing economy. ==========> 01-11-29-SJMerc-AtHome.txt========== Posted at 8:44 a.m. PST Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001 Comcast, Cox, hurry to build own broadband networks PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Cable companies offering high-speed Internet access via troubled ExciteAtHome scrambled to advise customers about their plans if a judge approves shutting down Excite on Friday, though the backups were of doubtful value to many users. Philadelphia illustrator Don Haring, for example, said the dial-up connection offered if his ComcastAtHome service is disrupted would be no substitute for ==========> 01-11-29-SJMerc-NRCBroadband.txt========== Posted at 11:14 a.m. PST Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001 Scientists endorse tax credits for developing high-speed Internet networks WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal research panel on Thursday recommended tax credits and grants to spur deployment of high-speed Internet services for Americans, particularly in rural areas. The report, by the National Research Council, says the value of ``broadband'' Internet access for educational and economic uses is worth federal help, even ==========> 01-12-01-Fortune-Broadband.txt========== THE THINK TANK Great Leap Forward: Techies vs. Telcos With morale in the tech industry even lower than its stock prices, leaders are looking to lay the blame. Their favorite culprit: those controlling broadband access to the Net. FORTUNE , 12, By David Kirkpatrick It's been a grim time for the tech industry. Executives from companies that ==========> 01-12-01-SJMerc-AtHome.txt========== Posted at 10:32 p.m. PST Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001 AT&T clients lose Net access 760,000 customers without high-speed connection BY JOELLE TESSLER Mercury News More than 760,000 AT&T customers were left without high-speed Internet connections after At Home shut off service to AT&T -- its controlling shareholder and largest customer -- early Saturday. AT&T, which relied on At Home's network to provide cable-modem service ==========> 01-12-01-SJMerc-ML-AtHome.txt========== Posted at 10:32 p.m. PST Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001 Mike Langberg: AT&T's disruption in Internet service demands subscriber outcry BY MIKE LANGBERG Mercury News I'm mad as hell at losing my high-speed Internet access from AT&T Broadband, even if the disruption turns out to be temporary, and I say cable modem users should demand an immediate response from elected officials. This is a clear case of telecommunications deregulation run amok. A service ==========> 01-12-02-SJMerc-ATTBroadband.txt========== Posted at 11:38 p.m. PST Sunday, Dec. 2, 2001 AT&T finding new providers for broadband BY JOELLE TESSLER Mercury News AT&T Broadband said Sunday it has transferred about 250,000 of its high-speed Internet access customers to an alternative network after At Home cut off service to the cable provider and about 850,000 of its broadband customers early Saturday. ==========> 01-12-03-SJMerc-AtHome.txt========== Posted at 8:35 p.m. PST Monday, Dec. 3, 2001 AT&T restores Bay Area cable Net service At Home reaches pact with other partners BY JOELLE TESSLER Mercury News AT&T Broadband restored high-speed Internet connections for all of its 170,000 Bay Area customers Monday after its network provider, At Home, shut off service to the cable giant early Saturday in a dramatic fallout from At Home's troubled bankruptcy proceedings. ==========> 01-12-04-AP-SecuritySW.txt========== "Cyber-security adviser calls for free Internet security software" ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 — The president's computer security adviser asked technology executives Tuesday for a shopping list of changes, including bundled security software for high-speed Internet users and a new way to get software updates on personal computers. Richard Clarke told software companies that their responsibility doesn't end when they fix a hole in their products that could let hackers in. ==========> 01-12-05-SJMerc-Broadband.txt========== Posted at 8:56 p.m. PST Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2001 Broadband first aid kit What to do when high-speed Net access goes dark • Broadband still has a narrow audience BY SAM DIAZ Mercury News Five years from now, we may look back and laugh about the time At Home pulled the plug on AT&T and left tens of thousands of Web surfers without access to e-mail or the Internet. Just another glitch in the growth of ==========> 01-12-06-CNET-AtHome.txt========== Excite@Home and the lessons of hype By Ben Heskett December 6, 2001 CNET When @Home Network Chief Executive Tom Jermoluk strolled into CNET News.com's offices in the winter of 1998 for an interview, he confidently dubbed the company's broadband business prospects a "no-brainer." Things looked promising for the company then, given the number of cable television subscribers in the country and the deals @Home was striking with operators like Cox ==========> 01-12-08-SJMerc-AtHome.txt========== Posted at 10:37 p.m. PST Saturday, Dec. 8, 2001 At Home's demise dissected Plenty of blame to spread around BY JOELLE TESSLER Mercury News When At Home finally said last week that it will shut down at the end of February, it marked an end to the trailblazer of broadband Internet access. But the debate about just what went wrong continues. ==========> 01-12-10-NYT-Broadband.txt========== December 10, 2001 NY Times The Broadband Economy By KAREN KORNBLUH WASHINGTON -- A resource crucial to the economic recovery of the United States is buried underground. Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable, which enables the fast, robust communication that was so important to the economic success of the last decade, currently lies unused, the digital equivalent of fallow farmland. ==========> 01-12-12-NetAction-Broadband.txt========== Published by NetAction Issue No. 22 December 12, 2001 Repost where appropriate. Copyright and subscription info at end of message. In This Issue: ACTION ALERT: House Vote on Bell's Broadband Bill About NetAction Notes ACTION ALERT for December 12, 2001: House to Vote on Bell's Broadband Bill ----- Do not circulate this alert after December 13, 2001 ----- ==========> 01-12-12-NetAction-Tauzin-Dingell-HR1542.txt========== Published by NetAction Issue No. 22 December 12, 2001 Repost where appropriate. Copyright and subscription info at end of message. In This Issue: ACTION ALERT: House Vote on Bell's Broadband Bill About NetAction Notes ACTION ALERT for December 12, 2001: House to Vote on Bell's Broadband Bill ----- Do not circulate this alert after December 13, 2001 ----- ==========> 01-12-12-UnknownSource-SamuelsonBroadband.txt========== Broadband's Faded Promise Wednesday, December 12, 2001 By Robert J. Samuelson COMMENTARY. What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar. — Thomas Riley Marshall, Vice President of the United States, 1913-1921 To paraphrase and adjust the math: What this country needs is a really good $500 billion technology — something to reignite popular enthusiasm and the economy. Once upon a time "broadband" communication into America's homes was ==========> 01-12-18-SJMerc-DG-Tauzin-Dingell.txt========== Posted at 9:46 p.m. PST Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2001 Scrap new telecom bill and fix the old one BY DAN GILLMOR Mercury News The nation's telecom companies have failed miserably to deliver high-speed Internet access to American homes. But the public caught a break late last week when key members of the House of Representatives delayed a vote on legislation that would have made things worse. ==========> 01-12-19-SFChron-BbandSharing.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/12/19/BU44717.DTL COMMUNAL BROADBRAND Neighbors sharing high-speed Internet access via wireless networks is popular and controversial Matthew Yi, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, December 19, 2001 ©2001 San Francisco Chronicle Sean Berry shares his broadband Internet connection with three neighbors - - ==========> 01-12-19-TechLawJ-UltraWideBand.txt========== Tech Companies Oppose Ultrawideband Delay 12/19. Representatives of Intel, IBM, Texas Instruments, Sharp Labs and Siemens wrote a letter to FCC Chairman Michael Powell, and the other Commissioners, "regarding the Commission's removal of the ultra wideband (UWB) item from its December 12, 2001, open meeting agenda." See, FCC notice of deletion of UWB item from agenda. (This is ET Docket No. 98-153.) They wrote that "We are concerned that a short delay could be extended, which in turn would be a substantial setback to the timely development and ==========> 01-12-22-NYT-ATTComcast.txt========== NY Times December 22, 2001 "A Clash of Online Titans" AT&T's sale of its cable television business, the nation's largest, to Comcast, the third-largest, is more than another episode in the continuing consolidation of the nation's cable industry. The bidding war for AT&T Broadband must also be seen as another skirmish in the conflict between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner to control the information pipes that bring news, entertainment and communications services into American ==========> 01-12-27-NewsFactor-Powerline.txt========== NewsFactor Network Technology's Home Page Can Powerline Technology Save Broadband? Tim McDonald December 27, 2001 Despite the fact that the U.S. has an "unsupportive environment" for a technology that could provide broadband connectivity to homes and businesses via standard electrical outlets, ==========> 02-01-08-WashPost-Lessig-BroadbandIP-Issues.txt========== Who's Holding Back Broadband? By Lawrence Lessig Tuesday, January 8, 2002; Page A17 As the American economy struggles to get out of recession, an important part of the recovery will be the revival of the country's technology sector. Not long ago, in a speech at a summit on Internet development, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell gave the nation a glimpse of his vision of what might kindle such a revival. At least part of that vision ==========> 02-01-08-WashPost-Lessig-BroadbandIP.txt========== Who's Holding Back Broadband? By Lawrence Lessig, Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, January 8, 2002; 11:22 AM As the American economy struggles to get out of recession, an important part of the recovery will be the revival of the country's technology sector. ==========> 02-01-09-USACMDC-DODSpectrum.txt========== E-Government Pentagon Names First Spectrum Chief Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week named Steven Price as the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for spectrum and command, control and communications policy, and Price will head a new office created by the Pentagon to oversee spectrum allocation, report Federal Computer Week and Newsbytes. The office will be responsible for establishing policy and providing direction for Defense spectrum issues. Price will report to John Stenbit, the Defense ==========> 02-01-15-SJMerc-TechNetBroadband.txt========== Posted at 7:21 p.m. PST Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2002 Universal-broadband proposal gets mixed reviews BY CHRIS O'BRIEN AND JOELLE TESSLER Mercury News An industry proposal to make universal high-speed Internet access a top national priority drew mixed reactions from politicians, consumer groups and telecommunications companies. TechNet, a high-tech lobbying group, Tuesday unveiled its proposal to extend ==========> 02-01-15-WashPost-Broadband.txt========== Groups Lobby for More, Faster Broadband By Jonathan Krim, Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 15, 2002; 7:08 AM At a recent Washington dinner, four high-tech heavyweights compared notes about their home computer systems. One is a top technologist at the Federal ==========> 02-01-15-WashPost-TechBroadband.txt========== Groups Lobby for More, Faster Broadband By Jonathan Krim, Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 15, 2002; 7:08 AM At a recent Washington dinner, four high-tech heavyweights compared notes about their home computer systems. One is a top technologist at the Federal ==========> 02-01-16-SJMerc-FCCPoleRates.txt========== Posted at 8:06 a.m. PST Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2002 Supreme Court settles Net dispute, allows FCC to control some infrastructure rates WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a victory for the cable industry, the Supreme Court said Wednesday that a federal agency can control rates that cable companies pay for high-speed Internet lines. The ruling could affect the availability and cost of online services. Cable television companies pay utilities to attach wires for high-speed Internet ==========> 02-01-17-Slate-DSLSucks.txt========== Why DSL Still Sucks Practical explanations and compelling conspiracy theories. By Bill Barnes Posted Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 9:38 AM PT Journalism doesn't get more anecdotal than this, but it seems like everyone I know with a DSL connection to the Internet has bitched about it. At length. To me. Can't get connected. Can't ==========> 02-01-18-WSJ-BraodbandFixes.txt========== Seeking spoils from broadband push Tech lobbyists pursue windfall from White House strategy By Yochi Dreazen and Jim VandeHei THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 —- For months, the high-tech industry has been working behind the scenes here to push its remedy for the nation’s economic ills: a national policy to promote high-speed Internet access. ==========> 02-01-19-NandoAP-TechNetBroadband.txt========== Technology: Broadband Internet access is key to nation's progress, tech industry says Copyright © 2002 Associated Press By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Business Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (January 19, 2002 10:13 p.m. EST) - This is the future of the nation, say high-tech leaders: People work from home more often. They watch high-definition TV on their computers. They ==========> 02-01-23-TechDaily-BroadbandOutlook2002.txt========== From Tech Daily Jan. 23, 2002 Broadband Broadband Still Looking For Its 'Mass-Market Moment' by Teri Rucker There is no compelling factor that has made high-speed Internet service a necessity for consumers, panelists at the Broadband Outlook 2002 forum said Wednesday. But once there is, success will depend in part on how much broadband service cannibalizes the other features telecommunication firms offer. ==========> 02-01-23-TechDaily-BushAdminBroadbandDef.txt========== From Tech Daily Jan. 23, 2002 Broadband Bush Administration Must Tackle How To Define 'Broadband' by Teri Rucker Possibly the most vexing problems the Bush administration faces in crafting high-speed Internet policy are defining "broadband" and identifying why more people do not have it, panelists said at Wednesday's Broadband Outlook 2002 Forum. "A well-defined problem is half the solution," said Dale Hatfield, a ==========> 02-01-23-TechDaily-TechNetBroadband.txt========== From Tech Daily Jan. 23, 2002 Lobbying TechNet Focuses On Broadband, Accounting and Education by Bara Vaida The high-tech lobbying group TechNet has made broadband policy, international accounting standards and passage of a science- and math-focused higher education bill its three policy priorities in 2002. ==========> 02-01-23-Telecom-FCCBroadbandRules.txt========== Telecom Bells' Competitors Seek FCC Rules On Broadband Link by Teri Rucker The FCC should set standards governing the critical link that allows telecommunications carriers to provide high-speed Internet service to their customers, according to a group representing competitors of the Bell regional telephone companies. The Joint Competitive Industry Group on Tuesday filed comments with the FCC seeking specific measurements to ensure that the Bells treat competing firms fairly. The Bells "do a poor job of providing ==========> 02-01-24-ComputerWorld-CSPPBroadband.txt========== More IT executives urge government broadband push By Patrick Thibodeau (Jan. 24, 2002) WASHINGTON -- Another who's who list of high-tech CEOs today urged the White House and congressional leadership to make broadband deployment a national priority, worthy of the same attention that President Eisenhower gave the interstate highway system. For the second time in as many weeks, the top leaders of some of the nation's largest IT companies said true broadband deployment, with a speed of 100M ==========> 02-02-02-SJMerc-BroadbandAdoption.txt========== Posted at 9:56 p.m. PST Saturday, Feb. 2, 2002 Visions of quick adoption of broadband are fading Market must jump-start demand, analysts say BY JOELLE TESSLER AND CHRIS O'BRIEN Mercury News Mike Masnick has subscribed to four different high-speed Internet services over the past year. And four times, he was left in the lurch as each provider -- NorthPoint, Rhythms NetConnections, Metricom and At Home -- went bankrupt, disrupting service to him and thousands of other users. ==========> 02-02-11-ComputerWorld-CSPP-BroadandReport.txt========== Vendors Send Feds Wrong Message By David Moschella (Feb. 11, 2002) The Computer Systems Policy Project is usually well worth listening to. The CSPP was established in 1989 to advance the public policy views of a select group of America's most important computer hardware makers. Its current membership consists of the CEOs of Compaq, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Motorola, NCR and Unisys - all in all, a pretty worldly bunch. ==========> 02-02-11-ComputerWorld-CSPP-Broadband.txt========== Vendors Send Feds Wrong Message By David Moschella (Feb. 11, 2002) The Computer Systems Policy Project is usually well worth listening to. The CSPP was established in 1989 to advance the public policy views of a select group of America's most important computer hardware makers. Its current membership consists of the CEOs of Compaq, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Motorola, NCR and Unisys - all in all, a pretty worldly bunch. ==========> 02-02-12-SJMerc-CovadReturns.txt========== Posted on Tue, Feb. 12, 2002 DSL provider leaves bankruptcy behind COVAD BELIEVES IT IS POSITIONED FOR COMEBACK By Joelle Tessler Mercury News A wave of bankruptcies last year among broadband providers left the market for high-speed Internet access firmly in the hands of the Baby Bells and the cable giants. But for Covad Communications, bankruptcy provided a new lease on life, positioning it to spar anew with the telecom ==========> 02-02-12-Unknown-DOELabsTestWirelessLANs.txt========== Wireless LANs are focus of testing, security concerns at DOE labs By Bob Brewin (Feb. 12, 2002) Sandia National Laboratories has begun testing wireless LANs to determine whether they can meet the kind of rigorous security required for any Department of Energy (DOE) facility. Pace VanDevender, CIO at Albuquerque, N.M.-based Sandia, said the lab has begun limited testing of wireless LANs in an isolated test bed outside secure areas ==========> 02-02-13-WashPost-Boucher--OpenAccess.txt========== Rep. Boucher Plans Privacy, Open Access Bills By Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 13 Feb 2002, 9:53 PM CST Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., said that he plans to support a bill to be introduced sometime in March that would require businesses both online and offline to refrain from sharing personal customer data if the customers opt to not have that data shared, which runs contrary to what many pro-privacy lobby groups desire. ==========> 02-02-14-LATimes-FCC-Ultrawideband.txt========== LA Times FCC Expected to Deal Blow to Ultra-Wideband Telecom: Faster wireless may face constraints. Some worry the technology could cause airwave interference. By JUBE SHIVER Jr. TIMES STAFF WRITER February 14 2002 WASHINGTON -- In a setback to computer and consumer product makers, federal regulators today are expected to tightly constrain a breakthrough wireless ==========> 02-02-14-Unknown-FCC-DSL-Rulemaking.txt========== FCC Internet Rulemaking Shakes Bell Competitors by Teri Rucker The FCC's tentative conclusion Thursday that classifies some high-speed Internet services provided by telecommunications companies as information services has the competitors of the regional Bell telephone companies worried. The rulemaking tentatively defines broadband service provided through digital subscriber lines (DSL) as an information service with a telecommunications component. The decision would put the Internet services in the same class as voicemail and e-mail, services that traditionally ride over telecom facilities ==========> 02-02-14-WashPost-FCC-UltraWideband.txt========== FCC Allows Ultra-Wideband Use Thursday, February 14, 2002 By Yuki Noguchi, Washington Post Staff Writer Federal regulators gave a tentative go-ahead yesterday for a new wireless technology that would make it possible for home machines to "talk" to one another, for federal agents to locate hidden or lost people behind walls, and for cars to stop automatically before hitting a pedestrian. Start-up companies, the Department of Commerce and analysts hailed the Federal ==========> 02-02-15-CNET-ComcastBroadbandRegulation.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1033-837775.html Comcast still can't deliver on e-mail By Rachel Konrad Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 15, 2002, 6:50 AM PT Customers of one of the nation's largest cable companies have been unable to send or receive e-mail for at least 24 hours, an inconvenience that is sparking anger and calls for government oversight of the nascent broadband industry. ==========> 02-02-15-WashPost-FCC-BroadbandDereg.txt========== FCC Rules Seek High-Speed Shift Phone Firms Would Keep Cable Rights By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 15, 2002; Page E01 The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed that high-speed Internet access provided by telephone companies not be subject to the same regulations governing basic telephone service, a move that could redefine how Americans receive broadband service. ==========> 02-02-19-BroadbandBriefings23-Tauzin-Dingell.txt========== Published by NetAction Issue No. 23 February 19, 2002 Repost where appropriate. Copyright and subscription info at end of message. In This Issue: ACTION ALERT: Vote Scheduled on Bell Deregulation Bill About Broadband Briefings ACTION ALERT: Vote Set on Bell Deregulation Bill (Date of alert: February 19, 2002) * * * Circulate this alert until February 27, 2002 * * * Contents of this alert: ==========> 02-02-21-CW-TechIndBroadband.txt========== ComputerWorld Broadband: On the Fast Track? Industry pushes Congress to build up broadband access, but consumers may not care. Saumya Roy, Medill News Service Thursday, February 21, 2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Broadband's proponents talk fast about high-speed benefits. They estimate broadband access is worth billions to consumers, in flexible work schedules and fewer traffic jams. They want a national vision for the ==========> 02-02-21-SJMerc-MunicipleFiberSystems.txt========== Posted on Thu, Feb. 21, 2002 Small Pennsylvania town provides municipal fiber-optic service By Reid Kanaley Philadelphia Inquirer The road into Kutztown, Pa., is marked with signs cautioning drivers to watch for horse-drawn buggies. But don't be fooled. This small borough in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country is in the fast lane when it comes to technology. Kutztown is in the midst of installing a fiber-optic network to dazzle the ==========> 02-02-23-SJMerc-Tauzin-Dingell-Telco-Cable.txt========== Posted on Sat, Feb. 23, 2002 In debate over high-speed Internet bill, Bell companies face off against cable providers WASHINGTON (AP) - The four regional Bell telephone companies are about to get a vote in Congress on whether they can sell high-speed Internet access without letting competitors use their networks. Legislation before the House this week would undo parts of a 1996 law that forced the Bells to open those networks to competitors at a reasonable cost. ==========> 02-02-24-SJMerc-Gillmor-Tauzin-Dingell.txt========== Dan Gillmor: Broadband legislation will squash competition By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Like the proverbial bad penny, lousy legislation always seems to return. It goes underground until powerful interests find a better time to bring it back to the surface, hoping to slip it through the legislature. On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on just such a bill, H.R. 1542. If enacted, it would give some of America's most ==========> 02-02-25-SJMerc-RicochetReturns.txt========== Posted on Mon, Feb. 25, 2002 Ricochet wireless Net access returning to the Bay Area By Joelle Tessler Mercury News Coming to the Bay Area this summer: Ricochet Version 2.0. When Metricom, the San Jose-based pioneer of wireless Internet access, shut off its Ricochet service in August, the bankrupt company left its small but fiercely loyal band of subscribers with no real alternatives for high-speed ==========> 02-02-25-SJMerc-Tauzin-Dingell.txt========== Posted on Mon, Feb. 25, 2002 Broadband legislation set for U.S. House debate WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hotly contested legislation that would give regional telephone giants a boost in the high-speed Internet market is set to be considered in the House this week. Dominant local phone companies, seeking the lucrative customer paying $50 a month for fast Internet service known as broadband, have been battling cable television companies and other telephone carriers for nearly three years over ==========> 02-02-25-WashPost-Valenti-BroadbandIP-Issues.txt========== Movies Get Framed Films on the Net -- we'd love it. But not for free. By Jack Valenti Monday, February 25, 2002; Page A23 The movie industry is under siege from a small community of professors who argue (1) that broadband access to the Internet will never gain consumer acceptance without movies legitimately being made available on the Net and (2) that producers deliberately are holding back the exhibition of movies on the Net because of -- in the words of Lawrence Lessig ["Who's Holding Back ==========> 02-02-26-SJMerc-Tauzin-Dingell.txt========== Posted on Tue, Feb. 26, 2002 House gets key DSL legislation today By Joelle Tessler Mercury News The House of Representatives today will consider a bill that is considered one of the most important pieces of technology legislation in years: a controversial measure that would lighten regulations on the Baby Bell phone companies in the market for high-speed Internet access delivered over phone lines. ==========> 02-02-26-WashPost-ComcastOpensNetwork.txt========== Comcast to Open High-Speed Internet Network to Rival ISP By Christopher Stern Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 26, 2002; Page E04 Comcast Corp. plans to announce today that it has signed a deal to open its high-speed Internet network to a competing online service -- United Online Inc., the nation's third-largest Internet service provider. California-based United will offer service under its Juno and NetZero brands, which collectively provide Web access to 5.6 million people over dial-up ==========> 02-02-27-AP-Tauzin-Dingell-HR1542.txt========== GOP Narrowing Internet Bill Changes Wed Feb 27,12:17 AM ET By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican leaders in the House maneuvered Tuesday to help along a bill aimed at easing the expansion of the four regional Bell telephone companies into the lucrative high-speed Internet market. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Billy Tauzin, R-La., and John Dingell, D-Mich., would remove requirements set in 1996 that let smaller high-speed Internet ==========> 02-02-27-Coney-Tauzin-Dingell-HR1542.txt========== Telecommunications: The Broadband Deregulation Debate In a vote scheduled for this week, Congress is revisiting how high-speed Internet services are regulated, specifically looking at which companies should and should not be allowed to compete in this very lucrative marketplace. House lawmakers are considering the Tauzin-Dingell bill (H.R. 1542), a proposal to rewrite the 1996 Telecommuncations Act to allow the regional telephone ==========> 02-02-27-WashPost-Tauzin-Dingell-HR1542.txt========== House Narrows Broadband Debate Before Vote By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 27 Feb 2002, 12:53 AM CST Republican leadership will allow lawmakers to consider just two of more than two dozen amendments submitted for the Tauzin-Dingell telecom deregulation bill scheduled for a vote in the House of Representatives today. In a meeting Tuesday evening, the House Rules Committee decided to limit ==========> 02-02-28-WashPost-HousePassesTauzin-Dingell.txt========== House Passes Internet Access Legislation Senate Opponents Pledge to Block Measure That Helps 'Baby Bell' Companies By Juliet Eilperin and Yuki Noguchi Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, February 28, 2002; Page A10 The House approved legislation yesterday that would transform the way Americans access the Internet by making it easier for regional Bell telephone companies to enter the high-speed "broadband" market. ==========> 02-02-28-WashPost-Tauzin-Dingell-Senate.txt========== Senate Leader Contemplates Tauzin-Dingell Compromise By Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 28 Feb 2002, 1:12 PM CST Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., today said it would be "helpful" for lawmakers to devise a compromise version of broadband deregulation legislation that passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, but which faces trouble in the Senate. ==========> 02-03-04-eWeek-BroadbandIssues.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D722%2526a%253D23545,00.asp March 4, 2002 Internet Insight: Broadband Homeland Broadband By Rob Fixmer With universal broadband deployment in the United States stuck in neutral, a growing number of economists, industry leaders and government policy-makers are pushing just about any incentive that might jump-start new network build-outs. ==========> 02-03-04-NYT-Markoff-NeighborhoodNets.txt========== New York Times March 4, 2002 The Corner Internet Network vs. the Cellular Giants By JOHN MARKOFF AN FRANCISCO, March 3 — The informal Wi-Fi networks that inexpensively provide wireless Internet access are fine, as far as they go — which is generally a few hundred feet. But what happens when there are enough of them to weave together in a blanket of Internet coverage? ==========> 02-03-04-UnknownSource-Tauzin-Dingell.txt========== Lobbying Backers, Foes Of Broadband Bill Take Fight To Senate by Bara Vaida Despite expectations that the Tauzin-Dingell broadband bill has little chance of winning Senate passage, the regional Bell telephone companies already have begun a new lobbying campaign designed to sway lawmakers to keep the bill alive. William Daley, a former Commerce secretary in the Clinton administration and president of SBC Communications, began making the rounds on Capitol Hill ==========> 02-03-04-WSJ-CCCSA-Tauzin-Dingell.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/03/04/financia l1118EST0079.DTL&type=tech E-World: Politicians are meddling with the Net, and they really ought to stop it THOMAS E. WEBER, The Wall Street Journal Monday, March 4, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press (03-04) 08:18 PST (AP) -- ==========> 02-03-05-SJMerc-BroadbandUsageIncreases.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2796170.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 05, 2002 Broadband access usage outpaces dial-up access-report NEW YORK (Reuters) - High-speed Internet usage accounted for more than half of all time spent online in January, outpacing dial-up Internet access for the first time, Nielsen/NetRatings said in a report Tuesday. The report comes at a time Internet companies are aggressively building ==========> 02-03-05-SJMerc-BroadbandUsageUp.txt========== Posted on Tue, Mar. 05, 2002 Broadband access usage outpaces dial-up access-report NEW YORK (Reuters) - High-speed Internet usage accounted for more than half of all time spent online in January, outpacing dial-up Internet access for the first time, Nielsen/NetRatings said in a report Tuesday. The report comes at a time Internet companies are aggressively building high-speed access and services, banking on growth in broadband to offset slowing growth in dial-up Internet access. ==========> 02-03-05-TD-Senate.txt========== Broadband Backers, Foes Of Tauzin-Dingell Bill Ponder Its Future by Teri Rucker Facing opposition in the Senate and a shortened legislative calendar, supporters of a House-passed broadband bill are looking for other ways to make the bill's principles the law of the land, including a possible go at the legislation next year. The Tauzin-Dingell bill -- named for House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman W.J. (Billy) Tauzin, R-La., and the panel's ranking Democrat, John ==========> 02-03-05-UnknownSource-Tauzin-Dingell-Senate.txt========== Broadband Backers, Foes Of Tauzin-Dingell Bill Ponder Its Future by Teri Rucker Facing opposition in the Senate and a shortened legislative calendar, supporters of a House-passed broadband bill are looking for other ways to make the bill's principles the law of the land, including a possible go at the legislation next year. The Tauzin-Dingell bill -- named for House Energy and Commerce Committee ==========> 02-03-06-UnknownSource-WhiteHouseBroadband.txt========== White House Bush Administration Officials Detail Broadband Challenges by Bara Vaida Two top Bush administration officials on Tuesday emphasized that the chief obstacle to wide-scale deployment of high-speed Internet services is the lack of consumer and corporate demand for them, despite the technology's growing availability across the country. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans and White House Council of Economic Advisors ==========> 02-03-08-WashPost-FCC-CableInternetRuling.txt========== FCC to Classify Cable Internet Services Friday, March 8, 2002 By Newsbytes Staff, Newsbytes.com The Federal Communications Commission will decide next week how to classify high-speed Internet access over cable lines, a move that should clarify whether cable operators are obliged to open their pipes to multiple Internet service providers (ISPs). ==========> 02-03-14-SJMerc-FCC-CableInternetSvcsRuling.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2858750.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 14, 2002 FCC votes to protect cable Internet firms from line-sharing laws WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators decided Thursday to exempt cable Internet companies from laws that force telecommunications providers to open their lines to competition. The Federal Communications Commission, in a 3-1 vote, said the decision was ==========> 02-03-15-LATimes-FCC-CableRuling.txt========== Los Angeles Times Broadband Firms Can Close Their Networks By JUBE SHIVER Jr., TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON -- In a bid to accelerate the roll-out of high-speed Internet service, federal regulators Thursday permanently exempted cable Internet companies from a federal law that requires telecommunications carriers to open their networks to rivals. The industry had been gripped with uncertainty about how high-speed cable ==========> 02-03-15-WashPost-FCC-CableInternetSvcs.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29295-2002Mar14.html FCC Gives Cable Firms Net Rights By Christopher Stern Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 15, 2002; Page E01 The Federal Communications Commission sided with cable companies yesterday in a ruling that will allow them to offer high-speed Internet service without being forced to open their networks to rival Internet providers. ==========> 02-03-18-WashPost-FCC-CableAccessRulingSuit.txt========== Groups Plan Lawsuit Against FCC Cable Modem Ruling By Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 18 Mar 2002, 10:56 AM CST Several consumers groups and Internet service providers might sue to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from instituting a ruling made last week that would exempt cable ISPs from being required to open their networks to ==========> 02-03-21-USAToday-FiberShortage.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020321/3958293s.htm Page 1B How will USA get more fiber in its telecom diet? Fading firms leave pile of unused lines, but shortage looms By Kevin Maney USA TODAY If you think the crashing telecommunications industry is in chaos now, just wait until it all flips around and the world is choking on Web traffic and too ==========> 02-03-23-SJMerc-DG-CommEntertainMonopolies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/2922052. htm Posted on Sat, Mar. 23, 2002 Dan Gillmor: Bleak future looms if you don't take a stand By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist This is a quiz about your future. It's about how you view some basic elements of the emerging Digital Age. ==========> 02-03-23-SJMerc-WebcastLicenseRoyalties.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/2922047. htm Posted on Sat, Mar. 23, 2002 Proposed royalty rates could bankrupt Webcasters By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Internet radio stations like KPIG built a passionate worldwide following by being everything FM radio used to be: eclectic, unpredictable and free of ==========> 02-03-25-DukeUnic-FCC-Futures.txt========== Friends- On March 25, 2002 the Duke Fellowship in Intellectual Property and the Public Domain, with the support of the Center for the Public Domain and the Ford Foundation, will host a panel discussion on the Role of the FCC in the Digital Era. Attendance is free and open to everyone. More details are available through the attached link. Hope to see you here. ==========> 02-03-26-SJMerc-GoupsSueFCCCableDecision.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2940346.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 26, 2002 Net companies, consumers sue FCC over access to cable systems WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumer groups and competitors to companies that sell high-speed Internet service over cable modems are asking the courts to throw out a decision by federal regulators leaving that business largely unregulated. Telephone company Verizon Communications filed suit against the Federal ==========> 02-03-26-SJMerc-WirelessInternetHassles.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/2937862. htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 26, 2002 David Lidsky: Why the wireless Web is more trouble than it's worth By David Lidsky Fortune Small Business Muttering to myself in Starbucks. Again. It's not the guy who came in to make himself a venti sugarmilk from the condiments bar that's got me crazy; I am ==========> 02-03-29-SJMerc-ATT-ComcastOpenCableInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2962491.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 29, 2002 AT&T and Comcast commit to choice of Internet providers WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Comcast Corp. and AT&T Broadband , cable operators seeking federal approval to combine, have committed to offer consumers a choice of high-speed Internet service providers (ISPs) via cable lines, documents revealed on Friday. ==========> 02-03-30-SJMerc-Public-WiFi-802-11b.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/2970491.htm Posted on Sat, Mar. 30, 2002 Popular technology changing wireless landscape By Maureen Fan Mercury News New York Bureau At Oregon's Portland Hostel this month, the cheapest beds in town started coming with the fastest Internet access as staff began loaning guests wireless networking cards that allowed them to Web surf even in the garden. ==========> 02-04-01-NYT-FiberFirmsCrash.txt========== Telecom's Fiber Pipe Dream Upstart firms saw riches in circling the globe with high-capacity optic cable. Instead, they were laying the foundation for their own downfall. By JON HEALEY TIMES STAFF WRITER April 1 2002 The world's phone calls, faxes and e-mails zip through strands of glass no thicker than a human hair, riding across countries and continents on pulses of multicolored light. ==========> 02-04-01-UCSD-WirelessBroadband.txt========== http://www.soe.ucsd.edu/news_events/news_2002/20020401_CyberShuttle.html April 1, 2002 Media Contact: Doug Ramsey (858) 822-5825, dramsey@ucsd.edu UC San Diego Unveils World’s First Bus With Mobile, High-Speed Internet Access San Diego--Engineers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have unveiled the world’s first bus that enables its passengers to access the Internet and download files at a peak speed of 2.4 Megabits per second--even while the bus is ==========> 02-04-03-SJMerc-HighTechBroadbandCoalition-BacksBells.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/2993942. htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 03, 2002 Tech groups back Baby Bells on mandatory high-speed network sharing By Joelle Tessler Mercury News A coalition of high-tech trade groups has thrown its support behind the Baby Bell telephone companies in their fight against regulation that forces them to ==========> 02-04-03-WashPost-HighTechBroadband-FCC.txt========== http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175643.html High-Tech Industry Split On Broadband Policy By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 03 Apr 2002, 7:41 PM CST The rift among high-tech sector heavyweights over the proper regulatory treatment for high-speed Internet services grew even more pronounced today with the launch of two divergent coalitions formed to lobby federal policymakers on ==========> 02-04-15-WashPost-NewBroadband-LeapFrog.txt========== A New Plan To Provide Broadband By Ellen McCarthy Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 15, 2002; Page E05 When Pete Aquino and Peter Stevenson returned to Northern Virginia after running a telecom company in Venezuela for five years, they expected access to all the luxuries that modern technology can offer. They were disappointed with what they found. ==========> 02-04-22-MSNBC-Maui3GWirelessBroadband.txt========== MSNBC Maui to get next-generation wireless Maui Sky Fiber plans to target Maui’s 12,000 ISP customers April 22 It’s fast, portable, affordable and it’s coming to Maui this summer: a palm-sized, go-anywhere wireless modem that will give Maui residents access to one of the nation’s first 3G or “third-generation” broadband ==========> 02-04-22-Reuters-BroadbandGrowingSlowly-Stats.txt========== Reuters Demand for Broadband Growing Slowly, Survey Shows Mon Apr 22, 9:08 PM ET PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Internet users are showing more willingness to pay for a high-speed broadband Internet connection, although large numbers remain happy with dial-up, a survey being released on Tuesday said. Jupiter Media Metrix, which calculates just 16 percent of U.S. households currently have a broadband Internet connection, said that 8.6 percent of the ==========> 02-04-22-Wash-Post-PowerLineTelecom.txt========== Washington Post Electrifying Broadband Making gains with power lines as a high-speed data conduit Traditional broadband service providers could be in for a real shock. Within two years, sellers of digital subscriber lines, cable-modem and satellite services will face a new heavyweight contender: electric utilities. If the rosiest predictions hold true. ==========> 02-04-29-CNETNews-VODIssues.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1023-894468.html Video services see need for speed By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 29, 2002, 1:55 PM PT http://news.com.com/2100-1023-894468.html LOS ANGELES--The video-on-demand and Net access industries are engaged in a tug-of-war over broadband connections, sparking debates about when an Internet ==========> 02-04-30-WashPost-BroadbandRegParityAct.txt========== http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176255.html Senate Lawmakers Seek High-Speed 'Parity' By Brian Krebs, Washtech WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 30 Apr 2002, 4:32 PM CST In a move they say is designed to spur deployment of high-speed Internet services, two senators today introduced legislation that would subject all broadband services to the same regulatory treatment, regardless of the ==========> 02-05-07-CNETNews-StreamingVideo.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1023-900617.html Net video's obstacle to a steady stream By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 7, 2002, 4:00 AM PT Streaming media companies aim to make Web video as seamless as television, but recent advances in technology may fall short of solving deeper problems with data delivery over the Internet. ==========> 02-05-18-Reed-OpenSpectrumResourcePage.txt========== http://www.reed.com/dprframeweb/dprframe.asp Open Spectrum Resource Page This web exists to link all of the online resources I want to share that relate to Open Spectrum ideas. I am particularly interested in this intersection of architecture, information theory, technology, economics, and policy. Please email me any others that you find interesting. - David P. Reed My writings, presentations, and talks ==========> 02-05-18-SJMerc-DG-PlentifulSpectrum.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3292382.htm Posted on Sat, May. 18, 2002 Dan Gillmor: Imagine a world with unlimited airwaves By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist It's long been an article of faith that the airwaves are a scarce resource. On this notion rides the existence of the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the airwaves, not to mention the ownership of great swaths of ==========> 02-05-24-BBBriefings-BBTelecomAct-.txt========== Subject: Broadband Briefings: The Bells' Future Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:53:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Audrie Krause Published by NetAction Issue No. 24 May 24, 2002 Two Takes On Bridging the Digital Divide Two bills that take dramatically different approaches to bridging the digital divide were introduced recently in the U.S. Senate. Both bills purport to promote the deployment of broadband Internet service ==========> 02-05-30-NetAction-FutureOfRegionalBells.txt========== <> The Future of the Regional Bells Introduction As soon as people developed ways of communicating, they needed ways to communicate over distances. Yelling and messengers worked for a long time, but were not destined to be a final solution. The original Bell Telephone Company was formed in 1877, and was followed by the ==========> 02-06-01-SFGate-Wi-Fi-InterferenceProblems.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/06/01/national 1423EDT0563.DTL&type=tech Interference more likely as wireless devices get popular ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer Saturday, June 1, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press (06-01) 11:23 PDT NEW YORK (AP) -- ==========> 02-06-02-SJMerc-DG-UniversalBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3386993.htm Posted on Sun, Jun. 02, 2002 Dan Gillmor: Hypocrites have a point on broadband By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Even hypocrites can make a reasonable point, sometimes. The growing debate over federal assistance to build out the nation's high-speed data links is one such occasion. ==========> 02-06-03-NYT-BroadbandAdoptionSetback.txt========== NY Times June 3, 2002 Study Finds Some Setbacks for Broadband By SUZANNE KAPNER The economic downturn, the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the effects of last year's terrorist attacks have sharply slowed the adoption of broadband services, postponing the point at which these services will be widely accepted, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers. ==========> 02-06-03-SJMerc-VintCerf-GovtBroadbandPolicies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3392998.htm Posted on Mon, Jun. 03, 2002 Government must unleash faster Net connections, Cerf says BY VIKAS BAJAJ The Dallas Morning News ATLANTA - (KRT) - One of the pioneers of the Internet said Monday that government must get involved for speedier connections to the Net to reach the masses. ==========> 02-06-05-Wired-Tauzin-FCC-Ultrawideband.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53000,00.html Tauzin's 'Ultrawide' Blast on FCC Reuters 2:10 p.m. June 5, 2002 PDT WASHINGTON -- A key U.S. lawmaker on Wednesday accused federal regulators of jeopardizing a promising new wireless technology with household and government applications, chiefly over unproven fears it might disrupt military systems. ==========> 02-06-06-PCWorld-LiebermanUniversalBroadbandBill.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,101715,00.asp Could Broadband Become the Law? Lieberman's push for universal access draws both support and concern over playing technological favorites. Anne Ju, Medill News Service Thursday, June 06, 2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A bill that seeks a universal broadband-access strategy within six months is drawing criticism from some who say that calling such ==========> 02-06-10-BostonGlobe-MassBroadbandSummit-BBAdoptionRate.txt========== http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/tech_innovation/news/0610_broadband.html Broadband talks to address new strategies By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff, 6/10/2002 BURLINGTON — As more than 200 Internet industry leaders and public officials gather for a "Massachusetts broadband summit" here this morning, US Representative Edward J. Markey is siding with state and federal regulators who see no crisis in the availability of high-speed Internet service, but a failure of ==========> 02-06-10-NYT-LowCostLongDistanceWi-Fi.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/technology/10WIRE.html?ex=1024697298&ei=1&en=c 982c96523c8a4f2 2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband NY Times June 10, 2002 By JOHN MARKOFF CUPERTINO, Calif., June 7 - Anyone looking for the next big thing in Silicon Valley should stop here at Layne Holt's garage. ==========> 02-06-17-IEEE-BroadbandWorkshop-GigabitEthernetOverFiber.txt========== http://www.ieeeusa.org/conferences/broadband/#objective IEEE-USA Workshop on U.S. National Policy for Accelerating Broadband Deployment 17-18 June 2002 Cosmos Club 2121 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, DC We invite you to participate in the upcoming Workshop sponsored by the IEEE-USA, U.S. National Policy for Accelerating Broadband ==========> 02-06-17-Telephony-McCainBill-IntermodalParity.txt========== OPEN ACCESS IS ULTIMATE GOAL FOR McCAIN-SPONSORED BILL Glenn Bischoff Telephony Magazine June 17, 2002 - page 16 Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is planning to introduce legislation that would address intermodal parity between providers of high-speed data services. Unlike other pending legislation, the initiative would force cable companies into the same common carriage responsibilities as incumbent telcos. ==========> 02-06-21-WSJ-BushBroadbandSpeechAndDSLDeregulation.txt========== "Tech Firms Bemoan Bush Talk" Wall Street Journal (06/21/02) P. A4; Dreazen, Yochi J. Leaders in the technology industry are largely disappointed with President Bush's speech on national broadband rollout. Although they welcome the high-level attention paid to the topic, they say the Bush administration is weak on details, shuffling off the responsibility to the FCC. The FCC and backers in the fixed-line telecom business are pushing for deregulation of the digital subscriber line (DSL) market, in line with a congressional effort that has stalled ==========> 02-06-24-Telephony-McCainBill-IntermodalParity.txt========== REDEFINING PARITY Glenn Bischoff Telephony Magazine June 24, 2002 The Bell companies have been wishing for regulatory parity with the cable industry, and Congress seems bent on giving it to them. But it might not come in the form they are expecting. Conventional wisdom says parity will be achieved by releasing incumbent carriers from their common carriage responsibilities as they relate to data facilities. But ==========> 02-06-25-SVInternet-UltraWidebandOverCable.txt========== http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1371281 SiliconValleyInternet Using UWB to TurboCharge Cable TV June 25, 2002 Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology developer Pulse-LINK, today announced the development of UWB over-wire applications. According to ==========> 02-06-27-SJMerc-BabyBellsWinners.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560255.htm Posted on Thu, Jun. 27, 2002 Baby Bells emerging as winners in telecom wars By Joelle Tessler Mercury News When the Justice Department forced the breakup of AT&T in 1984, the Baby Bell local phone companies were seen as telecom's biggest losers, stuck in the stodgy, slow-growth business of providing basic dial tones and phone books. ==========> 02-06-27-SJMerc-InternetJunkie-TieredPricing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3554640.htm Posted on Thu, Jun. 27, 2002 Tiered pricing worries Net junkie By Leslie Walker Washington Post My name is Leslie, and I'm a Net-a-holic. Not a recovering one, but an active, unabashed bandwidth hog, consuming all the Internet access I can get from the cable wires in my home. Lately, I'm ==========> 02-06-27-ToledoBlade-PoliceAndFBISeizeModifiedCableModems.txt========== http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20020627&Category= NEWS03&ArtNo=106270073&Ref=AR Article published June 27, 2002 Searches by police, FBI target bandits of bandwidth By CHRISTINA HALL and MARK REITER BLADE STAFF WRITERS Authorities investigating the theft of high-speed Internet cable service yesterday seized modems and other computer equipment from homes in ==========> 02-06-28-WashPost-HiTechBBCoalition-FCC-CableInternetUseRestrictions.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58542-2002Jun27.html Cable Firms Faulted For Restrictions On Internet Service By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 28, 2002; Page E03 Some cable providers have imposed "troubling" restrictions on how their high-speed Internet networks can be used by consumers ==========> 02-06-29-BobEllis-BabyBellsWin.txt========== Subject: The Baby Bells Are Winners Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 15:00:36 -0700 From: Bob Ellis This is one of a couple of articles I've seen today that say this. But unless a Baby Bell has a cell phone franchise somewhere, I predict they will go by the wayside too. And their trying to get into the long distance business is yesterday's lucrative market because of all the cell phone plans that offer bundled LD. And that is a really great move: the customer either doesn't use their allotment and the company ==========> 02-06-29-SJMerc-DG-BabyBellsAfterWorldCom.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3572634.htm Posted on Sat, Jun. 29, 2002 Dan Gillmor: Phone monopolies must like the look of life after WorldCom By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist The people running the regional phone monopolies must be licking their lips these days. Before long, I'm willing to wager, they'll be in the nationwide long-distance business -- but without keeping their promise, and obligation ==========> 02-06-30-SFChronicle-WiFiNetworks.txt========== http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/30/BU16195 5.DTL&type=tech Wi-Fi fans Grassroots techies want to build a wireless Internet network across the Bay Area Todd Wallack, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, June 30, 2002 ©2002 San Francisco Chronicle. ==========> 02-06-30-SJMerc-CableVsSatellite.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3573100.htm Posted on Sun, Jun. 30, 2002 Cable, satellite box it out for viewers By Ellen Lee Contra Costa Times No longer just a big dish parked outside rural homes, satellite television is quickly finding its way into Bay Area residences. ==========> 02-07-01-CFA-FCCPoliciesStranglelSPs.txt========== http://www.consumerfed.org/backpage/070102_broadband_release.html ADMINISTRATION'S BROADBAND POLICY WOULD STRANGLE ISPs, DESTROY COMPETITIVE INTERNET MARKETPLACE --Study Shows Historical Lessons Support Continuation of Open Communication Networks -- Washington, D.C.