News 10.21.5 :: Block VoIP :: Block Video :: Block Competitors :: Block UN :: Block P2P ::

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil
or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a
hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in
Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was
peace." - Milan Kundera

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin Ups Bohigian, B&C,
10/21/2005
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has named Catherine Bohigian
acting chief of the Office of Strategic Planning and
Policy Analysis. She had been senior legal advisor,
having joined the commission in 2001 as legal advisor
on media issues.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6276568?display=Breaking+News
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fcc.htm

Broadband power line systems— United Telecom Council
selected as Access Broadband over Power Line database
manager, 60840 [05–20992], Fed Reg, 10/21/2005
The Office of Engineering and Technology (OET)
announces that the United Telecom Council (UTC) will
serve as the Access Broadband over Power Line (Access
BPL) database manager.
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/ 
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-20992.htm
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/power.htm

Remarks of Commissioner Adelstein before 3G Americas
Entitled Broadband Wireless Internet – A Technology
Briefing., FCC, 10/21/2005
Our job at the Commission is to promote communications
and help you expand services to consumers. I think we
can all agree that the evolution of the mobile
wireless industry is one of the greatest technology
success stories this country has ever seen. And as you
know, it is not because of one wireless standard or
another.
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-261700A1.doc
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm

Phone, Cable Firms Rein In Consumers' Internet Use,
PK, 10/21/2005
Several large telephone and cable companies are
starting to make it harder for consumers to use the
Internet for phone calls or swapping video files
http://www.publicknowledge.org/news/breaking/archive/2005/10/21/phone- 
cable-firms-rein-in-consumers-internet-use
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Kill the Competitors..., er, Parasites!, Werblog,
10/21/2005
When I wrote the other day about P2P file sharing
being the justification for broadband access providers
blocking or filtering certain Internet-based
applications, even I didn't think it would happen so
soon. Hasta la vista, Internet freedom!
http://werbach.com/blog/archives/2005/10/kill_the_compet.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Operators Move to Block VoIP, Video Rivals, IP
Democracy, 10/21/2005
The Wall Street Journal has a piece today on how phone
and cable companies are reining in customers’ Internet
usage, with the not-so-coincidental byproduct of
blocking IP-based competitive activities such as VoIP
and video file-sharing. The article, penned by Peter
Grant and Jesse Drucker, hones in on the central
conundrum of the Web 2.0 era: unfettered use of
bandwidth can chew up network resources but limiting
that use can block competition.
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2005/10/21/index.php#000646
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Table: Top E-Commerce Sites, BWO, 10/21/2005
Top E-Commerce Sites
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tech_stats/ecommerce050722.htm? 
campaign_id=rss_tech
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/statistics.htm

Bush challenges EC over Internet governance, ZDNet,
10/21/2005
In a sign that traditionally obscure discussions about
Internet control have taken on new prominence,
President Bush broached the topic in a meeting this
week with European Commission President José Barroso.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39232718,00.htm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/wgig.htm

Sen. Coleman's Effort to Stop a "U.N. for the
Internet", PPF, 10/21/2005
Three Cheers for Sen. Norm Coleman! He recently
introduced a Sense of the Senate resolution "to
protect the U.S.'s historic role in overseeing the
operations of the Internet from an effort to transfer
control over the unprecedented communications and
informational medium to the U.N."
http://blog.pff.org/archives/2005/10/sen_colemans_ef.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/wgig.htm

POD: Should U.S. relinquish control over Internet?,
Future Tense, 10/21/2005
U.S. lawmakers are urging the Bush administration to
resist a push from other countries to shift control of
the Internet to the United Nations, arguing that such
a move would stifle innovation and free expression.
Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman is sponsor
of a Senate resolution that calls for the Internet's
core addressing system to remain under U.S. control.
http://cdn.npr-podcasts.speedera.net/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/ 
4788725/510014/PUB_4967875.mp3
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/wgig.htm

America Online Cuts 700 Jobs, NPR, 10/21/2005
America Online, the new-media behemoth that bought
Time Warner five years ago, announced 700 layoffs in
its dial-up operations Wednesday. AOL is now a
division of Time Warner and is being courted by other
Internet companies.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4966599&ft=1&f=1019
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/aol.htm

Firefox Marks 100M Downloads, Red Herring, 10/21/2005
The milestone solidifies the position of the No. 2
browser after Internet Explorer.
http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=14083
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/browser.htm

EarthLink Selects Level 3 to Support New VoIP
Services, Americas Network, 10/21/2005
Level 3 Communications announced that it has been
selected to provide network services supporting new
consumer Voice-over-IP service offerings from
EarthLink, the nation's next generation Internet
service provider.
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/ 
articleDetail.jsp?id=181756
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/earthlink.htm