- July 1, 2002: A study released today by the Consumer ==========> 02-07-01-ConsumerFedAmerica-FCC-PoliciesHurtBroadband.txt========== http://www.consumerfed.org/backpage/070102_broadband_release.html ADMINISTRATION'S BROADBAND POLICY WOULD STRANGLE ISPs, DESTROY COMPETITIVE INTERNET MARKETPLACE --Study Shows Historical Lessons Support Continuation of Open Communication Networks -- Washington, D.C.- July 1, 2002: A study released today by the Consumer Federation of America and the Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel demonstrates that the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) broadband ==========> 02-07-01-SJMerc-CFA-FCC-PoliciesHurtBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3581185.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 01, 2002 FCC policies hurt high-speed Web WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Proposed U.S. government policies could harm competition in the ``broadband'' Internet market, reducing choices and driving up monthly fees for users who want high-speed access, a consumer group said Monday. ==========> 02-07-01-USSenate-McCainBroadbandBill-ConsumerBroadbandDeregulationAct.txt========== S:\WPSHR\LEGCNSL\XYWRITE\COM02\RBROAD.12 August 1, 2002 (11:03 a.m.) 107TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S. —— To provide for deregulation of consumer broadband services. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AUGUST ——, 2002 Mr. MCCAIN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on ———————————— A BILL ==========> 02-07-08-WSJ-UnleashBroadband.txt========== Unleash Broadband Wall Stree Journal Print Edition July 8, 2002 By George Gilder and Bret Swanson WorldCom's impending $40 billion bankruptcy should galvanize Washington to this simple fact: For the last two years we have suffered not a mild recession but a technology depression. ==========> 02-07-09-CNnetNews-Cable-WIFICrackdownt.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1033-942323.html Cable companies cracking down on Wi-Fi By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 9, 2002, 4:00 AM PT Broadband providers are cracking down on popular Wi-Fi networks, threatening to cut service to customers who set up the inexpensive wireless systems and allow others to freely tap into their Internet access. ==========> 02-07-10-EETimes-BluetoothFutureMixed.txt========== http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20020710S0027 Promising prospects dim for Bluetooth By George Leopold and Junko Yoshida EE Times July 10, 2002 (1:29 p.m. EST) WASHINGTON — The future of Bluetooth wireless technology is becoming decidedly mixed as proponents and analysts continue to question not only how soon the short-range technology will take off, but also whether the technology is ==========> 02-07-16-Unknown-WirelessConsortium-WiFi-ProjRainbow.txt========== Wireless consortium pushes broadband agenda By Ephraim Schwartz July 16, 2002 5:29 pm PT ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE the adoption of high-speed wireless, IBM, Intel, and AT&T are investigating the construction of a national wireless data network that will apparently preclude similar efforts by other industry groups. According to a report published in the New York Times on Tuesday, the scheme, called Project Rainbow, would enable users of handheld and portable ==========> 02-07-17-SJMerc-DG-FCC-UnlicensedSpectrum.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/3 678902.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 17, 2002 FCC news isn't all bad on telecom By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Fans of competition in telecommunications are getting distinctly mixed signals from the Federal Communications Commission. Some days you'd wonder if ==========> 02-07-19-CIOInsight-WirelessNetworkSecurityIssues.txt========== http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,3959,394659,00.asp July 19, 2002 Wireless (In)security: Are Your Networks Snoop-Proof? By Gary A. Bolles Now, someone can steal your company's most sensitive data by snatching it out of thin air—right from the company parking lot. Sound more like scare talk than reality? Guess again. On May 1, an anonymous ==========> 02-07-30-BusinessWeek-WiFi-Issues.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2002/tc20020730_0782.htm JULY 30, 2002 NEWS ANALYSIS The High Hurdles Facing Wi-Fi If overcrowded spectrum isn't destined to crimp its growth, it'll need better technology and regulatory help from the FCC A recent Doonesbury cartoon said it all: ==========> 02-07-30-CNETNews-ACLU-BroadbandOpenAccessImportant.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1033-947274.html ACLU pushes for open access By Troy Wolverton Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 30, 2002, 3:10 PM PT SAN FRANCISCO--The Internet's status as an open forum for ideas will come under attack if cable companies aren't forced to open up their broadband networks to rivals, civil liberties and consumer advocacy groups said Monday. ==========> 02-08-02-PCWorld-McCainBBDeregulationBillS2863.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,103581,00.asp Broadband Deregulation Urged McCain's last-minute free market plan joins a throng of bills to loosen or end federal oversight. Stephen Chiger, Medill News Service Friday, August 02, 2002 WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has called for sweeping broadband deregulation, introducing one of the most expansive such bills to date. ==========> 02-08-04-SJMerc-CellPhoneConsolidation.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3801124.htm Posted on Sun, Aug. 04, 2002 Big deals looming in wireless world By Joelle Tessler Mercury News The country's cellular phone industry is poised for a wave of consolidation that could shrink the market from six national players down to as few as three next year. ==========> 02-08-11-SFGate-WiFiNetworksThreatenTelecom.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/11/financia l1311ED www.sfgate.com Wireless networking poised to shake up telecommunications industry MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer Sunday, August 11, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/11/financia ==========> 02-08-12-SJMerc-WiFiNetworksThreatenTelecom.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3846424.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 12, 2002 Wireless networking could shake up telecom industry MATTHEW FORDAHL AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. - There's high-speed Internet in the air. A technology originally developed to link PCs in small, wireless clusters is ==========> 02-08-13-CNETNews-WiFiFuturesInterview.txt========== http://news.com.com/2008-1082-949617.html Whither Wi-Fi? By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 13, 2002, 12:00 PM PT As chairman of an influential industry group charged with monitoring standards for wireless networking, Dennis Eaton is eagerly sought out by would-be Wi-Fi entrepreneurs for his stamp of approval. ==========> 02-08-15-AP-Japan-InternetPhoneUseGrows.txt========== Japanese embrace inexpensive Net phone calls TOKYO (AP) — For years, the high cost of phone calls was the biggest obstacle to Internet growth. These days, that curse is proving to be a bit of a blessing. As always-on broadband Internet service becomes more available, towering tariffs for traditional voice calls are encouraging adoption of a technology that has yet to make much headway with consumers elsewhere: voice over Internet. ==========> 02-08-15-EurppediaNet-UKBroadbandGrows.txt========== Europedia.net UK broadband access increases 60% over last 6 months Over the past six months, UK internet access via an ADSL line has increased by 60 per cent, according to a new poll from NOP. The increase means that 8 per cent of UK users have broadband- a figure predicted to rise to 15 per cent by August 2003. Significantly, price is no longer seen as a bar to purchasing broadband for ==========> 02-08-16-SJMerc-Broadband-LowEndTieredPricing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3879448.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 16, 2002 High-speed Internet access may be getting cheaper -- and slower NEW YORK (AP) - High-speed Internet connections may be getting cheaper, but only if you'll settle for a slower version of fast. Hoping to attract Internet users who won't pay the $50 or so a month for a typical broadband connection, some providers are moving away from a ==========> 02-08-22-USAToday-BroadbandTieredPricing.txt========== USA Today Broadband companies increase move toward rate plans Thu Aug 22, 7:59 AM ET Michelle Kessler USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO -- The days of one-price-fits-all for high-speed Internet access are ending. No. 3 broadband Internet provider SBC Communications Wednesday became the latest to say it would charge a range of prices for consumers, as it ==========> 02-09-01-SJMerc-DG-OpenAccess-AOLCapitulates.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3982670.htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 01, 2002 AOL capitulates, gives up struggle for `open access' By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist The future of information access came closer into focus last week when AOL Time Warner and AT&T agreed to unravel an old business deal in favor of some new arrangements. Needless to say, their customers' needs were scarcely on the ==========> 02-09-02-Telephony-RecordIndustryAsksTelcosToBanTraffic.txt========== http://currentissue.telephonyonline.com/ar/telecom_record_industry_pulls/index.h tm RECORD INDUSTRY PULLS TELCOS INTO BATTLE OVER MUSIC PIRACY by Kevin Fitchard Telephony Magazine, Sept. 2, 2002 Suits filed in the past two weeks by record companies signal that the recording industry wants carriers' help in shutting down illegal song swapping and online music piracy. While the trend is just emerging, ==========> 02-09-05-WashPost-RIAASeeksToForceVerizonToHelp.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38034-2002Sep4.html A Story Of Piracy And Privacy By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 5, 2002; Page E01 The recording industry and the nation's largest telephone company are crossing legal swords in what could be a test case of how far big record labels can go to track down computer users who swap music online. ==========> 02-09-08-SJMerc-DG-SecurityPoliciesNeeded-BroadbandDecentralization-EnergyIndependence.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4033335.htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 08, 2002 Dan Gillmor: New priorities could improve U.S. security By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist National security is not just arms and surveillance. It's also about economic strength and social stability. ==========> 02-09-09-ComputerWorld-WardriveFindsManyUnsecuredWirelessLANs.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,74103,00.html Worldwide 'war drive' exposes insecure wireless LANs By BOB BREWIN SEPTEMBER 09, 2002 Amateur wireless LAN sniffers detected hundreds and potentially thousands of insecure business and home industry-standard wireless LANs in North America and Europe during the past week in a loosely organized electronic scavenger hunt dubbed the "Worldwide Wardrive." ==========> 02-09-09-TheGuardian-BritainLagsInBroadbandAdoption.txt========== The Guardian [UK] Britain lags behind in broadband take-up Ciar Byrne Monday September 9, 2002 Fewer British households use a broadband connection to link up to the internet than any other country in Europe. Despite soaring numbers of internet users in the UK, just 9% of households use a high speed connection, compared with 39% in Germany and 33% in Sweden. ==========> 02-09-10-SydneyMoringHerald-AustralianBroadbandEnhancements.txt========== Pacific Internet to enhance broadband network September 10 2002 Sydney Morning Herald Pacific Internet Australia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pacific Internet Limited, the largest ISP in the Asia-Pacific region, has entered into a two-year $14.5 million agreement for broadband, Internet and data services with Telstra, to enhance its business grade broadband infrastructure. The deal extends Pacific Internet's broadband service capability and ==========> 02-09-15-SJMerc-DG-IssuesThatWillShapeTheInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/4079611. htm Posted on Sun, Sep. 15, 2002 Dan Gillmor: Issues that will shape the Internet By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist It took a series of smart decisions to create the Internet as an open network where innovation could thrive, as I noted in this space a week ago. Now let's ==========> 02-09-16-WashWatch-ATTRestrictsAOLWithNonCompeteClause.txt========== Washington Watch New AT&T Comcast Information Raises Concerns About Future of the Internet Comcast and AT&T Refuse to Reveal Terms of AOL ISP Agreement Washington, DC -- In an article released 9/16 in Electronic Media magazine, Diane Mermigas raises new concerns about the AOL agreement with AT&T Comcast to gain access to its high-speed Internet network. At stake now is not only the Internet service provider's ability to create a relationship with its subscribers, but to offer the very services that distinguish broadband from dial-up Internet access. A ==========> 02-09-17-NZHerald-NZBroadbandPlans.txt========== New Zealand Herald Connections chips in with broadband bid 17.09.2002 By CHRIS BARTON Connections Incorporated was the surprise contender to make Venture Southland's shortlist of companies to provide broadband to the region. Connections which is part owned by UK company West 175 Group presented its broadband solution on Monday along with offerings from Telecom/BCL and Vodafone/Walker Wireless consortiums. ==========> 02-09-18-Reuters-CableLeadsBroadband.txt========== Reuters Internet Report Cable Likely to Hold Lead in Broadband-Report Wed Sep 18,12:23 PM ET BOSTON (Reuters) - Cable modems, the primary means currently used to connect to the Web for high-speed service, are the next growth area for the Internet as more consumers seek out digital movies and music, a research firm said on Wednesday. In a research report, Yankee Group said 58 percent of high-speed Internet ==========> 02-09-19-SJMerc-FutureCableBoxesWillBeInternetGateways.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_tech nology/4106360.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 19, 2002 Lowly cable box, the gateway of the future By Akweli Parker Knight Ridder The humble cable box, for years a mere channel-flipper, is in for a multimedia makeover: Beefed-up boxes of the future could let you play video ==========> 02-09-20-TheRegister-PowerlineBroadbandTechnologyContinues.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/27221.html Broadband over power lines idea alive and well By John Leyden Posted: 20/09/2002 at 12:37 GMT Remember the idea of using power cables as a medium to transmit high-speed Internet traffic? The concept was all the rage in the late 1990s but then high-profile suppliers, ==========> 02-09-23-AP-DOCReport-BroadbandDemandLow.txt========== Report: Demand Low for Broadband Mon Sep 23, 8:58 AM ET By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Almost all U.S. families live in areas where a high-speed Internet connection is available, but many see no compelling reason to pay extra for it, the government reports. A Commerce Department ( news - web sites) study, compiled from a variety of analyst surveys, cites a need for more music, movies and games on the ==========> 02-09-24-BushPanelSaysMoreEngagingOnlineContentNeeded.txt========== More-Engaging Online Content Urged By JUBE SHIVER Jr. September 24 2002 WASHINGTON -- A White House panel studying ways to boost demand for high-speed Internet access is expected next week to encourage Hollywood and others to offer more online content. The report also will recommend that more workers use high-speed lines to telecommute from home. After intense lobbying by industry groups, the President's Council of ==========> 02-09-28-TPRC-Agenda2002.txt========== http://www.tprc.org/TPRC02/Agenda02.HTM Agenda 2002 Saturday, September 28, 2002 1:00pm - 7:00pm Registration Tutorials 2:00pm - 3:15 pm ==========> 02-10-08-TheGuardian-UKBroadbandUseTrebles.txt========== UK broadband use trebles since new year Owen Gibson Tuesday October 8, 2002 The Guardian The government's much vaunted plans to wire the nation came a step closer to reality today after the number of households taking broadband connections to the internet passed the 1 million barrier. Telecoms watchdog Oftel revealed that the number of broadband subscribers ==========> 02-10-08-WhiteHouseWeekly-PCASTReport-BroadbandGood.txt========== "PCAST Aims to Expand Offerings to Stir Broadband Growth" White House Weekly (10/08/02) Vol. 23, No. 40, P. 5; Nance, Scott The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) last week issued a draft of a report to be released later this month that argues that more pervasive broadband adoption will help rejuvenate the economy. The council said direct government intervention was not the best way, but that fostering several strategic areas would create demand. PCAST cited statistics that show that over 60 percent of the American populace uses e-government applications, and added that broadband-specific e-government services would ==========> 02-10-09-SJMerc-GovtShouldTakeSupportingRoleInPromotingBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/4235772. htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 07, 2002 Miguel Helft: Government should take supporting role in boosting broadband By Miguel Helft Few issues are more important to the tech industry than promoting broadband, or high-speed Internet access. Broadband growth could reignite demand for tech hardware, software and services and spark a new investment boom. It could ==========> 02-10-09-WSJ-BBAddsComplexityToPiracyFighting.txt========== "Broadband Adds Complications to Piracy Battle" Wall Street Journal Oct. 09, 2002 By Cris Prystay Kuala Lumpur -- Broadband technology is becoming the greatest threat to software and entertainment companies battling copyright piracy in Asia, industry executives say. Traditional copyright piracy continues to worsen in developing countries ==========> 02-10-11-Wired-AsiaBestsUSInBroadbandWithVDSL.txt========== Wired News Asia Bests U.S. in Broadband Race The broadband revolution is finally taking hold. But as asymmetric DSL emerges as the leading high-speed connection technology in North America, a newer -- much faster -- flavor of DSL is sweeping Asia. Very high data rate DSL, known as VDSL, was originally developed to carry ==========> 02-10-11-Wired-DigitalRadioApproved-WasSatelliteRadioAWaste.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,55706,00.html Was Satellite Radio a Big Waste? By Brad King 02:00 AM Oct. 11, 2002 PDT The Federal Communications Commission gave commercial radio stations the go-ahead to broadcast digital signals -- a move that could prematurely snuff satellite radio's short-burning flame. ==========> 02-10-17-TheGuardian-SouthKoreaBroadbandSuccess.txt========== Miracle workers In just five years, South Korea has shown the world what the broadband future looks like. Jack Schofield finds out how Thursday October 17, 2002 The Guardian Not many people would have bet on South Korea becoming the world's leading nation for broadband internet use, but it is. Comparisons with the UK are embarrassing. Some 67% of Korean households now have broadband: the UK figure is about 4%. What's more, their broadband is better than ours. ==========> 02-10-18-NZHerald-NewZealandCredibleBroadbandPlayers.txt========== The New Zealand Herald Few 'credible players' in broadband services market 18.10.2002 By ADAM GIFFORD The Wairarapa Smart Region Group has short-listed the Telecom-BCL consortium, UCC Technologies and Walker Wireless with Vodafone to provide high-speed internet broadband services in its region. The same three providers are on the shortlist for the Northland broadband ==========> 02-10-22-BBC-PeoplePowerPushesBroadbandFrontier.txt========== BBC Online People power pushes broadband frontier Oct. 22, 2002 BT celebrates the first success of its rural broadband registration scheme as residents in West Yorkshire learn they will be soon be getting ADSL. But the celebration could be short-lived as it emerged that rival Freeserve has lodged an official complaint with Oftel about BT's radical new internet service. ==========> 02-10-24-DCInternet-DOCBelievesCopyrightFightsSlowingBroadbandGrowth.txt========== http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1487631 Copyright Fights Slowing Broadband Growth By Roy Mark October 24, 2002 WASHINGTON -- Resolving the legal issues of digital content and rights management are integral to sparking broader consumer use of broadband, ==========> 02-10-25-SeattleTimes-FCCChairPressesForBroadband.txt========== Seattle Times Broadband believer: FCC's chair presses for big leap for U.S. high-speed Internet By Jim Landers The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON Michael Powell professes boundless faith in broadband. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission sees high-speed Internet access transforming modern civilization with the impact that gunpowder had on warfare centuries earlier. ==========> 02-10-28-InfoWeek-MoreBandwidthFromExistingCircuits.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021024S0039 Pump Up The Bandwidth Oct. 28, 2002 Optimization tools let businesses reduce network traffic and make better use of existing bandwidth. By Robin Gareiss T1 prices have plummeted to about a third of what they were at the turn of the century, less than two ==========> 02-10-29-NZHerald-NZBroadbandAppealNotObviousToAll.txt========== New Zealand Herald Broadband appeal not obvious to all 29.10.2002 By BRONWYN HOWELL* New Zealand is about to embark on a new phase of telecommunications investment. Successful tenderers for the provision of high-speed internet connections in Southland have been announced and decisions are imminent in Northland ==========> 02-10-29-PersonalTelco-WirelessCommunities-Listing.txt========== http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/WirelessCommunities Wireless Communities are popping up all over the world, here we maintain a list of all of the communities we've managed to find all over the world. If you know of another one please add it to the list. Note: This is a list of community wireless groups who are building free and open networks. If you are a commercial provider we wish you the best of luck but this is not the list for you. Thanks. -- Adam Shand ==========> 02-10-30-CNETNews-FCCsPowellUrgesAirwaveFlexibility.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1033-964017.html FCC ponders flexible use of airwaves By Reuters October 30, 2002, 9:37 PM PT The Federal Communications Commission is working to provide more flexibility for using the nation's existing commercial wireless airwaves as numerous new services proliferate, the agency's chief said Wednesday. ==========> 02-10-30-Reuters-FCCsPowellUrgesAirwaveFlexibility.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/4408321. htm Posted on Wed, Oct. 30, 2002 FCC head urges airwave changes By Jennifer Files Mercury News The nation's top communications regulator said Wednesday that he favors giving companies more flexibility to use the airwaves in providing telephone, ==========> 02-10-30-Unknown-ECFavorsBroadbandSubsidies.txt========== European Commission favours broadband subsidies 30/10/2002 Editor: Pablo Asbo As a part of the Eurescom summit 2002, which brought together representatives from government and industry to study the future for broadband in Europe, a representative of the European Commission defended the policy of subsidising the introduction of broadband infrastructure in certain areas. Andrew Houghton, representative of the Commission's DG Information Society, ==========> 02-10-30-USAToday-PowellTakesPathToFreeUpAirwaves.txt========== Powell takes path to free up airwaves By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY Oct. 30,2002 The nation's top communications regulator is expected today to fire the first salvo in a controversial plan to liberalize the use of the nation's increasingly scarce airwaves. That could free spectrum space for high-speed wireless Internet services and revive the telecommunications industry by jump-starting innovation. ==========> 02-10-30-WashPost-MDPlansBroadbandBackboneLaunch.txt========== Washington Post Md. Plans Broadband Backbone Launch By Michael P. Bruno washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Wednesday, October 30, 2002; 7:09 AM Maryland officials today will formally launch an Internet backbone network aimed at ensuring access to broadband service for every university, school, police department and any other public-sector organization in the state. ==========> 02-10-31-CableModemModifiersIndicted.txt========== http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=7311814146781&Avis=TO &Dato=20021031&Kategori=NEWS03&Lopenr=110310051&Ref=AR Article published October 31, 2002 Net service theft alleged 7 men indicted, computer equipment seized Seven men whose computers were seized based on accusations that they altered modems to increase high-speed Internet cable service were indicted yesterday by a Lucas County grand jury. ==========> 02-10-31-Reuters-WirelessNetworkIndustryEyesTighterSecurity.txt========== Reuters Wireless Network Industry Eyes Tighter Security Thu Oct 31, 1:07 AM ET By Sinead Carew and Eric Auchard NEW YORK (Reuters) - Short-range wireless computer networks whose endemic vulnerabilities to hackers have become an industry joke will receive a much needed security boost from new standards to be detailed by a trade group on Thursday. ==========> 02-10-31-SJMerc-FCCChairUrgesAirwaveChanges.txt========== Subject: Giving companies more flexibility to use the airwaves in providing telephone, Internet, television and other services. FCC head urges airwave changes By Jennifer Files Mercury News Oct. 31, 2002 The nation's top communications regulator said Wednesday that he favors giving companies more flexibility to use the airwaves in providing telephone, Internet, television and other services. ==========> 02-11-02-NYT-FCCToConsiderRelaxingMediaOwnshipshipRestrictions.txt========== New York Times Fewer Media Owners, More Media Choices By JIM RUTENBERG November 2, 2002 For decades, public interest advocates have successfully argued for stringent limits on the number of newspapers, radio stations and television outlets that a company can own. They have summoned images of Citizen Kane, or worse, Big Brother, warning ==========> 02-11-03-AOTC-ReviewOfBadTechLegislation.txt========== http://www.aotc.info/archives/000152.html#000152 American Open Technology Consortium Educating politics about technology November 03, 2002 The Worst Coders in Washington The best code in the world can be foiled by a single bug. One careless line of code can crash an entire program. ==========> 02-11-03-SJmerc-DG-TelecomStrategicIssues.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4434498.htm Posted on Sun, Nov. 03, 2002 Telecom strategy: Take it or leave it By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Sometimes you have to settle for what's available, not what's best, because otherwise you won't get anything at all. ==========> 02-11-03-SJMerc-TechFirmsPushLessRegulationOfBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4437490.htm Posted on Sun, Nov. 03, 2002 Tech firms push for less regulation of broadband By Heather Fleming Phillips Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - With the economy in the doldrums and the tech sector feeling the pain, Intel Chief Executive Craig Barrett has enough on his plate in Santa Clara without a messy regulatory battle in Washington. ==========> 02-11-04-SJMerc-ExFCCsKenardAssessesTelecomFuture.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4439615.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 04, 2002 Q&A: Ex-FCC chief Kennard assesses telecom's future By Joelle Tessler Mercury News As head of the Federal Communications Commission from November 1997 to January 2001, William Kennard played a key role in implementing the landmark 1996 Telecommunications Act, which opened the telecom industry to competition. ==========> 02-11-04-SJMerc-WiFiInternetFutures.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4 Posted on Mon, Nov. 04, 2002 Miguel Helft: Is Wi-Fi in your Internet future? By Miguel Helft Take a stroll through any major airport these days and you're bound to see them: the haggard business travelers hogging pay phones, laptops propped on a knee, frantically trying to download or send a few e-mails before boarding. ==========> 02-11-06-BTSignsBroadbandPactWithMS.txt========== BT Signs Broadband Pact with Microsoft By Braden Reddall Nov. 6, 2002 LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's dominant fixed-line telecoms operator BT Group Plc. said Wednesday it had signed a formal strategic alliance with U.S. software giant Microsoft to develop more high-speed Internet services. The alliance puts BT on an equal footing with Microsoft's other telecoms partners around the world, South Korea (news - web sites)'s KT Corp. in Asia and Verizon in the United States. ==========> 02-11-06-SJMerc-SKoreaInvestsInBroadband.txt========== Mercury News S.Korea to invest $10.9 billion in broadband networks Nov. 6, 2002 SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean telcos plan to invest 13.3 trillion won ($10.9 billion) in broadband networks by 2005, as a growing number of people gain access to high-speed Internet services, the Ministry of Information and Communication said on Wednesday. KT Corp, South Korea's largest telecoms company, and other Internet service ==========> 02-11-07-FCC-FCCTaskForceNewRegulatoryApproach.txt========== Subject: FCC Spectrum Policy Task Force Recommends New Regulatory Approach Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:33:52 -0500 From: Lillie Coney To: bob Ellis , Myles Losch http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-228242A1.pdf FCC Spectrum Policy Task Force Recommends New Regulatory Approach FCC Nov. 7, 2002 ==========> 02-11-07-FCC-SpectrumTaskForcePresenstsRecommnedations.txt========== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEWS MEDIA CONTACT November 7, 2002 Robin Pence (202) 418-0505 SPECTRUM POLICY TASK FORCE PRESENTS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SPECTRUM POLICY REFORM Washington, DC. -- The Federal Communications Commission's Spectrum Policy Task Force today presented recommendations to modernize the rules that guide how the nation's spectrum is managed and utilized ==========> 02-11-07-LATimes-ReviseSpectrumAssignments.txt========== Los Angeles Times In Search of Broad Technological Compatibility Regulators will look into ways of sharing airwaves to be used in many wireless devices. By Jube Shiver Jr. November 7 2002 WASHINGTON -- Cell phones, remote controls, wireless radios -- can't they all just get along? ==========> 02-11-07-NetworkDigest-FCCAllocatesAdvancedWirelessSpectrum.txt========== http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-228237A1.pdf FCC Allocates Spectrum for Advanced Wireless Services Network Digest Nov. 7, 2002 []The FCC acted to allocate an additional 90 MHz of spectrum in the 1710-1755 MHz and 2110-2155 MHz bands that can be used to provide new advanced wireless services, i.e. 3G or IMT-2000. Two contiguous 45 MHz bands could be used by current licensees to expand their wireless voice and ==========> 02-11-07-WashPost-WiFiHeadingForAirSupremcy.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20152-2002Nov6.html Wi-Fi, Heading for Air Supremacy By Leslie Walker Thursday, November 7, 2002; Page E01 You would not be crazy for thinking the "anytime, anywhere" vision of a wireless Internet had faded to "nowhere, never again" after the telecommunications industry meltdown. Who would throw good money after bad? ==========> 02-11-11-NYT-BabyBellsHopingFroReprieveOnOpenAccess.txt========== New York Times Baby Bells hoping for a reprieve Nov. 11, 2002 In the clubby world of Senate policy-making, a single senator in a critical position can effectively bring legislation to a standstill. Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina, largely accomplished just that in the costliest lobbying battle over the last year — one that may decide which companies will have an edge in the next ==========> 02-11-11-UnknownSource-BTToSellBroadbandReadyPCs.txt========== BT is to sell a range of PCs in its drive to increase take-up of fast internet access Staff and agencies Monday November 11, 2002 Telecoms group BT took aim at the £2 billion home computing market today with the launch of a range of "broadband-ready" PCs. The group is selling a package which allows people to buy a Windows PC, have it installed and receive back-up support for a monthly fee. All PCs ==========> 02-11-12-NewsFactor-UCSDDevelopsSolarPoweredMicrowaveNet-HPWREN.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19946.html New Tech Taps Solar Power To Deliver Broadband By Mike Martin NewsFactor Network November 12, 2002 Broad strokes of sunlight are bringing broadband to remote areas without electricity. University of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers have established solar-power stations that allow broadband microwave antennas to ==========> 02-11-12-NYT-NetworkedWorldsFinalFrontier-TheAirplane.txt========== New York Times A Networked World's Final Frontier: The Airplane By SUSAN STELLIN Nov. 12, 2002 On a recent flight from New York to Oakland, Calif., Madeline Duva worked her BlackBerry pager with the intensity of a pinball player, right up until the second of four announcements from the flight crew reminding passengers that all electronic devices must be turned off. ==========> 02-11-12-SJMerc-TelecomGiantsWageBattleOverNetworkSharing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4506681.htm Mercury News Telecom giants wage ad battle over network sharing By Joelle Tessler Nov. 12, 2002 The latest clash in the arcane, long-running battle over how to regulate the Baby Bell phone companies is being played out on television screens and in newspapers across the country. ==========> 02-11-15-EuropemeiaNet-EUConsidersWholesaleBroadbandPriceCuts.txt========== EU considers wholesale broadband price cuts 15/11/2002 Editor: Cathy O'Sullivan Europemeia.net A new EU proposal that will push national telcos to cut wholesale prices for DSL broadband internet access has been widely welcomed by European internet service providers. According to a Reuters report, the Commission also intends to request that national regulators give ISPs more access to telecom networks to open up ==========> 02-11-15-Wired-WiFiCryptoFix-WPA-NotPerfect.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56350,00.html Wi-Fi Encryption Fix Not Perfect By Elisa Batista 02:00 AM Nov. 15, 2002 PT The biggest security risk for "Wi-Fi" wireless Internet networks is that users sometimes fail to turn on their encryption software. But even the responsible ones who use the encryption program -- Wired ==========> 02-11-18-NYT-BroadbandUsersAndInnovatorsUrgeFCCToRequireOpenAccess.txt========== New York Times November 18, 2002 Change Urged in Broadband Policy By AMY HARMON A group of technology and media companies including Microsoft, Disney Yahoo and eBay plans to send a letter to the Federal Communications Commission today arguing that the open nature of the Internet will be lost unless the agency amends its broadband policy. ==========> 02-11-18-NYT-Markoff-BusinessesBetOnWirelessInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/technology/18WIFI.html "Businesses, Big and Small, Bet on Wireless Internet Access" New York Times (11/18/02) P. C1; Markoff, John Both large and small companies are investing in wireless Internet technologies such as Wi-Fi, which are being touted as the next major communications advance, promising anytime, anywhere high-speed Internet access. San-Francisco-based Vivato, for example, has a Wi-Fi antenna that more ==========> 02-11-20-DarwinMag-OpenTheRadioFrequencySpectrum.txt========== http://www.darwinmag.com/read/swiftkick/column.html?ArticleID=594 Open the Spectrum Aren’t you tired of being a society that sits on a couch, facing forward, listening to what people with money have to say? By David Weinberger Darwin Magazine November 20, 2002 — Recent pronouncements from Michael Powell of the FCC make it sound like we may actually move towards opening the spectrum. There's still ==========> 02-11-20-PMTechDaily-BroadbandUsersAndInnovatorsUrgeFCCToRequireOpenAccess.txt========== PM Tech Daily Broadband Group Urges FCC to Protect Consumer Freedom Nov. 20, 2002 []The Coalition of Broadband Users and Innovators, an industry group that includes Amazon.com, Apple, Disney, eBay, Microsoft, Yahoo! and others, published an open letter urging the FCC to protect broadband users' ability to communicate across the Internet without interference from service providers that own broadband networks. The Coalition is concerned that network operators will implement restrictions to block or impair access to ==========> 02-11-21-SenBoxer-BoxerAllenBillToIncreaseSpectrumForWirlessBroadband.txt========== http://boxer.senate.gov/newsroom/200211/20021121_tech.html Washington - Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and George Allen (R-VA) today announced they will introduce a bill in the next Congress (the 108th) to expand access to Internet broadband technology, which experts say will spur development in the telecommunications industry. Broadband increases the capacity of Internet connections, which means information can be transmitted much faster. The Boxer-Allen bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make more broadcast spectrum available for use by devices that incorporate new technology like Wireless Fidelity (also known as ==========> 02-11-21-SJMerc-VerizonToInstallWiFiNets.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4574657.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 21, 2002 Phone giant's embrace shows power of upstart wireless technology NEW YORK (AP) - In a sure sign that the upstart wireless Internet technology called WiFi is proving too powerful to ignore, Verizon Communications Inc. said Thursday that it will install such networks for small and medium-sized businesses. ==========> 02-11-21-Unknown-CoalitionCallsForBroadbandAccess.txt========== Broadband Letter On Internet Access Via Cable Networks Riles Senator by Teri Rucker Consumers have broad access to ample content on the Internet, so it is unnecessary for a group of companies to push the FCC, as it considers policy on high-speed Internet services, to ensure that unfettered access to information continues, said Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont. "It looks like a concerted effort from the government affairs offices to ==========> 02-11-21-USSenate-McCain'sCommerceCommAgenda.txt========== Broadband Letter On Internet Access Via Cable Networks Riles Senator by Teri Rucker Consumers have broad access to ample content on the Internet, so it is unnecessary for a group of companies to push the FCC, as it considers policy on high-speed Internet services, to ensure that unfettered access to information continues, said Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont. "It looks like a concerted effort from the government affairs offices to ==========> 02-11-22-SenBoxer-BoxerAllen-JumpstartBroadbandAct.txt========== Senators to Introduce Wireless Broadband Bill []Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and George Allen (R-VA) will introduce a bill in the next Congress (the 108th) aimed at accelerating the wireless broadband market. The proposed legislation would require the FCC to make more broadcast spectrum available for Wi-Fi and other such technologies. The Boxer-Allen bill would also require the FCC to develop guidelines for the expanded portion of the broadcast spectrum that will be used by these devices to avoid signal congestion and interference. ==========> 02-11-24-Wired-SWDefinedRadiosMaySparkSpectrumDereg.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56558,00.html New Gizmos May Spark Deregulation By Associated Press 12:52 PM Nov. 24, 2002 PT NEW YORK -- It almost sounds too "Star Trek" to be possible: A multipurpose cell phone that also serves as an FM radio, walkie-talkie, garage door opener and TV remote control. ==========> 02-11-27-UnknownSource-ObserversWeighFCCPanelIdeasOnSpectrumReform.txt========== Observers Weigh FCC Panel's Ideas For Spectrum Reform by Teri Rucker The FCC's Spectrum Policy Task Force thinks the time is right for a major reform of spectrum policy and has offered wide-ranging recommendations to overhaul the system. Initial reaction to the task force report is positive, but industry sources acknowledge that the process will not be easy and will take years to complete. "I think the report contains fascinating ideas, many of which would, if ==========> 02-12-01-Blankenhorn-CommentOnKrugmanOnInternetDereg.txt========== http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20021201.shtml#14444 An Easy Mistake to Make Dana Blankenhorn The FCC is planning on re-monopolizing the wired Internet. The agency will not only allow cable companies to keep competing ISPs off their lines, but extend this to the Bell companies. If BellSouth wants, for instance, it can force me to move my DSL service to them from Earthlink, or lose the wired access. ==========> 02-12-02-DigitalConsumer-McCainsCommerceCommAgenda.txt========== DigitalConsumer.org Two Issues: McCains Commerce Committee Agenda Fox Head OKs Consumer Copying As we wait for the beginning of the new year and the new Congressional session, there have been two interesting developments in the issue of digital rights worth highlighting. 1.) John McCain (R-AZ), who was recently named Senate Commerce Committee ==========> 02-12-05-SJMerc-ATT-IBM-Intel-PlanWiFiNetVenture.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4678144.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 05, 2002 Tech giants plan wireless Net venture By Therese Poletti Mercury News Tech giants AT&T, IBM and Intel, along with two investment firms, will form a company to provide high-speed wireless Internet access across the United States, one of the biggest and most ambitious ==========> 02-12-05-Weinberger-OpenSpectrumProvidesGreaterConnectedness.txt========== http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/framing_openspectrum.html Why Open Spectrum Matters The End of the Broadcast Nation David Weinberger [1] self@evident.com, www.evident.com Last updated: 12.5.02 The End of the Broadcast Nation ==========> 02-12-09-FCC-DataOnLocalPhomeCompetition.txt========== NEWS Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D. C. 20554 This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action. Release of the f ull text of a Commission order constitutes official action. See MCI v. FCC. 515 F 2d 385 (D.C. Circ 1974). News Media Information 202 / 418-0500 Internet: http://www.fcc.gov TTY: 1-888-835-5322 ==========> 02-12-09-SJMerc-BayAreaBroadbandAdoptionHigh.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4700196.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 09, 2002 Bay Area embraces high-speed Net access, poll finds By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News A new poll finds nearly three in 10 Bay Area households have a high-speed connection to the Internet, double the national average. ==========> 02-12-09-SJMerc-Krugman-MarketSuffersIfNetUnregulated.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4700012.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 09, 2002 Paul Krugman: Marketplace suffers if Net is unregulated By Paul Krugman Bad metaphors make bad policy. Everyone talks about the ``information highway.'' But in economic terms the telecommunications network resembles not a highway, but the railroad industry of the robber-baron era -- that is, before it faced ==========> 02-12-12-DCInternet-FCCSeeksMoreSpecrumForWireless.txt========== http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1556011 FCC Seeks More Spectrum for Wireless By Roy Mark December 12, 2002 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ==========> 02-12-12-Reuters-FCCConsidersAirwavesForWirelessDevices.txt========== Reuters 02-12-12 FCC Considers Airwaves for Wireless Devices WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) on Wednesday began the process of finding more wavelength space to accommodate the explosion of new wireless technologies. The agency sought comment on whether unlicensed devices, like wireless home ==========> 02-12-13-SJMerc-DirectTVToShutDownInternetService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4734875.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 13, 2002 Hughes to shut down high-speed Internet service NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hughes Electronics Corp. , the top U.S. satellite television operator, said Friday it would shut down its loss-making high-speed Internet business, three days after it and rival EchoStar Communications Corp. pulled the plug on their proposed $18 billion merger. ==========> 02-12-14-SJMerc-DG-SenBoxerPushesWirelessToJumpStartBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4738932.htm Posted on Sat, Dec. 14, 2002 Senator pushes wireless to jump-start broadband By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com): ==========> 02-12-15-GovtCompNews-ReportOnFedEmployeesUrgesGovtUseWireless.txt========== Report urges government to wade into wireless By Vandana Sinha GCN Staff Secure wireless devices have plenty of potential federal users, but first agencies must weigh their willingness to embrace the technology, according to a pair of professors who have surveyed more than 200 federal workers. "User technology readiness plays an important role in determining whether to go for immediate deployment of wireless/mobile technology and in ==========> 02-12-17-NYT-Markoff-DODSeeksLimitsOnWiFi.txt========== New York Times December 17, 2002 Limits Sought on Wireless Internet Access By JOHN MARKOFF SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 The Defense Department, arguing that an increasingly popular form of wireless Internet access could interfere with military radar, is seeking new limits on the technology, which is seen as a rare bright spot for the communications industry. ==========> 02-12-18-GovtCompNews-FCCSurveyFindsBroadbandUseOnRise.txt========== Government Computer News FCC survey finds broadband use on the rise By Lloyd Batzler The number of businesses and homes with high-speed connections to the Internet grew 27 percent in the first six months of the year, to 16.2 million lines, the Federal Communications Commission reports. In its semiannual survey of broadband services released Tuesday, the FCC found that 10.4 million of those lines provided "advanced services," ==========> 02-12-18-Salon-GNURadioFreeSoftwareProject.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/12/18/gnu_radio/index.html Radio Free Software Call them hackers of the last computing frontier: The GNU Radio coders believe that any device with a chip should be able to do, well, anything. By Sam Williams Dec. 18, 2002 | It's the vision that elicited a beatific smile from Alan Turing, a Bela Lugosi-like cackle from John von Neumann, and a cannabis-tinged giggle from 1970s-era PC creators: Imagine a universal ==========> 02-12-19-FedCompWeek-StatesBypassRuralInternetObstacles.txt========== States bypass rural Internet obstacles BY Dibya Sarkar Dec. 19, 2002 Federal Computer Week Although the number of Internet users in rural areas has been increasing steadily, barriers still hinder broadband deployment — namely high cost, low demand, a lack of awareness and infrastructure, and low return on investment. ==========> 02-12-20-ABCNews-StratosphericAirshipsCouldSupportWiFi.txt========== http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/CuttingEdge/cuttingedge021220.html New Heights for Wireless Net Access? High-Flying Blimps and Planes to Deliver Fast Web Everywhere By Paul Eng Dec. 20 The prototype Stratellite, seen here, reached an altitude of 10,000 feet. Developers say ==========> 02-12-20-NetAction-OurStakeInCyberspace.txt========== http://www.netaction.org/futures/scenarios.html Our Stake in Cyberspace The Future of the Internet and Communication As We Know It By Judi Clark NetAction Advisory Board Member Introduction The future is uncertain. A useful tool for looking into the uncertainty is a ==========> 02-12-26-SJMerc-ATTWirelessDelaysHighSpeedInternetService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4820694.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 26, 2002 AT&T Wireless to delay high-speed Internet service Bloomberg News AT&T Wireless Services will delay its high-speed Internet service and deliver it to fewer cities as demand from businesses slows. The company and Japanese partner NTT DoCoMo will start the ==========> 02-12-30-SJMerc-Editorial-Boxer-AllenWirelessBroadbandAccessBill.txt========== http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/4839127.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 30, 2002 Boxer on right track with broadband bill FOR much of this year, congressional debate over how to promote high-speed Internet access, or broadband, centered on the flawed Tauzin-Dingell bill, which would have hurt consumers by limiting competition and strengthening the powerful monopolies of the Baby Bells. The House caved in to the Bells' lobbyists and passed the bill, ==========> 02-12-31-CompWorld-WiFiSpectrumIssuesPitAntiterrorismAgainstCommercialGrowth.txt========== Computerworld Wi-Fi spectrum battle pits antiterrorism efforts against commercial growth By Bob Brewin DECEMBER 31, 2002 The U.S. Department of Defense has played the antiterrorist and rogue-state card in its attempts to restrict the use of wireless LANs, including those already operating in the lower portion of the 5-GHz band, according to engineers and analysts. ==========> 02-12-31-TechNews-TechPoliciesInThe107thCongress.txt========== Tech Policy Priorities Changed in Wake of Terrorist Attacks War on Terrorism Shifted Attention Away From Telecom, Copyright Issues By TechNews.com Staff Tuesday, December 31, 2002; 12:00 AM In the two years of the 107th Congress, the technology industry started out with a presence on Capitol Hill that was as strong as its high-flying stock performance. Broadband Internet access regulations, corporate tax breaks and fast-track trade authority for the president dominated the tech business agenda, while consumer concerns abounded -- from what constitutes ==========> 03-01-00-CACM-TelecommunicationsWillNotChangeTheWorldForAWhile.txt========== Staying connected: Hibernating during telecom winter Meg McGinity January 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 1 Somewhere along the way, hyperbole took over and exaggerations about telecom changing the world didn't live up to expectations. Wake me in about 15 months. ==========> 03-01-00-Money-HighResPhotosFavoriteBroadbandApp.txt========== What’s Hot for 2003 Tech Enthusiast Brian L. Clark Money, January 2003, p.111 [Deleted] Broadband Still puttering along the Web at 56Kbps (or less)? Then this is the year to go ==========> 03-01-01-CIOInsight-Internet2ProvidesMegaBandwidth.txt========== http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,3959,841026,00.asp January 1, 2003 Mega-Bandwidth Gets Real By Gary A. Bolles Advanced networking technologies are being used today in universities and R&D labs far from the average corporation. But they're making their way to your company. Are you ready? ==========> 03-01-03-WashPost-FCCPreparingToOverhaulTelecomAndMediaRules.txt========== FCC Preparing to Overhaul Telecom, Media Rules If All Proposals Are Enacted, Major Firms in Field Will Be Less Regulated and More Free to Expand By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 3, 2003; Page E01 Over the next few months, a single federal agency will begin to fundamentally alter the nation's communications and mass-media landscape, rewriting a broad swath of rules that affect the choices consumers have for ==========> 03-01-06-WSJ-FCCPlansToEaseCLECRule.txt========== http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10418076588657184,00.html FCC Plans to Erase Key Rule On Local Phone Competition By YOCHI J. DREAZEN and SHAWN YOUNG Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators are preparing to stop making local phone companies rent their networks to rivals at cheap rates, a move that could reduce competition and price-cutting in the local phone market. ==========> 03-01-07-WashPost-RulemakingShiftsAwayFromCongress.txt========== Washington Post Rulemaking Shifts Away From the Hill By Cindy Skrzycki Tuesday, January 7, 2003; Page E01 For business, it's like a "Home Alone" movie. There are no pesky Democratic committee chairmen in the new Congress to hold prying oversight hearings when the Bush administration decides to roll back Clinton-era rules. There is no Democrat in the White House with ==========> 03-01-08-KCStar-MOBillWouldKeepSBCFromOpeningDSLLines.txt========== http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/4894762.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 08, 2003 Missouri legislation would block regulation of SBC's high-speed network By SUZANNE KING The Kansas City Star Bills introduced this week in Jefferson City would keep state regulators from having any control over SBC Communications Inc.'s high-speed Internet network in Missouri. ==========> 03-01-08-LATimes-ProposedFCCRuleChangesBarStatesFromSettingCLECRates.txt========== Los Angeles Times Proposed FCC Phone Change Draws Protests Groups say dropping rules enabling Baby Bell rivals to rent local networks would stifle competition. By James S. Granelli January 8 2003 State utility regulators, consumer advocates and long-distance companies lined up Tuesday to charge that proposals to scuttle federal rules on leasing phone equipment would wipe out six years of efforts to foster ==========> 03-01-08-SJMerc-DG-BroadbandShouldBeTwoWay.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/ January 08, 2003 Defining Broadband in Only One Direction • posted by Dan Gillmor 09:04 AM Wall Street Journal: After Internet's Big Bust, Broadband Shift Went On. Much of the new content being developed for broadband users is premised on the unproved assumption that ==========> 03-01-08-ZDNet-WiFiIssues.txt========== http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2908065,00.html Wi-Fi: Still room for improvement By Sarah Kim January 8, 2003 Over the last three years, the 802.11b standard has emerged from its niche role in vertical markets. It is now the wireless local-area networking (WLAN) standard of ==========> 03-01-09-InternetWeek-Doctorow-MaliciousWiFiInternetAccessIsNonsense.txt========== http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20030109S0001 Expert: Alleged Wi-Fi Risks Are Nonsense By Mitch Wagner A popular technology Weblogger says warnings about the supposed security risks of Wi-Fi networking are nonsense. Law-enforcement officials and telecommunications ==========> 03-01-09-SJMerc-SonyExec-TVsWillBeCommunicationsHub.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4914877.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 09, 2003 Sony executive envisions reborn TV By Dean Takahashi Mercury News LAS VEGAS - Keynote speeches at the Consumer Electronics Show are as notable for what they don't say as what they do. In the case of Kunitake Ando, president and chief operating officer of Sony, ==========> 03-01-09-TheRegister-MSSPOT-UsingFMSubcarrierToConnectWatches.