OpenOffice.org Opens 2.0 Doors, Internet news,
10/21/2005
The office productivity suite gets a new look and more
functions to woo new users.
http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.internetnews.com/dev-news/ 
article.php/3557896
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/open.htm

SBC Reports 41% Profit Decline, NYT, 10/21/2005
SBC Communications said that its profit slipped 41
percent in the third quarter partly because its
wireless unit, Cingular, had higher costs related to
hurricanes and its merger with AT&T Wireless.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/technology/21phone.html? 
ex=1287547200&en=2bfa5c490687fee5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/sbc.htm

Broadband uptake lifts SBC numbers, FT, 10/21/2005
Strong growth in DSL broadband subscriber numbers
offset a continuing decline in traditional phone lines
and helped SBC Communications report better than
expected results.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/055e19ea-4185-11da- 
a45d-00000e2511c8,_i_rssPage=3ad4cbfc-4761-11d8-81c6-0820abe49a01.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/sbc.htm

North Korea embraces IT, shackles Internet, AFP,
10/21/2005
Chun In-Hyo was just eight years old when North
Korea's peerless leader Kim Jong-Il declared the 21st
century the era of the information technology
revolution.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/ 
s/afp/20051020/tc_afp/nkoreaitcomputer
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/intlasia.htm

5 US Publishers Sue Google to Prevent Publication on
Internet, Zaman Online, 10/21/2005
Five leading publishers in the US have filed a suit
against Google, the biggest search engine on the
internet, in order to hamper the publications of books
on Internet.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20051020&hn=25540
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

H.CON.RES.268 Title: Expressing the sense of the
Congress regarding oversight of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Sponsor:
Rep Doolittle, John T. [CA-4] (introduced 10/18/2005),
Thomas, 10/21/2005
Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding
oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.con.res.00268:
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/legis/legis.htm

S.RES.273 Title: A resolution expressing the sense of
the Senate that the United Nations and other
international organizations shall not be allowed to
exercise control over the Internet. Sponsor: Sen
Coleman, Norm [MN] (introduced 10/17/2005), Thomas,
10/21/2005
A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that
the United Nations and other international
organizations shall not be allowed to exercise control
over the Internet.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.res.00273:
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/legis/legis.htm

Watching iPodvision: It's a delight, IHT, 10/21/2005
With each successive version, the iPod, Apple's
30-million-selling music player, gets thinner and
thinner, but its feature list grows longer and longer.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/19/business/ipod.php
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ipv.htm

Wall Street Analyst: FCC Should Act to Protect
Broadband Video, IP Democracy, 10/21/2005
Independent Wall Street Analyst Richard Greenfield
from Fulcrum Global Partners issued a curious email
report this morning entitled “Redefining the Idea of
Video in an IP World, aka what we did with our
computer last night.” Mailed to clients, this report
notes that there has been “a meaningful pick-up in
content creation/repurposing for broadband.”
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2005/10/21/index.php#000647
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ipv.htm

Net2Phone and CMA Partner to Provide VoIP Service to
Gulf, Americas Network, 10/21/2005
Net2Phone and CMA Cablevision have partnered to
provide free broadband telephony service to displaced
families in Belle Chasse, Louisiana stricken by
Hurricane Katrina and Rita
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/ 
articleDetail.jsp?id=188004
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/katrina.htm

PATRIOT Reauthorization Debate Reaches Critical Stage,
CDT, 10/21/2005
Congressional staff began to meet in earnest this week
to hammer out the details of a final PATRIOT Act
reauthorization bill. CDT and other civil liberties
groups wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
Arlen Specter to thank him for his efforts in
producing the Senate version of the bill, which
contains meaningful reforms, and to make clear that
CDT and the other groups would not support a final
bill that failed to include the Senate bill's version
of Section 215, the FISA business records provision.
http://www.cdt.org/headlines/827
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/patriot.htm

E-Bay's Skype Purchase Could Bolster VoIP Market,
Americas Network, 10/21/2005
E-Bay's recent decision to purchase Skype for $2.6
billion wound up being the main topic of conversation
at a recent IT Summit gathering of top vendors and
media representatives in Monterey, Calif.
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/ 
articleDetail.jsp?id=181757
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

VoIP Blocking: Clearwire Continued, PPF, 10/21/2005
In an earlier post, I urged policymakers and not be
concerned with its decision to block third-party VoIP
applications. A former student, Joshua Marsh, who
actually knows something about the technical side of
these things (always something we lawyers sedulously
eschew), points out a technological arms race this
port blocking creates that maked port blocking futile:
http://blog.pff.org/archives/2005/10/voip_blocking_c.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/blocking.htm

Furor Grows Over Internet Bugging, Wired, 10/21/2005
A new government order will force some internet
telephony services to establish a central monitoring
capability to help the FBI. But where does that leave
peer-to-peer phone companies?
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,69277,00.html?tw=rss.TEK
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/fcccalea.htm

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