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28798.html MS bids for lucrative wristwatch, fridge magnet markets By John Lettice Posted: 09/01/2003 at 13:52 GMT Bill Gates yesterday announced the Microsoft watch, possibly causing a certain amount of look and feel inconvenience to one columnist friend of ours. But we're sure Mary-Jo will be filing the suit already, so we'll move on. ==========> 03-01-10-KCBizJournal-OK-DSLDeregBillBattle.txt========== http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2003/01/13/story4.html From the January 10, 2003 print edition Oklahoma shows ferocity of state DSL bill battles Charlie Anderson Staff Writer Wauneta Brown's face reddens, molding into a somber look. In what sounds like half apology and half "we blew it" guilt, the Kansas-based lobbyist for AT&T Corp. describes how her company took ==========> 03-01-10-PlanetCom-WiFiAndLaserForLastMile.txt========== http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article.php/1567961 Can Wi-Fi and Lasers Bridge the Last-Mile Gap? By Ed Sutherland January 10, 2003 In the 1800s Alexander Graham Bell toyed with the concept of using light to relay communications. Although the ==========> 03-01-10-TopekaCapJournal-KansasBroadbandDeregBill.txt========== http://www.cjonline.com/stories/011003/bus_cable.shtml The broadband battle Competitors want to keep access to SBC's high-speed Internet network By Chris Moon The Capital-Journal Days before the start of the 2003 legislative session, lobbyists for the state's Internet providers are ==========> 03-01-13-EBOnline-BarriersToWiFiAdoptionByBusiness.txt========== http://www.ebnonline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=5700163 Wi-Fi stands guard Companies selling gear based on the 802.11 Wireless LAN standard say network security concerns are being addressed and will lead to faster adoption of Wi-Fi technology this year by enterprise users. Darrell Dunn EBN (01/13/2003 10:00 AM EST) ==========> 03-01-13-FedCompWeek-WiFiProtectedAccess-WPA-BetterThanWEP.txt========== Federal Computer Week Gearing up for wireless security By Brian Robinson Jan. 13, 2003 If wireless users can endure one more round of debates about security standards, they may soon be able to buy actual products. It's no secret that built-in security functions lack current wireless local-area network products, a situation due largely to the inadequacy of ==========> 03-01-14-SFChron-Boxer-AllenIntroduceWiFiBasedJumpstartBroadbandAct.txt========== San Francisco Gate Boxer pushes bill to boost broadband access January 14, 2003 Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau Washington -- California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer teamed up Tuesday with Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen on a proposal the two say will offer a quick and cheap way to spur high-speed broadband communications, which nearly everyone in Washington agrees is vital to rescuing the moribund high-tech industry. ==========> 03-01-14-SJMerc-CompaniesToWorkOnSeamlessCell-InternetInterface.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4945623.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 14, 2003 Tech companies to collaborate on wireless approach CHICAGO (Reuters) - A seamless wireless communications network -- one that would allow users of cell phones to stay constantly connected on different communications networks -- could become a reality under an agreement announced by three companies Tuesday. ==========> 03-01-15-DCInternet-Boxer-AllenIntroJumpstartBroadbandBill.txt========== http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1569921 January 15, 2003 Senators Introduce Wireless Broadband Bill By Roy Mark Senators George Allen (R.-Va.) and Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.) introduced legislation Tuesday night to promote a wireless approach to broadband deployment. Known as the Jumpstart Broadband Act, the bill calls for the Federal Communications ==========> 03-01-15-WashPost-SenatorsAndFCCCommObjectToDeregPlan.txt========== Washinton Post Deregulation Plans Assailed Senators Question Agenda of FCC's Chairman By Christopher Stern Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 15, 2003; Page E05 Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael K. Powell's deregulatory agenda received a cool reception from a Senate committee yesterday, as several members questioned his plans to rewrite telephone regulations and ==========> 03-01-16-AP-PowerLineBroadbandAlmostReady.txt========== Associated Press Feds: Power Lines Promising for Internet January 16, 2003 By DAVID HO, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The same power lines that bring electricity to televisions and toasters may become the next pathway into homes for high-speed Internet access, federal officials said Wednesday. They said the technology offers an alternative to cable and telephone lines ==========> 03-01-16-SJMerc-DigitalRadioBringsRevolution.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4959790.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 16, 2003 Digital technology brings a radio revolution By Sam Diaz Mercury News The radio signal that comes out of the AM and FM dials is undergoing a major overhaul, one that will not only bring FM-quality sound to the AM side and CD-quality sound to FM programming but also will open the ==========> 03-01-16-ZDNet-ACLUStudy-SurveillanceDevicesMultiply.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-980964.html ACLU: Surveillance devices multiply By Lisa M. Bowman Special to ZDNet News January 16, 2003, 10:57 AM PT When it comes to snooping on Americans, Big Brother has a lot more gadgets at his disposal. ==========> 03-01-18-ACMUbiquity-CommPolicyAndInfoTech-Cranor-Greenstein.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book/l_cranor_1.html Communications Policy and Information Technology Edited by Lorrie Faith Cranor and Shane Greenstein Policy analysis involves tempering enthusiasm with a sobering dose of reality. As Langston Winner writes, it is not until "after the bulldozer has rolled over us" that we "pick ourselves up and carefully measure the tread marks." [1]That is, a technologist's forecast may not be scrutinized until well after a new technology has been deployed. To ==========> 03-01-19-Weinberger-OpenSpectrumFAQs.txt========== http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/OpenSpectrumFAQ.html Open Spectrum FAQ version 1.0 1.19.03 1) This sounds like a pretty geeky, technical topic. Why should I care? Imagine that every American had the same access to the public airways as broadcasters ==========> 03-01-20-GreatDemo-OpenSpectrum-BandwidthForEverybody.txt========== http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/OpenSpectrumFAQ.html Open Spectrum - FAQ version 1.1.1 [History] 1.20.03 1. This sounds like a pretty geeky, technical topic. Why should I care? Imagine that every American had the same access to the public airways as broadcasters do today. ==========> 03-01-21-AP-LobbyistsPayForBushDOCOfficialsParty.txt========== Lobbyists Paid for Bush Official's Party Tue Jan 21, 1:47 AM ET By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Just days before going to bat for the wireless industry, the Bush administration's top policy expert on telecommunications, Nancy Victory, allowed wireless phone company lobbyists to help pay for a private reception at her home. Three lobbyists from Cingular Wireless, SBC Telecommunications and Motorola ==========> 03-01-23-WashPost-EvDO-CellExtenision10XWiFiInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30446-2003Jan22.html A New Wireless Web Link Phone Firms Testing High-Speed Technology Called EvDO By Christopher Stern Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 23, 2003; Page E01 WHIPPANY, N.J. ==========> 03-01-24-Thomas-BroadbandBills108thCongress.txt========== http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:s.00160:>S. Abundance Of Early Broadband Bills By the end of the month, Sen. John (Jay) Rockefeller, D-W.Va., plans to reintroduce legislation that would provide a 10 percent to 20 percent tax credit for investments in broadband infrastructure in rural and underserved areas. Rep. Phil English, R-Pa., offered a similar bill, H.R. 267, earlier this month. ==========> 03-01-25-WashPost-FCCsPowellPLanWouldReduceBroadbandLineSharing.txt========== Washington Post FCC Chief's Plan Would Ease Line-Sharing Rules By Jonathan Krim Saturday, January 25, 2003; Page E01 The nation's big regional telephone companies would be able to provide ultra-fast Internet and video services over new fiber-optic lines without having to lease those lines to competitors, under a draft plan circulated by the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. ==========> 03-01-26-SJMefc-DG-QualcommHasCatbirdSeatInCDMA.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5034841.htm Posted on Sun, Jan. 26, 2003 Dan Gillmor: Qualcomm enjoying its perch in the wireless catbird seat By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist If Irwin Jacobs is looking just a bit smug these days, he has a reason. To put it mildly, the co-founder and chief executive of Qualcomm is on a roll. ==========> 03-01-27-AP-StatesRoleStillAQuestionInTelecomReform.txt========== Associated Press States' Role Still a Question in Telecom Reform Mon Jan 27, 6:30 PM ET By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators considering a sweeping reform of telephone competition rules could be stymied by state efforts to preserve a role overseeing their local markets, several sources close to the negotiations said on Monday. ==========> 03-01-28-CEA-AsksFCCForMoreUnlicensedSpectrum.txt========== http://www.ce.org/press_room/press_release_detail.asp?id=10156 FOR RELEASE Contacts: Jeff Joseph tel: 703 907-7664 email: jjoseph@ce.org Jenny Miller tel: 703 907 7079 email: jmiller@ce.org Unlicensed Spectrum and Mandated Receiver Standards are Focus of CEA Response to FCC Spectrum Report Arlington, Virginia 1/28/2003 ==========> 03-01-28-SJMerc-DG-FCCGoofsOnSpectrumAuctionBankruptcy.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000760.shtml#000760 January 28, 2003 NextWave's Victory, FCC's Goof and America's Loss • posted by Dan Gillmor 05:53 AM • permanent link to this item Washington Post: FCC Loses Auction Appeal. The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Federal Communications Commission violated federal law when it ==========> 03-01-28-UnknownSource-RecordNumbersInUKSwithchToBroadband.txt========== Record numbers switch to broadband Staff and agencies Tuesday January 28, 2003 Record numbers of UK households and businesses are signing up for broadband internet services, telecoms regulator Oftel has announced. Almost 30,000 subscribers a week are switching to broadband, taking the total number in the UK to more than 1.4 million, latest industry figures ==========> 03-01-29-SJMerc-DirecTVEndingBroadbandService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5061847.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 29, 2003 DirecTV ending broadband service By Michael Liedtke Associated Press With DirecTV Broadband poised to dismantle its high-speed Internet service, consumers are losing one of the last alternatives to the increasingly dominant telephone and cable giants. ==========> 03-01-29-USDA-GrantsAvailableForRuralBroadband.txt========== http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2003/01/0028.htm NEWS RELEASE Release No. 0028.03 Alisa Harrison (202) 720-4623 Taylor Oldroyd (202) 720-1019 VENEMAN LAUNCHES $1.4 BILLION PROGRAM TO EXPAND TELECOMMUNICATION AND BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY IN RURAL AMERICA ==========> 03-01-30-CommDesign-IEEE-ApprovesWiMaxWirelessMetroAreaNetStd.txt========== http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20030130S0055 IEEE 802.16 spec could disrupt wireless landscape By Loring Wirbel and Patrick Mannion EE Times January 30, 2003 (7:06 p.m. EST) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The IEEE Standards Authority on Wednesday (Jan. 29) approved the 802.16a specification for wireless metropolitan-area ==========> 03-01-30-NewsFactor-IssuePutVoiceOverInternetOnHold.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20615.html NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Why Voice over IP Is on Hold By Vincent Ryan NewsFactor Network January 30, 2003 Slow adoption of devices that allow users to place calls over the open Internet is due partly to ==========> 03-01-30-SJMerc-MSUsesFMRadioForPersonalInternetDevices-SPOT.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5065044.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 30, 2003 Seeing SPOTs: Microsoft uses FM in new generation of gadgets By Dean Takahashi Mercury News When Microsoft researchers wanted to know how to bring the Internet to everyday devices like the wristwatch, they turned to the sleepy technology of ==========> 03-01-30-ZDNet-WiFiProducts-StandardsVersionsIssue.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-982861.html Wi-Fi woes on the horizon? By Richard Shim Special to ZDNet News January 31, 2003, 4:37 AM PT The makers of wireless-networking gear aren't known for their patience. When 802.11b first burst on the scene, offering a quick and workable wireless ==========> 03-01-31-CNETNews-DOD-TechFirmsReachWiFiSpectrumCompromise.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1033-982962.html Defense Dept., firms reach Wi-Fi pact By Richard Shim Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 31, 2003, 3:27 PM PT Tech companies and the Department of Defense have reached a compromise on the future of wireless networking, addressing military concerns about radar interference. ==========> 03-01-31-UCSD-InfrastructuresOfDigitalDesignConference.txt========== http://infrastructures.ucsd.edu/ The Infrastructures of Digital Design: Thinking/Building/Living Call for Participation / Confirmed Speakers / Tentative Schedule / Sponsors / Call for Participation / The Infrastructures of Digital Design: Thinking/Building/Living University of California, San Diego Friday, January 31st – Sunday, February 2nd, 2003 ==========> 03-02-00-CACM-UnderstandingTheScoiotechnicalAspectsOfInternetGrowth.txt========== Anticipating internet diffusion Amitava Dutta, Rahul Roy February 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 2 Understanding the sociotechnical aspects of Internet growth helps anticipate Internet diffusion, even in countries with vastly different socioeconomic conditions and telecommunication infrastructures. The Internet has meant new opportunities for communication and coordination ==========> 03-02-00-IEEEUSA-RecomendsEthernetForBroadbandAccess.txt========== http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/broadband.html Accelerating Advanced Broadband Deployment in the U.S. Approved by the IEEE-USA Board of Directors (Feb. 2003) The world today widely recognizes that rapidly deploying broadband telecommunications networks offers the potential to enhance a country's national productivity, homeland security and international competitiveness. Yet, compared to ==========> 03-02-03-UWBPlanet-CoaltitionMalesPlayForMultiband.txt========== http://www.ultrawidebandplanet.com/technology/article/0,,10850_1578071,00.html Coalition Makes Play For Multiband By Vikki Lipset Published February 3, 2003 At an otherwise uneventful Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) wireless standards meeting in Florida last month, a group of key ultrawideband developers (UWB) held ==========> 03-02-05-FedCompWeek-FCC-NTIA-AgreementOnSpectrumAllocationAidsWiFi.txt========== Federal Computer Week Agreement to spark more Wi-Fi BY Dan Caterinicchia Feb. 5, 2003 The Federal Communications Commission and the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) last week signed a memorandum of understanding on spectrum coordination. The agreement enables the wireless industry to produce more Wi-Fi products, ==========> 03-02-05-HillNews-CongressCommUnveilTechPriorities.txt========== http://www.hillnews.com/news/020503/priorities.aspx House and Senate committees unveil high-tech priorities By Jeff Dufour As the 108th Congress picks up steam, the House and Senate committees responsible for telecommunications and technology issues have revealed their top priorities for the coming year. "We will have an ambitious telecom agenda" this year, said Ken Johnson, ==========> 03-02-05-SJMerc-FCCToEasePhoneCompetitionRules.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4882809.htm Posted on Sun, Jan. 05, 2003 Report: FCC to drop key phone competition rule NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are preparing to stop making local phone companies rent their networks to rivals at cheap rates, a move that could reduce competition and price-cutting in the local phone market, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. ==========> 03-02-06-NYT-WiFiToBeUsedInRuralFrance.txt========== New York Times February 6, 2003 Wi-Fi as Savior? France's Farm Dwellers Hope So By KRISTEN HINMAN PARIS NEAR Sillé-le-Guillaume, a rural patch of western France, Ginette Sybille moves some 8,000 fowls, 150 swine and 120 head of cattle on and off her 395-acre farm each year. She conducts most of her business with slaughterhouses in the region, but each time an animal changes hands, Mrs. Sybille has to register the transaction online with the government. ==========> 03-02-07-WashPost-BellsPromiseMoreBandwidth-LessRegulation.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38106-2003Feb6?language=printer Copper Lines Regaining Luster With the Obstacles to Fiber, Phone Companies Are Tapping the Old Infrastructure By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 7, 2003; Page E01 For years, replacing the nation's copper telephone wires with fiber-optic cable has offered a promise of digital heaven: quick ==========> 03-02-10-SJMerc-ContentOwnersNotProvidingMaterialToCableVideoOnDemand.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5147312.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 10, 2003 Video on demand presents chicken-and-egg dilemma NEW YORK (AP) - Fed up with driving to the video store in the cold of winter, Beverly Boyarsky thought she had found the perfect solution: video on demand. For about $80 a month, the Huntington Station, N.Y., woman could order ==========> 03-02-10-SJMerc-FCCChiefPowellShapesDigitalFuture.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5147341.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 10, 2003 At FCC, gadget-freak Powell shapes digital future By Heather Fleming Phillips Mercury News Washington Bureau Michael Powell is an unabashed gadget freak who owns three cell phones, three personal digital assistants, five personal computers, six ==========> 03-02-10-SJMerc-OptimismAboutBroadbandOverPowerLines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5147314.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 10, 2003 Optimism surges about broadband over power lines ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Coming to a home or office near you could be an electric Internet: high-speed Web access via ubiquitous power lines, of all things, making every electrical outlet an always-on Web connection. If it sounds shocking, consider this: St. Louis-based Ameren Corp. and ==========> 03-02-13-Wired-PhysicistsSetInternetSpeedRecord.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57625,00.html Data Flood Feeds Need for Speed By Katie 02:00 AM Feb. 13, 2003 PT Scientists can break records just like athletes, but new speed and data-transfer milestones in high-performance computing may prove to be more than just fodder for the record books. ==========> 03-02-17-FoxNews-108thCongressPreparesTechAgenda.txt========== http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78729,00.html Congress Preps Tech Agenda Monday, February 17, 2003 By Liza Porteus WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers continue to pursue their high-tech agendas, having introduced about 20 tech-related bills in the first week of the new Congress alone and seeking dozens of new rules on piracy, privacy and security, among other issues. ==========> 03-02-18-SJMerc-SBCCustomerHasLongWaitForDSL.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5206301.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 18, 2003 Mike Cassidy: High-speed access, low-speed delivery By Mike Cassidy Mercury News The raucous cheer coming from the Evergreen neighborhood is the sound of the Buck family emerging from the digital darkness. ==========> 03-02-20-CNETNews-FCCKeepsSharingForPOTSButNotBroadband.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1033-985313.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed FCC loosens broadband rules By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 20, 2003, 2:26 PM PT The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday backed away from a sweeping overhaul of the telecommunications industry, but new rules for broadband Internet services could raise prices and lead to a new generation of ==========> 03-02-20-SJMerc-FCCKeepsSharingForPOTSButNotBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5228457.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 20, 2003 FCC ruling is split decision for telecom rivals By Heather Fleming Phillips and Joelle Tessler Mercury News The Federal Communications Commission refused Thursday to free the local phone companies from requirements to share their lines but eased up on regulation of new networks for high-speed Internet access -- a ==========> 03-02-20-SJMerc-FCCToVoteOnNetworkSharingRule.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5221744.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 20, 2003 FCC votes today on new telecom rules By Heather Fleming Phillips and Joelle Tessler Mercury News WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote today on a controversial plan to revise regulations requiring the Baby Bell local phone companies to share their networks with rivals. The vote ==========> 03-02-20-SJMerc-FCCVotesToAllowStatesToRegulatePOTS.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5224826.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 20, 2003 FCC gives states authority over telephone competition rules WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators agreed Thursday to let states decide whether to spur competition between the regional Bell phone companies and their rivals, in a move that drew sharp criticism from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell. ==========> 03-02-20-WashPost-FCCToVoteToForcePhonePOTSNetworkSharing.txt========== Washington Post Divided FCC Set To Force 'Bells' To Keep Sharing Powell Opposing States' Phone Role By Christopher Stern and Jonathan Krim Thursday, February 20, 2003; Page E01 The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote today to uphold a strong role for states to regulate local telephone service, sources said yesterday, a system that has led to recent price wars between the major regional phone giants and their rivals. ==========> 03-02-21-KaneCountyChron-Comcast-SBCRunMisleadingPollOnMunicipalBroadband.txt========== http://www.kcchronicle.com/today/KCC/news/277077950009971.html Ran in the Kane County Chronicle on Fri, Feb 21, 2003 Broadband survey 'a lie' By DAN CHANZIT Kane County Chronicle GENEVA —Comcast and SBC lied to residents and misrepresented themselves in recent telephone surveys that asked about broadband services, Tri-Cities officials charged Thursday. ==========> 03-02-21-SJMerc-DG-FCCKeepsSharingForPOTSButNotBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5231643.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 21, 2003 Dan Gillmor: FCC ruling is a blow to the competitive marketplace By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist In his rare, fierce dissent from a pivotal telecommunications ruling Thursday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell wrote, ``What is remarkable about today's decision is that one ==========> 03-02-21-WashPost-DG-FCCKeepsSharingForPOTSButNotBroadband.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37942-2003Feb20.html FCC Delivers Mixed Vote on Competition Phone Giants Prevail On High-Speed Internet By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 21, 2003; Page A01 A deeply divided Federal Communications Commission voted yesterday to preserve regulations that govern local ==========> 03-02-24-NYT-TechFirmsCheerFCCBroadbandRuling.txt========== New York Times February 24, 2003 Broadband Companies Cheer Ruling By SIMON ROMERO and MATT RICHTEL The decision by the Federal Communications Commission last week to retain many of the rules that govern local telecommunications markets but to exempt high-speed Internet services has given some Silicon Valley companies reason to cheer. ==========> 03-02-25-SJMerc-WiFiHotspotsCouldLeadToHacking.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5258369.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 25, 2003 Warchalking hype raises wireless-security consciousness By Chris Cobbs Orlando Sentinel During the Great Depression, hobos drew symbols on sidewalks and buildings to let one another know where to find free food. ==========> 03-03-01-EInsite-WiFiRivalsEmerge.txt========== http://www.e-insite.net/eb-mag/index.asp?layout=article&articleId=CA279293 Wireless rivals emerge Low-cost wireless alternatives are aiming for uses in industrial automation, gaming and PC peripherals Russ Arensman -- , 3/1/2003 The long-awaited Bluetooth era is finally dawning, giving consumers an easy way to wirelessly connect their PCs, phones, personal organizers and other tools. An estimated 35 million Bluetooth chips were shipped in 2002, ==========> 03-03-01-Stanford-SpectrumPolicyConference.txt========== Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons? Stanford Law School March 1-2, 2003 Sponsored by: Thomas Hazlett, the Manhattan Institute, and Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society The purpose of the conference will be to discuss the very live policy ==========> 03-03-01-StanfordUniv-SpectrumPolicyConference.txt========== Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons? Stanford Law School March 1-2, 2003 Sponsored by: Thomas Hazlett, the Manhattan Institute, and Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society Full conference details and registration at: ==========> 03-03-03-NYT-BerkeleyStanfordConfsExploreDRMAndSpectrumAllocation.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/technology/03COPY.html?ex=1047712964&ei=1&en=0 d1fa869f270760f Pondering Value of Copyright vs. Innovation March 3, 2003 By AMY HARMON BERKELEY, Calif., March 2 - Technology scholars, business leaders and policy makers gathered at California conferences this weekend to argue whether a mismatch ==========> 03-03-03-SJMerc-DG-StanfordSpectrumPolicyConf-OpenOrOwned.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000823.shtml#000823 March 01, 2003 The Airwaves: Open or Owned • posted by Dan Gillmor 07:30 AM Heading this morning to what promises to be a remarkable gathering at Stanford Law School -- a daylong conference called Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons?. ==========> 03-03-03-SJMerc-FixedWirelessMayProvideMoreBroadbandAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5304676.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 03, 2003 Wireless broadband waits in the wings NEW YORK (AP) - When organizers of the Daytona 500 wanted to provide turbo-charged Internet access for the press box, race officials made a traditional choice -- they called the local phone company, BellSouth Corp. ==========> 03-03-03-WCA-WirelessCommAssocFightsForMembersSpectrumRights.txt========== http://www.wcai.com/ Wireless Communications Association International WCA 2003: To Speak - To Exhibit WIRELESS HOT TOPICS WCA Fights For Members’ MDS Spectrum Rights WCA made a hard-hitting filing on Monday to protect ==========> 03-03-03-Wired-FreeSpaceOpticsProvideHighBandwidthButWithSomeProblems.txt========== Wired News Beaming Video at Speed of Light 02:00 AM Mar. 03, 2003 PT HAMILTON, New Zealand -- On the large television screen, a Kiwi singer strummed a guitar and sang an old country favorite. Looking away from the monitor, the audience could barely pick out a tiny red light in the tall building 1.4 kilometers -- a little less than a mile -- away. It was this light that brought the singer's performance to the 100 or so in ==========> 03-03-09-SFChron-SBCChiefRipsFCCOnNetworkSharing.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/09/BU9 7178.DTL&type=business SBC chief has strong opinions Whitacre fighting FCC regulations Todd Wallack, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, March 9, 2003 Ed Whitacre is Texan through and through. ==========> 03-03-09-SJMerc-DG-FixedWirelessMayOfferBroadbandCompetition.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5352348.htm Posted on Sun, Mar. 09, 2003 Dan Gillmor: Broadband competition might still be possible By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist When anyone asks how to find innovation in technology today, I answer, ``Look where you don't find monopoly control or crushing regulation.'' One such place is in wireless communications, specifically in the ==========> 03-03-11-CNETNews-UltraWidebandMayBeBluetoothSuccessor.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1039-992071.html Military's 'sneaky wave' out of hiding By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 11, 2003, 12:54 PM PT Intel, Sony and others are meeting to decide which of a slew of proposals submitted by wireless-networking companies will become a new standard to rival Bluetooth--and a military technology once known as the "sneaky wave" is making ==========> 03-03-11-SJMerc-DG-McDonald'sWiFiInstallation-UnstoppableTrend.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1039-992071.html Military's 'sneaky wave' out of hiding By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 11, 2003, 12:54 PM PT Intel, Sony and others are meeting to decide which of a slew of proposals submitted by wireless-networking companies will become a new standard to rival Bluetooth--and a military technology once known as the "sneaky wave" is making ==========> 03-03-11-SJMerc-McDaonald'sToOfferWiFiIn3Cities.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1039-992071.html Military's 'sneaky wave' out of hiding By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 11, 2003, 12:54 PM PT Intel, Sony and others are meeting to decide which of a slew of proposals submitted by wireless-networking companies will become a new standard to rival Bluetooth--and a military technology once known as the "sneaky wave" is making ==========> 03-03-13-SJMerc-WiFiAllianceToCertifyAndPublicizeAccessAreas.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/industries/wireless/5382 635.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 13, 2003 Alliance to certify, publicize public wireless access zones HANOVER, Germany (AP) - Public wireless networks are sprouting daily in hotels, cafes and airports. But which network is available where -- and will a given laptop be able to log on? ==========> 03-03-14-CIOInsight-Lessig-FCCMayMakeRFSpectrumACommons.txt========== http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,3959,932624,00.asp March 14, 2003 Spectrum for All By Lawrence Lessig Why sell wireless spectrum to the highest bidder? Maybe the FCC should offer it up for free, columnist Lawrence Lessig suggests, redefining it as a form of public property—with minimum regulations. ==========> 03-03-14-LATimes-CalifPUCOrdersVerizonToLowerRatesForRivals.txt========== LA Times? Verizon Ordered to Cut Rates for Rivals PUC says the firm must slash wholesale prices as much as 60% for use of its local phone network. By James S. Granelli Times Staff Writer March 14, 2003 California regulators on Thursday slashed prices that competitors must pay ==========> 03-03-15-WSJ-TelcosFallBehindInBroadband.txt========== http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB104752093996620000,00.html?mod=home%5Fpage%5F one%5Fus Wall Street Journal Broadband Bells Fall Behind In High-Speed Internet Market The regional Bell telephone companies are losing the market for high-speed Internet access to cable companies, which have sought to provide new consumer services to protect their business model from satellite ==========> 03-03-17-SJMerc-AOLDialUpCustomersGoElsewhereForBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5411873.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 17, 2003 AOL efforts to woo broadband customers off to a mixed start NEW YORK (AP) - Ben Yrungaray grew up on America Online. But when he decided to upgrade to high-speed Internet service, he went elsewhere. ``AT&T Broadband had all the features that I needed and it was less ==========> 03-03-17-SJMerc-DG-FCCsPowellSaysLittleAtWirelessShow.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000864.shtml#000864 March 17, 2003 FCC Head Says Little at Wireless Show • posted by Dan Gillmor 10:56 AM In a city where joyful excess is standard, the mood today is somber. Everyone expects America will be at war in a day or two, and that tends to put parochial concerns in their ==========> 03-03-17-SJMerc-P2P-PornExposesWorkplaceToLiability.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5413422.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 17, 2003 Online file-sharing networks bring porn into workplaces By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Child pornography and other sexually explicit videos and images are the most sought-after content on online file-swapping networks, surpassing even the brisk unauthorized ==========> 03-03-19-SJMerc-DG-NewPhonesHaveVideoAudioPDAWiFiFeatures.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5428339.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 19, 2003 Dan Gillmor: Newest phones show promise of wireless By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com): ==========> 03-03-19-SJMerc-VerizonPlansAggressiveDSLIncrease.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5431750.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 19, 2003 Verizon begins 'aggressive' DSL rollout Associated Press NEW YORK - Verizon Communications Inc., the No. 1 local phone company in the country, announced plans Wednesday to launch an aggressive rollout of digital subscriber lines service, or DSL. ==========> 03-03-20-EInsite-WiFiWillHaveBigFuture.txt========== http://www.e-insite.net/commvergemag/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA282632 &pubdate=3%2F20%2F2003 Wave propagation Is 802.11's growth just getting started? Matthew Miller, Special Projects Editor -- , 3/20/2003 Three years ago, IEEE 802.11b was an obscure technical standard. Mentioning it elicited little more than blank stares. Since then, Wi-Fi has become not only a powerful force in the electronics industry but also a ==========> 03-03-20-SJMerc-VonageNetPhoneServiceNotReliable.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5438790.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 20, 2003 Net phone service not reliable enough By Mike Langberg Mercury News I really want to like Vonage, a fast-growing company that provides Inexpensive phone calls through a high-speed home Internet connection, but I can't. ==========> 03-03-24-NYT-ImagesOfIraqWarBoostBroadband.txt========== "War Images Give New Purpose to High-Speed Web" New York Times (03/24/03) P. C1; Kirkpatrick, David D. Broadband Internet usage is getting a big boost from war coverage, just as the CNN cable news network did during the first Persian Gulf war in 1991. Online news organizations such as Yahoo!, AOL, CNN.com, ABCNews.com, and RealNetworks have assembled online montages of live video feeds, interactive maps and displays, and other streamed multimedia. Many of the ==========> 03-03-25-NewsFactor-WPAWillNotMakeWiFiSecure.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21081.html NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Are Wireless Networks Secure Yet? By Vincent Ryan NewsFactor Network March 25, 2003 Once vendors and standard-setters solve the encryption and authentication ==========> 03-03-26-FedCompWeek-HomelandEmergencyResponseOpsAct-ForceTVToReleaseSpectrum.txt========== Federal Computer Week Bill would close spectrum loophole BY Dibya Sarkar March 26, 2003 Two congressional lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to ensure that TV broadcasters transfer a 24 MHz piece of spectrum to public safety officials by 2006, a move supported by first responders. The Homeland Emergency Response Operations (HERO) Act, co-sponsored by Reps. ==========> 03-03-26-Reuters-ConsumerGroupsSeekProbeOfCableTyingPrices.txt========== Reuters Internet Report Consumer Groups Seek Probe of Cable Tying Prices Wed Mar 26, 7:29 PM ET By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer groups on Wednesday charged that cable companies were gouging customers who only subscribe to high-speed Internet service but not cable television, and asked antitrust enforcers to investigate. ==========> 03-03-28-TheRegister-MoreUKSitesChosenForPowerlineInternetDemo.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/29669.html Scots BB over power lines trial goes commercial By Tim Richardson Posted: 10/03/2003 at 11:35 GMT Scottish Hydro-Electric (SH-E) is to begin full-scale commercial trials in the summer of a broadband service provided directly over electricity power lines. Stonehaven in Scotland has been named as one location taking part in the trial. ==========> 03-03-28-TheRegister-UKSitesChosenForPowerlineInternetDemo.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/29992.html Winchester chosen for BB Powerline trial By Tim Richardson Posted: 28/03/2003 at 11:22 GMT Winchester has been selected for full-scale commercial trials in the summer of a broadband service provided directly over electricity power lines. Earlier this month Scottish Hydro-Electric (SH-E) named Stonehaven in ==========> 03-04-03-SJMerc-ComcastBundlesBroadbandAndCableTV.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5552432.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 03, 2003 Comcast increases Internet rates unless customers get cable MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Rem Calvin didn't complain when Comcast took over AT&T Broadband and raised his monthly high-speed Internet bill in November from $38 to $43. ==========> 03-04-04-SeattlePI-WiFiAttractsVC-HowMuchIsReasonable.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/115775_vc04.shtml Friday, April 4, 2003 Venture Capital: Is there too much wow over Wi-Fi? By JOHN COOK SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Wireless fidelity. Those two simple words hold much of the promise for the high-tech industry in 2003. ==========> 03-04-04-SJMerc-McDonaldsWiFiHasFewUsers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5558701.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 04, 2003 McDonald's adds WiFi to menu, but there's little appetite By Maureen Fan Mercury News New York Bureau NEW YORK - Ten McDonald's restaurants in Manhattan are offering customers WiFi with their fries in a three-month experiment that will expand to several hundred restaurants by the end of the ==========> 03-04-07-CNETNews-CellPhonesNeedImprovment-BetterThanWiFi.txt========== http://news.com.com/2008-1082-995667.html Disconnects on Wi-Fi and cell phones By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 7, 2003, 4:00 AM PT Newsmakers Martin Cooper doesn't get any special treatment from carriers just because he invented the now ubiquitous cell phone three decades ago. Even his Motorola V-60 from Verizon Wireless cuts off callers in midsentence, he said. ==========> 03-04-07-NYT-WiFiAndCellPhones.txt========== "Untethering From Clunky PC Box, Silicon Valley Hikes Wireless Frontier" New York Times (04/07/03) P. C1; Lohr, Steve Computer industry insiders see the center of gravity shifting from the PC to wireless platforms and say the mobile industry today resembles the nascent PC market almost 30 years ago. Still, although money and expertise is now moving to the wireless frontier, experts predict that fewer than 10% of the more than 450 million cell phones sold globally will be so-called "smart phones" that incorporate both voice and data functions, including games, email, and other Internet applications. Meanwhile, the shape of the future mobile market is far ==========> 03-04-08-ComputerWorld-WiMAXForumMembersPlanMANs.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0408wirelvendo.html Wireless vendors plan cheap, high-speed MANs By Bob Brewin Computerworld, 04/08/03 Major chip and wireless equipment manufacturers Tuesday announced plans to back development of standards-based wireless metropolitan-area network (MAN) products that can provide 70M bit/sec of broadband data over a ==========> 03-04-08-WiMAXForum-ExpandsToPromote802.16WithIEEE.txt========== http://www.wimaxforum.org/news/announcement.asp?id=8 Group Expanded to Promote New Wireless Broadband Technology Standard WiMAX to test and certify IEEE* 802.16 wireless network equipment Representatives from WiMAX will be available via conference call to answer questions today at 10 a.m. PDT. Call info: 888.482.0024 (U.S.) or 617.801.9702 (international) and the passcode will be 6395816. The call will be available for replay until April 13 at ==========> 03-04-08-WiMAXForum-Website.txt========== http://www.wimaxforum.org/ Broadband Wireless World 04.09.2003 WCA 2003: Capitalizing Your Connections ==========> 03-04-09-SJMerc-FCCsPowelExcitedAboutPowerlineInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5596999.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 09, 2003 Power Lines Can Deliver Internet Access DAVID HO Associated Press POTOMAC, Md. - The walls in a one-story brick home in suburban Washington don't talk but their power outlets do. ==========> 03-04-10-ComputerWorld-Security-BusinessModelsInhibitWiFiAvailability.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/handhelds/story/0,10801,80223,0 0.html After three years of Wi-Fi, hurdles remain By Tom Krazit, IDG News Service APRIL 10, 2003 The widespread adoption of the wireless Internet will change the way PCs, handhelds and Web sites are sold and will alter how computer users live, work and play, if the ==========> 03-04-10-NYT-Markoff-PowerlineNetworkingDemoPlanned.txt========== New York Times April 10, 2003 Internet via the Power Grid: New Interest in Obvious Idea By JOHN MARKOFF and MATT RICHTEL AN FRANCISCO, April 9 As cable, telephone and wireless companies compete to provide high-speed Internet access to homes, a new challenger is emerging based on a decidedly old technology. The idea is to send Internet data over ordinary electric power lines. ==========> 03-04-14-BostonGlobe-WirlessHomeNetworkingGettingFaster.txt========== http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/104/business/Quest_for_power_speed_drive_the_lates t_technologies+.shtml Quest for power, speed drive the latest technologies By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Columnist, 4/14/2003 Despite all the wonderful things copper wires have done for humankind over the past century, we seem remarkably eager to be rid of them. About half of all Americans now have cellphones. People marveled when Starbucks coffee shops began offering customers WiFi wireless Internet access; now McDonald's is ==========> 03-04-14-BostonGlobe-WirlessHomeNetworkingGrowing.txt========== http://boston.com/business/tech_innovation/news/2003/04/14/chord.htm Boston Globe TECH & INNOVATION Cutting the cord A growing number of multiple-PC households seeking to pool Internet connectivity is driving a dramatic growth in wireless home networking By John Dodge, Globe Correspondent, 4/14/2003 ==========> 03-04-14-Forbes-EnhancedWiFiThreatens3GCellService.txt========== http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=32622361 Wider-Fi 14 Apr 2003, 12:00am ET A little-known standard called Wi-Fi turned into the hottest technology of the year and shook the wireless industry to its core. Now its successors hope to leave Wi-Fi in the dust. That sound you hear, that incessant tapping on laptops at the corner cafe, the ==========> 03-04-14-WirelessNewsFactor-HomeWirelessNetworkingToGrow.txt========== http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/21264.html Home Networking Poised for Takeoff By Jay Wrolstad Wireless NewsFactor April 14, 2003 At the end of 2002, the market of consumers with the necessary infrastructure for home networking expanded, says the Yankee Group's Dominic Ainscough, with 15 ==========> 03-04-16-SJMerc-SBCSeeksChanges-WouldRaiseCostsForISPs.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5645962.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 16, 2003 Yale Braunstein: SBC seeks changes that would raise Net access prices California regulators are poised to make dramatic changes to the way phone companies charge for carrying Internet traffic around this state -- a change that, if enacted, would ultimately mean higher prices and less choice for Web users in California. ==========> 03-04-17-USAToday-WiFiGivesDevelopingNationsInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/iraq/2003-04-16-wifi_x.htm Posted 4/17/2003 8:28 AM Wi-Fi could let Iraq skip steps to leap into broadband By Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — When Iraq is rebuilt, an emerging wireless Internet technology may let it avoid the broadband woes that have plagued the USA for years. ==========> 03-04-18-PCWorld-FCC-TAC-WhyBroadbandAdoptionLow.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110340,00.asp What's Holding Broadband Back? High costs, lack of content, government regulations blamed. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Friday, April 18, 2003 WASHINGTON -- A group of technology executives and academics meeting at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission blamed a variety of factors for a slow rate of broadband adoption in the U.S., including the cost of laying new fiber, ==========> 03-04-21-SJMerc-FCCPlansStricterRulesOnE-RateNetAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5680997.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 21, 2003 FCC plans stricter rules on 'e-rate' Net-access program By Jube Shiver Jr. Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to tighten rules for the third time on a program that provides Subsidized Internet access to schools and libraries, but has been ==========> 03-04-23-DCInternet-FCCResearchesPowerLineBroadband.txt========== http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2195621 April 23, 2003 Broadband Over Power Lines: FCC Plugs In By Roy Mark WASHINGTON -- Calling it a historic moment, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously voted Wednesday to begin researching the use of existing electrical power lines to provide Internet and broadband services to homes and offices. ==========> 03-04-23-MobileCommerceW-InFlightWiFiDemoASuccess.txt========== http://www.mobilecommerceworld.com/Tmpl/article.asp?CID=1&AID=19591&TCode=NW&T1= 30/4/2003 In-flight Wi-Fi trial a success 23/04/2003 Lufthansa and Boeing have announced that based on passenger usage and response, the three-month in-flight Internet connectivity service demonstration has been a resounding success. ==========> 03-04-28-EETimes-HighSpeed480MbsUSB-Issues.txt========== Suppliers spar as fast USB nears By Anthony Cataldo EE Times April 28, 2003 (5:28 p.m. ET) SAN FRANCISCO — Just as systems and chip companies prepare to cut the umbilical cord that ties USB devices to the PC, a high-speed version of the connectivity standard is taking shape in systems that could appear before year's end. Running at 480 Mbits/second, this USB offshoot promises to speed the flow of data for peripherals and handheld systems with video or mass-storage ==========> 03-04-28-USAToday-CompaniesWorkTowardsWiFi-CellPhoneIntegration.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030428/5107863s.htm Companies work to link Wi-Fi, cellphones Truly integrated devices mightbe a year away By Michelle Kessler USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO -- In an attempt to make the wireless Internet easier to find, technology companies are linking Wi-Fi and cellphone technologies. ==========> 03-04-29-WIred-NHBillWouldLegalizeAccessToOpenWirelessNets.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,58651,00.html Licensed to War Drive in N.H. By Brian McWilliams 02:00 AM Apr. 29, 2003 PT DURHAM, New Hampshire -- A land where white pines easily outnumber wireless computer users, New Hampshire may seem an unlikely haven for the free networking movement. ==========> 03-05-00-ACMQueue-802DOT11StandardsMoveWirelessIntoNewTerritory.txt========== Features: The Family Dynamics of 802.11 May 2003 Queue, Volume 1 Issue 3 The 802.11 family of standards is helping to move wireless LANs into promising new territory. Three trends are driving the rapid growth of wireless LAN (WLAN): The increased use of laptops and personal digital assistants (PDAs); rapid advances in WLAN data rates (from 2 megabits per second to 108 Mbps in the past four years); and ==========> 03-05-00-CACM-WirelessNetworkingSecurity-WhyWiFiWantsToBeFree.txt========== Wireless networking security: Why Wi-Fi wants to be free Terry Schmidt, Anthony Townsend May 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 5 As the telecommunications industry wavers, a global grassroots movement is building the next-generation wireless network. While wireless carriers around the world have battled through the telecom bust, a grassroots movement has quietly deployed no-cost open wireless hotspots in ==========> 03-05-01-USAToday-VerizonLowersBroadbandPrice.txt========== USA Today Verizon rate cut could launch broadband price war NEW YORK (Reuters) A move by Verizon Communication to cut the price of its high-speed Internet services could be the opening shot in a price war in which cable and telephone companies are forced to sacrifice profits to lure customers who want faster Web connections. Verizon Monday began offering high-speed Internet services for $34.95, about $10 cheaper than its previous rate. However, it was unclear if rival ==========> 03-05-05-IHT-PartnershipPlansParisWiFiNet.txt========== http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=952 33 Copyright © 2002 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com Paris, the wireless wonder? Lee Dembart/IHT IHT Monday, May 5, 2003 In the cards: Unplugged Net surfing all over town ==========> 03-05-07-ZDNet-WiFiFuturesAndUltraWideband.txt========== http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000048620,20274285,00.h tm Beyond Wi-Fi: the future of wireless networks By Ben King, Special to ZDNet 07 May 2003 COMMENTARY--Few technologies are greeted with the seemingly unconditional love that's been heaped on Wi-Fi. Such is the relief that this wireless aspirin has ==========> 03-05-08-WirelessNewsFactor-WiFiSecurityImprovements.txt========== http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/21471.html Report: New Battle for WLAN Security By Jay Wrolstad Wireless NewsFactor May 8, 2003 The IEEE standards-setting organization is hard at work on a more comprehensive solution. That appears to be 802.11i, a more robust security technology standard that will be ==========> 03-05-11-Wired-WiFiRevolutionAndThePlayers.txt========== http://wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/unwired/wifirevolution.html The Wi-Fi Revolution The wireless Internet has arrived -- and now the sky's the limit. By Chris Anderson We stand at the brink of a transformation. It is a moment that echoes the birth of the Internet in the mid-'70s, when the radical pioneers of computer networking - machines talking to each other! - hijacked the ==========> 03-05-12-Fortune-WiFiInternetAccessBusinessIssues.txt========== http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,446885,00.html The Really, Really Messy Wi-Fi Revolution Silicon Valley needs wireless Internet to boom. But bringing it to the masses ain't easy. FORTUNE Monday, April 28, 2003 By Matthew Boyle It was a pristine morning last August in San ==========> 03-05-13-PCWorld-NewOrgToDevelopWirelessSecurityStandards.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110714,00.asp Setting a Standard for Wireless Security Two industry groups team up to make going mobile more secure. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Tuesday, May 13, 2003 Two groups that already have worked closely together on developing wireless security standards have decided to formally join forces. By mid-June, the PAM Forum, a ==========> 03-05-13-SJMerc-VerizonOffersNetCustomersFreeWiFi-InNYC.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5852092.htm Posted on Tue, May. 13, 2003 Verizon wireless Internet plan could spur rivals NEW YORK (AP) - A service launched Tuesday by Verizon Communications Inc. that gives its Internet customers free wireless access in New York could accelerate the industry's plans for the burgeoning technology. Verizon executives, offering details of a service announced last week, ==========> 03-05-14-SmallTimes-Xerox-MEMSChipTech-ForLastMile.txt========== http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=6000 XEROX RUNS THIS UP THE (TELEPHONE) POLE: MEMS FOR MAGICAL 'LAST MILE' By Jeff Karoub Small Times Staff Writer May 14, 2003 – On-demand digital video and Internet delivered rapidly and cheaply to your home or business could be made possible by a ==========> 03-05-15-NYT-FCCAllowsTradingSpectrumLicenses.txt========== "U.S. Moves to Allow Trading of Radio Spectrum Licenses" New York Times (05/15/03) P. A1; Labaton, Stephen The FCC has changed a 40-year rule to allow radio spectrum owners to lease or trade access, a move that will boost the wireless communications market and foster more efficient use of the radio spectrum. Instead of having to own the license themselves, wireless carriers and other companies that want ==========> 03-05-16-InternetNews-UltraWidebandGainsMomentum.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/2208231 May 16, 2003 Ultra Wideband: Gaining Momentum By Roy Mark While most regulatory decisions made by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) often take years to be felt in the consumer market, an FCC ruling made just 15 months ago may well result in new wireless electronic products parked under this year's Christmas tree. The most likely items ==========> 03-05-16-WAVEReport-FCC-BroadbandPowerLineRules.txt========== http://www.wave-report.com/tutorials/bpl.htm Broadband Power Line Tutorial By James Stenger Broadband power line (BPL) is the term coined by the FCC for new modems (BPL modems) used to deliver IP-based broadband services on electric power lines. On April 23, 2003, the FCC adopted a Notice of Inquiry (NOI), expressing enthusiasm about the potential of the BPL technology to enable electric power lines to function as a third wire into the home, and create competition with ==========> 03-05-18-Reuters-WiFiAccessBusinessModelElusive.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2765041 WiFi Business Model Proves Elusive in Hype Deluge Sun May 18, 2003 03:28 PM ET By Bernhard Warner and Braden Reddall LONDON (Reuters) - Whether it be broadband Internet access, 3G mobile phones or flat screen monitors, the high-tech industry has turned hyping new technologies into high art. Cashing in is another matter entirely. ==========> 03-05-20-ISPPlanet-CompaniesPareDownUltrawidebandProposals.txt========== http://isp-planet.com/fixed_wireless/news/2003/uwb_030520.html Companies Pare Down UWB Proposals The task group charged with defining a new ultrawideband standard was back in Dallas last week for another round of proposals as the ultrawideband industry struggles to agree on a multimedia standard. by Vikki Lipset Managing Editor of Ultrawidebandplanet.com [May 20, 2003] ==========> 03-05-20-NewScientist-GPSDataCouldStopWirelessAttack.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993747 "GPS Data Could Stop Wireless Network Attacks" New Scientist (05/20/03); Knight, Will Carnegie Mellon University's Yi-Chin Hu and Adrian Perrig, along with Rice University's David Johnson, furnished a report presented at the 12th World Wide Web conference detailing a new wireless network security threat and ==========> 03-05-22-SJMerc-ProvidingWiFiHotspots-Issues.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5921979.htm Posted on Thu, May. 22, 2003 Ringing in WiFi in Half Moon Bay By Jon Fortt Mercury News The wireless Internet is racing down Main Street in Half Moon Bay, a quaint town better known for its pristine coastline than for technology. But you'd never know by looking. ==========> 03-05-22-WashPost-BroadbandAdoptionRateSlowing.txt========== Broadband's Spread Slowing Most Web Users Still Rely on Cheaper Dial-Up Connections By Yuki Noguchi Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 22, 2003; Page E05 Americans at home and in small businesses hooked up to high-speed Internet access at a rapid rate over the last four years, but most users for now are sticking with slower dial-up connections, according to a trade association study to be released today. ==========> 03-05-27-SJMerc-SprintImplementingPacketSwitchin.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5952744.htm?template=contentModul es/printstory.jsp Posted on Tue, May. 27, 2003 Sprint begins replacing phone network with packet technology KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Sprint Corp. announced Tuesday that it has begun transforming its telephone network so voice calls are transmitted in ``packets'' -- the same way data moves over the Internet. The move is designed to lead to a wide range of improved services for consumers, ==========> 03-05-30-SJMerc-PhoneCompaniesAgreeOnFiberStandards.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5977141.htm Posted on Fri, May. 30, 2003 Phone giants announce standards for faster Internet deployment NEW YORK (AP) - The nation's three biggest regional phone companies announced an agreement Thursday to standardize the construction of residential fiber-optic networks, in hopes of getting ultra-fast Internet connections to homes more quickly and less expensively. ==========> 03-06-00-CACM-ReducingCostsInVirtualPrivateNetworksVPNs.txt========== Networks new economical virtual private Walid Ben-Ameur, Hervé Kerivin June 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 6 The idea is to reduce costs without undermining quality of service. Telecommunication operators can use our newly developed telecommunication design methodology to account for the uncertainty of traffic among corporate sites and develop economical virtual private networks (VPNs) for their ==========> 03-06-00-IEEESpectrum-SurveyOfWirelessBroadbandAccess.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jun03/bb.html WIRELESS Broadband A Go-Go In city after city, high-speed wireless access may be the next Internet revolution By Steven M. Cherry I've got a Dell laptop on my knees and the wind is in my (very short) hair. I've got as many ==========> 03-06-00-SensorMag-ZigBeeStandardForSensorData.txt========== http://sensorsmag.com/articles/0603/14/pf_main.shtml June 2003 Intelligent Systems WIRELESS NETWORKING Meet the ZigBee Standard Many in the industry are calling for a wireless networking standard that can deliver device-level communications for sensing, data acquisition, and control ==========> 03-06-08-Reuters-NTTDevelopsNewFiberOpticTechnology.txt========== http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=2895948 Sun June 8, 2003 10:50 PM ET TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp said on Monday it had developed technology that drastically raises optic-fibre communication speeds for homes and offices. The new technology will increase communication speeds tenfold to one gigabyte per second, from around 100 megabytes per second for optic-fibre ==========> 03-06-09-NYT-TechLobbiesForBroadbandTaxRelief.txt========== New York Times June 9, 2003 The Man Pushing America to Get on the Internet Faster By MATT RICHTEL SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 3 The United States, where the Internet was invented, now falls behind Japan, Korea and Canada in deploying high-speed Internet access in homes and businesses. But advocates for quicker transfer of e-mail, Web site content and music files, take note: Peter K. Pitsch is on the case. ==========> 03-06-10-USAToday-TribesGetFedGrantToDeployBroadband.txt========== USA Today Federal grants give tribes on-ramp to broadband COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) American Indians in rural areas across America will get some help surfing the Web, thanks to the federal government. A $20 million grant announced Monday for high-speed connections to the Internet includes $8.2 million for Indian tribes. The Coeur d'Alene tribe will get $2.7 million, the largest single amount. ==========> 03-06-11-Hellman-MooresLawShouldApplyToCommSystems.txt========== http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/opinion/moore.html Moore’s Law and Communications Martin E. Hellman Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Last Revised: 11 June 2003 In 1965, Gordon Moore of Intel postulated what is now known as Moore’s Law, that the computing power of IC’s ==========> 03-06-13-CNETNews-UTwente-CampusWideWiFi.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-1017988.html?tag=fd_top School launches herculean hot spot By Rupert Goodwins Special to CNET News.com June 17, 2003, 5:38 AM PT The University of Twente in the Netherlands has launched a unique, campuswide wireless hot spot, claimed to be the biggest in Europe. ==========> 03-06-18-SecFocus-Bluetooth1.2RaisesSecurityIssues.txt========== http://www.securityfocus.org/news/5896 Security Researchers Nibble at Bluetooth By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Jun 18 2003 8:59AM On Tuesday the organization responsible for the Bluetooth wireless standard unveiled version 1.2 of its official spec at the Bluetooth World Congress in Amsterdam. But for real evidence that that the technology is finally gaining acceptance turn to the conference ==========> 03-06-19-DetNews-RepConyers-GovtStayOutOfBroadband.txt========== Detroit News U.S. shouldn't meddle in running Internet economy Technology titans' coalition wants the government to put its competitors at a disadvantage: Washington should adopt a hands-off policy on the issue, saying no to special interests By Rep. John Conyers Jr. / Special to The Detroit News One of the wonderful things about public life is the regular occurrence of irony. The successful ascendancy of congressional Republicans in 1995 helped reassure President Bill Clinton's re-election in 1996. Democrats -- who ==========> 03-06-19-NYT-LocationTracingWiFiRaisesIssues.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/technology/circuits/19next.html "Where Is Everybody? The Wireless Network Might Know" New York Times (06/19/03) P. E5; Austen, Ian Researchers are enhancing wireless networks to not only track computer users' whereabouts, but adapt the computers to better serve users according to their situation--in other words, making them context-aware, according to ==========> 03-06-19-SJMerc-DG-CableAndPhoneNoGoodAsISPs.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001104.shtml#001104 June 19, 2003 When Telecom Monopolists Assert Their Law • posted by Dan Gillmor 12:40 AM • permanent link to this item Salon: Salon.com Technology | When spam filters go bad. Trying to block junk mail, my cable modem company installed a system that prevented me from getting my ==========> 03-06-27-SJMerc-PaloAltoSchoolsWiFiNetworkOpen.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6184495.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 27, 2003 Reporter accesses student info through district's open wireless network PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - School administrators in the heart of Silicon Valley learned a recent lesson about the insecurity of wireless Internet networks. Armed only with a laptop and a wireless connection card, a reporter for the Palo Alto Weekly succeeded last week in accessing the Palo Alto Unified School ==========> 03-06-30-BosGlobe-WiFiHotspots-BubbleWaitingToBurst.txt========== http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/181/business/_Hotspots_cold_feet+.shtml 'Hotspots,' cold feet Some analysts wonder whether WiFi craze is a bubble waiting to burst By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff, 6/30/2003 For a battered telecommunications industry aching for something to get excited about, the high-speed wireless Internet access service known as WiFi may be generating more growth projections and venture capitalist exuberance than anything else on the landscape. But some analysts and investors are now ==========> 03-06-30-BostonGlobe-WiFiAccessBusinessIssues.txt========== http://boston.com/business/tech_innovation/news/2003/06/30/hotspots.htm 'Hotspots,' cold feet Some analysts wonder whether WiFi craze is a bubble waiting to burst By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff, 6/30/2003 For a battered telecommunications industry aching for something to get excited about, the high-speed wireless Internet access service known as WiFi may be generating more growth projections and venture capitalist exuberance than anything else on the landscape. ==========> 03-06-30-WirelessNewsFact-XGTech-SharingWirelessSpectrum.txt========== http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/21828.html Wireless NewsFactor® Real Time Wireless News from Around the World New Tech Feeds Spectrum Debate By Christian Bourge June 30, 2003 XG is seen as having particularly strong applications for wireless broadband use. Although technologies such as Wi-Fi have enabled wireless access to the ==========> 03-07-01-SJMerc-StudyFindsBroadbandSurgingInJapan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6210258.htm Posted on Tue, Jul. 01, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Study finds broadband use surging in Japan TOKYO (AP) - Japan's broadband use has grown rapidly over the last year as Internet proliferation nears half of the nation's households, according to a report released Tuesday. Of the households with Internet access, 39 percent have the faster broadband ==========> 03-07-01-TechWorld-WiFiHotspotBusinessIssuesInhibitGrowth.txt========== http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&NewsID=230 01 July 2003 Wi-fi hotspots set to grow But Europe still lagging behind the US By Stephen Lawson, IDG news service The number of wireless LAN (WLAN) hot spots worldwide will more than double by 2005, but the services are unlikely to reach "critical mass" until three to five years from now, according to a Gartner analyst. ==========> 03-07-01-TheReg-EconomicsCantJustifyWiFiDeployment.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/31494.html More hotspots must be deployed: Gartner By electricnews.net Posted: 01/07/2003 at 08:38 GMT New research says that public hotspots, by and large, are not profitable, but they can boost profits in other segments of a retail business. According to Gartner vice president Ken Dulaney, the building of Wi-Fi hotspots ==========> 03-07-06-USAToday-ConsumerVoiceOverIPArrives.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-06-netphone_x.htm Posted 7/6/2003 10:49 PM Calling via Internet has suddenly arrived By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY Mark Jaffe of St. Louis recently threw caution to the wind and ditched his trusty SBC Communications local phone service in favor of an offering from an Internet phone start-up called Vonage. ==========> 03-07-06-WashPost-LawsuitThreatsFailToStopDownloaders.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7359-2003Jul3.html?nav=hptoc_tn File Swappers to RIAA: Download This! Sunday, July 6, 2003; Page F07 The Recording Industry Association of America's announcement on June 25 that it will start tracking down and suing users of file-sharing programs has yet to spook people, say developers of these applications. "Forget about it, dude -- even genocidal litigation can't stop file sharers," ==========> 03-07-09-SFChron-MacDonaldsToOfferBayAreaWiFiAccess.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/09/BU8 9228.DTL&type=business McDonald's plugs patrons into wireless Internet Analysts doubt Golden Arches will see profit Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, July 9, 2003 ©2003 San Francisco Chronicle Would you like Internet access with those french fries? ==========> 03-07-09-SJMerc-DG-HundtOffersUniversalBroadbandPlan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6263548.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 09, 2003 Former FCC chairman's plan: broadband in every home By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com): HUNDT-ING BROADBAND: A former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission ==========> 03-07-09-SJMerc-MacDonaldsToOfferBayAreaWiFiAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6263550.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 09, 2003 McDonald's starts WiFi access in Bay Area 55 LOCATIONS OFFER SERVICE By Matt Marshall Mercury News McDonald's became the first fast-food chain Tuesday to offer high-speed wireless Internet in the Bay Area, another sign that the wireless technology is ==========> 03-07-10-SJMerc-ATTPlans2000WiFiAccessPoints.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6268451.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 10, 2003 AT&T to offer Wi-Fi at 2,000 locations BY DON STANCAVISH Bloomberg News AT&T Corp., the biggest U.S. long-distance phone company, plans to offer wireless Internet access in more than 2,000 locations in the fourth quarter using software from GRIC Communications Inc. GRIC shares surged 58 percent. ==========> 03-07-10-WashPost-BringingBroadbandToRuralAmreica.txt========== Washington Post Bringing Broadband To Rural America By Yuki Noguchi Thursday, July 10, 2003; Page E05 Kelly Shaw is trying to create a high-tech community amid the gently rolling hills of tobacco fields and furniture plants in the patch of southern Virginia where he grew up. About a year ago, Shaw started Pure Internet Inc., a South Boston, Va., firm ==========> 03-07-14-NYT-Markoff-Intel-WiFiWillEndure.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/14/technology/14WIFI.html Led by Intel, True Believers in Wi-Fi Say It Will Endure New York Times (07/14/03) P. C1; Markoff, John Despite the popular notion that Wi-Fi is ruined as a business opportunity, some media and technology leaders gathered by investment banker Herbert Allen seem to think otherwise. Among the business luminaries were Intel's Craig R. Barrett and Andrew S. Grove, who have made Wi-Fi a central platform for their company's mobile computing business after earlier promoting a standard called Home RF. ==========> 03-07-21-CNETNews-Intel-LinksysToImproveWiFi.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5050726.html Intel, Linksys partner to improve Wi-Fi By Richard Shim Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 21, 2003, 3:29 PM PT Intel and Linksys announced a partnership aimed at making it easier for consumers to use wireless networking technology, as the two companies look to gain a stronger foothold in the emerging market. ==========> 03-07-21-USHouse-TeleComSubcommittee-HearingsOnBroadbandRegulation-2.txt========== Committee Hearing The House Committee on Energy and Commerce W.J. "Billy" Tauzin, Chairman The Regulatory Status of Broadband Services: Information Services, Common Carriage, or Something in Between? Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet July 21, 2003 3:00 PM 2123 Rayburn House Office Building ==========> 03-07-21-USHouse-TeleComSubcommittee-HearingsOnBroadbandRegulation.txt========== http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_house_hearings&doc id=f:89000.wais [108th Congress House Hearings] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access] [DOCID: f:89000.wais] THE REGULATORY STATUS OF BROADBAND SERVICES: INFORMATION SERVICES, ==========> 03-07-22-InetNews-CompaniesPushForLowPowerUWB.txt========== # "Group Pushes UWB for Low-Power Networks" InternetNews.com (07/22/03); Lipset, Vikki Consumer electronics firms and wireless networking companies are pushing for a special ZigBee, or 802.15.4 standard that would enable location applications with a new alternative physical layer (PHY). Applications would be able to locate a single tagged product in a warehouse, or scan an entire pallet of tagged items instead of each one individually. IEEE 802.15.4a Interest Group chair Larry Taylor says IEEE rules require technical requirements and applications to be defined before official specification can start, but that ==========> 03-07-22-TheReg-Intel-LinksysChallengeWiFiAlliance.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/31866.html Cisco and Intel: the alliance the wireless world should fear By Guy Kewney, Newswireless.net Posted: 22/07/2003 at 08:56 GMT The announcement says "Intel and Linksys." But you have to remember that these days, Linksys is owned by Cisco. Together these two giants, Intel and Cisco, are setting up their own little rival to the WiFi Alliance. Well, not so little, maybe... ==========> 03-07-22-ZDNet-UltraWidebandIssues.txt========== http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t479-s2137942,00.html Rupert Goodwins Previous Story: Why I want a Pentium Mac Next Story: The comeback of the mobile Internet Wireless raises the final standard 12:05 Tuesday 22nd July 2003 Rupert Goodwins: The strangest wireless system has become more mainstream, but may still be the last thing you need ==========> 03-07-24-APT-TestifiesBroadbandNeedsNewRegulatoryFramework.txt========== From: Matthew Bennett Subject: APT Testifies Before House Telecommunications Subcommittee 24 July 2003 The Alliance for Public Technology (APT) was the only consumer group to testify at the July 21st hearing of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. The hearing, entitled "The Regulatory Status of Broadband Services: Information Services, Common Carriage, or Something in Between?" featured a panel of nine witnesses from the cable, telephone and ISP industries, as well as representatives from the FCC and state public utility ==========> 03-07-24-StateOfCal-TelecomConsumerBillOfRights.txt========== http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/static/industry/telco/billofrights.htm Telecommunications Consumer Bill of Rights On July 24, 2003 the Commission mailed a revised version of Assigned Commissioner Carl Wood's Draft Decision establishing a telecommunications consumers' Bill of Rights and the rules all carriers must follow to secure those rights. Copies of the draft decision and the new General Order it proposes are available for viewing or downloading. Additional information, including a press release, a summary of the new rights and rules and a ==========> 03-07-25-SJMerc-CATelecomUsersBillOfRights.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6381656.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 25, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Telecommunications bill of rights moves a step closer to completion CALIFORNIA REGULATORS RELEASE FINAL DRAFT By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Spurred by thousands of customer complaints, state regulators released a final draft of their ``Telecommunications Bill of Rights'' on Thursday, a document ==========> 03-07-25-SJMerc-SuitAllegeSBCUnfairInDSLPricing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6379260.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 25, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Net-access providers sue SBC IT'S ACCUSED OF DSL MONOPOLY By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Four California Internet providers sued SBC Communications on Thursday, alleging that the telecommunications giant has monopolized the business of ==========> 03-07-29-CNETNews-IssuesApplyingCALEAToVoIP.txt========== http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5056424.html FBI targets Net phoning By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com July 29, 2003, 4:00 AM PT Internet telephone calls are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police wiretap rules, according to an FBI proposal presented quietly to regulators this month. ==========> 03-08-00-CACM-ThirdGenerationWirelessSystems-3G.txt========== Technical opinion: Third generation and beyond wireless systems P. Nicopolitidis, G. I. Papadimitriou, M. S. Obaidat, A. S. Pomportsis August 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 8 Exploring the capabilities of increased data transmission rates. Third-generation (3G) mobile and wireless networks target the requirements of multimedia applications and Internet services by offering increased capacities: at least 144Kbps for full mobility applications in all cases; 384Kbps for ==========> 03-08-01-NetAction-DisablingThe1996TelecomAct.txt========== Fri Aug 01 09:45:59 2003 Broadband Briefings: Disabling the 1996 Telecommunications Act Published by NetAction Issue No. 27 August 1, 2003 Repost where appropriate. Copyright and subscription info at end of message. In This Issue: Disabling the 1996 Telecommunications Act . . . And Protecting the Telecommunications Consumer Disabling the 1996 Telecommunications Act . . . Much has changed in the seven years since Congress passed the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996: more ==========> 03-08-03-SJMerc-DG-UsingVoiceOverInternet-VoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6448467.htm Posted on Sun, Aug. 03, 2003 New ring: voice calls over Net By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist In the past month, I've done my part to undermine a monopoly. How? By making phone calls. ==========> 03-08-04-NewSci-OneSlowWiFiUserCanSlowAll.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994018 Single slow user can throttle wi-fi network 18:27 04 August 03 NewScientist.com news service A single user with a slow connection to a wireless network can significantly degrade the overall service to everyone using that wi-fi access station, new research shows. ==========> 03-08-04-SJMerc-FCCChiefAttackedOnMediaOwnership.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6453676.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 04, 2003 story:PUB_DESC FCC chief takes knocks from the left and the right OBSERVERS SAY POWELL'S POLITICAL MISSTEPS HAVE ISOLATED HIM By Heather Fleming Phillips Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - It's lonely at the top. ==========> 03-08-05-USAToday-SBCPlans6KWiFiSitesBy2006.txt========== USA Today SBC plans 6,000 Wi-Fi sites by '06 By Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY Wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, is expected to land another big backer Wednesday as SBC Communications announces hundreds of locations by year's end and 6,000 by 2006. SBC's plan is yet another sign that big telecom companies aim to take control of the emerging technology, which has largely been dominated by small ==========> 03-08-06-SJMerc-DG-UsersPreferDSL.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6469237.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 06, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Loathing for the U.S. cable industry has not abated By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com): They'll take DSL: The J.D. Power and Associates research firm says DSL, or ==========> 03-08-06-SJMerc-DG-VoIPTermsOfDisservice.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6469237.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 06, 2003 story:PUB_DESC VoIP Terms of Disservice By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Terms of disservice: In Sunday's column, I talked about why I've moved to VoIP, ``voice over Internet Protocol,'' for my domestic and international long-distance phone calls. As I noted then, I chose Packet8 over Vonage for ==========> 03-08-06-SJMerc-SBCPlansWiFiNetwork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6469243.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 06, 2003 story:PUB_DESC SBC to build wireless networks for travelers By Jon Fortt Mercury News SBC Communications plans to build WiFi wireless networks in places business travelers frequent, in an effort to sell its customers a broader package of data services. ==========> 03-08-07-SJMerc-FreeWorldDialup-AlternativePhoneService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_tech nology/6478062.htm Posted on Thu, Aug. 07, 2003 story:PUB_DESC FWD tries to offer free phone service TELEPHONE GIANTS, AUTHORITIES OPPOSE PLAN By Marcelo Rodriguez Special to the Mercury News Jeff Pulver was fascinated with ham radio as a teenager. He still is. ==========> 03-08-07-SJMerc-VoIP-AlternativePhoneService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6478054.htm Posted on Thu, Aug. 07, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Leaving the phone company out of the loop ADVANCES IN INTERNET TELEPHONY SLASH BILLS AND IRK BELLS By Marcelo Rodriguez Special to the Mercury News When veterinarian Tom Tribolet moved to Buenos Aires to try his hand as a thoroughbred racehorse trainer six years ago, staying in touch with his sons in ==========> 03-08-08-ARRL-BroadbandPowerLineRFInterference.txt========== http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/08/08/2/?nc=1 BPL is "Spectrum Pollution," ARRL President Says BPL would use low and medium-voltage lines like these in a typical residential area to distribute digital data using HF and low-VHF frequencies. NEWINGTON, CT, Aug 6, 2003--ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, says Broadband over Power Line (BPL)--if widely deployed--would represent "spectrum pollution" on a level that is "difficult to imagine." Haynie reacted after seeing ==========> 03-08-08-InfoWorld-UltraWideband-AlternativeToBluetooth.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/08/31NNwireless_1.html Ultrawideband renews high-speed wireless hopes Proposal emerges as powerful Wi-Fi companion, Bluetooth alternative By Glenn Fleishman August 08, 2003 Ultrawideband (UWB) is shaping up as a high-speed wireless technology for the enterprise, but before its success can be assured, it must first navigate the complexities of industry working groups. ==========> 03-08-15-SJMerc-CypressSemiToDevelopRadioChips.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6538738.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 15, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Cypress looks to wireless SAN JOSE CHIP MAKER SAYS PRODUCTS COULD BOOST REVENUE BY $50 MILLION By Therese Poletti Mercury News Cypress Semiconductor, which is known mostly for developing static random-access memory chips (SRAMS), is entering a new market. ==========> 03-08-17-SJMerc-SickSiliconValleyNetworkingCompanies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6553260.htm Posted on Sun, Aug. 17, 2003 story:PUB_DESC The rise and fall of telecom, networking By Matt Marshall Mercury News In the two years since the noisy collapse of the telecom and networking industries, little to nothing has been heard from the 10 giant Silicon Valley telecom and networking start-ups that had been funded with hundreds of millions ==========> 03-08-20-SJMerc-TrainCommutersGetWiFiAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6578716.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 20, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Silicon Valley train commuters to get wireless Net access SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The Wi-Fi train has reached the station. Commuters in and out of Silicon Valley will be the first in the United States to experience wireless Internet access while riding the rails. A three-month trial will begin in September for riders of Altamont Commuter ==========> 03-08-20-TheReg-PowerLineBroadbandEconomics.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/32431.html Power cable broadband trial goes live today By Tim Richardson Posted: 20/08/2003 at 15:08 GMT The future of broadband in rural areas via electrical cables hinges on the success of a commercial trial that got underway in Winchester today. Powerline Communication (PLC) technology, which uses the existing electricity ==========> 03-08-21-CNETNews-NewBroadbandRules-Problems.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-5066885.html?tag=fd_top New broadband rules draw criticism By John Borland and Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 21, 2003, 5:08 PM PT Six months after outlining their plans, federal regulators released details Thursday on controversial new rules that will help shape the future of the high-speed Internet and local telephone markets. ==========> 03-08-21-USAToday-FCCRulesILECsMustShareVoiceLinesOnly.txt========== Long-awaited U.S. telephone rules issued USA Today August 21, 2003 WASHINGTON (Reuters) Long-awaited details of controversial U.S. regulations aimed at spurring high-speed Internet service while requiring dominant local telephone companies to keep sharing voice networks with rivals were released Thursday. But the final rules may be settled in court as legal challenges are expected to ==========> 03-08-22-DSLReports-WorldWidePowerLineBroadband.txt========== http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/31652 Power-line Broadband Worldwide Trials find rocky road in electrified broadband (This was news posted a while ago, 2003-08-22 11:07:07 to be exact.) Written by Karl Bode While the interference debate over power-line broadband just begins to surface in the States, the same drama has been playing out overseas. -- ==========> 03-08-22-SJMerc-NewFCCRulesOnBroadbandCompetiton.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6592058.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 22, 2003 story:PUB_DESC FCC releases new rules on telecom By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Opening the door to a raft of legal challenges, federal regulators Thursday released a final version of new telecommunications rules intended to preserve the ability of competitors to enter local phone markets. ==========> 03-08-25-SJMerc-WiFiAccessDemandIsLow.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6612712.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 25, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Demand remains cool for public WiFi hot-spot service By Mike Langberg Mercury News Nothing succeeds like excess in Silicon Valley, and even in this deepest of recessions there is still the occasional land rush where everyone chases the same questionable new idea. ==========> 03-08-26-NewsFact-MBWAWirelessDataStandardThreatens3G.txt========== http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22160.html New Wireless Data Standard Threatens 3G By Jay Wrolstad NewsFactor Network August 26, 2003 The 802.20 specification offers an extended range for broadband wireless, but it is not compatible with existing cellular services. "There is an incumbency issue," says IDC wireless technologies analyst Keith Waryas. ==========> 03-08-27-TheReg-IntelMayHaveOverHypedWiFi.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/32505.html Intel 'may be guilty' of over hyping Wi-Fi By Tony Smith Posted: 27/08/2003 at 09:26 GMT Intel has admitted it has contributed to the vast volume of hot air being used to inflate the Wi-Fi bubble, thanks to its multi-million dollar Unwired advertising campaign. ==========> 03-08-29-TechRev-WiFiRooftopNetworking.txt========== # Networking From the Rooftop" Technology Review (08/29/03); Guizzo, Erico Multi-hop mesh networks, such as MIT's Roofnet, which consists of wireless nodes that can be either stationary or mobile, are much less expensive to set up than DSL or cable and can be used to surpass the "last mile" barrier and make broadband Internet access available to many more people. The initial deployment of Roofnet showed that the shortest-path routing strategy featured in many proposed mesh network routing schemes may not necessarily work; the MIT group behind Roofnet says that signal degradation increases the further the ==========> 03-09-00-CACM-PowerlineBroadband.txt========== Staying connected: Power to the people Meg McGinity September 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 9 Broadband access gets electrified. Who would have believed it? The path to cheap, fast, and friendly broadband service just might begin on a dirt road. And that's why many of the small towns in the U.S. are causing some nervous twitches in the already pummeled telecom ==========> 03-09-00-IEEESpectrum-UltrwidebandBecomesCarrierBased.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/sep03/uw.html Ultra- Wideband: Multimedia Unplugged Very short low-power pulses can move a DVD's worth of bits around the home in seconds By Steve Stroh PART 2 OF THIS SPECIAL REPORT DEALS WITH A NEW MODE OF VERY HIGH-SPEED, LOW-POWER NETWORKING CALLED ULTRAWIDEBAND A funny thing happened to ultrawideband wireless technology on its way from the ==========> 03-09-04-NetWorkMag-NewWirelessTechnologies.txt========== http://www.networkmagazine.com/shared/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=144000 46&classroom= Emerging Technology: Wireless Goes Peer-to-Peer? Could wireless meshes and software defined radio make copper and fiber unnecessary? By Andy Dornan 09/04/2003, 3:00 PM ET For more than thirty years, the computer industry has been promising a ==========> 03-09-08-SJMerc-SmallWirelessChipForWiFi.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6719986.htm Posted on Mon, Sep. 08, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Small wireless chip poised to make mark By Jon Fortt Mercury News A new wireless chip about the size of a dime promises to shake up the mobile technology world, just in time for the holidays -- because it's 85 percent smaller than its rivals. ==========> 03-09-10-CNETNews-VintCerfVoIPInterview.txt========== http://news.com.com/2008-1082-5073025.html Vint Cerf hears VoIP calling Last modified:September 10, 2003, 4:00 AM PDT By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com For someone widely regarded as the father of the Internet, Vint Cerf can be surprisingly coy about predicting the future. ==========> 03-09-17-SJMerc-HouseBansInternetAccessTax.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6794251.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 17, 2003 story:PUB_DESC House permanently bans taxes on Internet access WASHINGTON (AP) - Connections to the Internet would remain tax-free under a bill the House passed Wednesday. The legislation, passed with bipartisan support, makes permanent a ban on taxing Internet connections. A temporary ban on the taxes, first enacted in ==========> 03-09-18--SJMerc-HouseBansInternetOnlyTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6801893.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 18, 2003 story:PUB_DESC House passes ban on Net-only taxes MORATORIUM WOULD BECOME PERMANENT UNDER BILL By Heather Fleming Phillips Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday that would make permanent a 5-year-old ban on Internet-only taxes, such as levies on ==========> 03-10-06-SJMerc-AppealsCourtSaysInternetIsTelecom.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6948010.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 06, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Appeals court overturns FCC cable broadband decision SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A federal appeals court opened the door Monday to additional rules on high-speed Internet access over cable television lines, overturning a Federal Communications Commission decision that kept competitors locked out of the cable systems. ==========> 03-10-07-StarTech-IntelWorksOnAdaptiveWirlessTechnology.txt========== http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2003/10/7/itfeature/6390416&sec =itfeature Intel takes on adaptive wireless tech M. MADHAVAN WIRELESS connectivity is the order of the day and Intel Corp is not one to be left out of the wireless buzz. “Over the next decade, the majority of the world will communicate wirelessly,” ==========> 03-10-10-SJMerc-SiliconValleyCouldStillBeAPlayerInWireless.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/industries/wireless/7228 919.htm Wireless Posted on Mon, Nov. 10, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Mobile power: Valley could still have key wireless role By Dean Takahashi Mercury News The conventional wisdom is that Silicon Valley missed the boat on wireless. ==========> 03-10-13-InfoWeek-MoveToGigabitEthernetGetsMoreAttractive.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15300004 Ready When You Are Oct. 13, 2003 The economics of moving to Gigabit Ethernet get more attractive By David M. Ewalt Timothy Link is a speed freak. The CIO of the Newark campus of Ohio State University and Central Ohio Technical College moved the schools to the forefront of high-speed networking last month when they opened the John Gilbert Reese Center. The state-of-the-art conference center with faculty offices and ==========> 03-10-15-CompWorld-WiMaxPromisesBroadbandBreakthrough.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,86093,00.html WiMax promises breakthrough in broadband access Intel expects the technology to be commercially available by 2005 Story by Sumner Lemon OCTOBER 15, 2003 ( IDG NEWS SERVICE ) - A new wireless networking technology called WiMax is poised to reshape the way service providers offer broadband Internet access in the U.S. and other countries, holding out the promise that high-speed network services may take off in these markets, according to a ==========> 03-10-17-InfoWeek-JudgeSaysVoIPRegulationCouldSlowNetExpansion.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15500036 Judge: Internet Phone Regulation Could Slow Net's Expansion Oct. 17, 2003 U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis says he barred Minnesota regulators from requiring a small company that uses Voice-over-Internet-Protocol technology to provide phone service because it might stunt the development of the Internet. By Ashley H. Grant, Associated Press Writer ==========> 03-10-24-SJMerc-VoIPFirmsProtestCalifRegulationAttempt.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7092369.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 24, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Internet phone firms protest regulation bid 6 COMPANIES OBJECT TO CALIFORNIA REQUEST By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Internet phone companies have rebuffed an attempt by California regulators to classify them as phone companies, saying they offer a unique service that ==========> 03-10-29-ACMUbiquity-FirewallSoftwareWillNeedAddOns.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i35_fiefer.html Port Wars In the not-too-distant-future, firewalls spark a battle over port regulation and ownership By William Paul Fiefer As operating system evolved, a large market emerged in add-ons. Little programs such as word processors, defragmenters, image viewers, and so forth appeared. You bought the OS, then you needed to keep on buying. ==========> 03-11-00-ACMQueue-IsInstantMessagingTheBraveNewWorldOfCommunications.txt========== Departments: Interview: A Conversation with Peter Ford Eric Allman November 2003 Queue, Volume 1 Issue 8 Instant messaging (IM) may represent our brave new world of communications, just as e-mail did a few short years ago. Many IM players are vying to establish the dominant standard in this new world, as well as introducing new applications to take advantage of all IM has to offer. Among them, hardly surprising, is Microsoft, which is moving toward the Session Initiation ==========> 03-11-04-LATimes-RFIHitsConsumerElectronicsDevices.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-interference4nov04,1,7936987.story?coll=la -home-leftrail Technology Gets in Its Own Way Radio signals from myriad devices such as cellphones and garage door openers clash in an annoying and, at times, hazardous competition. By Jube Shiver Jr. Times Staff Writer November 4, 2003 ==========> 03-11-04-SJMerc-FCCApprovesBroadcastFlagForDTV.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7182865.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 04, 2003 story:PUB_DESC FCC OKs 'broadcast flag' for digital TV WASHINGTON (AP) - The government Tuesday approved an anti-piracy mechanism that will make it harder for computer users to illegally distribute digital TV programs on the Internet. The goal is to speed the transition to higher quality digital broadcasts and ensure such programming remains free. ==========> 03-11-07-SJMerc-BanOnInternetAccessTaxesStallsInSenate.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7208982.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 07, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Permanent ban on Internet access taxes stalls in Senate WASHINGTON (AP) - A drive to permanently ban Internet access taxes stopped dead in the Senate on Friday, stuck in a clash over whether the legislation would shear millions from the budgets of state and local governments. The problem arose over the definition of ``Internet access'' -- services that ==========> 03-11-10-SJMerc-CalPUCMemberSaysLetVoIPDevelopWithoutRegulation.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7173969.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 03, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Let Internet phone service evolve without rules By Susan Kennedy Internet telephone service is the hot technology that has regulators spinning in their cubicles all over the country. A federal district court recently shot down Minnesota's attempt to regulate IP ==========> 03-11-11-SJMerc-DG-VoIPRedefinesLocalCall.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001496.shtml#001496 November 11, 2003 Defining 'Local' in the Internet Age posted by Dan Gillmor 06:01 PM HONG KONG The phone rang this morning in the apartment where I'm staying while I teach part-time for a month at the University of Hong Kong. The call was from my ==========> 03-11-12-SJMerc-DG-VoIPCanOnlyGetBetter.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7241969.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 12, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Using VoIP to span the oceans can only get better By Dan Gillmor Mercury News News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com/blog): ==========> 03-11-13-SJMerc-FCCExpandsFrequenciesForBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7255874.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 13, 2003 story:PUB_DESC FCC expands frequencies for wireless Internet WASHINGTON (AP) - Regulators said Thursday they would help bring high-speed Internet connections to rural areas by expanding the spectrum of frequencies for wireless devices that do not require modems and phone jacks. Consumer groups were skeptical. ==========> 03-11-14-PCWorld-WhatHappenedToBluetooth.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113404,pg,1,00.asp Whatever Happened to Bluetooth? Wireless technology has improved, but it may never be mainstream. Sumner Lemon and Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service Friday, November 14, 2003 After years of hype that promised seamless, short-range wireless connectivity among handheld devices, Bluetooth is showing signs of having overcome some of the early problems associated with the technology. But are growing adoption and ==========> 03-11-14-WashPost-FCCExpandsFrequenciesForBroadband.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38286-2003Nov13.html Wireless Networks Gain Spectrum FCC Hopes to Boost Internet in Underserved Areas By Christopher Stern Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 14, 2003; Page E01 The Federal Communications Commission set aside a new slice of airwaves yesterday for wireless Internet users, a move the agency said was designed to ==========> 03-11-17-NYT-UtahCitiesPlanUltraHighSpeedNetwork.txt========== New York Times November 17, 2003 In Utah, Public Works Project in Digital By MATT RICHTEL SALT LAKE CITY - When it comes to the Internet, residents of Utah are taking matters into their own hands. In a 21st-century twist on Roosevelt-era public works projects, Salt Lake City and 17 other Utah cities are planning to build the largest ultrahigh-speed ==========> 03-11-21-SJMerc-SBCOffersVoIPToBusinesses.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7316735.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 21, 2003 SBC offers businesses new VoIP service BAY AREA AMONG MARKETS COMPANY IS TARGETING By Michael Bazeley Mercury News SBC Communications jumped into the Internet phone business Thursday, unveiling a service that will allow businesses to manage all calls through a Web portal. ==========> 03-11-23-BusWeek-2004InternetAndTelecomPredictions.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2003/tc20031223_1093_tc047.htm DECEMBER 23, 2003 • Editions: Edition Preference NOTHING BUT NET By Alex Salkever Where the Net Is Heading in 2004 O.K., your guess is probably as good as mine, but I have a column to write -- and at this time of year that means one thing: Predictions ==========> 03-11-24-SJMerc-TechSavyPreferInternetAndCellPhones.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7337477.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 24, 2003 Study: Tech savvy prefer using mobile phones, Internet By Kristi Heim Mercury News Seattle Bureau The home telephone and the television set are starting to look just sooo 20th century. ==========> 03-11-24-WirelessNewsFact-WiMaxMayProvideLastMileAccess.txt========== http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/22752.html Wireless NewsFactor® Real Time Wireless News from Around the World 802.16a Wireless Links the Last Mile November 24, 2003 For the millions of people worldwide who cannot get access to broadband connectivity via cable or DSL, the new 802.16a wireless technology will enable a "third pipe" to connect to the many benefits of the Internet. ==========> 03-11-25-ACMUbiquity-Robinson-WirelineToCellNumberTransferNotBigDeal.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i39_robinson.html Cellular Number Portability: Really Such A Big Deal? The FCC ruling on number portability may have little effect on an already competitive market. By Kenneth G. Robinson MCI's longtime economist, Dr. Roger Noll, once assailed the "All-Channel Receiver Act" -- that Kennedy-era law which mandated VHF and UHF television tuner comparability -- for causing millions of Americans to pay lots of money ==========> 03-11-25-SydneyMornHerald-Intel-SeamlessWirelessInterconnectivity.txt========== http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/24/1069522528217.html Come, the revolution By Graeme Philipson November 25, 2003 Chris Thomas has a vision. It is of a world where every mobile phone, every notebook, every PDA, every pager and every mobile device communicates seamlessly and effortlessly with each other. ==========> 03-12-00-Syllabus-DigitalTrendsFor2004.txt========== http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=8574 Syllabus Magazine Tracking the Digital Puck into 2004 Kenneth C. Green "Legend has it that when Wayne Gretsky was asked why he was so successful as a hockey player he responded by saying that he always tried to skate to where the puck was going to be, not to where it was. ==========> 03-12-01-SJMerc-FCCLooksAtVoIPRegulation.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7389907.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 01, 2003 FCC deciding whether to regulate Internet phone service WASHINGTON (AP) - Is a phone call over the Internet different from one over wires? How the Federal Communications Commission answers that question will determine whether Internet calls face the same taxes and regulations as calls using ==========> 03-12-04-EWeek-WiFiToFaceInteroperabilityChallenges.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1403612,00.asp Wi-Fi to Face Interoperability Challenges December 4, 2003 By Mark Hachman SAN JOSE, Calif.—Interoperability among the various IEEE 802.11 technologies will become "a real challenge" as the industry moves into a phased program for deploying multimedia services over Wi-Fi next year, industry executives said. ==========> 03-12-05-SJMerc-PhoneCompaniesCutBroadbandPrices.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7424584.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 05, 2003 Phone companies cut prices on fast Internet service DALLAS (AP) - Jace Curtis is the kind of customer who could help phone companies catch up to cable operators in the high-speed Internet market. Curtis, a marketing manager for a high-tech company in Austin, already had broadband from his cable company but jumped to a digital-subscriber line ==========> 03-12-09-NWFusion-IEEESaysChinasWirelessSecurityUnderminesWiFi.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1209ieeechine.html IEEE: Chinese security standard could fracture Wi-Fi Breaking news Today's top news. By Sumner Lemon IDG News Service, 12/09/03 The implementation of a Chinese security standard for wireless networking could undermine efforts to develop a global standard for wireless LANs and drive up ==========> 03-12-10-CIO-TimeToPutVoIPIntoITStrategy.txt========== http://www2.cio.com/analyst/report2019.html Is It Time To Connect VoIP Into Your IT/Business Strategy? IDC By David Senf and Gordon Edall In today's economic environment the impulse is firmly entrenched to avoid unnecessary expenses. Therefore, companies with a sufficient installed base of legacy equipment are unlikely to forklift it all out to make room for VoIP gear ==========> 03-12-10-CRN-Cisco-ExpectsSalesIncreaseInIPTelephonyAndStorage.txt========== http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=46605 Cisco's Chambers: Improving Economy To Spur Sales In IP Telephony, Storage By Matt Villano, CRN 5:40 PM EST Wed., Dec. 10, 2003 As the national economy continues to improve, enterprises will spend increasing amounts on IP telephony and storage, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said. "With the average PBX being nine years old, most enterprises will be forced to ==========> 03-12-10-FinTimes-ATTToRollOutVoIPNextYear.txt========== http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=Sto ryFT&cid=1069493901635 AT&T to roll out VoIP services next year By Paul Taylor in New York Published: December 10 2003 23:58 | Last Updated: December 11 2003 4:56 Financial Times AT&T , the US telecommunications group, is joining the rush to launch Internet telephony services. The company will announce on Thursday that it plans to ==========> 03-12-10-SJMerc-CerritosCalifImplemetsWirelessInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7460541.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 10, 2003 Southern California city establishing wireless Web access over large area CERRITOS, Calif. (AP) - Scores of wireless networking transmitters are popping up atop public buildings, traffic lights and other structures in a bid to bring high-speed Internet access to virtually every corner of this Southern California city. ==========> 03-12-10-SJMerc-QuestOffersVoIPService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7460531.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 10, 2003 Qwest becomes first Bell to offer residential voice over IP service MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Qwest Communications International Inc. said Wednesday it has begun offering Internet phone service to some customers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, marking the firmest embrace by a Baby Bell of a technology that could undermine the traditional phone business. ==========> 03-12-10-SJMerc-RuralPhoneCompaniesChallengeVoIPProviders.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7459805.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 10, 2003 Rural North Dakota co-ops challenging Internet phone company BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota's small telephone companies are challenging a business that advertises cheap Internet phone calls, saying the company's pitch cheats local phone providers of customer access fees. The complaint is part of a mushrooming national debate over how the industry ==========> 03-12-10-SJMerc-UNInternetSummitSplitsOverPressFreedom.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7461517.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 10, 2003 U.N. Internet summit splits over press freedom GENEVA (AP) - Leaders from more than 50 countries launched a summit Wednesday aimed at expanding use of the Internet to poor nations, but a split quickly emerged over the amount of freedom given to news media in sometimes unstable countries. ==========> 03-12-11-NYT-ATTToRollOutVoIPNextYear.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/technology/11PHON.html?pagewanted=print&positi on= December 11, 2003 AT&T Joins Fray for Cheaper Calls Through the Web By MATT RICHTEL he battle over the future of telephone service will break wide open today with an announcement from AT&T that it plans to offer unlimited long-distance and local calling using Internet technology at a lower cost than conventional phone ==========> 03-12-11-SJMerc-CerritosCalifImplemetsWirelessInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7467631.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 11, 2003 California city establishing wireless Web access over large area CERRITOS, Calif. (AP) - Browsing the Web from this Southern California city may soon become an outdoor sport. The first phase of a project to establish citywide wireless Internet access is slated to begin next month. Ultimately, anyone with a laptop or wireless device ==========> 03-12-11-SJMerc-QuestOffersVoIPService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7467625.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 11, 2003 Quest to offer residential voice over IP MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Qwest Communications International Inc. is becoming the first Baby Bell to offer residential Internet phone service, embracing a technology that could undermine the traditional phone business. Denver-based Qwest said Wednesday it has begun offering Internet phone service ==========> 03-12-14-SJMerc-DG-ChinaOrdersDomesticSecurityOnWirelessNets.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7489042.htm Posted on Sun, Dec. 14, 2003 China tries to establish homegrown tech rules By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist HONG KONG - Early this month, China's government mandated an encryption standard for wireless data communications. It may force U.S. and other Western companies into unwanted joint ventures with Chinese companies if they want to ==========> 03-12-15-BusWeek-NewDigitalWirelessToShareSpectrum.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_50/b3862098.htm DECEMBER 15, 2003 Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age Three technologies will boost the capacity of our airwaves -- and innovation, too On the clear morning of June 10, Mark McHenry climbed onto the rooftop of a seven-floor office building near Washington's busy Dupont Circle. Lugging an unwieldy 10-foot antenna and a gray metal box, he and another engineer set up ==========> 03-12-15-EPIC-EPICCautionsApplicationOfCALEAToVoIP.txt========== http://www.epic.org/privacy/voip/fccltr12.15.03.html December 15, 2003 The Honorable Michael K. Powell Chairman Federal Communications Commission 445 12th St. SW Washington, DC 20554 ==========> 03-12-16-SJMerc-iPassProvidesWiFiLinkToCorporateData.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7504115.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 16, 2003 IPass signs T-Mobile WiFi deal FIRM'S SUBSCRIBERS GET WIRELESS ACCESS By Jon Fortt Mercury News Little-known iPass, a small Redwood Shores company whose service links mobile workers to their corporate data, has signed the biggest deal yet in the ==========> 03-12-17-GovtCompNews-FEMASaysPowerLineBroadbandWillThreatenRadioNet.txt========== Government Computer News FEMA says power line broadband threatens its radio system By Joab Jackson December 17, 2003 Responding to a Federal Communications Commission inquiry, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has warned that sending data through power lines could disrupt FEMA’s National Radio System. The Homeland Security Department is responding to a notice of inquiry ==========> 03-12-17-SJMerc-FCCApprovesNewFequencyForHighwaySystems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7513866.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 17, 2003 FCC approves new frequency for intelligent highway systems WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators approved a step Wednesday toward developing smart highways, where warning signals automatically transmitted to drivers can prevent traffic accidents. The Federal Communications Commission set aside an area of broadcast spectrum ==========> 03-12-22-SJMerc-IPass-WiFiVenture.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7549324.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 22, 2003 Wireless Wizard IPASS CEO COMBINES CREATIVE THINKING, STRAIGHT SHOOTING TO PUT FIRM ON WIFI MAP By Jon Fortt Mercury News About the time Ken Denman joined iPass as chief executive two years ago, its biggest wireless deal was crumbling. ==========> 03-12-23-CNETNews-2003TechLawReview.txt========== http://news.com.com/2010-1028_3-5131781.html Unexpected twists in Internet law December 23, 2003, 4:00 AM PT By Doug Isenberg Internet law in 2003 was full of surprises, with Congress passing an antispam bill, the courts blessing pop-up advertising, the music industry losing lawsuits and the Supreme Court finally upholding an Internet law. ==========> 03-12-26-ReedElec-WillBluetoothBeBumped.txt========== http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/index.asp?layout=article&articlei d=CA371113&rid=0&rme=0&cfd=1Will Bluetooth Be Bumped? Will Bluetooth Be Bumped By Suzanne Deffree -- , 12/26/2003 Thanks to cellular, Bluetooth finally saw the fruits of its labor this year as it gained market penetration in 2003. But will its claim in wireless hold out or run dry in as other wireless platforms, like Ultra Wideband (UWB) and wireless LAN, lay stakes in 2004? ==========> 03-12-29-SJMerc-FCCChairTalksAboutVoIPAndTelecom.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7591252.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 29, 2003 The Powell Pulpit FCC chairman, in `field trip' to valley, talks about VoIP, telecom By Michael Bazeley Mercury News FCC Chairman Michael Powell Michael Powell has his feet in two worlds. ==========> 04-01-00-TechRev-WirelessDevicesAidDisabledAccessToInfo.txt========== # "Wireless for the Disabled" Technology Review (01/04) Vol. 106, No. 10, P. 64; Lok, Corie A team led by Georgia Institute of Technology computer scientist John Peifer wants to enhance the lives of disabled people by designing wireless assistive technologies out of affordable off-the-shelf components. The prototype system devised by Georgia Tech researcher Jack Wood is a wearable captioning device for the hearing-disabled that would allow users to follow dialogue in movies, conferences, or lectures in real time through the wireless transmission of captions to a personal digital assistant (PDA). The user can read the text off ==========> 04-01-05-CSMon-WiFiFuture.txt========== http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0105/p13s02-wmgn.html January 05, 2004 edition Wi-fi and the future of wireless By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor America is getting "unplugged" faster than an MTV musician as the revolution in wireless communication picks up speed. What started a century ago with Marconi's radio and became the now ubiquitous ==========> 04-01-11-SJMerc-ComcastPlansToOfferVoIPOverCable.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10617715.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 11, 2005 Comcast begins to offer Internet phone service ROLLOUT OF VOIP IN BAY AREA NOT LIKELY UNTIL EARLY 2006 By Sam Diaz Mercury News In another sign of growing competition between the cable and phone industries, cable-TV giant Comcast on Monday announced plans to roll out Internet-based ==========> 04-01-12-NWFusion-UltraWidebandDestinyUpInAir.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0112uwb.html Ultra Wideband's destiny up in the air By John Cox Network World, 01/12/04 A decision at an IEEE meeting this week could bring together two factions battling over a new wireless technology. But it's more likely to drive them to all-out market warfare. ==========> 04-01-13-SJMerc-CourtRestrictsConsumerSuitsAgainstPhoneCompanies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7700286.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 13, 2004 Supreme Court restricts consumer suits against regional telephone companies WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that regional telephone companies cannot be sued under federal antitrust law, with its lucrative promise of triple damages to winners, by consumers alleging anticompetitive practices. ==========> 04-01-19-BusWeek-WiMaxBetterThanWiFiButIsItNeeded.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_03/b3866083_mz063.htm JANUARY 19, 2004 • Editions: Edition Preference The Next Big Thing For Wireless? WiMax is a lot faster than Wi-Fi and has a bigger range -- but success isn't assured Everywhere you turn these days, there seems to be a new way to zap data through the ether: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, 3G. Now comes yet another addition to this alphabet soup, a technology that can blast data seven times faster and up to a ==========> 04-01-21-SJMerc-YahooTeamsWithRogersToDeliverBroadbandInCanada.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7761146.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 21, 2004 Yahoo! teams up with Rogers Cable to deliver Canadian broadband SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - Yahoo! Inc. is teaming up with Rogers Cable to sell high-speed Internet access in Canada, marking the Web portal's latest attempt to add more subscribers. The partnership is similar to co-branding deals Yahoo already has with SBC ==========> 04-01-22-NYT-FCCsEasingBroadbandRegsChallengesSurveillanceEfforts.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/22VOIC.html January 22, 2004 Easing of Internet Regulations Challenges Surveillance Efforts By STEPHEN LABATON WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 — The Federal Communications Commission's efforts to reduce regulations over some Internet services have come under intense criticism from officials at law enforcement agencies who say that their ability to monitor terrorists and other criminal suspects electronically is threatened. ==========> 04-01-22-NYT-IntelPursuingWiMaxTechnology.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/22chip.html?ex=1075438800&en=3452db f475936689&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE Intel Pursuing Much Faster Home Internet Access By JOHN MARKOFF Published: January 22, 2004 AN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 21 - Intel, the world's largest computer chip maker, is pushing forward with a new wireless technology that it says it believes can bring extremely high-speed Internet access to American homes, a promise once ==========> 04-01-22-ReedElec-NetworkingEmbeddedDevices.txt========== http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA3738 67&stt=000&pubdate=1%2F22%2F2004&rid=0&rme=0&cfd=1 Eyes and ears everywhere: networking embedded devices Extending the network to deeply embedded devices becomes a reality with low-cost wireless transceivers. By Nicholas Cravotta, Contributing Editor -- , 1/22/2004 AT A GLANCE ==========> 04-01-28-TechNewsWorld-WiFiStandardsCompeteForMarket.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32698.html WiFi Standards Compete for Market Dominance By Paul Korzeniowski TechNewsWorld January 28, 2004 While networking vendors were a bit slow to support 802.11a products, consumer manufacturers were not. "Home entertainment devices from companies like Sony are coming out with integrated high-speed connections, and they were designed ==========> 04-01-28-UPennWharton-VoIPMakesComeback.txt========== http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=printArticle&ID=917 Time to Redial: VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) Makes a Comeback Published: January 28, 2004 Declared dead just a few years ago, voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) – or the ability to make phone calls over the Internet – is back, bearing all the markings of a Next Big Thing. Daryl Schoolar, a senior analyst with In-Stat/MDR, a Scottsdale, Ariz. research firm, calls it “the Lazarus of technology.” ==========> 04-02-03-SJMerc-CalifPUCLooksAtVoIPForRegulation.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7863288.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 03, 2004 Regulators to study Internet phone service By Michael Bazeley Mercury News California regulators are set to launch the first major probe into whether Internet phone service should be regulated like traditional phone companies. ==========> 04-02-04-NewSci-SmartSwitchingForTelecom.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994640 Smart switching could solve communication tangle 10:00 08 February 04 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. Someone walks into your office as you are in the middle of a confidential phone call, and you do not want them to overhear it. Your only option is to cut the call short, and either phone back later or switch to more discreet email or instant messaging. Now IBM engineers are developing a system that makes the ==========> 04-02-04-ZDNet-WiFiRemarkablyUnderhyped.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-5153440.html Why 802.11 is underhyped By J. William Gurley Special to ZDNet February 4, 2004, 11:59 AM PT COMMENTARY--During the Internet bubble, John Doerr of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers frequently declared that the Internet was in fact "underhyped." ==========> 04-02-05-Fortune-EstonianSkypeDevelopsFreeInternetPhone.txt========== http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,582208,00.html Feb. 5, 2004 Catch Us If You Can The folks who brought you Kazaa have a new hit called Skype—and a plan to set phone calls free. If the telcos want to fight back, they'll have to find them first. By Daniel Roth Near the center of the walled medieval district of Estonia's capital, Tallinn, ==========> 04-02-06-ITMgmt-FBIConcernedAboutVoIP.txt========== http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php/3309731 Could National Security Concerns Slow VoIP? February 6, 2004 By Roy Mark While Internet telephony has become a hot topic in Washington over the last two months, the FBI has had the technology in its sights for more than a year. It doesn't like what it sees, or more to the point, what it can't hear. ==========> 04-02-09-SJMerc-ArubaDevelopsWiFiNetworkingSwitch.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7911403.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 09, 2004 WiFi upstarts fight for advantage over heavyweights By Jon Fortt Mercury News Don LeBeau's sales vision propelled Cisco Systems from a mid-tier player to the leading provider of Internet equipment a decade ago. Now he's trying to repeat the performance as chief executive of Aruba Networks, a scrappy start-up ==========> 04-02-09-SJMerc-CovadPlansVoIPService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7910328.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 09, 2004 Covad plans to launch Internet phone service By Michael Bazeley Mercury News San Jose broadband provider Covad Communications has joined the parade of companies that will offer Internet phone service this year. ==========> 04-02-12-SJMerc-FCC-DevelopRulesForVoIPAndPowerLineBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7939332.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 12, 2004 FCC to develop rules for Internet phone calls, Web through power lines WASHINGTON (AP) - Regulators agreed Thursday to set rules for telephone calls made online, and for technology to allow computer users to reach the Internet through a household electric outlet. The Federal Communications Commission said it would decide how to regulate ==========> 04-02-12-SJMerc-FCC-DevelopRulesForVoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7935817.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 12, 2004 FCC to take up Internet phone regulations SHOULD VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL BE SUBJECT TO EXISTING TELECOM RULES? By Michael Bazeley Mercury News All eyes in the telecommunications industry will be on Washington, D.C., today as federal regulators begin to consider whether companies that provide phone ==========> 04-02-14-NewSci-CollaborativeMobileNetworkingWouldSpeedAccess.txt========== # "Spontaneous Networks Will Speed Net Access" New Scientist (02/14/04) Vol. 181, No. 2434, P. 22; Ananthaswamy, Anil Hewlett-Packard software engineers believe laptop, smart phone, and PDA users who employ cell-phone networks to link these devices to the Internet could accelerate access speeds tremendously by engaging in "collaborative mobile networking." Each device would be equipped with self-organizing software that detects other nearby devices, establishing a high-speed network where each device can use any of the other devices' cellular connections to increase its access speeds. The network would use a community server provided by the ==========> 04-02-18-BusWeek-IssuesKeepWiFiOutOfMainstream.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2004/tc20040218_4891_tc140.htm Before Wi-Fi Can Go Mainstream 2/18/2004 It won't achieve the status it deserves until it overcomes several obstacles -- some doozies -- now keeping it stuck in a techno-limbo Early 2004 has been the season of Wi-Fi hope and hype. At January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the buzz was everywhere as gadget makers and ==========> 04-02-21-SJMerc-PhoneCompaniesTieVoiceAndDSLServices.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8008086.htm Posted on Sat, Feb. 21, 2004 The catch to Net phone service starts with DSL By Michael Bazeley Mercury News One of the advantages Internet phone companies offer over regular phone service is better pricing. For as little as $19.95 a month, consumers can get unlimited local and long-distance calling, plus voice mail, caller ID, call waiting and ==========> 04-02-21-SJMerc-SmallTownsAddingMunicipalBroadbandService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8009792.htm Posted on Sat, Feb. 21, 2004 Small-town utilities fill technology gap ELLIOTT MINOR Associated Press ADEL, Ga. - Paula Crosby's dial-up Internet connection was so slow she played computer solitaire while waiting for sluggish pages to appear. And when her teenage daughter surfed the Web, it tied up the family's phone line for hours. ==========> 04-02-24-CNETNews-TechnicalProblemsWithPowerLineBroadband.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-5163739.html Is broadband set to make power lines sing? By Jim Hu Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified February 24, 2004, 4:00 AM PST Technical limitations have long frustrated attempts to deliver broadband Internet access over power lines, but the idea is once again sparking interest as its backers tout improvements. ==========> 04-02-27-SJMerc-AOLDiscontinuesBundledBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8059373.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 27, 2004 AOL discontinues bundled broadband offering NEW YORK (AP) - America Online Inc. has quietly stopped offering a complete broadband package, requiring subscribers to instead obtain their high-speed Internet connections directly from a cable modem or DSL provider. The reversal in strategy stands as another black mark against the purported ==========> 04-02-29-SJMerc-DG-FCCWiselyChoosesNotToRegulateVoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8070958.htm Posted on Sun, Feb. 29, 2004 Radio, Net phone draw feds' attention By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Innovation may be one of Silicon Valley's specialties, but politicians and bureaucrats love to muck with the technology the valley creates. ==========> 04-03-00-ACMQueue-Meng-AdvantagesOfWireless.txt========== # "A Conversation With Teresa Meng" ACM Queue (03/04) Vol. 2, No. 1, P. 14; Broderson, Robert Atheros Communications founder Teresa Meng, now Reid Dennis Professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, explains that she set up Atheros "to provide the technology to change [people's perception of wireless] so that when people think about wireless in the future, they won't feel its presence, as there will be almost unbounded, unlimited capacity everywhere, and it will be much cheaper and easier to use." She says wireless technology is comprised of three fundamental elements: Signal processing, the deployment of gigahertz ==========> 04-03-00-BusCommRev-ENUM-TelephoneNumberToIPaddressMapping.txt========== http://www.bcr.com/bcrmag/2004/03/p26.asp VOICE-DATA CONVERGENCE Public ENUM—How Important Is It? from the March 2004 issue of Business Communications Review, pp. 26–30 by Sandra L. Borthick, BCR’s senior editor Beneath such visible matters as the FCC’s planned decision on whether to regulate public VOIP lurks another policy issue—the matter of U.S. involvement in ENUM, short for the electronic number mapping between PSTN and IP addresses. ==========> 04-03-00-IEEESpectrum-TechAndPolicyToEndSpectrumScarcity.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/mar04/0304scar.html The End of Spectrum Scarcity New technologies and regulatory reform will bring a bandwidth bonanza By Gregory Staple & Kevin Werbach Radio spectrum may be one of the most tightly regulated resources of all time. From cellphones to police scanners, from TV sets to garage-door openers, virtually every wireless device depends on access to the radio frequency wireless spectrum. But access to spectrum has been chronically limited ever ==========> 04-03-02-SJMerc-CinergyToOfferPowerLineBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8088435.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 02, 2004 Utility to offer high-speed Internet over power lines CINCINNATI (AP) - A division of utility Cinergy Corp. plans to offer high-speed Internet service over its power lines, letting customers connect by simply plugging a computer modem into existing electrical outlets. The idea of broadband service over power lines, or BPL, has been around for ==========> 04-03-04-SJMerc-CinergyToOfferPowerLineBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8107838.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 04, 2004 Cinergy to Provide Fast Internet Service via Power Lines in Two Ohio Counties By Jim Bohman, Dayton Daily News, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 4--CINCINNATI - Cinergy Corp. customers in Warren and Butler Counties can sign up next year for new high speed Internet and telephone service supplied over electric lines. ==========> 04-03-04-TheFeature-WHYNETLinksUnivWirelessNetworks.txt========== http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100436&ref=-1 Putting Wireless to the Test(bed) By David Pescovitz, Thu Mar 04 08:00:00 GMT 2004 Six universities in the US are linking up their wireless test networks to share resources and speed up collaboration. Welcome to WHYNET. Research is not always reality. From smart dust to software radios, new and powerful wireless technologies are demonstrated in industrial and academic ==========> 04-03-08-InfoWeek-CinergyToOfferPowerLineBroadband.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18300091 The Net Via Power Lines Utility to let customers access the Internet through standard electrical outlets By David M. Ewalt, InformationWeek March 8, 2004 Customers of Midwestern utility Cinergy Corp. will soon be able to plug into broadband Internet access anywhere they have an electrical outlet. ==========> 04-03-09-LehighUniv-ProfTestinWirelessInternetForRuralAreas.txt========== http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/lu-frp030904.php Public release date: 9-Mar-2004 Contact: Kurt Pfitzer kap4@lehigh.edu 610-758-3017 Lehigh University For rural Pennsylvania, wireless is the ticket to the 21st century ==========> 04-03-15-CIOMag-BeyondVoIP.txt========== http://www.cio.com/archive/031504/et_sidebar_1.html Beyond VoIP BY MATT VILLANO In the March 15, 2004 Issue of CIO In the business world, there is the VoIP of today. At the Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center at Texas A&M University, there is the VoIP of tomorrow. Through this facility, Cochair of ITEC's Internet2 Voice Over IP Working Group Walt Magnussen spends his time and government money developing future ==========> 04-03-15-CNETNews-!0GBEthernetBecomesMorePopular.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1035_3-5173226.html 10-Gigabit Ethernet comes alive By Marguerite Reardon Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified March 15, 2004, 1:34 PM PST The market for 10-gigabit-per-second Ethernet switching got off to a slow start, but now that corporate customers are looking for more speed on their networks, the technology seems to be hitting its stride. ==========> 04-03-18-ITResults-CellOperatorsUseLocationAwarenessToTuneNetworks.txt========== http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm?section=news&Tpl=article&ID=63104 Location awareness: the key to better mobile networks March 18, 2004 IT Results It's not only users who like the latest mobile phones. By harnessing the location awareness of these devices, network operators could significantly improve their own infrastructure planning and optimisation as trials from CELLO show. ==========> 04-03-18-NYT-PowerOverEthernetDistributesPower.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/technology/circuits/18next.html March 18, 2004 WHAT'S NEXT No Outlet? Don't Worry, an Ethernet Cable May Do By NOAH SHACHTMAN IF you go online at the office, the chances are better than good that your messages and your Web pages come to your desk through an Ethernet cable. ==========> 04-03-18-SJMerc-P2PProvidersPlanPhoneService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8215877.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 18, 2004 INTERNET UPSTARTS Kazaa duo's next call FILE-SHARING NETWORK USED TO COMPETE WITH TELEPHONE COMPANIES By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis upended the global ==========> 04-03-18-SJMerc-WiFiAllianceSaysInteroperabilityProblemsIncreasing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8218246.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 18, 2004 Wireless group says interoperability problem rising HANOVER, Germany (AP) - Increasing complexity and stronger security is making it harder for new wireless computer networking products to hook up with each other, an industry group promoting the technology said Thursday at the CeBIT tech fair. ==========> 04-03-18-ZDNet-NFCForumFormedToPromoteRFIDForCellPhoneID.txt========== http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,39149407,00.htm Wireless alliance touts 'magic touch' RFID technology Graeme Wearden ZDNet UK March 18, 2004, 13:05 GMT CeBIT: A new era of wireless connectivity is around the corner, according to Nokia, Sony and Philips - who are claiming a breakthrough in touch-based interactivity ==========> 04-03-19-SJMerc-InternetIndustryFearsFedWiretapPlans.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8228362.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 19, 2004 Internet industry fears wiretap plan could chill innovation SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Before 8x8 Inc. launched an Internet phone service in late 2002, it drafted a business plan, set up its equipment, posted a Web site and began taking orders from customers. As with most online ventures, U.S. government approval wasn't needed. ==========> 04-03-22-SJMerc-FCCChiefWantsLightRegulatoryTouchForVoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8250081.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 22, 2004 FCC chief wants 'light regulatory touch' on VoIP ATLANTA (Dow Jones/AP) -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell called Monday for a ``light regulatory touch'' on Voice over Internet Protocol technology. ``I think the government will take a hands-off approach to it,'' he said, ==========> 04-03-22-SJMerc-NewCellServiceProvidesHighSpeedInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8250554.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 22, 2004 Wireless shows bring updates on high-speed Net service ATLANTA (AP) - The promise of high-speed wireless Internet service edged closer to reality for a larger swath of the nation Monday with a series of somewhat vague announcements at the annual cellular industry trade show. AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless both delivered scraps of new detail about ==========> 04-03-23-UCSD-AdHocWirelessNetworkingProject.txt========== http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040323071414.htm University Of California - San Diego 2004-03-23 Ad-Hoc Wireless Networking Technology For Battlefield Environments Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego will lead a six-university effort to enable troops to set up mobile communications networks on the battlefield, using lightweight wireless equipment during commando raids and in other hostile and rapidly changing environments. The project to develop ==========> 04-03-26-SJMerc-PresBushPushesBroadbandAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8287224.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 26, 2004 Bush focuses on Internet access in crucial battleground states ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - President Bush, hunting for votes in hotly contested Sun Belt states, said Friday his administration is working toward wiring homes throughout America with high-speed Internet access by 2007. ``We've got to make sure this country's on the leading edge of broadband ==========> 04-03-28-SJMerc-ElecUtilitiesPlanForPowerLineBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8297515.htm Posted on Sun, Mar. 28, 2004 Plugged in may take on a whole new meaning UTILITIES EXPLORING BROADBAND VIA OUTLETS By Michael Bazeley Mercury News The humble electrical outlet is getting an upgrade. ==========> 04-04-00-MilAeroElec-MilitarySatelliteCommMovingToTCP-IP.txt========== http://mae.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection= Display&ARTICLE_ID=202225 Internet technology to improve satellite communications Satellite designers see Internet protocol as the future enabling technology in satellite communications, from Earth observation to military applications. By John McHale Military & Aerospace Electronics April, 2004 In much the same way that Internet technology has revolutionized communications ==========> 04-04-05-SJMerc-SkypeVoIPHasGoodAndBadPoints.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8358164.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 05, 2004 Skype has good audio but some problems, too By Mike Langberg Mercury News Skype is not hype. This new Internet service really does let you make computer-to-computer phone ==========> 04-04-06-EETimes-NonlinearNetsWouldImproveWirelessComm.txt========== http://www.eetimes.com/at/im/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=18900319 Nonlinear nets tackle wireless apps By Chappell Brown EE Times April 06, 2004 (3:32 PM EDT) HANCOCK, N.H. — A fresh approach to neural network design promises to revolutionize wireless communications by offering higher bandwidth at lower power levels than would be possible with conventional circuit designs. ==========> 04-04-07-CompBusRev-ENUM-TelephoneNumberToIPaddressMapping.txt========== http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/c1ba1096a4c7819180256e6f0032d4bb DATE: 07/04/2004 ENUM Still Stalled in US Computer Business Review By Kevin Murphy Public deployment of ENUM, the three-year-old standard for using telephone numbers over the internet, is still a way off in the US, despite the fact that many people think it will be an essential component of widespread voice over IP ==========> 04-04-08-CommsDes-CognitiveRadio-IntelligentUseOfSpectrum.txt========== http://www.commsdesign.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18700443 08 April 2004 Sharing spectrum the smarter way By Patrick Mannion EE Times Apr 05, 2004 A seismic shift in radio design could break the spectrum-availability bottleneck, proponents say, and open up a new frontier of opportunities for ==========> 04-04-13-SJMerc-FreeWiFiGetsMixedReceptionAtBallpark.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8421055.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 13, 2004 Ballpark WiFi gets a mixed reception By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News Lori Lin wanted to make sure her husband knew she had made it to the Giants' home opener. Sitting high in the upper deck of SBC Park, the first major league ballpark with wireless Internet access, she shot off an e-mail -- to ==========> 04-04-14-SJMerc-BellSouthGetsInjunctionAgainstJOIAdvert.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8431913.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 14, 2004 BellSouth gets injunction blocking Joi Internet DSL claims ATLANTA (AP) - A federal court has blocked an Internet service provider from advertising claims that its dial-up service operates at DSL speed, responding to a complaint by rival BellSouth Corp. The court issued BellSouth's request for an injunction against Joi Internet, ==========> 04-04-15-NewsFact-NewBIC-TCPProtocolSpeedsDataTransfer.txt========== http://science.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=23720 New Web Protocol May Leave DSL in the Dust By Mike Martin SCI:TECH April 15, 2004 10:46AM "What takes TCP two hours to determine, BIC can do in less than one second. While this might translate into music downloads in the blink of an eye, the true value of such a super-powered protocol is a real eye-opener," says NCSU ==========> 04-04-17-BusWeek-WirelessTechUsingUnlicensedSpectrumPromisesCheaperServices.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_17/b3880601.htm No Wires, No Rules New wireless technologies will soon reconfigure the Web using radio spectrum that doesn't cost a dime High-speed Internet access has been as rare as sunshine in winter in Campsie, a tiny village on the northern coast of Northern Ireland. The town is located in a sparsely populated rural area, which makes it too expensive to install traditional broadband technology. And the town is too far from larger cities ==========> 04-04-17-SJMerc-ShockJocksMayMoveToSatelliteRadio.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8457077.htm Posted on Sat, Apr. 17, 2004 Satellite Radio May Be 'Shock Jock' Haven ELLEN SIMON Associated Press NEW YORK - If traditional radio decides Howard Stern is too hot to handle, satellite radio is waiting. Even if the prince of "shock jocks" stays where he is, the two nationwide satellite radio companies hope the Stern controversy can ==========> 04-04-19-NYT-SomeInternetUsersPreferDialUp.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/19/technology/19DIAL.html?ex=1082952000&en=16a539 38c6d414ef&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE April 19, 2004 In a Fast-Moving Web World, Some Prefer the Dial-Up Lane By MATT RICHTEL New York Times SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 — High-speed Internet access is being adopted by millions of Americans each year, growing as quickly as any modern technology. ==========> 04-04-19-SJMerc-40PercentOfInternetUsersHaveBroadbandAtHome.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8466355.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 19, 2004 2 in 5 Web Users Have High-Speed at Home ANICK JESDANUN Associated Press NEW YORK - Two in five Internet users in the United States now have high-speed access at home as telephone companies slash prices to better compete with cable broadband services, a study says. ==========> 04-04-19-SJMerc-SprintAndATTReachWiFiRoamingAgreementFor5Airports.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8468698.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 19, 2004 Sprint, AT&T Wireless Reach Wi-Fi Deal Associated Press OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Sprint Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. have reached a wireless Internet roaming agreement for five U.S. airports. The deal announced Monday will allow Sprint PCS customers to use AT&T Wireless' ==========> 04-04-20-SensorMag-SinsorWeb-DistributedWirelessMonitoringSystem.txt========== http://sensorsmag.com/articles/0404/20/ The Sensor Web: A Distributed, Wireless Monitoring System The Sensor Web is a distributed sensing system in which information is globally shared and used by all networked platforms. It’s already been deployed long term in different environments and is opening up new avenues for distributed sensing and control. Kevin A. Delin, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory ==========> 04-04-21-ZDNet-KazaaOffersVoIPViaSkype.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5196322.html VoIP hype and Skype By Peter Cochrane Silicon.com April 21, 2004, 7:11 AM PT COMMENTARY--The music industry rode to a zenith on wax cylinders, plastic discs, tape and CDs--and then along came MP3. The jury is still out on the ultimate impact of Napster, Kazaa, iTunes et al but it looks like a major ==========> 04-04-22-CNETNews-BluetoothStillHasSecurityIssues.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1009-5197200.html Expert: Gaps still pain Bluetooth security By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified April 22, 2004, 4:34 PM PDT VANCOUVER, British Columbia--The latest specification of Bluetooth, a popular short-range wireless technology, has left serious security issues unfixed, according to a wireless researcher. ==========> 04-04-22-EETimes-NonlinearWirelessNetworks.txt========== http://www.eet.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18902790 Nonlinear nets approach runway to wireless apps By Chappell Brown EE Times April 22, 2004 (2:18 PM EDT) HANCOCK, N.H. — Recent research is revealing how to harness the nonlinear operation of biological neural networks to create a more powerful architecture for applications in telecommunications and robotics. ==========> 04-04-24-NewSci-FCCApprovesEssentiallyCrippledUltraWideband.txt========== # "Radio Freedom" New Scientist (04/24/04) Vol. 182, No. 2444, P. 28; O'Brien, Danny The rollout of practical commercial applications for a technology currently known as ultra-wideband (UWB) has been held up by bureaucratic red tape since it was first proposed by engineer Gerald Ross in 1978, and the FCC's long-in-coming authorization for such applications has ignited a storm of protest from various industries. A UWB signal, in which short radio pulses are smeared across the radio spectrum, could theoretically carry gigabits of data per second and support such things as high-speed personal area networks, ==========> 04-04-26-LOC-ABillToBanInternetAccessTaxes.txt========== http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:s.00150: Bill Summary & Status for the 108th Congress NEW SEARCH | HOME | HELP S.150 Title: A bill to make permanent the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Sponsor: Sen Allen, George [VA] (introduced 1/13/2003) Cosponsors: 11 Related Bills: H.R.49 Latest Major Action: 4/26/2004 Senate floor actions. Status: Cloture on the ==========> 04-04-26-SJMerc-SenateDebatesBanOnInternetAccessTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8525648.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 26, 2004 Senate Debates Ban on Web Connection Tax MARY DALRYMPLE Associated Press WASHINGTON - After months of unproductive negotiations, senators resumed battle Monday over a bill banning taxes on Internet service providers. ==========> 04-04-27-LightReading-PlansContinueForNAmericaENUMDirectory.txt========== http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=51698&site=lightreading APRIL 27, 2004 Light Reading N. Americans Plan ENUM Directory Moves are being made in the U.S. to create an organization that will be in overall charge of a directory that will link phone numbers to URLs, and thus IP addresses. ==========> 04-04-27-NYT-SenateDebatesBanOnInternetAccessTaxes.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/politics/27INTE.html April 27, 2004 Senate Votes to Consider Ban on Taxes on Net Access By CARL HULSE New York Times WASHINGTON, April 26 — Senators who favor a permanent ban on taxes on Internet access have broken an impasse that has lasted months. They took the legislation to the Senate floor on Monday as President Bush called the ban critical to ==========> 04-04-27-SJMerc-QuestProvidesWholesaleAccessToVoIPInsteadOfFees.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8526837.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 27, 2004 Qwest sets VoIP access BY LESLIE BROOKS SUZUKAMO Pioneer Press Qwest Communications International said Monday it will not charge direct access fees to carriers that complete an Internet telephone call on its network, making it the first regional telephone company to welcome broadband competitors ==========> 04-04-27-WashPost-SenateDebatesBanOnInternetAccessTaxes.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44833-2004Apr26.html Senate Mulls Permanent Internet Tax Ban Allen's Bill Attracts Support From Bush, Large Telephone and Cable Companies By Christopher Stern Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 27, 2004; Page E06 The Senate yesterday took up a proposal to permanently ban the taxation of Internet access, a move that supporters say would encourage the deployment of ==========> 04-04-28-ACMUbiquity-Review-RightsandRegulations-TPRC2002Papers.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v5i9_bedingfield.html Rethinking Rights and Regulations — Institutional Responses to New Communications Technologies Like it or not, as users of new technologies we are playing the telecommunication game by an increasingly complicated set of rules. Reviewed by Carl Bedingfield Acm Ubiquity, Volume 5, Issue 9, April 28 - May 4, 2004 Rethinking Rights and Regulations — Institutional Responses to New ==========> 04-04-30-SJMerc-USSenateVotesToExtendBanOnInternetAccessTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8556868.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 30, 2004 Net-access taxes rejected in Senate By Jim Puzzanghera Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to extend a ban on taxes on Internet access for four years. But addressing a new technology that could threaten state and local tax revenues, senators decided that phone ==========> 04-05-00-ACM-LawEnforcementAgenciesRequestVoIPMonitoring.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/s.cfm?story=17 Tapping the Net: VoIP and the Law Recent improvements in service quality and Internet bandwidth are making it possible for consumers to choose alternatives to conventional circuit-switched voice systems in today's communications marketplace. One alternative gaining in popularity relies on advanced Internet-based communications to transmit ordinary telephone calls over the Internet through VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). By overcoming early technical barriers, VoIP providers can now offer ==========> 04-05-07-LATimes-FCCProposingToReallocateTVSpectrum.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wifi7may07,1,1391175.story Plan for Spectrum Is Making Waves The government's proposal to reallocate the airwaves has the backing of tech companies but angers broadcasters. By Jube Shiver Jr. Times Staff Writer May 7, 2004 WASHINGTON — As demand for wireless services surges, the federal government is ==========> 04-05-10-SJMerc-WiFiVoIP-PhonesComing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8628647.htm Posted on Mon, May. 10, 2004 Wi-Fi Phones May Help Cut Calling Costs ELLEN SIMON Associated Press NEW YORK - Now that some Wi-Fi "hot spots" have grown into broader neighborhood "hot zones," the next wave is waiting: Phones and gear that send conversations over wireless Internet networks - for free or at a fraction of the cost of ==========> 04-05-10-ZDNet-NortelCTOSaysVideoDemandWillResultInFasterDSL.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5209651.html Nortel: Video demand to spur faster DSL By Graeme Wearden ZDNet (UK) May 10, 2004, 2:05 PM PT Competition from cable companies means that rival fixed-line telephone companies will soon be forced to offer significantly faster digital subscriber line services than are on the market today, according to Nortel Network's chief ==========> 04-05-14-SJMerc-ExtraFeesToConsumersMadeToLookLikeTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8669060.htm Posted on Fri, May. 14, 2004 Telephone and DSL companies heap on extra fees that look like taxes By Bruce Meyerson AP Business Writer NEW YORK - Regulatory Programs Fee. It sure sounds like a government tax. It isn't. The latest addition to T-Mobile's monthly bill is merely the latest ==========> 04-05-20-SenInetCaucus-PanelOnWiretappingVoIP.txt========== http://netcaucus.org/events/2004/wiretap/ Wiretapping The Internet: Is VoIP Different? May 20, 2004 Congressional Internet Caucus The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee hosted a lunch panel on "Wiretapping The Internet: Is VoIP Different?" on Thursday, May 20, 2004. The expert panel debated whether law enforcement can and should wiretap real-time Internet communications such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The panel ==========> 04-05-21-SJMerc-1996TelecomDeregMayEndWithSupremeCourt.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8725162.htm Posted on Fri, May. 21, 2004 Eight-year telecom tangle may end in Supreme Court NEW YORK (AP) - Competition in the local phone business wasn't supposed to be this difficult to engineer. A landmark telecommunications law in 1996 prompted rules that now let more than 15 million customers buy local service from a company other than their ==========> 04-05-24-SJMerc-LucentAcquiringInternetPhoneProviderTelica.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8747448.htm Posted on Mon, May. 24, 2004 Lucent acquiring Internet phone provider MURRAY HILL, N.J. (AP) - Lucent Technologies has agreed to buy Telica, a privately held Internet phone service equipment provider, for about $295 million in stock and options, the telecommunications giant announced Monday. The acquisition of Marlboro, Mass.-based Telica is expected to strengthen ==========> 04-05-27-EDNMag-ARealisticLookAtWiMax.txt========== http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA419563 When, where, and WiMax A realistic look at an emerging wireless-broadband technology. By Matthew Miller, Special Projects Editor -- , 5/27/2004 Certain circles in the tech industry have been buzzing lately about something called WiMax. People are saying that WiMax is the long-awaited "third pipe"—a wireless technology that will compete with DSL and cable in the last mile of broadband networks. They're predicting massive consumer adoption. ==========> 04-05-28-SJMerc-ShakeoutInWiFiAccessComing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8781968.htm Posted on Fri, May. 28, 2004 WiFi hotspots not all that hot By Mike Langberg Mercury News Did you know that almost every Borders, Kinko's, McDonald's and Starbucks in Silicon Valley offers wireless Internet access, for a modest fee, through WiFi ``hotspots''? ==========> 04-06-00-BusCommRev-WiMaxReadyForDeployment.txt========== http://www.bcr.com/bcrmag/2004/06/p30.asp WiMax Hits The Road from the June 2004 issue of Business Communications Review, pp. 30–37 by Michael Finneran, president of dBrn Associates, Inc., an independent consulting firm in Hewlett Neck, NY, specializing in the design and installation of domestic and international networks. He is the instructor for BCR’s data communications courses on “Wireless Networks For Voice And Data” and “Wireless LANs.” ==========> 04-06-01-ReedElec-SoftwareDefinedRadioCouldIncreaseInteroperability.txt========== http://www.reed-electronics.com/eb-mag/article/CA421007?pubdate=6%2F1%2F2004 Can a new technology rewrite the rules of communications? By Bridget Mintz Testa, illustration by Metropolis Graphics -- , 6/1/2004 On September 11, 2001, some 900 radio users from 50 public safety agencies responded to the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Some of the firefighters, police, and rescue workers had trained together and had established radio protocols for sharing the airwaves. However, as other emergency crews without such training arrived, it became increasingly difficult to coordinate their ==========> 04-06-03-WashPost-ClearwireToLaunchFastInexpensiveCellularInternetService.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10974-2004Jun2.html McCaw Places New Bet On Faster, Cheaper Access Clearwire to Launch Cellular Internet Service By Yuki Noguchi Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 3, 2004; Page E05 Craig O. McCaw yesterday told an audience of wireless experts that after years of investing in cellular, satellite and local phone upstarts, he has come up ==========> 04-06-04-InfoWorld-ThePromiseAndPainOfVoIP.txt========== http://archive.infoworld.com/article/04/06/04/23FEvoip_1.html?s=feature VoIP: the promise and the pain Merging the phone system into the enterprise network makes perfect sense. But is it worth the investment? By Leon Erlanger June 04, 2004 "Our branches had every type of phone system imaginable," says Stan Adams, SouthTrust's group vice president of voice and data. With 730 branches and 13,200 employees, SouthTrust, a regional bank based in Birmingham, Ala., had ==========> 04-06-04-NewSci-HackersCanHogWiFiAccessBandwidth.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995085 The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service Greedy hackers can hog Wi-Fi bandwidth 18:05 08 June 04 Greedy computer hackers using open-source Linux machines could steal more than their fair share of bandwidth from Wi-Fi hotspots, Swiss computer scientists have warned. ==========> 04-06-07-SJMerc-AppleLauchesWiFiWirelessHardware.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63751,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3 Apple Pumps Music Through Air By Leander Kahney 12:31 PM Jun. 07, 2004 PT Apple Computer introduced a portable Wi-Fi base station Monday that doubles as a receiver for streaming music to a home stereo. The $130 AirPort Express, available in July, is an 802.11g base station about ==========> 04-06-07-SJMerc-AppleLauchesWirelessHardware.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8863640.htm Posted on Mon, Jun. 07, 2004 Apple launches wireless hardware for PCs, Macs SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Apple Computer Inc. broadened its support of Windows-based computers Monday, introducing a new wireless access device designed to work with computers running either Mac OS X or Microsoft Corp.'s operating system. ==========> 04-06-08-ReedElec-BlutoothSIGAnnouncesEnhancedDataRateSpec.txt========== http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA424022 Green light for Bluetooth: Faster speed debuts Matthew Miller, Special Projects Editor -- 6/8/2004 The Bluetooth Special Interest Group today launched Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) Bluetooth, which permits speeds up to 2.1 Mbps—three times faster than the 721 kbps that current devices can manage—while maintaining backward compatibility. Simultaneously, chipmaker CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) announced silicon supporting the new data rate. ==========> 04-06-09-PCWorld-ExpertsWarmOfVoIPSecurityProblems.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116453,00.asp Experts Warn of VOIP Security Flaws Internet phones may be susceptible to worms, viruses, and spam, some say. Matthew Broersma, Techworld.com Wednesday, June 09, 2004 Internet Protocol-based voice networks may be the wave of the future, but they will require a whole new approach to security, warned telecoms experts at the VON Europe Voice over IP conference in London this week. ==========> 04-06-11-SJMerc-CalifRulesSBCsDSLBundlingIllegal.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8902360.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 11, 2004 SBC's DSL bundling policy ruled unlawful SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - An SBC Communications Inc. policy that prevents its customers from switching their local phone service while keeping their SBC high-speed Internet connection has been ruled unlawful by a state regulatory judge. ==========> 04-06-11-SJMerc-FCCDropRequiringBellsToOfferWholesaleService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8897171.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 11, 2004 Local phone access ruling could shrink competition By John Woolfolk Mercury News Consumer advocates said Thursday that the Bush administration's decision against defending rules forcing regional Bells to sell access to their local phone networks at discounts will mean gradually rising rates and shrinking ==========> 04-06-13-SJMerc-DG-VoIPCanChallengePhoneMonoply.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8913036.htm Posted on Sun, Jun. 13, 2004 Give Swedish firm credit for VoIP underlying software By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist When it comes to making voice calls over the Internet, no company has gotten more attention lately than Skype. This is the service that lets people use PCs to make long distance and international calls for no additional charge. ==========> 04-06-14-NetWorld-DS-UWBOffersKeyAdvantages.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/0614techupdate.htmlDS-UWB enables convergence By Ian Gifford Network World, 06/14/04 The PC, consumer electronics and cellular markets are in a state of convergence as mobile communications devices are being used to carry an array of datastreams such as photographs and streaming video. But current wireless technologies don't offer sufficient data rates to support the ==========> 04-06-17-PCWorld-WiMaxOfferingBroadbandSoonerThanThought.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116545,00.asp When Will Wireless Hit WiMax Speeds? Emerging technology may deliver high-speed connectivity at lower prices--sooner than you think. Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service Thursday, June 17, 2004 With phones and local area networks steadily going wireless and consumer electronics not far behind, one part of the networked world--broadband to the ==========> 04-06-22-ZDNet-SBCPlansBillionsForHighSpeedFiber.txt========== http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-5243514.html SBC plans billions on high-speed fiber By Ben Charny CNET News.com June 22, 2004, 8:23 AM PT CHICAGO--Hoping to better compete against cable and cell phone service providers, SBC Communications has begun a five-year, multibillion construction project to deploy high-speed fiber into much more of its network. ==========> 04-06-25-SJMerc-KerryAndBushPromoteBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/election2004/ 9009716.htm Posted on Fri, Jun. 25, 2004 Kerry tells S.J. audience of broadband-access plan By Laura Kurtzman Mercury News With Silicon Valley finally recovering from the dot-com bust, both Sen. John Kerry and President Bush pitched themselves as advocates of high tech Thursday. ==========> 04-06-28-InfoWeek-KerryPledges30BForTechRandDandBroadband.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22102231 Kerry Pledges $30B For Tech R&D, Broadband Sales of unused TV transmission spectrum would fund the program. By Aaron Ricadela, InformationWeek June 28, 2004 In a visit to Silicon Valley last week, Sen. John Kerry said he would spend $30 billion to pump up U.S. research and development of science and technology, including tax incentives to make broadband Internet access available across the ==========> 04-06-28-NewSci-WiFiFindsLocationWhenGPSCant.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996058 Wi-Fi finds the way when GPS can't 09:00 28 June 04 New Scientist In the concrete canyons of city centres, GPS satellite positioning systems often fail because high buildings block the signals they rely on. But an unlikely back-up for GPS is emerging: Wi-Fi. ==========> 04-07-00-IEEEInternetComp-WirelessGrids-DistributedResourceSharing.txt========== http://dsonline.computer.org/0407/f/w4gei.htm From the Jul./Aug. 2004 issue of IEEE Internet Computing GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Wireless Grids: Distributed Resource Sharing by Mobile, Nomadic, and Fixed Devices Lee W. McKnight and James Howison • Syracuse University Scott Bradner • Harvard University Wireless grids, a new type of resource-sharing network, connect sensors, mobile ==========> 04-07-04-NewsGaz-ChampaignUrbanaPlansCommunityWirelessBroadbandNet.txt========== http://www.news-gazette.com/story.cfm?Number=16300 Wireless project aims to net C-U By GREG KLINE © 2004 THE NEWS-GAZETTE Published Online July 4, 2004 If Sascha Meinrath had his way, Champaign-Urbana would be covered with a net. An invisible net, mind you, made up of wireless computer networking devices reaching out and connecting with each other to blanket the community in its own ==========> 04-07-07-SJMerc-VoIPProvidersUrgeHandsOffApproach.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9099737.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 07, 2004 Industry urges hands-off approach for Internet voice calls WASHINGTON (AP) - Heavy regulation of phone calls made over the Internet would crimp innovation and stifle investment in the new technology, industry officials told Congress on Wednesday. The technology, known as Voice Over Internet Protocol or VoIP, converts phone ==========> 04-07-09-SJMerc-CalifRegulatorsConsiderRaisingLocalPhoneWholesaleRate.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9114576.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 09, 2004 Telecom rates battle heats up PROPOSED STATE FEE INCREASES SPARK OUTCRY By John Woolfolk Mercury News The national battle over competitive local phone service is heating up in California as state regulators consider raising the rates SBC charges rivals to ==========> 04-07-12-WiFiPlanet-BattleOVer802dot11nStandardBegins.txt========== http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3379371 802.11n: The Battle Begins July 12, 2004 This week in Portland, Oregon is the IEEE 802 Plenary Session, which includes a meeting of the 802.11 Working Group (WG) to define all the various Wi-Fi standards. Among the many Task Groups within 802.11 that will be meeting at the show, ==========> 04-07-15-NYT-UserExperiencesWithBroadband.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/15/technology/circuits/15broa.html?ex=1090937169& ei=1&en=4507ac2fe1112a44 "Living the Broadband Life" July 15, 2004 By KATIE HAFNER New York Times San Diego ==========> 04-07-21-ACLU-IssuesApplyingCALEAToVoIP.txt========== http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=16143&c=84 ACLU Letter to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Commitee Expressing Concerns about S. 2281, the VOIP Regulatory Freedom Act of 2004 July 21, 2004 The Honorable John McCain Chairman, Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings ==========> 04-07-23-SJMerc-InternetTVBetterThanAlaCarteCableAndSatellite.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9224062.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 23, 2004 Forget a la carte cable idea; the future is in Internet TV By Mike Langberg Mercury News Everyone resents the high cost of cable TV, which has gone up three to five times faster than the inflation rate in the last five years. And we're all forced to buy big packages of 50 or 100 channels to get the five or ten we ==========> 04-07-27-CNETNews-KerryAndBushDeclareImportanceOfBroadband.txt========== http://news.com.com/2009-1034_3-5261375.html Why policies must change By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 27, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT SAN JOSE, Calif.--Presidential candidate John Kerry stepped to the podium at San Jose State University here last month and declared that broadband was as important to the future of the economy as electricity. ==========> 04-08-02-CompWorld-UltrawidebandFastButStandardsWorkSlow.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/technology/story/0,10801,94896, 00.html Ultrawideband: A Better Bluetooth Outlook: The wireless personal-area network technology is more than 100 times faster than Bluetooth, but business applications are still a long way off. News Story by Matt Hamblen AUGUST 02, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Ultrawideband wireless technology has been called "Bluetooth on steroids." Like Bluetooth, its personal-area network (PAN) ==========> 04-08-07-TechNewsWorld-WorkOn802dot11nNetworkStandardBegins.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/story/35607.html TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT: Work on Higher-Speed WLAN Standard Begins By Paul Korzeniowski TechNewsWorld 08/07/04 1:30 AM PT A couple of factors are driving the need for higher-speed WLANs. First, more devices are being connected to these networks. In corporations, the number of ==========> 04-08-09-SJMerc-ATT3GUMTSPromisesNearBroadbandWirelessInternetService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9354301.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 09, 2004 AT&T's new wireless broadband a preview of good things to come By Mike Langberg Mercury News No one needs to explain why people flock to mobile phones. It's obviously a huge benefit to carry a phone that can make and receive calls anywhere. ==========> 04-08-10-EWeek-IntelGetsOKToSellUltrWidebandProducts.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1634014,00.asp Ultra Wideband Wireless Peripherals by Year's End? By Mark Hachman August 10, 2004 The nascent market for high-performance, short-range wireless peripherals took another step forward as Freescale Semiconductor Inc. received certification from the Federal Communications Commission on Monday for its ultra wideband chip set. ==========> 04-08-11-TechRev-WiFiVoIPNoThreatYetTo3GCellPhoneService.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/08/wo_brown081104.asp Voice Over WiFi: the Great Disrupter People who seek anytime, anywhere Internet access face trade-offs between 3G service over cell phones and high-speed WiFi data "hot spots." Could high-quality phone calls over wireless networks tip the scales in favor of WiFi? By Eric S. Brown August 11, 2004 What’s the point of a wireless data network if you can’t access it everywhere? ==========> 04-08-12-EWeek-WWiSeCoalitionFloats802dot11Proposal.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1635268,00.asp Industry Coalition Floats Proposal for 802.11n By Mark Hachman August 12, 2004 A second group is floating its technical proposal to replace Wi-Fi, in advance of a meeting next month to begin resolving the issue. The so-called WWiSE consortium–comprising Airgo Networks, Bermai, Broadcom, ==========> 04-08-12-WSJ-CellPhonesWith3GAndWiFiUnderDevelopment.txt========== # "Race to Link Wi-Fi, Cellphones Picks Up Speed" Wall Street Journal (08/12/04) P. B4; Parker, Ginny Handsets that integrate cellular and Wi-Fi technology are under development, most notably in Japan, where NTT DoCoMo and Fujitsu are planning to roll out products that bundle the convenience of cellular access with the low cost and high speeds of Wi-Fi. DoCoMo's Hitoshi Yasuda calls the company's new N900iL an "information terminal" with cell phone and PDA functionality that permits users to check office email, schedules, and documents recorded on the corporate server. The phone functions over wireless office networks as well as DoCoMo's ==========> 04-08-13-SJMerc-CoxUpgradesBroadbandSpeedsForSamePrice.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9395955.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 13, 2004 Cox cranks up speed on broadband service ATLANTA (AP) - In the latest sign of growing competition in the broadband Internet business, Cox Communications Inc. is speeding up its service without charging extra. The Atlanta-based company says it's boosting the data transfer rate for all ==========> 04-08-23-CompWorld-802dot11iWirelessSecurity.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,95411,00.html Wi-Fi Plays Defense The new 802.11i wireless LAN security standard is a step forward, but Wi-Fi LANs still aren't impervious to attacks. AUGUST 23, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Unbounded by the physical constraints of cabling and walls, wireless LANs have proved tricky to secure. Now that the long-awaited 802.11i standard for enhanced WLAN security has been ratified, can IT assume that WLANs have grown as secure as their cabled counterparts? ==========> 04-08-24-CNETNews-Internet2Update.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-5321053.html Internet2: 2004 and beyond By Marguerite Reardon Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified August 24, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT Internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman doesn't let a little thing like a few thousand miles stand in the way of reaching his students. ==========> 04-08-25-SJMerc-DG-FCCUnderPowellHasBeenGoodForWirelessBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9489638.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 25, 2004 FCC chief can take a bow for work in wireless arena By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist ASPEN, Colo. - On a hillside overlooking downtown Aspen, three entrepreneurs were describing Everwave, an ultra-advanced yet cheap-to-deploy network that blankets this resort community with wireless broadband service. Listening with ==========> 04-08-27-TechRev-AirlineInflightWiFiForTravelersAndCockpitUse.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/08/wo_hellweg082704.asp Wi-Fi Goes Airborne A just-inked partnership gives airline passengers secure access to their corporate networks—and opens possibilities for a broadband pipe to the cockpit. Technology Review By Eric Hellweg August 27, 2004 While the title of the punk band Dead Kennedys 1987 album, “Give Me Convenience ==========> 04-09-00-ACMQueue-VoIPSecurityShouldNotBeAnAfterthought.txt========== Queue Focus: Voice Over IP: VoIP Security: Not an Afterthought Douglas C. Sicker, Tom Lookabaugh September 2004 Queue, Volume 2 Issue 6 Voice over IP (VoIP) promises to up-end a century-old model of voice telephony by breaking the traditional monolithic service model of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and changing the point of control and provision from the central office switch to the end user’s device. Placing intelligence at the edge, in the Internet tradition, has a number of consequences: a wider ==========> 04-09-00-ACMQueue-WhatYouDontKnowAboutVoiceOverIP-VoIP.txt========== Queue Focus: Voice Over IP: You Don't Know Jack About VoIP Phil Sherburne, Cary Fitzgerald September 2004 Queue, Volume 2 Issue 6 Telecommunications worldwide has experienced a significant revolution over recent years. The long-held promise of network convergence is occurring at an increasing pace. This convergence of data, voice, and video using IP-based networks is delivering advanced services at lower cost across the spectrum, including residential users, business customers of varying sizes, and service ==========> 04-09-01-SJMerc-DG-ExcellentSkypeVoIPNowAvailableForMac.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9551564.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 01, 2004 Skype merits hype; now it's available for the Mac By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Calling home from the road just got a little cheaper. Skype, the increasingly popular Internet-telephone software, has finally arrived on the computer I use most often, a Macintosh. ==========> 04-09-16-BusWeek-AppleShouldPartnerWithSkypeOnVoIP.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2004/tc20040916_1040_tc056.htm SEPTEMBER 16, 2004 Business Week BYTE OF THE APPLE By Alex Salkever Why Jobs Should Heed VoIP's Call Apple has what it would need -- including its ongoing transition to a services outfit -- to make a "Macphone" network work ==========> 04-09-23-FedRegister-FCC-CALEAAndVoIP-NoticeOfProposedRuleMaking.txt========== FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Parts 22, 24 and 64 [ET Docket No. 04–295; FCC 04–187] Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: This document launches a ==========> 04-09-27-USNews-WiFiBringsWirelessHomeCloserButProblemsRemain.txt========== http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040927/tech/27wifi.htm Our wireless world The elusive wireless home gets closer, courtesy of Wi-Fi networks By David Lagesse 9/27/2004 US News & World Reports Andrew John makes the most of his wireless freedom. On a slow day, he grabs a laptop and strolls out to his comfy hammock, near an oak tree in his front yard ==========> 04-09-29-SJMerc-TurnerSelectsAkimboToDistributeTVOverInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9787865.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 29, 2004 Akimbo lands Net TV programs By Dawn C. Chmielewski San Jose Mercury News Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System will distribute some of its best-known shows through Akimbo, a San Mateo start-up that plans to deliver video to television over the Internet. ==========> 04-09-30-CNETNews-InterviewWithFCCChiefTechnologist.txt========== http://news.com.com/The+technologist+who+has+Michael+Powells+ear/2008-1033_3-538 8746.html The technologist who has Michael Powell's ear By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified September 30, 2004, 10:45 AM PDT The Federal Communications Commission is, for better or worse, at the heart of some of the most important technology disputes of our era. ==========> 04-09-30-EETimes-IEEEToStartWorkOnSoftwareDefinedRadioStandards.txt========== http://www.commsdesign.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=48800547 Software-defined radio advances on several fronts By Rick Merritt EE Times Sep 30, 2004 SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The IEEE will kick off in November work on a standard for fixed-access systems that use so-called cognitive radio techniques to flexibly tap unused swaths of spectrum. ==========> 04-10-04-SJMerc-WiMaxWillOfferUpTo10MileRange.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9831069.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 04, 2004 Taking WiFi to the Max INSTEAD OF A 150-FOOT RANGE, WIMAX CONNECTS TO THE NET FROM UP TO 10 MILES By Sam Diaz and Dean Takahashi Mercury News We already know how convenient it can be to sit down at the corner Starbucks and surf the Web over a wireless, high-speed Internet connection. Imagine if ==========> 04-10-12-SJMerc-SupremeCourtDeclinesToHearCaseReinstatePhoneNetworkSharing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9900401.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 12, 2004 Supreme Court declines to hear bid to reinstate phone competition rules San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear a trio of cases seeking to reinstate federal regulations that would force regional phone carriers to share their networks with competitors at discounted rates. ==========> 04-10-14-SJMerc-FCCRestrictsrequirementForPhoneCompaniesToOpenNetworks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9919643.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 14, 2004 Regulators act to speed broadband deployment San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators approved new rules Thursday aimed at making high-speed Internet available to more Americans -- but critics complained the move will hinder competition in broadband services and keep prices high. ==========> 04-10-18-EWeek-SenSununuCallsForNationalVoIPStandards.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1679410,00.asp Senator at VON Calls for National VOIP Standards October 18, 2004 By Ellen Muraskin BOSTON—Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H), the most prominent ally of the VOIP community on the Hill, addressed a large crowd of true believers Monday afternoon at the first general keynote of the Voice on the Net show here, laying out his motivations behind the major telecom bill he hopes to see written in 2005. ==========> 04-10-18-SJMerc-IsWiFiAccessAtSportingEventsGoodOrBad.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9950514.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 18, 2004 WiFi makes the big leagues BUT NOT EVERYONE IS A FAN OF ACCESS IN ARENAS By Dan Lee Mercury News In 2000, tech billionaire Mark Cuban envisioned Internet access for every fan attending a home game of his basketball team, the Dallas Mavericks. From any ==========> 04-10-19-PCWorld-PowellSeeksFCCExclusiveOversightOfVoIP.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118207,00.asp FCC Chair Urges Federal Oversight for VoIP Fledgling Internet telephony industry may need a single regulator to succeed. Tim Greene, Network World Fusion Tuesday, October 19, 2004 U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell says that after the presidential election he will try to wrest regulatory control of voice over IP from the states because to thrive as a business, the technology needs a ==========> 04-10-19-SJMerc-PowellSeeksFCCExclusiveOversightOfVoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/9960571.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 19, 2004 FCC chairman to seek exclusive federal oversight of Internet telephony San Jose Mercury News BOSTON (AP) - FCC Chairman Michael Powell said Tuesday that he would seek broad regulatory authority for the federal government over Internet-based telephone services to avoid stifling the emerging market. ==========> 04-10-20-BosGlobe-JeffPulver-VoIPPioneer.txt========== http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/10/20/industry_pioneer_s ays_rising_hype_may_hurt_growth/ Industry pioneer says rising hype may hurt growth By Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe Staff | October 20, 2004 Inside the Hynes Convention Center, it feels like 1999. About 5,000 engineers and venture capitalists have gathered here to discuss and to celebrate one of the hottest technology markets in the world -- the use of Internet technology to move telephone calls. This week's VON (for ''Voice over the Net") Conference ==========> 04-10-21-IntlHeraldTrib-PowellSeeksFCCExclusiveOversightOfVoIP.txt========== http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/20/business/voip.html Regulator vows to ease way for Net phone use By Peter J. Howe The Boston Globe Thursday, October 21, 2004 International Herald Tribune BOSTON The United States' top telecommunications regulator plans to protect fledgling Internet telephone services from being taxed and heavily regulated by the 50 state governments. ==========> 04-10-22-SJMerc-ElectionOfficialsIncreaseEVotingPhysicalSecurity.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9988083.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 22, 2004 Touch-screens under surveillance AS ELECTION NEARS, SECURITY FOR VOTING SYSTEM IS TIGHT By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Jesse Durazo is not taking any chances with this year's presidential election. ==========> 04-10-22-SJMerc-PhoneCompaniesAgainPromiseFiber.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9990705.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 22, 2004 Buoyed by regulatory wins, Bells promise fiber -- again Sna Jose Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - For at least a decade, phone companies have been promising to rewire America with fiber-optic cables. Now, with a romp of regulatory victories in hand, the regional Bells say they're free to make good on that ambitious plan to bring lightning-fast Web and TV services to all the nation's ==========> 04-10-22-SJMerc-SanFranciscoToExpandFreeWiFi.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9989988.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 22, 2004 San Francisco to expand free WiFi, community computers San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco plans to rapidly expand the number of venues where residents and tourists can get free wireless Internet access and will soon make free computers available at housing projects and community centers, Mayor Gavin Newsom said. ==========> 04-10-26-SJMerc-ClearwirePlansToDeployWiMaxNetwork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10018706.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 26, 2004 Intel bets on WiMax by backing Clearwire By Dean Takahashi Mercury News Intel and cellular phone billionaire Craig McCaw have joined forces to deliver a new high-speed wireless Internet service. ==========> 04-10-27-SJMerc-ConsumerGroupsSayFCCMarketPolicyInhibitsBroadbandGrowthInUS.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10025760.htm Posted on Wed, Oct. 27, 2004 Report: U.S. lags in speedy Internet POLICIES HOBBLE BROADBAND WEB, GROUP CONTENDS By John Woolfolk Mercury News Free-market federal policies have led to high prices that have slowed the spread of high-speed Internet service in the United States, according to a ==========> 04-10-31-SJMerc-PhoneCompaniesPrepareToOfferTelevisionService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10061834.htm Posted on Sun, Oct. 31, 2004 Phone companies prepare to enter cable TV's turf BABY BELLS SBC, VERIZON PLAN TO UPGRADE NETWORKS By Jon Van Chicago Tribune Just a few years after the telecommunications industry collapsed in a heap of overambitious investments, the nation's biggest phone companies are making ==========> 04-11-00-BusCommRev-WiMaxToutedAsMetropolitanBroadbandAccess.txt========== # "WiMAX: Broadband Wireless Access and Beyond" Business Communications Review (11/04) Vol. 34, No. 11, P. 46; Bellman, Robert Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) is being touted as a metropolitan wireless communication and portable/mobile broadband wireless solution, but is positioned in an extremely competitive arena. Technical advances benefiting WiMax include non-line-of-sight transmission and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing technologies, which enable practical broadband wireless access (BWA) in rural and suburban areas; and quality of service (QOS) enhancements beyond the scope of earlier wireless technologies that should come ==========> 04-11-00-EPIC-TextOfCALEA.txt========== http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/calea/calea_law.html Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (Bill as sent to the President) H.R.4922 One Hundred Third Congress of the ==========> 04-11-00-FCC-DOJCommentsOnCALEAAndVoIP.txt========== Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of ) ) Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act and Broadband Access and Services ) ) ==========> 04-11-00-TechRev-IssuesWithWiMaxDevelopmentAndAdoption.txt========== # "Why WiMax?" Technology Review (11/04) Vol. 107, No. 9, P. 20; Roush, Wade The forthcoming Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) metropolitan-area wireless communication standard is expected to put Wi-Fi in the shade. Wi-Fi can transmit signals across up to 100 meters indoors and 400 meters outdoors, but WiMax boasts a maximum transmission range of 50 kilometers at a peak data transfer rate of 70 Mbps. Furthermore, once industry consensus is reached on such details as WiMax data encryption, frequency allowances, and multiple-user frequency access, companies will be able to mass-produce ==========> 04-11-08-EETimes-BluetoothRoadmapUpsDataRateAndLowersPower.txt========== http://www.eetimes.com/issue/mn/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=52200120 Bluetooth road map ups data rates, lowers power By Patrick Mannion EE Times November 08, 2004 (9:00 AM EST) Manhasset, N.Y. — In an attempt to dispel concerns about the technology's future, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group this week will unveil its road map out to 2006. The document, which emphasizes higher data rates, lower power, ==========> 04-11-08-FCC-CommentsSubmittedOnExtendingCALEAToVoIP.txt========== Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of ) ) ET Docket No. 04-295 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement ) RM-10865 Act and Broadband Access and Services ) JOINT COMMENTS OF INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC INTEREST SUBMITTED ON BEHALF OF ==========> 04-11-10-SJMerc-FCCDeclaresAuthorityOverStatesOnVoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10143621.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 10, 2004 FCC declares authority over states on VoIP By John Woolfolk Mercury News Federal regulators Tuesday declared authority over the states in governing Internet phone services, a move providers called crucial to fostering growth, innovation and competitive pricing in the budding industry. ==========> 04-11-11-SJMerc-SBCLowersProjectedCostOfFiberBuildout.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10157884.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 11, 2004 SBC lowers projected cost of fiber buildout San Jose Mercury NEW YORK (AP) - SBC Communications Inc. expects the first half of its program to bring fiber-optic cables to the edge of most neighborhoods will cost $4 billion through 2007, down from an earlier projection of up to $6 billion ==========> 04-11-15-ALA-CALEAAndVoIP.txt========== http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/techinttele/calea/calea.htm CALEA: The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act * What is CALEA? * Re-Examination * Stay Involved Last Update: 15-Nov-2004 11:41 What is CALEA? The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), passed in ==========> 04-11-15-ALA-WhatYouNeedToKnowAboutCALEAAndVoIP.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 13, Number 92 November 15, 2004 In This Issue: What you need to know about CALEA and VOIP Learn more about Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), keep up to date on this quickly-changing issue, and read the comments that ALA signed on to in response to the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking at ==========> 04-11-17-SJMerc-NTTDotCoMoOffersCellPhoneUpgradeToVoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10204977.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 17, 2004 NTT DoCoMo offers upgrade to VoIP-capable cell phone TOKYO (AP) - Japan's top mobile carrier has begun marketing a cell phone for corporate customers here that works over both the local wireless and regular mobile networks. The Tokyo-based company began marketing the dual-network 3G, or ==========> 04-11-17-SJMerc-SBCToUseMSSystemForTVOverInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10206234.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 17, 2004 SBC, Microsoft sign TV-over-Net deal San Jose Mercury SAN ANTONIO (AP) - SBC Communications Inc. will use a Microsoft Corp. software system to transmit television over high-speed Internet connections like the ones SBC will offer after replacing the local arteries of its copper telephone network with fiber-optic cables. ==========> 04-11-19-SJMerc-CongressesPassesBanOnInternetAccessTaxes.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10226876.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 19, 2004 Congress renews ban on Internet access taxes San Jose Mercury WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress acted Friday to block state and local governments from taxing connections that link consumers to the Internet for the next three years. ==========> 04-11-24-SJMerc-KazaaOffersFreeInternetPhoneCalls.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10265798.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 24, 2004 File-sharing service Kazaa adds free Internet-based phone calls Sna Jose Mercury LOS ANGELES (AP) - Free Internet-based phone calls are the newest feature of the popular Kazaa file-sharing program. The offering, in a software upgrade this week, comes as Kazaa's maker, Sharman ==========> 04-11-29-Salon-NewTechnologiesWillRedefinePublicSpaces.txt========== # "Urban Renewal, the Wireless Way" Salon.com (11/29/04); Baker, Linda Forecasters believe Wi-Fi, global positioning system (GPS) locators, pervasive networking, and other new technologies will redefine public spaces by adding a digital dimension to life on the streets. The increasing linkage between computer science and urban design is being driven by several trends, including the public sphere's status as one of the few domains still unconquered by the tech industry; the emergence of technology small enough and applications big enough to enable computing in public spaces; and virtual reality's failure to ==========> 04-11-30-Reuters-VerizonAgreesToLetPhiladelphiaBuildMunicipleBroadbandNetwork.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6958646 Philly Broadband Clash Pits City Against Telcos Tue Nov 30, 2004 05:08 PM ET Reuters By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Philadelphia officials have laid the groundwork to provide wireless, high-speed Internet access anywhere in the city, but their plan is threatened under a state bill that could be signed into law on Tuesday. ==========> 04-11-30-USACM-FCCTakesVoIPJurisdictionAwayFromStates.txt========== =================================================== ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.11 (November 30, 2004) =================================================== [3] FCC CLAIMS JURISDICTION OVER VOIP REGULATION Early in November, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) claimed jursidiction over Internet telephony services such as "voice over Internet Protocol" (or VoIP) by declaring that such services are not subject to traditional state public utility regulation. In the ruling, ==========> 04-12-01-NetMag-WiMAXMightBeSuccessfulEventually.txt========== http://www.networkmagazine.com/shared/article/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=I05D3 ZKJIL102QSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleId=52600274&classroom= WiMAX Anticlimax By Andy Dornan 12/01/2004 12:00 AM EST Network Magazine When it comes to wireless, we seem to have it all. Cell phones have reached the point where many people use them instead of landlines, and Wi-Fi has made it ==========> 04-12-01-PCWorld-StatesMoveToPreventCitiesFromOfferingFreeWiFi.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118733,00.asp Barriers to Free Wi-Fi Federal and state governments usually promote competition for telecom services, but some states are blocking free Wi-Fi access. Anush Yegyazarian, PC World Wednesday, December 01, 2004 Spokane, Washington; Grand Haven, Michigan; Rio Rancho, New Mexico; St. Cloud, Florida. These are just a few of an increasing number of U.S. cities that offer ==========> 04-12-01-SJMerc-MunicipleBroadbandPlansUpsetTelecomCompanies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10313755.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 01, 2004 Despite lip service, telecom execs hate competition CITIES' NETWORKS UNDER SIEGE By Miguel Helft Telecom execs love to profess their love of competition. The reality is that many of the established telephone and cable firms -- ==========> 04-12-01-SJMerc-VerizonAgreesToLetPhiladelphiaBuildMunicipleBroadbandNetwork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10312499.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 01, 2004 Ed inking bills on Net access, zoning appeals City accord on 'Wi-Fi' keyed his assent on Web measure By Michael Hinkelman hinkelm@phillynews.com Lawyers for the city and Verizon Communications reached an agreement last night that the company would not block Philadelphia’s fledgling effort to provide ==========> 04-12-03-SJMerc-SupremeCourtToHearOpenCableInternetCases.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10332925.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 03, 2004 Supreme Court to hear dispute over cable Internet access San Jose Mercury WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider whether Internet providers should be allowed to sell their high-speed service over the cable television system. ==========> 04-12-03-SJMerc-WirelessBroadbandNetworksWillBePervasive.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/mercurynews/business/columnists/mike_langberg/1 0328785.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 03, 2004 Just try to stop the coming flood of wireless Internet services By Mike Langberg Mercury News Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty in 1776, got caught up in a different kind of revolution last week and barely managed to retain its independence. ==========> 04-12-13-SJMerc-WiFiMeshNetworksRaiseIssues.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_tech nology/10404965.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 13, 2004 The 'hot city' PLANS FOR WIFI NEIGHBORHOODS AND CITIES GAIN MOMENTUM, RAISING CIVIC AND CORPORATE ISSUES By Sam Diaz San Jose Mercury News ==========> 04-12-15-WiFiNetNews-FCCVotesToPermitBraodbandAccessOnFlights.txt========== http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004583.html December 15, 2004 FCC Decision on Ground-to-Air for Data WiFi Net News By Glenn Fleishman Misreporting abounded today about the FCC’s air-to-ground wireless spectrum decision: What really was decided in order FCC 04-287? That 4 MHz in the 800 MHz band designated for commercial air-to-ground use will be auctioned. More on ==========> 04-12-15-WSJ-TechFirmsSeekMoreWirelessSpectrum.txt========== # "Looking to Wireless for Growth, Tech Giants Seek More Spectrum" Wall Street Journal (12/15/04) P. A1; Squeo, Anne Marie Technology firms have stepped up lobbying efforts aimed at freeing more wireless spectrum, and the Bush administration and Congress are responding. Wireless technology is seen as a foundation for a new round of technology growth and innovation, but the old way of allocating spectrum has left much of that valuable commodity unused; broadcasters are unwilling to give up their spectrum rights as they move to digital transmissions, which would require less radio space than old analog technology. The Dec. 31, 2006 date for spectrum ==========> 04-12-16-SJMerc-FCCVotesToPermitBraodbandAccessOnFlights.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10431875.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 16, 2004 FCC votes to allow high-speed Web access on flights By John Woolfolk Mercury News Airline travelers could be browsing the Internet and reading e-mail routinely by high-speed Internet connections to their laptop computers in one to two years thanks to a decision Wednesday from federal regulators. ==========> 04-12-21-SJMerc-BroadbandUseSurpassesDialUpInUS.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10467777.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 21, 2004 Broadband Use Surpasses Dial-Up in U.S. ANICK JESDANUN Associated Press As prices dropped over the past year, broadband use at home has surpassed that of dial-up in the United States, reaching 53 percent of residential Web users in October, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. ==========> 04-12-21-TechNewsWorld-UltrawidebandSpecBattleStarts.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/story/39042.html Ultrawideband Spec Battle Takes Shape By Paul Korzeniowski TechNewsWorld 12/21/04 5:00 AM PT As ultrawideband products make their way to market, analysts expect their first applications to be for point-to-point connections, such as moving information between PCs and home entertainment devices such as televisions. Eventually, ==========> 05-01-01-NetMag-MoreWiFiInnovationsComing.txt========== http://www.networkmagazine.com/shared/article/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JMTJI FIZEF04SQSNDBGCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleId=55301823&classroom= Which Wi-Fi? Network Magazine By Andy Dornan 01/01/2005 12:00 AM EST Wireless networking used to be seen as complex and awkward, requiring arcane knowledge of radio engineering as well as network protocols. Wi-Fi made it seem ==========> 05-01-03-SJMerc-IndianStatePlansBroadbandNetwork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10555275.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 03, 2005 Indian State Eyes Faster Internet Project OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India - In a bid to give a big push to e-governance, an Indian state on Monday cleared a plan that will help its officials move Internet data thousand times faster than now. ==========> 05-01-03-USAToday-TelcosUseFiberPlansToObtainConcessions.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-03-fiber-cover_x.htm Posted 1/3/2005 9:35 PM Updated 1/3/2005 10:27 PM Bells dig in to dominate high-speed Internet realm By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY To hear BellSouth talk, high-speed fiber lines are the way of the future. So why is it so determined to stop Lafayette, La., a rural community in the heart of Cajun country, from installing its own fiber? Vinnie Sinatra lays fiber optic cable in Buffalo Grove, Ill., ==========> 05-01-05-CompWorld-BellLabsSeesOpenSourceForVoIP.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/networkingtopics/networking/story/0,10801,98722,00. html Bell Labs grapples with VoIP, open-source Computer World News Story by John Ribeiro Jan. 5, 2005 JANUARY 05, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and open-source technology hold great promise for cost savings, but they also threaten ==========> 05-01-06-PennStateU-VeryHighSpeedsPossibleOverPowerLines.txt========== http://live.psu.edu/story/9603 Power line data transmission capacity: Bigger than DSL or cable Thursday, January 6, 2005 Penn State University University Park, Pa. -- Penn State engineers have developed a new model for high-speed broadband transmissions over U.S. overhead electric power lines and estimate that, at full data rate handling capacity, the lines can provide bit rates that far exceed DSL or cable over similar spans. ==========> 05-01-17-CompWorld-VoIPReadyForPrimeTime.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/networkingtopics/networking/story/0,10801,98961,00. html VoIP: Ready for Prime Time With most early problems ironed out, what's missing now are the killer apps. News Story by Matt Hamblen JANUARY 17, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Four years ago, a company investing in voice-over-IP technology was taking a huge, bleeding-edge risk. Poor voice quality and reliability were all-too-common complaints. But today, many of ==========> 05-01-17-SJMerc-WiFiHotSpotsSoarTo50K.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10665721.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 17, 2005 World is going WiFi -- fast By Sam Diaz Mercury News Maybe it should be called the World Wireless Web. There are now more than 50,000 WiFi hotspots around the globe, with London ==========> 05-01-20-UCSDNews-RealTimeHDTVSentOverAdvancedNetwork.txt========== http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/JGN2.asp January 20, 2005 Real-Time HDTV Broadcast From USA To Japan Enabled By Advanced Networks Japan’s JGN2 Symposium 2005 Features Keynote Speaker Larry Smarr of UCSD Broadcast Live from Seattle over Advanced Optical Networks By Doug Ramsey Dignitaries and researchers attending the Japan Gigabit Network 2 (JGN2) ==========> 05-01-24-ColumbiaU-Noam-TheImpendingDoomofCommonCarriage.txt========== http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/wp/citi/citinoam11.html Beyond Liberalization II: The Impending Doom of Common Carriage This is the second in a series of three articles to appear in Telecommunications Policy. The previous one was Beyond Liberalization: From the Network of Networks to the System of Systems. Forthcoming is Beyond Liberalization: Reforming Universal Service. ==========> 05-01-31-SJMerc-TimeWarnerCableOffersAOLAccountsToInternetCustomers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10780679.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 31, 2005 AOL to market Time Warner Cable broadband San Jose Mercury NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) -- Time Warner Inc.'s cable unit plans to start offering America Online accounts to its Internet subscribers for no extra charge, in a move intended to boost both Time Warner Cable's Internet business and AOL's advertising sales. ==========> 05-02-00-IST-FormerFCCChairSaysMoreSpectrumeededForWirelessBroadband.txt========== # "Unleashing the Potential of Wireless Broadband" Issues in Science and Technology (02/05) Vol. 21, No. 2, P. 33; Hundt, Reed E. Former FCC Chairman Reed E. Hundt writes that the FCC and Congress should apply themselves to opening up the electromagnetic spectrum--which TV broadcasters jealously guard--to wireless broadband providers, which will trigger a cascade of new services that promise to revolutionize communications, create thousands of jobs, and transform society. He points out that government provision of licenses for frequencies will eliminate the high costs of lawsuits or negotiations between providers of machines that interfere with one another ==========> 05-02-02-PCWorld-DTVAndTVOverIP.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119491,00.asp The Brave New World of TV A mixed bag of recent and new technologies promises you a wealth of TV options. But will they actually arrive? Anush Yegyazarian, PC World Wednesday, February 02, 2005 I'm a TV kid. Some of my earliest memories are of cheesy television shows blazing their way across the living room set while the family gathered around ==========> 05-02-02-SJMerc-MergersNarrowTelecomChoicesForConsumers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10796961.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 02, 2005 Mergers narrow telecom choices for consumers By Michael Bazeley San Jose Mercury News SBC's proposed $16 billion purchase of AT&T is another reminder of the dramatic technological and regulatory changes sweeping the telecommunications industry and reshaping the choices consumers face when they shop for communications ==========> 05-02-03-NYT-WiFiEnabledPhonesUseVoIP.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/03/technology/circuits/03next.html?oref=login February 3, 2005 WHAT'S NEXT Phones to Use Wi-Fi Instead of Cellular Systems, or Both By ANNE EISENBERG NY Times TODAY people take laptops to wireless hot spots in coffee bars and airports to check their e-mail messages and to explore the Internet. Soon they may pack a ==========> 05-02-18-InfoWorld-PortablePhonesUseWiFiPlusVoIP.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/18/08FEvowip_1.html VoWIP untethers the office phone Portable office phones have instant appeal, but high costs and connectivity issues may favor gradual deployments InfoWorld February 18, 2005 The basic business phone can be a real pain. You’re not at your desk all day but your phone is, so callers get voice mail, everyone plays phone tag, and ==========> 05-03-01-USAToday-NotAllVoIPServicesOffer911Service.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-02-28-voip-usat_x.htm Posted 2/28/2005 10:29 PM Updated 3/1/2005 12:45 PM Net-based 911 fight puts lives on line By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY Seventeen-year-old Joyce John frantically grasped the portable phone and dialed 911. Downstairs, her parents struggled with two armed robbers. Joyce John with the phone on which she was unable to reach 911. At left are her parents Peter and Sosamma. ==========> 05-03-03-SJMerc-PhoneCompanySettlesChargesItBlockedVoIPCalls.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11043976.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 03, 2005 Phone firm to pay $15,000 to settle charges it blocked VoIP calls Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - In a first-of-its-kind penalty, a telephone company will pay $15,000 to settle allegations that it blocked phone lines that customers used to make calls over the Internet, federal regulators said Thursday. ==========> 05-03-07-SJMerc-VoIPWillBecomePrimaryPhoneTechnology.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11071277.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 07, 2005 Phone calls destined to be sent as data packets By John Woolfolk Mercury News The day is not far off when everyone's phone calls will be delivered much like their e-mail -- as bits of data. ==========> 05-03-09-AP-HighTechLeadersSayMoreRandDAndBroadbandNeededInUS.txt========== http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/business/11089369.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 09, 2005 U.S. losing tech lead, lobby warns More broadband, research investment needed By ERICA WERNER Associated Press WASHINGTON - Leaders of high-tech companies warned Tuesday the country risks losing its competitive edge without significant new investments in education, ==========> 05-03-09-SJMerc-VoIPConf-VoIPWillBecomeWidespread.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11088482.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 09, 2005 The talk about VoIP is ringing off the hook BUT COMPANIES SLOW TO ADOPT IT; 911 CALLS A BIG ISSUE By Sam Diaz Mercury News The buzz over VoIP is getting louder and even starting to take center stage. ==========> 05-03-16-SJMerc-BushNamesCommissionMemberMartinAsNewFCCChair.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11153263.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 16, 2005 Bush names FCC member Martin as new chairman Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Communications Commission member Kevin Martin, a lawyer with close ties to the White House, was elevated Wednesday by President Bush to chairman of the agency that regulates the nation's airwaves. ==========> 05-03-16-SJMerc-FCCCriticizedForPoorERateOversight.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11151555.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 16, 2005 Report criticizes oversight of 'E-rate' program BEN FELLER Associated Press WASHINGTON - A multibillion-dollar program that links schools and libraries to the Internet has weak federal oversight, congressional auditors have found. ==========> 05-03-16-SJMerc-VoIPJeopardizedByISPControlledInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11150577.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 16, 2005 Internet phone start-ups could bust amid a boom By Miguel Helft Mercury News By most appearances, the Internet telephone industry is on the verge of a boom. But will it happen? ==========> 05-03-16-SJMerc-VoIPProvidersInternetAccessAtRisk.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11150577.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 16, 2005 Internet phone start-ups could bust amid a boom By Miguel Helft By most appearances, the Internet telephone industry is on the verge of a boom. But will it happen? The excitement generated by the Net phones was palpable among the 6,000 or so ==========> 05-03-23-SJMerc-VoIPCompanyWithdrawsFCCRequestForLowerConnectFeeExemption.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11209516.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 23, 2005 Net phone firm withdraws FCC request By Genaro C. Armas Associated Press Mecury News WASHINGTON - A company that provides Internet phone service has withdrawn a request to federal regulators asking that it be exempt from paying higher fees ==========> 05-03-29-SJMerc-SupremeCourtQuestionsNatureOfCableInternetService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11259937.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 29, 2005 Supreme Court questions cable firms' broadband clout San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the tight control cable companies hold over high-speed Internet service in a case that will determine whether the industry must open up its lines to competitors. ==========> 05-03-30-SJMerc-TelcosTryToStopCitiesBroadbandDeployment.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11267940.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 30, 2005 Whining telcos battle cities' broadband plans By Miguel Helft San Jose Mercury News FedEx and UPS are among the most dynamic companies in America. Powered by technology, ingenuity and huge investments, they revolutionized package delivery in the United States and around the world. ==========> 05-04-00-BusCommRev-TheEvolvingWirelessLandscape.txt========== http://www.bcr.com/bcrmag/2005/04/p18.php The Evolving Wireless Landscape from the April 2005 issue of Business Communications Review, pp. 18–23 by Craig Mathias, a principal with Farpoint Group, an advisory firm specializing in wireless and mobile technologies, applications, services and products; and Lisa Phifer, vice president of Core Competence, Inc., a network security consulting firm based in Chester Springs, PA. The level of innovation within wireless technology today is, frankly, rather ==========> 05-04-04-InetNews-IDCStudy-BoomForcastInVoIP.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3495076 April 4, 2005 IDC: A Boom in VoIP By Sean Michael Kerner Internet News In 2005, research firm IDC expects that 3 million Americans will subscribe to residential VoIP services. By 2009, the number of subscribers is forecast to balloon to 27 million. ==========> 05-04-04-SJMerc-FCCRulesTelcosNeedNotOfferStandAloneDSL.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11307576.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 04, 2005 FCC insults consumers by not backing 'naked DSL' Mercury News Editorial When people in the telecom industry talk of ``naked DSL,'' there's nothing racy involved. They're simply referring to a basic service -- high-speed Internet access delivered over a phone line -- that ought to be available to any consumer who wants it. ==========> 05-04-07-SJMerc-AOLLaunchesVoIPService-2.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11334947.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 07, 2005 AOL enters VoIP arena JOINING CROWDED FIELD, INTERNET PROVIDER TO OFFER PHONE SERVICE By Sam Diaz Mercury News America Online, the nation's leading Internet service provider, will announce an Internet telephone service for its subscribers today -- a milestone that ==========> 05-04-07-SJMerc-AOLLaunchesVoIPService.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11332620.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 07, 2005 AOL launches Internet phone service in select markets Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - America Online Inc. on Thursday launched its Internet telephone service, jumping into a market that's already crowded with startups, cable operators and even traditional phone companies. ==========> 05-04-07-SmartMoney-AOLLaunchesVoIPService.txt========== http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20050407-000010-0023 AOL Launches Internet Phone Service Published: April 07, 2005 12:23 AM Dow Jones By Ellen Sheng Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--America Online wants to be your home phone provider. The online division of Time Warner Inc. (TWX) is launching a new Internet phone ==========> 05-04-07-WashPost-AOLToIntroduceVoIPService.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32849-2005Apr6.html AOL to Introduce Internet Phone Service By David A. Vise Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 7, 2005; Page E01 America Online Inc. today plans to offer local and long-distance phone service via the Internet in Washington and 43 other cities, the latest entry in an increasingly crowded market that includes the major cable and ==========> 05-04-08-SJMerc-AdelphiaDealCouldBringBroadbandToMoreCustomers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11348597.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 08, 2005 Adelphia deal could fire up high-speed Internet race By James P. Miller and Jon Van Chicago Tribune CHICAGO - With the nation's two largest cable-TV operators reportedly poised to finalize a $17.6 billion purchase of rival Adelphia Communications, the race to bring high-speed Internet service into American homes appears likely to grow ==========> 05-04-08-SJMerc-PhiladelphiaTurnsToPrivateCompaniesToProvideWirelessInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11345574.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 08, 2005 Philadelphia turns to private companies for wireless help San Jose Mercury News PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The city will tap the private sector to implement its plan for blanketing most of Philadelphia with cheap, high-speed wireless Internet access. ==========> 05-04-12-ACMUbiquity-InterviewWithVintCerf.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i12_cerf.html Cerf's Up Again! -- A New Ubiquity Interview with Vint Cerf ACM Ubiquity April 12, 2005 "I suppose you could say that it was a lot nicer when we were a more homogeneous community and all we cared about was research. On the other hand, I was a very strong supporter of commercializing the Internet system, as far back as 1988, because in the absence of doing that it wouldn't spread very far, and ==========> 05-04-12-TechNewsWorld-WiMaxFuture-BoomOrBust.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/story/wireless/41819.html Wi-Max's Future: Boom or Bust? By Paul Korzeniowski TechNewsWorld 04/12/05 5:00 AM PT Airspan Networks, Aperto Networks, Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Intel, Nokia and Proxim are some of the vendors who have been building Wi-Max products, which are small and support a variety of network transport protocols, ==========> 05-04-13-UCSD-FasterSystemDevelopedForHandoffBetweenWiFiNetworks.txt========== http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news_events/release.sfe?id=369 UCSD NEWS RELEASE FASTER HANDOFF BETWEEN WI-FI NETWORKS PROMISES NEAR-SEAMLESS 802.11 ROAMING Savage and Ramani Computer science professor Stefan Savage (right) and grad student Ishwar Ramani test their Wi-Fi handoff algorithm San Diego, CA, April 13, 2004 -- Road warriors may no longer have to stay put in an airport lounge or Starbucks to access the high-speed Internet via an ==========> 05-04-15-SJMerc-Matrix-ControversialTerrorismDatabaseShutsDown.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11405499.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 15, 2005 Controversial terrorism database shuts down San Jose Mercury News WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A three-year-old crime and terrorism database that came under fire for sharing and collecting personal information was closing down Friday because a federal grant ran out. ==========> 05-04-19-SJMerc-NextWebAnnouncesWiMaxVoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11431142.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 19, 2005 WiMax phone service coming NEXTWEB PLANS ROLLOUT IN MAY By Sam Diaz Mercury News NextWeb, a Fremont Internet service provider, plans to announce today an Internet phone service that uses a wireless technology known as WiMax. ==========> 05-04-26-TechNewsWorld-MunicipalWirelessNetworksAreControversial.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/story/1160003X2C7G.xhtml Municipal Wireless Networks Generating Controversy By Gene J. Koprowski TechNewsWorld 04/26/05 5:00 AM PT InnerWireless spokesman Tony Katsulos said that the "wireless clouds that are being discussed for Philadelphia, Minneapolis and other cities will not only be very difficult to implement, but they won't provide in-building coverage, for ==========> 05-04-29-SJMerc-CitiesShouldThinkCarefullyBeforeImplementingMunicipalWiFiNetworks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11523026.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 29, 2005 Cities should think carefully before jumping on WiFi bandwagon By Mike Langberg Mercury News Politicians once promised a chicken in every pot. In the 21st century, they're instead promising wireless Internet access on every street corner. ==========> 05-05-02-SJMerc-CellPhonesAndVoIPStress911System.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11543832.htm Posted on Mon, May. 02, 2005 Who answers 911? TECHNOLOGIES LIKE CELL PHONES AND VOIP PUT EMERGENCY RESPONDERS TO THE TEST By Sam Diaz Mercury News It's the phone number that can help save a life. ==========> 05-05-03-TechNewsWorld-WirelessUSBComing.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/story/12300045KY90.xhtml USB Ready To Ride the Wireless Wave By Paul Korzeniowski TechNewsWorld 05/03/05 5:00 AM PT Vendors have been working to transform their plans into products. In September of last year, a handful of vendors, including Intel, NEC Electronics, Texas Instruments, and Wisair, connected several wireless USB devices to computers ==========> 05-05-04-NYT-UltrawidebandProvidesWirelessFutureBeyondWiFi.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/technology/techspecial/04markoff.html? May 4, 2005 ON THE HORIZON Bandwidth Advance Hints at Future Beyond Wi-Fi By JOHN MARKOFF The NY Times San Francisco ONE barrier that has held back the much-hyped convergence of the computer and ==========> 05-05-05-ControlEngr-IEEE-USASaysGigabitNetworksShouldBeUSPriority.txt========== http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA529353?spacedesc=industryUpdates From the pages of Control Engineering IEEE-USA reports gigabit networks should be U.S. priority -- 5/5/2005 The U.S. should make it a national priority to deploy widespread wired and wireless gigabit networks, according to a new white paper from the IEEE-USA’s Committee on Communications and Information Policy (CCIP). IEEE-USA is a division of the international Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ==========> 05-05-09-RedHerring-CitiesDevelopingOwnFiberNetworks.txt========== http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=12030 Fiber Wars After years of regulatory and financial hurdles, U.S. phone companies finally start to make progress in fiber-to-the-home services. Now they’re battling local fiber initiatives in cities that got tired of waiting. May 9, 2005 Print Issue Red Herring For residents of Keller, Texas, just outside of Forth Worth, the future of ==========> 05-05-10-HollywoodRep-UtilityFormsLiningUpToOfferBroadband.txt========== http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/television/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_ id=1000913310 Broadband over power lines Utility firms are lining up to get into broadband, potentially affecting Hollywood's high-speed universe. By Robert La Franco Published May 10, 2005 Hollywood Reporter ==========> 05-05-13-MindJack-NonBroadcastAlternativesForTVProducers.txt========== http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html May 13 , 2005 | PART ONE: HYPERDISTRIBUTION MindJack October 18th, 2004 is the day TV died. That evening, British satellite broadcaster SkyOne — part of NEWS Corp's BSkyB satellite broadcasting service — ran the premiere episode of the re-visioned 70s camp classic Battlestar Galactica. (That episode, "33," is one of the best hours of drama ever written for television.) The production costs for Battlestar Galactica were ==========> 05-05-20-SJMerc-FCCRulesVoIPPhonesMustHave911Access.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11696025.htm Posted on Fri, May. 20, 2005 FCC: Net phones must have 911 NEW RULES IMPOSED TO IMPROVE SPOTTY COVERAGE By Sam Diaz Mercury News Addressing a growing public safety concern, the Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to require Internet phone companies to connect their ==========> 05-05-21-MindJack-TVProducersShouldSkipBroacastersAndSellDVDsToAdvertisers.txt========== http://www.mindjack.com/feature/newlaws052105.html May 21, 2005 | PART TWO: THE NEW LAWS OF TELEVISION MindJack There are two principle components of the new value chain of television hyperdistribution: the producer and the advertiser. An advertising agency is likely acting as an intermediary between these two, connecting producers to advertisers, working out the demographic appeal of particular programs, and selling ad payload into those programs; this is a role they already fulfill - ==========> 05-05-31-SJMerc-TelcosNotAbleToGetStaewideTVFranchiseInTexas.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11779658.htm Posted on Tue, May. 31, 2005 Verizon, SBC lose a round in fight to take on cable TV San Jose Mercury News DALLAS (AP) - Verizon and SBC are betting that consumers will shun cable TV companies and buy television service from phone companies. But first, the telcos must win over state legislators. ==========> 05-06-05-WiFiNetNews-UnitedApprovedForInFlightWiFiService.txt========== http://wifinetnews.com/archives/005365.html June 05, 2005 United Will Offer Verizon Wi-Fi In-Flight WiFiNetNews By Glenn Fleishman Verizon tested out an air-to-ground system to the FAA’s satisfaction says the Wall Street Journal: But the frequencies in question aren’t cleared for broadband use and are up for auction for that purpose. The auction might happen ==========> 05-06-06-NYT-UnitedApprovedForInFlightWiFiService.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/06/technology/06united.html? June 6, 2005 United Airlines Approved for In-Flight Internet Service By JEREMY W. PETERS NY Times United Airlines plans to announce today that it is the first domestic airline to receive approval from regulators to install wireless Internet networks on its planes. ==========> 05-06-10-ChronHigherEd-EducationGroupsUrgeUSGovtBroadbandInternet.txt========== "Education Groups Urge Federal Government to Promote High-Speed Internet Access" Chronicle of Higher Education (06/10/05) Vol. 51, No. 40, P. A27; Kiernan, Vincent A higher-education coalition whose members include Educause and the Internet2 high-speed-network consortium issued a statement last week in which they argued for amendments to federal telecommunications law to expand the scope and accessibility of high-capacity broadband Internet connections throughout the country. What is needed, the group said, is a national initiative to make the Internet capable of handling billions of bits of data each second, and ensure ==========> 05-06-16-LightReading-SkypeHasAlmostHalfOfUSVoIPMarket.txt========== http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=75833&site=lightreading&WT.svl=n ews2_4 Skype Rules North American VOIP JUNE 16, 2005 Calls using Skype Technologies SA account for nearly half of the VOIP minutes used (46.2 percent) and about 40 percent of the VOIP bandwidth used in North America, according to an analysis done by broadband management company Sandvine Inc. ==========> 05-06-16-Wired-RepBoucherOnFairUseAndBroadband.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,67853,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3 Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade By Katie Dean and Evan Hansen 02:00 AM Jun. 16, 2005 PT Rep. Rick Boucher is a rarity in Congress when it comes to digital media. He's taken the side of consumers -- not Hollywood and the music industry -- in the sundry controversies surrounding digital entertainment. ==========> 05-06-21-BusWeek-NewWirelessTechnolgiesFasterThanWiFi.txt========== http://businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2005/tc20050621_1471_tc_212.htm Warp Speed for Wireless Networks A slew of new technologies could make today's Wi-Fi seem like dial-up. Competition among the newcomers, however, promises to be fierce Business Week June 21, 2005 In the past two years, wireless technology has gone from esoteric to as mainstream as the apple tart available at Starbucks (SBUX ), which also happens ==========> 05-06-28-SJMerc-HighSpeedInternetProvidersDontHaveToOpenTheirLinesToCompetitors.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12004778.htm Posted on Tue, Jun. 28, 2005 Supreme Court shows wisdom in guarding intellectual property By Mike Langberg San Jose Mercury News Silicon Valley can breathe a huge sigh of relief. The Supreme Court of the United States really does understand how technology is changing the world, and delivered two well-reasoned decisions Monday in the closely watched Grokster ==========> 05-06-28-SJMerc-SupremeCourtRulesCableInternetProvidersDoNotHaveToShareTheirNetworks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12004773.htm Posted on Tue, Jun. 28, 2005 Court backs cable giants on broadband BIG SERVICE PROVIDERS NEED NOT SHARE NETWORKS WITH SMALL ISPS By Sam Diaz San Jose Mercury News The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that cable Internet providers such as Comcast do not have to open their broadband networks to potential competitors, ==========> 05-06-29-SJMerc-SupremeCourtRulesThatCableCompaniesNeedNotOpenTheirNetworks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12015286.htm Posted on Wed, Jun. 29, 2005 Cable ruling could tangle Internet use CONGRESS SHOULD ACT TO PREVENT PROVIDERS FROM BLOCKING ACCESS San Jose Mercury News Editorial For years, the Federal Communications Commission has sought to regulate broadband Internet providers more lightly than traditional telephone services. ==========> 05-07-05-BusCommRev-Fixed-MobileConvergence-EndToConfusionAndCommoditization.txt========== # "Fixed-Mobile Convergence: An End to Confusion and Commoditization?" Business Communications Review (07/05) Vol. 35, No. 7, P. 52; Bellman, Bob The telephony infrastructure is inefficient and confusing for users, and traffic's migration to IP is threatening to slash revenues for facilities-based carriers while third parties and virtual network operators reap the big profits. But confusion and commoditization could end with fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) that makes the same voice, data, and video services accessible and controllable from all phones. With FMC, cable and DSL providers can take advantage of the quad-play opportunity; wireline providers can defend ==========> 05-07-09-WaveReport-BroadbandPowerLineTutorial.txt========== http://www.wave-report.com/tutorials/bpl.htm Broadband Power Line Tutorial By James Stenger Wave Report [Accessed July 9, 2005 Broadband power line (BPL) is the term coined by the FCC for new modems (BPL modems) used to deliver IP-based broadband services on electric power lines. On April 23, 2003, the FCC adopted a Notice of Inquiry (NOI), expressing ==========> 05-07-11-CNETNews-BigNameCompaniesInvestInPowerlineBroadband.txt========== http://news.com.com/Broadbands+power-line+push/2100-1034_3-5780316.html Broadband's power-line push By Marguerite Reardon CNET News Story last modified Mon Jul 11 04:00:00 PDT 2005 A big-ticket investment by three corporate heavyweights in a little-known start-up that provides Internet access over electrical lines has sparked renewed interest in a technology that's never come close to living up to its ==========> 05-07-18-InfoWeek-WidelyAvaiableWiFiBecoingImportantToCompanies.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165702620 Work Without Wires July 18, 2005 Most companies are content with a couple of Wi-Fi conference rooms, but Capital One thinks a wireless campus will spur game-changing brainstorms. Is it time to reconsider the potential of wireless? By Elena Malykhina InformationWeek For some 1,500 employees and contractors working for Capital One Financial ==========> 05-07-19-WSJ-FCCChairSaysMoreBroadbandUseATopPriority.txt========== # "Fighting a Broadband Battle" Wall Street Journal (07/19/05) P. A4; Schatz, Amy Kevin Martin, the recently appointed chairman of the FCC, claims that his top priority will be to bring high-speed Internet access to the entire country. To achieve that end, he has maintained that telephone and cable companies should be under no obligation to share their lines with competitors, and he has argued that states should offer wireless Internet service in sparsely populated areas where current providers are reluctant to do so, though he would prefer those connections to be offered privately. However, many telephone companies have ==========> 05-08-00-BusCommRev-LackOfMainstreamDeploymentsChallengesVoIP.txt========== # "Voice Over Wi-Fi: No Slam Dunk" Business Communications Review (08/05) Vol. 35, No. 8, P. 40; Wexler, Joanie Voice over IP (VoIP) delivered over Wi-Fi remains a formidable challenge, given the lack of mainstream enterprise deployments. Widespread wireless VoIP adoption will hinge on further Wi-Fi/telephony integration and perhaps mutually advantageous standards to support those IP-PBX calling features that encourage firms to select their PBX supplier. Those standards must also allow E-911 applications to operate from Wi-Fi handsets; fully support emerging applications for presence management; and permit the wireless VoIP network to ==========> 05-08-00-SWDev-VoIPPotentialSpursPredictionsOfConsumerAdoption.txt========== # "Visions of VoIP" Software Development (08/05) Vol. 13, No. 8, P. 42; Ravella, John; Falcone, Joe; Meyrick, Gareth Although the vision of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) continues to outclass the reality, the technology's potential for digital convergence, cost savings, and cool experimentation is spurring experts to predict wide consumer adoption. Since the emergence of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), the phone system has relied on virtual circuits using packet-switched architectures. Digital transmission of voice data between two points has evolved across three ==========> 05-08-02-Wired-TeamSetsNewWiFiDistanceRecord.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,68395,00.html Hackers Annihilate Wi-Fi Record By Kim Zetter Wired 02:00 AM Aug. 02, 2005 PT LAS VEGAS -- A group of young hackers who broke a world record for Wi-Fi connectivity last year can expect to hear from the Guinness folks again. ==========> 05-08-03-RedHerring-USBroadbandPenetration-ImpressiveOrUnderwhelming.txt========== http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=13031&hed=U.S.+Goes+High+Speed%2c+Slowl y U.S. Goes High Speed, Slowly Red Herring August 3, 2005 In the U.S., broadband will be in 62 percent of households by 2010—impressive or underwhelming? In South Korea, 75 percent of households already have high-speed access. ==========> 05-08-05-SJMerc-FCCSaysTelcosNeedNotShareDSLLinesWithOtherProviders.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12313046.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 05, 2005 FCC: Telecoms won't have to share DSL lines Sa Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - Beginning in about a year, phone companies won't have to lease their high-speed lines to competing Internet service providers at government-set rates, the Federal Communications Commission decided Friday. ==========> 05-08-08-SJMerc-FCCRulesTelcosNeedNotProvideLinesToAlternativeDSLProviders.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12331081.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 08, 2005 FCC eases rules on high-speed Net service PHONE FIRMS NOT REQUIRED TO LEASE LINES TO RIVALS By Matthai Chakko Kuruvila Mercury News Federal regulators Friday eliminated rules that forced phone companies to rent out network access to rival DSL services, a move criticized by consumer ==========> 05-08-09-WiFiPlanet-FCCSuggestsConsumersOpenWebsuteAccess.txt========== http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3526361 FCC: 'Net Neutrality' For All By Roy Mark August 9, 2005 WiFi Planet Remember the dreaded "walled gardens," where closed-system broadband providers would decide what content would be delivered over their high-speed pipes? The end of the Internet as we know it? ==========> 05-08-10-CNETNews-EnvisioningAWirelessFuture.txt========== http://news.com.com/Envisioning+a+wireless+future/2010-1071_3-5825836.html Envisioning a wireless future By Dave Mock CNET Networks Story last modified Wed Aug 10 04:00:00 PDT 2005 When taken in small doses, technical evolution seems fluid and almost natural. But considering the advances in technology over the course of decades reveals a much more radical transformation of the way we live, communicate and entertain. ==========> 05-08-15-ChristSciMonitor-PowerLineBroadbandWaitingForAdoption.txt========== http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0815/p13s01-stct.html The Christian Science Monitor - csmonitor.com from the August 15, 2005 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0815/p13s01-stct.html Web access may be as close as an electrical outlet By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Those wanting high-speed access to the Internet essentially have two choices: Buy it from a cable TV company or from the local telephone company. ==========> 05-08-16-SJMerc-SFRumoredToBeAnnoucingFreeWiFiInitiative.txt========== http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/08/16/san_francisco_to_announce_free_wif i_initiative.html San Francisco to announce free WiFi initiative? San Jose Mercury News Aug. 16, 2005 newsom.jpgThis could be really big, if true. Though we're sure it will take time, and that SF Mayor Newsom (pictured here) will have a fight on his hands from jealous carriers. But he's been known to go it alone before (remember, gay ==========> 05-08-18-CNETNews-IntelCreatesDigitalCommunitiesInitiativeToAssistMunicipleWirelessProjects.txt========== http://news.com.com/Cities+join+Intels+Wi-Fi+program/2100-7351_3-5838623.html?ta g=nefd.top Cities join Intel's Wi-Fi program By Michael Singer CNET Networks Story last modified Thu Aug 18 14:05:00 PDT 2005 Intel and several corporate partners launched a program on Thursday aimed at helping cities use wireless networks to better serve their citizens--and ==========> 05-08-19-InsideBayArea-CitiesWeighOfferingFreeWirelessInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/ci_2922941 Cities ponder offering wireless coverage for free By Francine Brevetti - STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area LIFE, LIBERTY, the pursuit of happiness and free WiFi. Is this our new standard of American freedoms? Increasingly, Americans think that municipal governments should not just fix potholes and maintain water pipes but also should serve up free high-speed ==========> 05-08-19-SJMerc-IntelHelpsCitySetUpWiFiNetworks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12425369.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 19, 2005 Intel helps cities set up WiFi nets 'ON THE CUSP OF A REVOLUTION,' ANALYST SAYS By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Intel has been lending a hand to communities across the globe to help them develop citywide wireless Internet systems, the company said Thursday. ==========> 05-08-19-SJMerc-SFMunicipleWiFiNetworkFacesHurdles.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12425371.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 19, 2005 S.F. WiFi proposal out on a tech limb By Mike Langberg Mercury News San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom got nationwide publicity last year by marrying gay couples in City Hall, but now he's launching a crusade he regards as even more controversial: building a high-speed wireless Internet system offering ==========> 05-08-19-TechNewsWorld-MunicipleWirelessIsABadIdea.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/45576.html OPINION Just Say 'No' to DMV-ization of Broadband By Sonia Arrison TechNewsWorld 08/19/05 5:00 AM PT If City Hall can barely afford to provide residents the critical services that matter most, such as police, fire protection, and public transportation, why ==========> 05-08-20-MuniWireless-AnotherMunicipleWirelessProject.txt========== http://muniwireless.com/municipal/810 MuniWireless Municipal Wireless Topic Archive * Home * Municipal Wireless Regulatory projects, policies, and legislation. * Applications Practical implementations of wireless at work. * Community Social relevance and impact on everyday life. ==========> 05-08-20-MuniWireless-LatestNewsAboutMunicipleWirelessProjects.txt========== http://muniwireless.com/ MuniWireless Welcome! MuniWireless is the portal for news and information about citywide wireless broadband projects around the world. * Municipal Wireless Regulatory projects, policies, and legislation. * Applications Practical implementations of wireless at work. ==========> 05-08-29-CompWorld-DistanceDetectionMayHelpSecureWiFi.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,104242,00.htm l Distance detection may help secure Wi-Fi News Story by Stephen Lawson ComputerWorld AUGUST 29, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Intel Corp. is developing a way to locate a Wi-Fi user by timing how long it takes for packets to travel to and from a wireless access point, which could prevent users outside a house or office from ==========> 05-09-00-PCWorld-ClosedCableNetAndGroksterSuitThreatenInnovation.txt========== http://pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,121761,00.asp Technology on Trial: What's at Stake Will legal clashes smother breakthrough products before they ever appear? Harry McCracken From the September 2005 issue of PC World magazine Nine of the most influential people in technology don't work in Silicon Valley or Redmond, Washington--and you won't see them giving keynote speeches at trade shows or hawking gadgets on TV. They're the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, ==========> 05-09-00-PCWorld-ProposedDSLRulesThreatenSmallISPs.txt========== http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121947,00.asp Proposed DSL Rules Threaten Small ISPs FCC may release phone companies from obligation to let other ISPs lease DSL lines. Jeff Bertolucci From the September 2005 issue of PC World magazine Carole Sumler of Santa Monica, California, wants her Brand X Internet--and fears the Federal Communications Commission will take it away. ==========> 05-09-09-Reuters-ChinaTelecomSaidToBlockSkypeToProtectRevenue.txt========== http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-09 -09T133130Z_01_BAU948593_RTRIDST_0_NET-TELECOMS-CHINA-CHINATELECOM-DC.XML China Telecom said to block Skype Fri Sep 9, 2005 9:31 AM ET15 By Doug Young Reuters SHANGHAI, Sept 9 - China Telecom has started blocking access to a popular Internet telephone service that is threatening its long-distance revenue, ==========> 05-09-12-SJMerc-NewWiFiPhonesUseHomeWirelessNetworks.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12624741.htm Posted on Mon, Sep. 12, 2005 WiFi phone taps into home wireless broadband nets By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News Cordless phones, your days are numbered. An emerging class of WiFi phones lets you tap into your wireless home network ==========> 05-09-12-SJMerc-StudySaysConsumersDoNotUnderstandVoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12624738.htm Posted on Mon, Sep. 12, 2005 Tech Notebook: We hear VoIP gets excellent mileage By Jessie Seyfer, Dean Takahashi and Matt Marshall Mercury News All the major tech companies -- including Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google -- have been investing millions of dollars in VoIP, an acronym for Voice over Internet Protocol, which is a fancy term for making phone calls over the Internet. ==========> 05-09-14-SJMerc-AirgoNetworksClaimsTechnologyForFourTimesFasterWiFi.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12642293.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 14, 2005 Wireless networks could get a boost PALO ALTO FIRM SAYS ITS CHIPS TO INCREASE SPEED By Dean Takahashi Mercury News A Palo Alto company has created two new wireless chips that industry observers say will open the door to much faster and more convenient home networks. ==========> 05-09-14-SJMercPhiladelphiaWiFiNetOverBudgetAndBehindSchedule.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12642309.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 14, 2005 Philadelphia experiment a cautionary tale on WiFi By Mike Langberg Mercury News There's a new tech bubble emerging nationwide, complete with eager Silicon Valley companies lining up to sell their wares, that could start deflating this morning. ==========> 05-09-15-ElecDes-WiMAXSetToMoveFromDesignToProducts.txt========== http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=10973 "The WiMAX Wait Is Over" Electronic Design (09/15/05) Vol. 53, No. 20, P. 55; Frenzel, Louis E. WiMAX is set to move beyond the design stage and into the world of real products in the coming months. Initially developed for metro-area networks and standardized as 802.16d, WiMAX can be deployed on both licensed and unlicensed spectra, with the most common bands being 3.5GHz in Europe and Asia and 2.3GHz to 2.5GHz and 5.8GHz in the U.S. Applications can either use frequency-division ==========> 05-09-19-WorkKnow-TheBroadbandExplosion-ATrulyInteractiveWorld.txt========== http://workingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4990&t=technology The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World September 12, 2005 When true broadband arrives, everything will change—work, play, and society—say professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley. What a truly interactive world will look like is the subject of their new book The Broadband Explosion. Sep. 19, 2005 Issue by Sara Grant, Publications Coordinator, HBS Working Knowledge ==========> 05-09-22-InfoWorld-3GAndWiMaxOfferMobileBroadband.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/09/22/39FEwamobile_1.html Wireless broadband's long and winding road Truly pervasive, high-speed mobile data services won't happen overnight By Galen Gruman September 22, 2005 First, the good news: for companies planning to deploy broadband connectivity to their mobile workforces, the options have never looked better. Initial rollouts of 3G (third-generation) cellular data technology are fulfilling the ==========> 05-09-22-SJMerc-BroadbandAdoptionRateSlows.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12712762.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 22, 2005 Broadband users signing up at slower rate NEW HIGH-SPEED USERS OF INTERNET HAVE RISEN SLIGHTLY By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News So many Americans have already moved from slower to high-speed Internet connections on their home computers that the growth rate of new high-speed ==========> 05-09-26-CNETNews-NewVoIPTechnologyEliminatingTheNeedForComputer.txt========== http://beta.news.com.com/VoIP+wants+to+cut+the+computer+cord/2100-7352_3-5879421 .html VoIP wants to cut the computer cord By Stefanie Olsen and Marguerite Reardon Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: September 26, 2005, 4:00 AM PDT Mark Bruk, a frequent business traveler, always packs a Plantronic headset with an ear bud and microphone so he can plug into any computer and make phone calls ==========> 05-09-26-SciAm-NewWiFiWillBeMoreCapable.txt========== http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00036961-D024-13 32-902483414B7F0000 September 26, 2005 Smart Wi-Fi Wireless access to the Internet via Wi-Fi is increasingly popular, so the technology is being upgraded to ensure that users get prompt, reliable service By Alex Hills Scientific American ==========> 05-09-30-GigaOm-GoogleConfirmsPlansToBidOnSanFranciscoWiFiNet.txt========== http://gigaom.com/2005/09/30/google-confirms-san-francisco-wifi-plans/#more-5153 Google Confirms Free San Francisco WiFi Plans Giga Om Sept. 30, 2005 Google is making a bid to build a San Francisco-wide free wifi network, according to company officials. The company today filed documents in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s request for information for the city wide network. Google’s WiFi plans were first reported by Business 2.0 magazine as ==========> 05-10-00-CheifExec-MITsFergusonSaysPhoneSystemObstacleToBroadbandAdoption.txt========== # "Our Broadband Fiasco" Chief Executive (10/05) No. 212, P. 16; Galuszka, Peter U.S. broadband deployment is being held up, and MIT visiting scholar Charles Ferguson warns that its slow rollout could cost the U.S. economy up to $1 trillion over 10 years. Although the country's size relative to other nations is a challenge for widescale broadband implementation, a far greater obstacle is the telephone service system. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires phone companies to allow broadband suppliers to piggyback on their networks, but these companies frequently refuse. In addition, there are regulations and ==========> 05-10-04-EarthlinkWinsPhiladelphiaWiFiContract.txt========== http://news.com.com/EarthLink+wins+Philly+Wi-Fi+contract/2100-7351_3-5888494.htm l?tag=nl EarthLink wins Philly Wi-Fi contract By Declan McCullagh CNET Networks Story last modified Tue Oct 04 12:10:03 PDT 2005 The city of Philadelphia has awarded EarthLink a high-profile contract to build a Wi-Fi network stretching over 135 square miles, marking the formal start of ==========> 05-10-04-SJMerc-EarthlinkAFinalistToBuildPhiladelphiaMunicipleWirelessNet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12814438.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 04, 2005 Earthlink is finalist to build Philly's wireless net Mercury News PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A nonprofit group named by Philadelphia's mayor chose Earthlink Inc. as the finalist to provide high-speed wireless Internet access for city residents, a city official said. ==========> 05-10-06-InfoSocTech-ProjectNOBELLookingAtBroadbandForAll.txt========== http://istresults.cordis.lu/popup.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&ID=78793&AutoPrin t=True Information Society Technologies 6 Oct 2005 Developing ‘broadband for all’ Towards broadband for all Increasing the spread of broadband connectivity throughout Europe is central to the growth of the knowledge economy. Yet broadband technology is hardly new. So what is holding back wider ==========> 05-10-18-Forbes-OpenSourceSWAndInternetMayMakeFCCIrrelevant.txt========== http://www.forbes.com/businesstech/2005/10/18/open-source-software-FCC_cz_df_101 8opensource.html Does Open-Source Software Make The FCC Irrelevant? Daniel Fisher, 10.18.05, 10:00 AM ET Forbes Columbia Law School Professor Eben Moglen wants to destroy the Federal Communications Commission. Not as some kind of terrorist act, but because technology is rapidly making it irrelevant. ==========> 05-10-18-Salon-WhyIsUSBehindTheRestOfTheWorldInBroadband.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/10/18/broadband/index_np.html Free American broadband! In France, you can get super-fast DSL, unlimited phone service and 100 TV channels for a mere $38 a month. Why does the same thing cost so much more in the U.S.? By S. Derek Turner Oct. 18, 2005 Next time you sit down to pay your cable-modem or DSL bill, consider this: Most ==========> 05-10-19-NewSci-BalloonBeamsBroadbandFromStratospehere.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8177 Balloon beams broadband internet from stratosphere 11:46 19 October 2005 NewScientist.com news service Will Knight The broadband balloon was tested for nine hours in 200km from the Arctic Circle (Image: CAPANINA) ==========> 05-10-23-NikkeiBP-IEEE80211nAndUltrawidebandVieToBecomeStandard.txt========== http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/neasia/002271 NE Asia OCT 2005 Issue 802.11n or UWB? NikkeiBP [Accessed Oct. 23, 2005] Two major candidates are competing to become the wireless interface destined to feature in home digital equipment: IEEE802.11n, and Ultra-WideBand (UWB). The day is coming fast when home digital equipment will have wireless ==========> 05-10-24-InvestBusDaily-USConsidersSpectrumAuctionWhenTVGoesAllDigital.txt========== # "Feds Mull Wireless Auction for the Spectrum Left Over When TV Goes All-Digital" Investor's Business Daily (10/24/05) P. A6; Krause, Reinhardt With Congress apparently moving toward setting a 2009 deadline for all broadcasters to switch from analog to digital TV transmission, the question is what should be done with the vacated analog spectrum. Legislators intend to reserve about 30 percent of the spectrum for public safety services, and auction off the rest. With a mid 2009 deadline for implementing digital TV, the remaining spectrum would probably be auctioned off in 2008. The Congressional ==========> 05-10-25-SJMerc-SanJoseConsidersExpandingDowntownWiFiAccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12992088.htm Posted on Tue, Oct. 25, 2005 San Jose considers WiFi expansion DOWNTOWN INTERNET ACCESS ON AGENDA By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News The San Jose City Council is set to vote today on whether to seek proposals to expand areas of free wireless Internet access downtown. ==========> 05-10-26-SJMerc-SanJoseWillSeekBidsForExpandedDowntownWiFiNet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13001098.htm Posted on Wed, Oct. 26, 2005 S.J. will seek bids for WiFi plan EXPANDED ACCESS TO NET WILL FOCUS ON DOWNTOWN By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News In what could be a step toward citywide wireless Internet service, the San Jose City Council Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to expand free wireless access ==========> 05-10-27-SJMerc-JusticeOKOfSBCandATTMergerRequiresLeasingLinesToOthers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13012930.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 27, 2005 Justice OKs big telecom mergers, with conditions Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's two biggest local phone companies received approval Thursday from antitrust regulators to buy the two largest long-distance carriers in multibillion-dollar mergers that would change the landscape of the telecommunications industry. ==========> 05-10-31-SJMerc-JusticeOKOfSBCandATTMergerRequiresLeasingLinesToOthers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13044804.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 31, 2005 FCC approves SBC-AT&T, Verizon-MCI unions Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators approved SBC Communications' takeover of AT&T and Verizon Communications' purchase of MCI Monday in a move consumer activists called anticompetitive. ==========> 05-10-31-SJMerc-SFWirelessMayBeMeshNetwork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13043832.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 31, 2005 Municipal wireless system could be a mesh SAN FRANCISCO PROPOSAL PUT SPOTLIGHT ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGY By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News When San Francisco sounded the call for ideas this summer on how to bring cheap, wireless Internet connections to the entire city, technology industry ==========> 05-11-04-NewsSci-OptionsForFutureBroadbandAccess.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825236.400&feedId=info-tech_rss10 04 November 2005 Battle for the future of mobile broadbandPremium Paul Marks Magazine issue 2523 High-speed internet connection is heading for the wide open spaces, but just don't ask how best to log on ==========> 05-11-07-BusWeek-ATTCEOPlansToChargeHighBandwidthProvidersToUseNetwork.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/@@n34h*IUQu7KtOwgA/magazine/content/05_45/b3958092.h tm NOVEMBER 7, 2005 Online Extra: At SBC, It's All About "Scale and Scope" CEO Edward Whitacre talks about the AT&T Wireless acquisition and how he's moving to keep abreast of cable competitors SBC Telecommunications' financial performance of late hasn't been much to write home about. For the third quarter, it just reported flat earnings of $1.2 ==========> 05-11-08-GoogleBlog-VintCerfSupportsNetNeutrality.txt========== http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/vint-cerf-speaks-out-on-net-neutrality.ht ml Vint Cerf speaks out on net neutrality Google Blog 11/08/2005 01:21:00 PM Posted by Alan Davidson, Washington Policy Counsel, DC office Congress is holding a hearing tomorrow, Wednesday, November 8th, on "network neutrality" and a big new telecommunications bill affecting the Internet. Vint ==========> 05-11-08-SJMerc-FCCSaysOKToContinueVoIPWithout911ButNoNewSubscribers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13113313.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 08, 2005 FCC clarifies VoIP disconnection deadline Mecury News WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission won't require Internet phone service providers to cut off customers who don't have reliable 911 emergency call service. ==========> 05-11-08-WSJ-FCCSaysOKToContinueVoIPWithout911ButNoNewSubscribers.txt========== http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113145839817891158.html?mod=technology_main_what s_news VOIP Providers Continue Service November 8, 2005 10:23 a.m. Wall Street Journal Internet phone companies that aren't able to offer customers emergency 911 calling capability by Nov. 28, as mandated by a Federal Communications Commission ruling, won't have to cut off service but may have to stop marketing ==========> 05-11-11-CommsDes-IntelClaimsWiMAXAlreadyASuccess.txt========== http://www.commsdesign.com/news/market_news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17360169 3 11 November 2005 Intel claims WiMAX already a success By Mobile Pipeline Staff Mobile Pipeline Nov 10, 2005 Intel claimed Wednesday that, even though officially certified WiMAX products ==========> 05-11-11-SJMerc-GooglePlansMtViewWiFiNet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13142353.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 11, 2005 Google details Mtn. View WiFi plan HUNDREDS OF TRANSMITTERS WOULD GIVE FREE ACCESS, BRIDGE DIVIDE By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Google says it wants to use the city of Mountain View as a test ground to show that giving people wireless Internet connections on a large scale is a good ==========> 05-11-15-BusWIre-JointIndustryAndGovtDemoOfLongDistanceInfiniBand.txt========== http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ne wsId=20051115005934&newsLang=en November 15, 2005 10:52 AM US Eastern Timezone Business Wire Joint Industry and Government Initiative to Demonstrate Long Distance InfiniBand(R) at SC05 Supercomputing 2005 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2005--Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, ==========> 05-11-16-SJMerc-DemocratsAgendaIncludesRandDFundingAndBroadbandInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13179956.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 16, 2005 Democrats release technology agenda By Jim Puzzanghera Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Making a play for tech-industry support heading into the 2006 midterm elections, Democrats in the House of Representatives released an ``innovation agenda'' Tuesday to restore U.S. competitiveness through increased ==========> 05-11-16-SJMerc-FreeWiFiConvertsUser.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13182591.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 16, 2005 An education in the world of wireless By L.A. Chung Mercury News I was a WiFi virgin. I use my computer the old-fashioned way -- hunkered over a desk in the spare ==========> 05-11-16-SJMerc-MtViewCalifAcceptsGoogleFreeWiFi.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13182596.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 16, 2005 Mtn. View accepts Google's offer of free WiFi By Renee Koury Mercury News With hometown Internet star Google offering to blanket Mountain View with free wireless Internet access, the city is leaping ahead of neighbors in the race to be Silicon Valley's most tech-savvy town. ==========> 05-11-20-Advertiser-LayfayetteLAWinsChallengesToMetroNetwork.txt========== http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051120/OPINION01/51120 0329/1014 Court challenges to LUS fiber plan should end now The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette, LA Originally published November 20, 2005 After an initial legislative setback, the Lafayette Utilities System is batting 1.000 recently as it tries to fight off challenges to its plan to sell TV, phone and Internet service to homes and businesses. ==========> 05-11-24-WashPost-TechCompaniesInFavorOfNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/23/AR2005112302200. html Renewed Warning of Bandwidth Hoarding By Jonathan Krim Thursday, November 24, 2005; D01 Washington Post A couple of years ago, a group of big technology companies got together and issued a public alarm about the future of the Internet: ==========> 05-11-29-SJMerc-DeadlinePassesForVoIP911Service.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13286523.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 29, 2005 Deadline passes for VoIP providers to offer 911 service Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - Vonage Holdings Corp., the nation's largest provider of Internet phone service, and several smaller companies could be barred from signing up new customers in many markets because they failed to meet a deadline to provide reliable emergency 911 service to all subscribers. ==========> 05-11-29-SJMerc-NewOrleansLaunchesFreeWirelessInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13284760.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 29, 2005 New Orleans launches free wireless Internet service Mercury News NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In an attempt to boost its stalled economy, the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans is starting the nation's first free wireless Internet network owned and run by a major city. ==========> 05-11-29-Slashdot-ProblemsWithVoIP911Service.txt========== http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=169705&cid=14143735 VoIP E911 Issue Slashdot by mynametaken (412791) on Tuesday November 29, @09:31PM (#14143735) I work for a company that provides E911 service for VoIP providers. I won't get into all the details but there are quite a few misconceptions so far on this board. The big problem with VoIP, other than the fact that we can't determine where you are (unlike wireless where at least we know your closest cell tower, ==========> 05-11-30-SeattlePI-FCCLimitsVoIPGrowthWithout911Service.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/250212_vonage30.html Wednesday, November 30, 2005 FCC orders limits on VoIP service growth Agency links expansion to emergency calling By DAN RICHMAN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER A federal agency has barred providers of Internet-based phone service from offering it to new customers in areas of the country where the companies don't ==========> 05-12-01-EashPost-BellSouthWantsToChargeWebsitesForSpeed.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113002109. html Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed Some Say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 1, 2005; D05 A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service ==========> 05-12-01-SJMerc-SkypeProvidesVideoInternetPhoneCalls.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13301663.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 01, 2005 Skype rolls out video-call update By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Skype, the makers of a popular program that allows people to make free or cheap phone calls over the Internet, released a new version of its software today that lets people view their callers face to face. ==========> 05-12-01-WashPost-BellSouthChiefWantsToChargeForWebSpeed.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113002109. html Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed Some Say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 1, 2005; D05 A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service ==========> 05-12-03-SJMerc-MetroFiPlansAdvertisingSupportedWirelessInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13319065.htm Posted on Sat, Dec. 03, 2005 Free WiFi for all in Sunnyvale METROFI MAY OFFER NON-PAY SERVICE IN OTHER CITIES By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Mountain View-based MetroFi is expected to announce today that it plans to bring free, advertising-supported wireless Internet service to all 130,000 ==========> 05-12-07-SJMerc-YahooToOfferInternetCalling.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13349163.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 07, 2005 Yahoo's new online phone calls near By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Yahoo is expanding its reach in the fast-growing Internet calling market, offering a service that will allow people to make and receive low-cost computer calls to and from regular phones. ==========> 05-12-09-SJMerc-HDRadioMayReviveMedium.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13368933.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 09, 2005 Radio industry fights towering problems By Dawn Chmielewski Mercury News My 14-year-old son is a symptom of what ails radio. When it comes to finding new music, Alex is tuned into everything -- except the ==========> 05-12-12-SJMerc-NewSkypeChiefHasPlansForUSMarket.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13389217.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 12, 2005 Ebay finds its voice POINT MAN FOR SKYPE HAS HIGH HOPES FOR U.S. MARKET By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News What does Tony Soprano have in common with Skype Technologies, the software program that allows you to make free phone calls over the Internet? The answer: ==========> 05-12-14-NetWorld-InternationalIPv6VoiceCallsSuccessfullyTested.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/isp/2005/1212isp1.html IPv6 voice, mobility tested Second round of tests focused on IPv6 application-layer functionality By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 12/14/05 A team of university, military and corporate network engineers successfully demonstrated international voice calls and mobility applications running on IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol. ==========> 05-12-16-TheAge-SomePlacesBlockInternetPhoneCalls.txt========== http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/broadband-battles/2005/12/15/1134500943 128.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 Broadband battles The Age New York December 16, 2005 On a business trip to London in August, Jeff Pulver was blocked from making an internet phone call over the broadband connection in his hotel room. He had no ==========> 05-12-21-CNETNews-ECommerceSitesAndISPsProtestTieredBroadbandPricing.txt========== http://news.com.com/Playing+favorites+on+the+Net/2100-1028_3-6003281.html Playing favorites on the Net? By Anne Broache and Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: December 21, 2005, 4:00 AM PST Broadband providers and e-commerce companies, historic allies on many political fronts, are finding themselves butting heads over federal legislation that could change the way either side does business. ==========> 05-12-27-PCWorld-SpywareDataSecurityAndTelecomOnCongress2006Agenda.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124086,00.asp Congress Ready to Tackle Tech Issues in 2006 Spyware, data security, and telecom reform will be on the agenda next year. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Tuesday, December 27, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Congress will face a broad range of technology-related issues, including communications law reform and data-privacy issues, when it returns to work in 2006. ==========> 06-01-00-WashMonthly-USAdoptingBroadbandFastEnough.txt========== http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0601.podesta.html January/February 2006 Let There Be Wi-Fi Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century—and much of America is being left in the dark. By Robert McChesney and John Podesta, Washington Monthly Two decades ago, the chattering classes fretted about economic upheaval rising from Japan and the Asian Tigers. They feared an invasion of cars, microchips, ==========> 06-01-03-Corante-TelcosHoardingSpectrum.txt========== http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/03/diminishing_returns_on_spectru m.php January 03, 2006 Diminishing Returns on Spectrum Posted by Dana Blankenhorn australian%20auction.gifThe U.S. government approved yet-another auction of spectrum last week. (The picture is of bids in an Australian spectrum auction.) ==========> 06-01-06-WSJ-TelcosWantToCollectProviderFeesForFastConnections.txt========== # "Phone Companies Set Off a Battle Over Internet Fees" Wall Street Journal (01/06/06) P. A1; Searcey, Dionne; Schatz, Amy; Young, Shawn BellSouth, AT&T, Verizon, and other large phone companies want to collect fees from Internet content providers for fast access to high-quality music, movies, and other material that is sent over their telecommunications networks. Providers that pay such fees would find their user transactions prioritized, which means consumers would be able to access content faster. Network operators are attempting to prioritize Internet traffic amid rising consumer demand for the reliable delivery of phone service, real-time video games, and video. ==========> 06-01-10-LATImes-DirecTVMaySpend1BillionForHighSpeedInternetAccess.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dtv10jan10,1,3899872.story?coll=la-headlin es-business&ctrack=1&cset=true January 10, 2006 DirecTV May Spend $1 Billion for Web Foray From Bloomberg News L.A. Times DirecTV Group Inc., the El Segundo-based satellite television company controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., may spend as much as $1 billion to ==========> 06-01-16-MktWatcht-BellSouthWantsToChargeWebsitesForSpeed.txt========== http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B02432D2D-1EE0-4037-A15F-54B748 D6CF26%7D&siteid=mktw&dist= BellSouth wants new Net fees By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch Last Update: 4:40 PM ET Jan. 16, 2006 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- BellSouth Corp. confirmed Monday that it is pursuing discussions with Internet content companies to levy charges to reliably and speedily deliver their content and services. ==========> 06-01-17-InfoTechSoc-UMTS-IntegrationOfLandCellAndSatelliteTelephonyNeeded.txt========== http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Feat ures/ID/80098 As terrestrial telecoms dial into satellite networks Information Societies Technology Jan. 17, 2006 Improving the integration of satellite networks with more traditional terrestrial telephone infrastructures, will help next generation telephony move from concept towards reality, as researchers are demonstrating. ==========> 06-01-17-NewsRect-BellSouthWantsToChargeWebsitesForSpeed.txt========== http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060117/NEWSREC0103/60117 0304/1018/NEWSREC0203 BellSouth venture causes controversy By Michelle Jarboe Staff Writer, News & record Article published Jan 17, 2006 A new endeavor by BellSouth could slash the time it takes computer users to download movies, games and other large Internet files. ==========> 06-01-18-NetPipeline-Google-WeWontPayExtraFeesForBandwidth.txt========== http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/google_we_wont.html January 18, 2006 Google: We Won't Pay Broadband Cyberextortion Networking Pipeline Posted by Preston Gralla at 11:16 AM BellSouth and Verizon have been trying to force big Web sites to pay extortion-type fees if the sites want adequate bandwidth, with Google a prime target. But Google has news for them: It won't pay. ==========> 06-01-20-SJMerc-UltrawidebandWirelessFormatWarLooms.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13674259.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 20, 2006 Format war looms for new ultra-wideband wireless standard Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - A technology that promises to replace the cables behind TV sets and entertainment centers with wireless connections appears to be headed for a format war, after two industry organizations formally broke off their collaboration. ==========> 06-01-22-WashPost-TelcosWantToChargeWebsitesForSpeed.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/AR2006012100094. html The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet The Washington Post By Christopher Stern Sunday, January 22, 2006; B01 Do you prefer to search for information online with Google or Yahoo? What about bargain shopping -- do you go to Amazon or eBay? Many of us make these kinds of ==========> 06-01-26-JVSV-PublicPrivateCollaborationToDesignValleyWideWirelessNet.txt========== http://www.jointventure.org/inthenews/pressreleases/012606wireless.html Press Release Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network Contact: Richard Ajluni, Director, External Relations (408) 938-1526, San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority (SAMCAT) Brian Moura, Chairman, SAMCAT Board of Directors 650-802-4210 ==========> 06-01-27-SJMerc-AOLReturnsToBroadbandMarket.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13729704.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 27, 2006 AOL returns to broadband access market Mercury News NEW YORK (AP) - America Online Inc. may be focusing lately on expanding free offerings on its advertising-supported Web sites, but that doesn't mean it has given up on its declining Internet access business. ==========> 06-01-27-SJMerc-SiliconValleyGroupSolictsBidsForPublicWirelessDataNetwork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13727217.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 27, 2006 Seeking valley's wireless future GROUP TO SOLICIT BIDS TO BUILD HUGE PUBLIC NETWORK By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Silicon Valley leaders have a bold vision of a public wireless network stretching from East Palo Alto to Santa Cruz. What they don't have yet: a ==========> 06-01-27-WebsiteOpt-ChinaToPassUSInBroadbandLines.txt========== http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0601/ China will pass US in Broadband Lines by late 2006 - Worldwide Broadband Survey - US Broadband Penetration Breaks 65% Among Active Internet Users - January 2006 Bandwidth Report Web Site Optimization Tracked on January 27, 2006 04:08 AM Summary: China will pass the US in total broadband subscribers by the end of 2006. The US fell to 19th overall in broadband penetration worldwide, and is in ==========> 06-01-30-FinTimes-ATTCEO-ContentProvidersMustPayForBandwidth.txt========== http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3ced445e-91c5-11da-bab9-0000779e2340.html AT&T chief warns on internet costs By Paul Taylor in New York Published: January 30 2006 23:58 | Last updated: January 30 2006 23:58 Financial Times Ed Whitacre, AT&T’s chairman and chief executive, warned on Monday that internet content providers that wanted to use broadband networks to deliver high-quality services such as movie downloads to their customers would have to ==========> 06-01-30-SJMerc-ConcernsOverWirelessSiliconValleyDataNetwork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13747480.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 30, 2006 Plan for a wireless valley raises questions By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Setting up a wireless Internet hotspot at your local cafe is relatively easy. Building a secure, affordable high-speed wireless network to cover Silicon ==========> 06-01-30-SJMerc-PhiladelphiaAndEarthlinkFinalizeMetroWiFiContract.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13748639.htm Posted on Mon, Jan. 30, 2006 Philadelphia, EarthLink finalize contract for Wi-Fi network Mercury News PHILADELPHIA (AP) - EarthLink Inc. has finalized a 10-year contract to provide wireless Internet service across Philadelphia, a city official said Monday. Philadelphia was the first large city to announce plans to build a wireless ==========> 06-01-31-SJMerc-MetroFiOffersFreeServiceInSomeCities.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13755256.htm Posted on Tue, Jan. 31, 2006 MetroFi offers free service in some cities TRADE-OFF FOR INTERNET USERS: AN AD STRIP AT TOP OF SCREEN By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Mountain View's MetroFi announced Monday it was abandoning fees for its wireless Internet service, giving residents in several Silicon Valley cities ==========> 06-02-00ACMNetWorker-NoNeutralPositionsOnNetNeutrality.txt========== ACM netWorker, Volume 10, Number 2 (2006), Pages 18-25 Net neutrality? there's nothing neutral about it, By Aaron Weiss One thing is clear: The erosion of Net Neutrality principles will destroy the Internet as we know it... or, depending on your perspective, the enforcement of Net Neutrality principles will destroy the Internet as we know it. Pick your poison? The long-simmering debate over what role network operators including the Bell and cable companies should or should not play in squeezing their bandwidth for profit is quickly raging into a full-on boil. ==========> 06-02-00-ACMNetWorker-TheMoralityOfSharingWiFiConnections.txt========== netWorker Volume 10, Number 2 (2006), Pages 11-14 Business: the 8th layer: Wi-Fi and the morality of sharing Laurie Rowell A few weeks back my cable connection went down just as I was mailing a time-sensitive draft. Muttering, I pawed through a tangle of wires for a telephone cord. To my disgust, I no longer even had a corded phone from which to pirate one. ==========> 06-02-00-CACM-CommonPerilsInTheWirelessCommons.txt========== Wireless commons perils in the common good Jan Damsgaard, Mihir A. Parikh, Bharat Rao February 2006 Communications of the ACM, Volume 49 Issue 2 Individuals acting in their own self-interest over time can destroy a wireless commons. In the last few years, high-speed wireless access to the Internet has grown rapidly. Surprisingly, this growth has not come through cellular phone networks ==========> 06-02-00-NetWorker-ComprehensiveLookAtNetNeutrality.txt========== netWorker Volume 10, Number 2 (2006), Pages 18-25 Net neutrality? there's nothing neutral about it Aaron Weiss One thing is clear: The erosion of Net Neutrality principles will destroy the Internet as we know it... or, depending on your perspective, the enforcement of Net Neutrality principles will destroy the Internet as we know it. Pick your poison? The long-simmering debate over what role network operators including the Bell and cable companies should or should not play in squeezing their ==========> 06-02-02-PCWorld-TelecomCompaniesAgainstNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,124558-c,adsvisitortracking/article.html Tech.gov: A Gated Internet The companies who build and control the Internet's pipes want to control the content over those pipes, too. Anush Yegyazarian, PC World Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:00 AM PST You fire up your computer and want to watch some clips of yesterday's game. You go to your favorite sports Web site, but pages are taking forever to load. ==========> 06-02-02-TeleTruth-TelcosDidNotDoBroadbandAsAgreed.txt========== http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm Bruce Kushnick, bruce@teletruth.org 718-238-7191 TeleTruth $200 Billion Broadband Scandal [Accessed Feb., 2, 2006] This book documents the largest fraud case in American history The case is simple: Do you have a 45 Mbps, bi-directional service to your home, ==========> 06-02-03-SJMerc-BushPicksTelecomLobbyistForFCC.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13785543.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 03, 2006 Telecom attorney is Bush's pick for FCC Mercury News WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush chose telecommunications attorney and lobbyist Robert McDowell on Friday to take an open seat at the Federal Communications Commission, a move that would restore the agency's 3-2 GOP majority. ==========> 06-02-05-WiFiNews-FonPlansGlobalWiFiCommunity-SortOfWiFiRoaming.txt========== http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006266.html February 05, 2006 Google, Skype, Others Invest in Fon By Glenn Fleishman WIFI Net News I have noticeably ridiculed Fon since its hapless announcement and subsequent hype fest two months ago (Reuters, Associated Press, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune): Today, news broke that instead of a bottom-up, ==========> 06-02-06-NYT-IBMToUnveil10XWiFiChip.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/06/technology/06chip.html February 6, 2006 Those Cables Behind the Television May Become Obsolete By JOHN MARKOFF The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5 — A team of I.B.M. researchers plans to report this week that they have used standard chip-making materials to develop a high-speed wireless technology that could do away with the bulky cables that now connect ==========> 06-02-06-SJMerc-FonPlansGlobalWiFiCommunity-SortOfWiFiRoaming.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13805695.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 06, 2006 Start-up opens world to WiFi SKYPE, GOOGLE BACK SPANISH COMPANY By Matt Marshall Mercury News A number of big-name technology investors have put $21.7 million into a company that wants to build a global WiFi community allowing members to share WiFi ==========> 06-02-06-SJMerc-IBMToUnveil10XWiFiChip.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13805047.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 06, 2006 IBM to unveil 10-times-faster WiFi chip By Dean Takahashi Mercury News IBM plans to announce today that it has created a prototype chip that can enable wireless networking at 10 times the speed of today's standard WiFi chips. ==========> 06-02-06-ZDNet-FonPlansGlobalWiFiCommunity-SortOfWiFiRoaming.txt========== http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=67 February 6, 2006 Neither a Linus nor a Bill be…? Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe @ 9:42 am ZDNet Blogs FON's getting a ton of coverage today, and deservedly so. It's a bold project to create a vast, indeed global, shared Wi-Fi network. Founder Martin Varsavsky's blog posting about the company's raising funds from some big names ==========> 06-02-07-CNETNews-WithoutNetNeutralityConsumersMayPayTwice.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-6035906.html Without 'Net neutrality,' will consumers pay twice? By Marguerite Reardon CNET Networks Story last modified Tue Feb 07 04:00:00 PST 2006 The debate over whether broadband providers should be allowed to prioritize the traffic they carry and to charge companies to ship data via their networks is about to get its second airing in Washington. ==========> 06-02-07-PCWorld-CerfAsksForInternetNeutralityLaw.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124654,00.asp 'Father of the Internet' Asks for Internet Neutrality Law Vinton Cerf says Congress should pass law forbidding discrimination against competing Web services. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Tuesday, February 07, 2006 WASHINGTON -- The man often called the father of the Internet told U.S. lawmakers today that the future of the Internet is at risk if Congress does not ==========> 06-02-07-Senate-CerfAsksUSSenateForInternetNeutralityLaw.txt========== http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/cerf-020706.pdf Prepared Statement of Vinton G. Cerf Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Google Inc. U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Hearing on “Network Neutrality” February 7, 2006 ==========> 06-02-07-WashPost-VerizonExecCallsForEndToGooglesFreeLunch.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR2006020601624. html Verizon Executive Calls for End to Google's 'Free Lunch' By Arshad Mohammed Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2006; D01 A Verizon Communications Inc. executive yesterday accused Google Inc. of freeloading for gaining access to people's homes using a network of lines and ==========> 06-02-08-CNETNews-BroadbandTelecomLawRewritePlannedFor2006.txt========== http://news.com.com/Broadband+law+rewrite+planned+for+2006/2100-1028_3-6036677.h tml Broadband law rewrite planned for 2006 By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Wed Feb 08 10:14:21 PST 2006 WASHINGTON--A senior Republican congressman on Wednesday said his committee hopes to propose a "comprehensive" overhaul of the nation's telecommunications ==========> 06-02-08-WSJ-NetNeutralityDebateHeatsUpInSenateHearing.txt========== 'Net Neutrality' Debate Heats Up at Senate Hearing Wall Street Journal (02/08/06) P. B7; Brown, Emily Ann Several Internet companies and Google are urging Congress to pass a law that would ban telecommunications networks from charging consumers more for some services and controlling what they can get off the Internet. The "net neutrality" debate has been heating up for some time now after some phone companies suggested they plan to bill companies for delivery of specific Internet services while Congress is considering amending the 1996 telecommunications act. Net neutrality is the idea that network operators ==========> 06-02-15-AP-NokiaAndMotorolaAnnounceWiFiEnabledCellPhones.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13880229.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 15, 2006 WiFi-enabled cell phones star at industry show BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - ``Call me back on the landline'' may soon sound like a quaint, turn-of-the-century instruction to the ears of many mobile phone users. Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc., the world's biggest branded handset makers, both unveiled phones at a tradeshow here this week that switch between cellular ==========> 06-02-15-AP-TelcosAndCableCompaniesBattleOverVideoServicesLegislation.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13880151.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 15, 2006 Phone, cable battle over video services and need for legislation WASHINGTON (AP) - For consumers who yearn to see their monthly cable TV bills shrink, phone companies say they have just the answer: more competition. They want Congress to make it easier for them to roll out their new video services that would compete with cable. The cable industry protests that such ==========> 06-02-16-AP-IsEncryptedVoIPAWiretapKiller.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13889705.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 16, 2006 Is Skype a wiretap killer? By Peter Svensson AP Technology Writer NEW YORK - Even as the U.S. government is embroiled in a debate over the legality of wiretapping, the fastest-growing technology for Internet calls appears to have the potential to make eavesdropping a thing of the past. ==========> 06-02-17-AP-ChicagoPlansCitywideWiFi.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13899715.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 17, 2006 Chicago gears up for citywide Wi-Fi, joining nationwide push CHICAGO (AP) - The nationwide rush to go wireless appears poised to extend to its biggest city yet. Chicago is launching an effort to offer wireless broadband, city officials said Friday, jumping on the Wi-Fi bandwagon as similar initiatives proceed in ==========> 06-02-21-AP-AOLRaisesDialupRatesToEqualBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13926488.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 21, 2006 Dial-up or broadband?: AOL will charge the same NEW YORK (AP) - America Online Inc., seeking to encourage its subscribers to sign up for high-speed connections, is raising the price of its main dial-up plan to equal that of its new broadband offerings. That means most subscribers will pay $25.90 a month for either dial-up or ==========> 06-02-21-SFGovt-SFReceivesSixProposalsForWiFiNetwork.txt========== http://www.sfgov.org/site/tech_connect_page.asp?id=37706 Tuesday, February 21, 2005 City & County of San Francisco *** PRESS RELEASE *** SAN FRANCISCO ONE STEP CLOSER TO CREATING AFFORDABLE UNIVERSAL WIFI Today marked the close of the City's Request for Proposal to create first of its kind affordable, universal wireless broadband network ==========> 06-02-21-SJMerc-FreeWiFiHardToBeat.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13924638.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 21, 2006 For many users, free WiFi is hard to beat By Mike Langberg Mercury News My friends Chuck and Penny, who live down the street from me in Cupertino, have won the free WiFi lottery. ==========> 06-02-22-AP-GoogleAndEarthlinkBidOnSFWiFiNetwork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13935455.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 22, 2006 Google, EarthLink team up on bid to provide Wi-Fi in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. is joining EarthLink Inc. in a bid to build a wireless network in San Francisco that would offer basic Internet access for free and charge about $20 per month to surf the Web at higher speeds. The partnership, revealed late Tuesday night, represents the first time that ==========> 06-02-22-SJMerc-GoogleAndEarthlinkSubmitSanFranciscoWiFiPlan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13933122.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 22, 2006 Google, EarthLink submit S.F. WiFi plan By Dean Takahashi Mercury News Google and EarthLink have teamed up to submit a proposal to create a city-wide wireless Internet network for San Francisco, officials said Tuesday. ==========> 06-02-23-SFChron-GoogleAndEarthlinkBidOnSFWiFiNetwork.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/23/BUGESHCVK61.DTL S.F. Wi-Fi network bidding heats up Google, EarthLink team to lead field of competitors - Ryan Kim, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, February 23, 2006 Google and EarthLink lead the field of competitors angling to create a municipal Wi-Fi Internet network that will blanket the city of San Francisco. ==========> 06-02-23-SJMerc-SFWiFiProposalsRangeFromPayToNonPayPlans.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13942436.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 23, 2006 S.F. WiFi plans unveiled SERVICE PROPOSALS RANGE FROM PAY AND NON-PAY TO PUBLIC TV MODELS By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Six proposals, six very different ways to provide a city-wide wireless Internet network in San Francisco. ==========> 06-02-23-SJMerc-VideoInternetCallsIncreasing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13942437.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 23, 2006 Video calls growing By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News When Ruriko Yamaki sits down to teach an English lesson, she's usually alone in her Cupertino apartment. But with a few clicks of her mouse, she can come face to face with students half a world away. ==========> 06-02-27-SJMerc-RuralAreasLagInBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13973796.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 27, 2006 Rural areas lagging in broadband Internet 39 PERCENT OF URBANITES HAVE HIGH-SPEED ACCESS By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News The number of residents living in rural parts of the country who have high-speed Internet access at home has more than doubled over the past two ==========> 06-02-27-TechRev-MITAndCityCollaborateOnMunicipleMeshNetwork.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Networks/wtr_16427,258,p1.html Monday, February 27, 2006 Municipal Mesh Network Protocols developed at MIT are helping the city of Cambridge to go wireless. By Neil Savage Technology Review The residents of Cambridge, MA, may soon be able to log onto the Internet from any bus stop or city park. The city is working with MIT to go wireless, with a ==========> 06-02-28-USACM-CerfCautionsCongressForNetNeutrality.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.2 28 February 2006 ============================================================= CERF CAUTIONS CONGRESS ON INTERNET FAST LANES Members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee met this month for a hearing into so-called “Net Neutrality,” the range of issues ==========> 06-03-00-SciAm-NewWirelessDevicesSwitchFrequenciesAsNeeded.txt========== http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=000C7B72-2374-13 F6-A37483414B7F0000 March 2006 Cognitive Radio Smart radios and other new wireless devices will avoid transmission bottlenecks by switching instantly to nearby frequencies that they sense are clear By Steven Ashley, Scientific American Your favorite radio station transmits on a specific frequency. When you set ==========> 06-03-02-AP-SupremeCourtReturnsPrinterInkCaseToKowerCourt.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13997432.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 02, 2006 Supreme Court returns printer ink case to lower court WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court sided Wednesday with a company that makes printheads and the ink that goes in them, in a decision that may make it harder for competitors to sue over market power. Justices, in the 8-0 decision, ordered a new round of consideration in lower ==========> 06-03-02-CompWorld-TechGroupsUrgeCongressToKeepNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legislation/story/0,108 01,109135,00.html Tech groups urge Congress to keep net neutrality The message: Consumers, not network providers, should choose which sites and services they use News Story by Grant Gross MARCH 02, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - More than 60 technology companies, consumer advocates and trade groups are urging a U.S. House of Representatives committee ==========> 06-03-02-SJMerc-EarthlinkToProvideExtrasForPhiliadelphiaWiFi.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13997434.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 02, 2006 Philly Wi-Fi network to pay for computers, training PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia on Wednesday announced details of its deal with EarthLink Inc. for the construction of a high-speed wireless network that will span the city, including provisions for EarthLink to pay for computers, training, and subsidize Internet access for low-income households. ==========> 06-03-03-AP-DSLPriceWarIncreasesNewSubscribers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14011709.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 03, 2006 DSL price war helps close gap with cable broadband NEW YORK (AP) - Last year was the first in which telephone companies added more broadband Internet subscribers than their cable TV rivals did, according to a research report. The largest DSL providers, which have been engaged in a price war that has ==========> 06-03-06-RedHerring-TheWiFiRevolt.txt========== http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=15966 Magazine Preview: The Wi-Fi Revolt! "The Wi-Fi Revolution" and more in the March 13 issue of Red Herring, which reaches newsstands on Monday. March 6, 2006 If anything keeps executives of old-line phone companies up at night, it’s probably telecommunications upstarts like FON. The Google-backed company and others like it are looking to allow people to communicate more cheaply using ==========> 06-03-07-SJmerc-ATT-BellSouthCombinationDebated.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14038450.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 07, 2006 AT&T-BellSouth deal sets off alarm bells CONSUMERS FEAR LESS COMPETITION, BUT ANALYSTS DISAGREE By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Consumer advocates worried Monday that AT&T's $67 billion acquisition of BellSouth would lead to less competition and higher phone bills, but other ==========> 06-03-07-SJMerc-ATTBellSouthDealThreatensNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14039224.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 07, 2006 AT&T merger poses Web threat BELLSOUTH DEAL UNDERSCORES NEED TO PRESERVE `INTERNET NEUTRALITY' Mercury News Editorial As AT&T continues to reassemble the scattered pieces of the empire dismantled in the 1984 breakup of Ma Bell, the notion that government regulators would set up road blocks, or even speed bumps, on the path to its $67 billion takeover of ==========> 06-03-08-NetWorld-HurdlesRemainForFasterWiFi.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/030806-intel-wi-fi.html Intel Developer Forum panel: Hurdles remain on road to faster Wi-Fi Vendors say IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi standard needs a lot of work to make it commercially acceptable. By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, 03/08/06 The upcoming IEEE 802.11n standard, promoted as the key to wirelessly sharing high-quality multimedia content throughout a home, still faces some speed bumps on the way to making that vision a reality. ==========> 06-03-08-ProgAndFreedomFound-MoveToMarketBasedSpectrumAllocation.txt========== http://www.pff.org/news/news/2006/030806dacaspectrumreport.html News Release Progress and Freedom Foundations DACA Releases Spectrum Reform Proposal Working Group Sees Efficiency, Innovation from Market-Based Allocation March 8 , 2006 WASHINGTON D.C. – Introducing property rights and market forces into spectrum allocation would achieve the most efficient usage and promote development of ==========> 06-03-09-TechDirt-FCCRefusesToAcknowledgeOpenSpectrum.txt========== http://techdirt.com/articles/20060309/0317233.shtml Open Spectrum? Bah, Who Needs It! from the wifi-anyone? dept Tech Dirt March 9, 2006 We've been among those arguing for years that it's about time that the FCC comes up with a real comprehensive spectrum allocation plan -- but, instead, they keep dribbling out spectrum here and there while waiting for the day when ==========> 06-03-12-Salon-TheMythOfRadioFrequencyInterference.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/12/spectrum/print.html The myth of interference Internet architect David Reed explains how bad science created the broadcast industry. By David Weinberger March 12, 2003 | There's a reason our television sets so outgun us, spraying us with trillions of bits while we respond only with the laughable trickles from our remotes. To enable signals to get through intact, the government has ==========> 06-03-13-NetWorld-IETFTakingOn911ProblemWithVoIP.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/031306specialfocus-911-voip.html IETF taking on 911 problem within VoIP PROGRESS REPORT: ECRIT By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 03/13/06 The Internet engineering community is making progress on the thorny issue of how best to route emergency communications such as 911 calls over the Internet. Advertisement: ==========> 06-03-14-Wired-PushingTheInternetIntoSpace.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70377-0.html?tw=wn_technology_4 Pushing the Internet Into Space By Joanna Glasner 02:00 AM Mar, 14, 2006 EST Wired Currently, it can take about 40 minutes to relay information from a Mars rover to a NASA scientist -- a rather amazing feat, considering the data has between 100 million and 400 million kilometers to travel. ==========> 06-03-15-CNETNews-NetNeutralityDebateHeatsUp.txt========== http://news.com.com/Debate+heats+up+over+Net+neutrality/2100-1037_3-6049863.html Debate heats up over Net neutrality By Marguerite Reardon CNET Networks Story last modified Wed Mar 15 12:33:44 PST 2006 SAN JOSE, Calif.--Speculation that the two biggest phone companies in the country, AT&T and Verizon Communications, are planning to create a tiered Internet system that would require big bandwidth hogs like Google or Yahoo to ==========> 06-03-16-AP-SenateCommitteeRecommendsTelecomAttornetForFCC.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14115843.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 16, 2006 Senate panel recommends telecom attorney for FCC seat WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to recommend confirmation of Robert McDowell to the Federal Communications Commission, a move that would restore the agency's 3-2 GOP majority. The nomination needs approval from the full Senate. ==========> 06-03-16-ContextMag-TheMythOfRadioFrequencyInterference.txt========== http://www.contextmag.com/setFrameRedirect.asp?src=/archives/200212/Insight2TheS kysNoLonger.asp Insight: The Sky's No Longer the Limit Context Mag [Accessed March 16, 2006] After the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, the U.S. government decided to set up a dedicated emergency channel so that it would always be possible to radio warnings to ships and avert future disasters. The government ==========> 06-03-16-NetParadox-UnlimitedBandwidth.txt========== http://www.netparadox.com/netparadox.html The Paradox of the Best Network David Isenberg and David Weinberger The communications revolution has been thwarted Net Paradox, [Accessed March 16, 2006] Just a few short months ago, it seemed that humanity stood on the edge of a communications revolution.? New technology promised to topple barriers of space and time. We were on the verge of inventing new ways for the world to work and ==========> 06-03-17-CIOBlogs-WhoOwnsTheInternetAndNetNeutrality.txt========== http://blogs.cio.com/node/209 Net Effect By Ben Worthen Cioblogs Who owns the Internet? We have a map that shows you. Friday, March 17, 2006 What is this ball of colors? It is the North American Internet, or more specifically a map of just about every router on the North American backbone, ==========> 06-03-20-CNETNetworks-MoreGroupsSupportNetNeutrality.txt========== http://news.com.com/Push+for+Net+neutrality+mandate+grows/2100-1028_3-6051062.ht ml Push for Net neutrality mandate grows By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Mon Mar 20 07:03:37 PST 2006 The American Association of Retired Persons, better known as the AARP, may be more famous for its lobbying muscle on pension plans and Medicare, but now it's ==========> 06-03-21-AP-CEOSaysATTPlansNoThreatToNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14153748.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 21, 2006 AT&T CEO plays down threat to Net neutrality LAS VEGAS (AP) - Ed Whitacre Jr., the chief executive of AT&T Inc., dismissed critics who say its planned merger with BellSouth Corp. will form a near-monopoly for Internet access and give it the clout to dictate terms to Web sites if they want to remain reachable. ==========> 06-03-21-CNETNews-CEOSaysATTWouldNotBlockAccess.txt========== http://news.com.com/AT38T+chief,+FCC+chair+clarify+on+Net+neutrality/2100-1034_3 -6052239.html AT&T chief, FCC chair clarify on Net neutrality By Marguerite Reardon CNET Networks, Story last modified Tue Mar 21 16:47:52 PST 2006 LAS VEGAS--AT&T CEO Edward Whitacre, whose comments initially ignited the debate over whether new laws were needed to preserve network neutrality, said ==========> 06-03-21-ZDNet-CEOSaysATTWouldNotBlockAccess.txt========== http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6052239.html AT&T chief, FCC chair clarify on Net neutrality By Marguerite Reardon ZDNet LAS VEGAS--AT&T CEO Edward Whitacre, whose comments initially ignited the debate over whether new laws were needed to preserve network neutrality, said here on Tuesday that fears his company and other big network providers would block traffic on their networks are overblown. ==========> 06-03-23-AP-TelcosSeeOpportunityInTVOverPhoneLines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14170759.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 23, 2006 Phone companies see a hit in TV over phone lines LAS VEGAS (AP) - At the telecommunications conference here this week, a visitor could be forgiven for thinking he missed a turn and walked into the wrong trade show, a more glamorous one that dealt with entertainment rather than the plain old telephone system. ==========> 06-03-23-FinTimes-NetNeutralityVisionGettingInWayOfSensibleDebate.txt========== https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier?referer=http://technews.acm.org /&location=http%3A//news.ft.com/cms/s/76d85cb6-ba11-11da-9d02-0000779e2340.html The net neutrality dogfight shaking up cyberspace By Patti Waldmeir Published: March 23 2006 02:00 | Last updated: March 23 2006 02:00 Financial Times From the beginning of internet time, those who love the net have tried to pretend that the laws of nature, economics and geography - not to mention human ==========> 06-03-28-AP-BluetoothGroupAdoptsUltrafastRadioTechnology.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14206617.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 28, 2006 Bluetooth group adopts ultrafast radio technology NEW YORK (AP) - The Bluetooth wireless standard used in cell phones and other small devices will take a leap in transmission speed, broadening its scope to enable high-definition video and files for digital music players like the iPod. The industry group behind Bluetooth said Tuesday that it would boost transfer ==========> 06-03-28-LightReading-TelcosSayP2PTrafficOKForNow.txt========== http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=91565&WT.svl=news1_2 RBOCs Wait & See on P2P MARCH 28, 2006 Light Reading AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T - message board), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ - message board), and Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q - message board) don’t have hard, fast policies in place to deal with consumer peer-to-peer traffic. Despite the hype about P2P traffic volumes on carrier ==========> 06-03-29-TeleOnline-FarberCallsForSmallGroupToDiscussNetNeutrality.txt========== http://telephonyonline.com/regulatory/news/Net_Neutrality_Farber_032906/ Technologist proposes Net neutrality solution By Carol Wilson Telephony Online Mar 29, 2006 9:16 AM A former chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission is calling for a fact-based solution to the Net neutrality issue, to be determined by a neutral group of experts, meeting out of the glare of the current hype. ==========> 06-03-29-WashPost-InternetFirmsWantFCCToEnforceNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032801664. html Internet Firms Want FCC to Enforce Net Neutrality House Bill Would Limit Agency's Authority By Arshad Mohammed Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 29, 2006; D04 Internet companies yesterday criticized legislation that would give the Federal ==========> 06-04-00-IEEESpectrum-ChallengesSeenInTelephonyTransitionToInternet.txt========== Telephony's Next Act IEEE Spectrum (04/06) Vol. 43, No. 4, P. 28; Mockapetris, Paul V. Nominum Chairman Paul Mockapetris sees several challenges in telephony's transition from circuit-switched networks to the Internet, specifically those associated with enabling the network to choose the best mode of communication by keeping track of all potential communicating parties, their hardware, and their services, and choosing the proper mix for each contact. Such challenges include integrating the telephone system with the Internet via voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and fortifying the segment of the network that handles ==========> 06-04-04-Bus2-FormerFCCChairWarnsAgainstNaivetteOnNetNeutrality.txt========== http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2006/04/powell_warns_ne.html Powell Warns Net Neutrologists Not to Be Naive Business 2.0 Blog [Accessed April 4, 2006] Former FCC chairman Michael Powell is up on the stage at the Freedom to Connect conference right now, and he warns the tech elite crowd here not to be naive about the dangers of asking Congress for legislation on Net Neutrality. As he explains: ==========> 06-04-04-NetWorld-MITResearchersAttackWirelessShortcomings.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/040406-mit-it-conference.html MIT researchers attack wireless shortcomings, phishing MIT proposes opportunistic coding and Web Wallets. By Bob Brown, NetworkWorld.com, 04/04/06 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- MIT Assistant Professor Dina Katabi says incremental increases in wireless network throughput just aren't going to cut it. Colleague Rob Miller says phishing attacks continue to get trickier and more threatening, and that a "Web wallet" could be the answer to safer e-commerce. ==========> 06-04-04-USACM-NetNeutralityProponentsExpressConcernOverLegislation.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.3 4 April 2006 ============================================================= [4] PROPONENTS OF "NET NEUTRALITY" EXPRESS CONCERN OVER NEW LEGISLATION As Congress considers revamping the Telecommunications Act of 1996, one of key issues it is debating is "net neutrality." This term refers to the ==========> 06-04-05-CNETNews-RepBartonNowFavorsFCCFlexibilityOnNetNeutrality.txt========== http://news.com.com/Net+neutrality+advances+on+Capitol+Hill/2100-1034_3-6057789. html Net neutrality advances on Capitol Hill By Declan McCullagh CNET Networks Story last modified Wed Apr 05 07:01:41 PDT 2006 A rift in Washington over Internet regulation is showing signs of mending, with a key politician signaling that stiffer federal regulation of broadband ==========> 06-04-05-TheReg-HouseSucommitteeDefeatsNetNeutralityAmmendment.txt========== http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/05/network_neutrality/ Net neutrality bid fails By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Published Wednesday 5th April 2006 22:12 GMT The Register A legislative bid to prevent US network operators from introducing discriminatory pricing for their own services has been defeated at the sub-committee phase in the lower house. ==========> 06-04-06-AP-CalifCableCompetitionBillIntroduced.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14281573.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 06, 2006 California Assembly speaker introduces cable competition bill SACRAMENTO (AP) - Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez introduced legislation Thursday designed to give Californians more choice in their television entertainment and Internet services. The bill would allow telephone companies such as AT&T and Verizon to compete ==========> 06-04-06-CNET-RepublicansDefeatNetNeutralityProposal.txt========== http://www.news.com/Republicans-defeat-Net-neutrality-proposal/2100-1028_3-60582 23.html Republicans defeat Net neutrality proposal, By Declan McCullagh CNET, Apr 06 06:54:34 PDT 2006 A partisan divide pitting Republicans against Democrats on the question of Internet regulation appears to be deepening. A Republican-controlled House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Wednesday ==========> 06-04-07-DowJones-EarthlinkAndGoogleDiscussBidForSecondMunicipleWiFiNet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14291469.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 07, 2006 EarthLink, Google discuss bid for second muni network RIVA RICHMOND Dow Jones Newswires NEW YORK - EarthLink Inc. and Google Inc., which were tapped Wednesday by San Francisco to provide hybrid free and paid Wi-Fi Internet services, plan to bid for a second U.S. city together under a proposal that would offer more limited ==========> 06-04-07-SJMerc-Google-EarthlinkTeamRecommendedForSFNetwork.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14288321.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 07, 2006 Taking the city wireless PANEL RECOMMENDS GOOGLE/EARTHLINK TEAM TO BUILD NETWORK IN S.F. By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Google watchers who want to know what the Internet titan would do with a wireless network in a major metropolitan area may not have to wonder much ==========> 06-04-07-SJMerc-LetTelcoAndCableCompeteForTVViewers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14289656.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 07, 2006 Let phone and cable firms compete for TV viewers INTERNET VIDEO IS GOOD FOR MARKETPLACE, BUT SERVICE MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ALL Mercury News Editorial When telephone companies upgrade their aging networks so they can deliver super-fast Internet access and television-quality video, consumers stand to benefit. Consider what happened when Verizon launched its TV service in Keller, ==========> 06-04-07-SJMerc-TheNeedForNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14289652.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 07, 2006 Congress turns a deaf ear to need for Internet neutrality Mercury News Editorial Just as lawmakers in Congress are pushing a bill that could increase competition in video and high-speed Internet services, they're willing to allow phone and cable companies to subvert that competition. ==========> 06-04-08-DemoMedia-FormerClintonOfficialJoinsATTBackedAntiNetNeutralityGroup.txt========== http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=23 Digital Destiny, Jeff Chester on the media beat, April 8th, 2006 Mike McCurry Joins AT&T’s Campaign for a Monopoly Internet Former Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry is now part of an AT&T backed “coalition” working on a huge public interest rip-off. AT&T, as we know, is opposed to an open, competitive, and democratic Internet. Now they have used their clout to get McCurry–named as the coalition “co-chair”– to be a part of their “Hands Off the Internet” front group. AT&T wants to make sure that no ==========> 06-04-09-AP-CellPhoneIndustryStepsCloserToVoIP.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14304720.htm Posted on Sun, Apr. 09, 2006 Cell phone industry steps closer to VoIP RYAN NAKASHIMA Associated Press LAS VEGAS - Wojtek Felendzer held a mobile phone to his ear as he walked across the room, the call automatically switching behind the scenes from a Wi-Fi wireless hotspot to the regular cellular network. ==========> 06-04-10-NJTelecomUpd-CoalitionFormedToFightProposedNetNeutralityRules.txt========== http://www.njtelecomupdate.com/lenya/telco/live/tb-THLC1144441382252.html NJ Tellecom Update, Technology Daily Coalition Formed To Fight 'Network Neutrality' Rules By Drew Clark (Friday, April 10) AT&T and a group of free-market conservative organizations have joined a prominent Democrat -- former Clinton White House Press Secretary Michael McCurry -- to seek to eliminate all "network neutrality" provisions from pending House telecommunications legislation. ==========> 06-04-11-SJMerc-WiFiAccessProposedForTrains.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14316311.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 11, 2006 Browsing the Net on the rails BART, CAPITOL CORRIDOR PROPOSE WIMAX TRIAL FOR ENTIRE SYSTEM By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News First there was WiFi in coffee shops. Then came plans for wireless Internet access to blanket entire cities. Now comes a proposal for the ultimate in ==========> 06-04-12-AP-FCCAdjustsBiddingRulesForWirelessDataServices.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14326277.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 12, 2006 FCC adjusts rules for airwave auctions WASHINGTON (AP) - Under new rules designed to increase competitive bidding, companies that want to sell such wireless services as high-speed Internet and video will be able to buy a big chunk of airwaves at a government auction. The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday voted to require anonymous ==========> 06-04-17-Salon-ATTPlansToChargeProvidersExtraForBroadbandAccess.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/04/17/toll/index_np.html The corporate toll on the Internet Salon, April17, 2006 Telecom giant AT&T plans to charge online businesses to speed their services through its DSL lines. Critics say the scheme violates every principle of the Internet, favors deep-pocketed companies, and is bound to limit what we see and hear online. By Farhad Manjoo ==========> 06-04-20-TomsHardware-GoogleMayAcquireWirelessSpectrumBandwidth.txt========== http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/04/20/google_to_acquire_wireless_spectrum/ Google to acquire wireless spectrum bandwidth? Wolfgang Gruener Tom's Hardware April 20, 2006 21:44 Mountain View (CA) - Google co-founder Larry Page today sparked another round of rumors that the search company is playing with an idea to become a wireless broadband service provider. ==========> 06-04-21-AP-VerizonImposesNewDSLSurchargeAsGovtFeesRemoved.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15327454.htm Posted on Mon, Aug. 21, 2006 Verizon imposes new DSL surcharge as government fees removed WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. is imposing a new surcharge on high-speed Internet service just as customers were set to receive lower bills thanks to a decision last year to deregulate the service. In a recent notice to customers, the telecommunications company said it would ==========> 06-04-24-AP-FLCityFreeWiFiSeesStartupProblems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14412918.htm Posted on Mon, Apr. 24, 2006 Pioneering Wi-Fi city sees startup woes TRAVIS REED Associated Press ST. CLOUD, Fla. - More than a month after St. Cloud launched what analysts say is the country's first free citywide Wi-Fi network, folks in this 28,000-person Orlando suburb are still paying to use their own Internet service providers as ==========> 06-04-24-CNETNewst-UnlikelyCoalitionVoicesOppositionToHouseBill.txt========== http://news.com.com/New+group+aims+to+save+the+Internet/2100-1034_3-6064384.html New group aims to 'save the Internet' By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Mon Apr 24 12:24:05 PDT 2006 Days before a congressional committee is set to vote on an overhaul of the nation's telecommunications policy, a broad coalition of media, consumer and Internet groups has organized behind a dramatic tagline: "Save the Internet." ==========> 06-04-24-SaveTheInet-StrangeBedfellowsUniteToSaveInternetl.txt========== http://www.savetheinternet.com/=press1 Strange Bedfellows Unite to Save the Internet Diverse coalition launches national campaign to stop Congress from gutting Network Neutrality -- the First Amendment of the Internet Save the Internet WASHINGTON -- April 24, 2006 -- The SavetheInternet.com Coalition today launched a campaign to defend the free and open Internet from a bill being voted on in the House of Representatives beginning this week. ==========> 06-04-24-SaveTheInet-UnlikelyCoalitionVoicesOppositionToHouseBill.txt========== http://www.savetheinternet.com/ Gun owners, librarians unite against Bells? From Telephony online: A diverse and perhaps unlikely group of political activists and associations assembled today to voice opposition to a U.S. House bill... Posted April 24, 2006 Save the Internet Internet Freedom is under attack. Congress is pushing a law that would abandon ==========> 06-04-25-SJMerc-ATTAndCableCompaniesDisagreeOverCalifTelecomRegulationBill.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14424136.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 25, 2006 Cable TV companies, AT&T at odds over regulatory bill By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News AT&T and cable companies operating in California squared off Monday in Sacramento over a proposed bill that would radically change how television is regulated in the state. ==========> 06-04-26-AP-IntelJoinsLobbyingForNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14435353.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 26, 2006 Intel joins lobbying for Net neutrality law NEW YORK (AP) - Intel Corp. has waded into the debate over the future of the Internet, joining major Web companies in supporting legislation that would force Internet service providers to treat all traffic equally. AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., the country's largest Internet ==========> 06-04-26-InetNews-HouseCommLooksAtAntitrustIssuesInNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3601666 April 26, 2006 Net Neutrality Debate Heats Up By Roy Mark Internet News WASHINGTON - Looking at possible antitrust implications of having telecoms and cable companies controlling 99 percent of U.S. broadband connections, a special task force of the House Judiciary Committee took up network neutrality. ==========> 06-04-27-UIllinois-NewSoftwareAllowsPrivacyAndSecurityInSharingNetworkConnection.txt========== http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0427internet.html Software allows neighbors to improve Internet access at no extra cost University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor 217-244-1073; kloeppel@uiuc.edu 4/27/06 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed software that enables the sharing of high-speed ==========> 06-04-28-SJMerc-CalifRegulatorsEaseTheWayForPowerlineBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14451976.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 28, 2006 Regulators ease the way for broadband over power lines By Jessie Seyfer Mercury News Three main wires feed into most California homes -- cable, phone and electricity. ==========> 06-05-00-IEEESpectrum-ABroadbandUtopia.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may06/3434 A Broadband Utopia By: Steven Cherry IEEE Spectrum, May 2006 Utopia, as described by Sir Thomas More, the man who originated the term in the early 16th century, is an imaginary place of few laws, great natural abundance, and an absence of poverty and want. We still don't know how to cure poverty and want. But in a western U.S. desert, a utopia of sorts is taking shape for ==========> 06-05-04-ALA-SupportCongMarkeyBoucherEshooNetNeutralityBill.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 15, Number 49 May 4, 2006 =20 In This Issue: Action Needed on Net Neutrality Bill ==========> 06-05-04-PCWorld-ProposedUSLawWouldPromoteInternetTVButNotNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125615-c,internetlegalissues/article.html Tech.gov: A Gated Net, the Sequel A proposed federal law would make it easier for telecom firms to offer IPTV. But it would not prevent other content from ending up in the Net's slow lane. Anush Yegyazarian, PC World, May 04, 2006 12:00 AM PDT Congress has made it a priority to reform telecommunications rules during this Congressional year; the last big overhaul was in 1996. The House of Representatives will soon be voting on one of the first telecom reform bills to ==========> 06-05-05-ChronHigherEd-NetNeutrality-FightForTollFreeInternet.txt========== The Fight for a Toll-Free Internet Chronicle of Higher Education (05/05/06) Vol. 52, No. 35, P. A39; Foster, Andrea L. The hot-button "network neutrality" issue is of critical concern to academic institutions, who fear that broadband providers' preferential treatment of certain types of content could hurt their efforts to deliver education and collaborate on research over the Internet. Colleges are lobbying Congress to require telecom companies to allow any kind of Web content or network applications, including those that rival their own offerings, to pass through ==========> 06-05-05-USACM-NetNeutralityAmmendmentDefeated.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.3 5 May 2006 ============================================================= [4] "NET NEUTRALITY" AMENDMENT DEFEATED The House Commerce Committee considered and passed legislation to update some of the nation's telecommunications laws in late April. One of the key ==========> 06-05-09-CNETNews-SmallCableCompaniesAgainstNetNeutrality.txt========== http://news.com.com/Smaller+cable+firms+take+aim+at+Net+neutrality+fans/2100-102 8_3-6069873.html Smaller cable firms take aim at Net neutrality fans By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Tue May 09 06:22:35 PDT 2006 WASHINGTON--Young, wealthy Internet companies like Google shouldn't expect to get "special favors" from network operators that have sunk billions of dollars ==========> 06-05-09-InetNews-Bush2007UniversalAfforableBroadbandGoalFading.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3604971 May 9, 2006 Bush Broadband Goal Fading By Roy Mark, Internet News President Bush's goal of "universal, affordable" broadband access for all Americans by 2007 is becoming a flagging notion, according to a study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). ==========> 06-05-10-AP-CableCompaniesMayBidOnWirelessSpectrum.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14547357.htm Posted on Wed, May. 10, 2006 Cable companies may bid on wireless spectrum NEW YORK (AP) - Time Warner Inc.'s cable TV unit is considering a bid for cell-phone spectrum licenses together with three other cable companies and Sprint Nextel Corp The chief executive of Time Warner Cable, Glenn Britt, told an analyst ==========> 06-05-10-CNETNews-SenInouyeFavorsNetNeutralityRegulations.txt========== http://news.com.com/Democratic+senator+wants+Net+neutrality+regulations/2100-102 8_3-6070494.html Democratic senator wants Net neutrality regulations By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Wed May 10 11:12:37 PDT 2006 WASHINGTON--In a move that could presage a Net neutrality debate in the U.S. Senate, an aide to a key Democrat endorsed on Tuesday new laws regulating ==========> 06-05-11-AP-PhiladelphiaApprovesCitywideWirelessInternet.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14556671.htm Posted on Thu, May. 11, 2006 Philadelphia City Council approves wireless Internet project PHILADELPHIA (AP) - City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to blanket the city's 135 square miles with a high-speed wireless Internet connection, a measure that mayor is expected to sign soon. If the system is fully deployed by the third quarter of 2007 as planned, ==========> 06-05-14-AP-ISPsFearInternetCantHandleHeavyVideoLoad-ProposeCharges.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14579901.htm Posted on Sun, May. 14, 2006 High-def could choke Internet, ISPs fear PETER SVENSSON Associated Press NEW YORK - Every day, it seems, a new service pops up offering to send you video over the Internet. "Desperate Housewives," Stephen Colbert heckling the president, clips of bad dancers at wedding parties: It's all there. ==========> 06-05-16-Reuters-SiliconValleyVCsReadyToBackUSWirelessBroadbandPlan.txt========== http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=governmentFilingsNew s&storyID=2006-05-16T231147Z_01_N16129251_RTRIDST_0_TECH-BROADBAND.XML Silicon Valley backs US wireless broadband plan Tue May 16, 2006 7:12 PM ET By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Three Silicon Valley venture capital firms are backing a project to grab a slice of valuable U.S. wireless airwaves to offer nationwide high-speed Internet service, according to a recent regulatory filing. ==========> 06-05-17-GigaOm-M2ZPlansToImplementFCCWirelessBroadbandPlan.txt========== http://gigaom.com/2006/05/17/m2zs-wireless-broadband-utopia/ M2Z’s Wireless Broadband Utopia Posted in Wireless Broadband Posted on May 17th, 2006 M2Z Networks, a wireless broadband start-up backed by Sandhill Road venture capitalists - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Charles River Ventures and Redpoint Ventures - proposes to build a twin-purpose nationwide wireless broadband network, that will provide the third option for broadband services. ==========> 06-05-18-CNETNews-TelecomHardwareProvidersOpposeNetNeutrality.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6073629.html?part=rss&tag=6073629&subj=news Hardware firms oppose Net neutrality laws By Declan McCullagh CNET Networks Story last modified Thu May 18 09:33:42 PDT 2006 The political debate in Washington over the concept known as Net neutrality just became a lot more complicated. ==========> 06-05-18-DemoMedia-ReadingsOnNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/netneutrality.html Protect the Net No Private Toll Road Democratic Media [Accessed May18, 2006] Industry White Papers Reveal Corporate Plans for the Broadband Internet Alcatel, "Broadband Applications Fueling Consumer Demand" (PDF) Read how the phone industry is being urged to make money from "Streamies" and ==========> 06-05-18-PubKnow-InternetFreedomAndNondiscriminationActOf2006.txt========== http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/hr5417-109.pdf 109TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R.  To amend the Clayton Act with respect to competitive and nondiscriminatory access to the Internet. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. SENSENBRENNER (for himself and ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on  ==========> 06-05-19-CNETNews-BillWouldRequireNetNeutralityInFederalAntitrustLaws.txt========== http://news.com.com/Politicos+propose+new+action+on+Net+neutrality/2100-1028_3-6 074108.html Politicos propose new action on Net neutrality By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Fri May 19 05:27:18 PDT 2006 WASHINGTON--The push for new laws mandating Net neutrality principles appears to be gaining steam on Capitol Hill. ==========> 06-05-19-CNETNews-MusicianMobyStumpsForNetNeutrality.txt========== http://news.com.com/Musician+Moby+raises+voice+for+Net+neutrality/2100-1028_3-60 74096.html?tag=nl Musician Moby raises voice for Net neutrality By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Fri May 19 09:38:45 PDT 2006 A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. ==========> 06-05-19-CNETNews-SeveralNetNeutralityBillsIntroduced.txt========== http://news.com.com/Net+neutrality+field+in+Congress+gets+crowded/2100-1028_3-60 74564.html Net neutrality field in Congress gets crowded By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Fri May 19 18:21:59 PDT 2006 U.S. senators have unveiled their latest effort at legislating Net neutrality principles, marking the second such proposal this week and the sixth this year. ==========> 06-05-19-InfoSocTech-LocalAccessNetworksForLowCostBroadband.txt========== http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/ID/81918/Browsing Type/Features Information Society Technologies Local access networks for low-cost broadband services 19 May 2006 Telecommunications advances in the last few years has meant that the local access network’s ability to host high-capacity, broadband services has been tested as never before. In response researchers are working on developing a ==========> 06-05-22-SJMerc-VoIPInternetPhoneCallsReadyForMainstream.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14639922.htm Posted on Mon, May. 22, 2006 Phone calls over the Internet ready for mainstream By Mike Langberg Mercury News All telephone calls, everywhere in the world, are about to become local. Long-distance charges will vanish as calls move increasingly to the Internet, ==========> 06-05-23-ACMUbiquity-TheNetNeutralityDebate.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i20_neutrality.html ACM Ubiquity Volume 7 , Issue 20 May 23, 2006 - May 29, 2006 M. E. Kabay The Net Neutrality Debate by M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP Cause for Alarm? ==========> 06-05-23-SJMerc-M2ZNetworksPlansToOfferFreeWirelessBroadband.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14647408.htm Posted on Tue, May. 23, 2006 Start-up plans U.S. network for free wireless broadband By Matt Marshall Mercury News A Menlo Park start-up, M2Z Networks, plans to raise up to $400 million to build and operate a wireless broadband network aimed at eventually providing free access to most Americans, according to a filing with the Federal Communications ==========> 06-05-24-WSJOnline-ShouldTheNetBeNeutral.txt========== http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB114839410026160648-M3wlxcUPk357fsGi HNM3BsUiCKY_20060622.html May 24, 2006 Should the Net Be Neutral? May 24, 2006 Wall Street Journal Online The "net neutrality" debate has reached a fever pitch as Congress mulls legislation that would allow Internet service providers to charge Web sites for ==========> 06-05-25-AP-EarthlinkToBuildWirelessInternetSystemInNewOrleans.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14676854.htm Posted on Fri, May. 26, 2006 EarthLink to build wireless Internet system in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. has won approval to build a wireless network around a free city-owned system that made its debut last fall in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Atlanta-based EarthLink said it would offer two levels of service -- one free ==========> 06-05-25-ArsTech-NetNeutralityBillPassesHouseJudiciaryCommittee.txt========== http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060525-6921.html Strict Net neutrality passes House Committee, but fate is rather uncertain Ars Technica 5/25/2006 7:36:30 PM, by Ken Fisher The House Committee on the Judiciary today approved the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act (HR 5417) in a vote of 20-12. This particular 'Net neutrality bill would make it an antitrust violation to "block impair, discriminate or interfere with anyone’s services or applications or content," ==========> 06-05-25-Reuters-NetNeutralityBillPassesHouseJudiciaryCommittee.txt========== http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=12339373&src =rss/technologyNews House Judiciary passes Internet access measure Thu May 25, 2006 05:41 PM ET Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved legislation aimed at preventing high-speed Internet network providers from discriminating against unaffiliated services, content and applications. ==========> 06-05-28-AP-MiddleClassGoesBroadbandAsPriceFalls.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14690009.htm Posted on Sun, May. 28, 2006 Middle class goes broadband as price falls PETER SVENSSON Associated Press NEW YORK - Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year, apparently lured by a price war among phone companies. ==========> 06-05-28-NYT-Berners-LeeOnNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/opinion/28sun3.html?_r=1&oref=slogin May 28, 2006 Editorial Observer Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End By ADAM COHEN The New York Times The World Wide Web is the most democratic mass medium there has ever been. Freedom of the press, as the saying goes, belongs only to those who own one. ==========> 06-05-30-SJMerc-WiFiSpreadsToMoreConsumerProducts.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14698744.htm Posted on Tue, May. 30, 2006 Gadgets, gizmos next up for WiFi AS COSTS FALL, ENTERTAINMENT GOING WIRELESS By Dean Takahashi Mercury News High-speed wireless networking is poised to spread from laptop and cell phones to more consumer electronics gadgets. ==========> 06-05-31-IPDemo-ATTCEOReversesPlansToChargeHighBanwidthProviders.txt========== http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/001612ed_whitacre_no_packet_prioritization_f or_us.php Ed Whitacre: No Packet Prioritization for Us Posted by Cynthia Brumfield at May 31, 2006 08:57 AM IPDemocracy AT&T Chairman Ed Whitacre spoke this morning at Sanford C. Bernstein and Company’s Strategic Decisions Conference and raised more questions than he answered. Along with the usual optimistic assessment of the company’s future, ==========> 06-06-00-CDT-PreservingTheEssentialnternet.txt========== http://www.cdt.org/speech/20060620neutrality.pdf Center for Democracy and Technology Preserving the Essential Internet June 2006 PRESERVING THE ESSENTIAL INTERNET June 2006 “Network neutrality” – or, more precisely, “Internet neutrality” – is perhaps the most prominent and contentious issue in Internet and telecommunications policy today. Proponents of nondiscrimination requirements for providers of ==========> 06-06-00-DWeitzner-TheNeutralInternet-Background.txt========== http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2006/06/neutralnet.html The Neutral Internet: An Information Architecture for Open Societies, June 2006 Daniel J. Weitzner Principal Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory This document on the Web [http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2006/06/neutralnet.html] [PDF] Overview ==========> 06-06-00-NewAtlantis-ACentristProposalOnNetNeutrality.txt========== http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/13/atkinsonweiser.htm Summer 2006 A Third Way on Network Neutrality The New Atlantis Robert D. Atkinson and Philip J.