Levin Lays Out Telecom Policy Roadmap

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: March 7, 2009 8:06:21 PM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Levin Lays Out Telecom Policy Roadmap

LEVIN LAYS OUT TELECOM POLICY ROADMAP

Stifel Nicolaus analyst and Obama technology advisor Blair Levin  
predicts that privacy and Network Neutrality will be among the biggest  
telecommunications issues facing the Federal Communications Commission  
and the administration going forward. The economic crisis and change  
of administration will shift the focus of telecom policy away from  
traditional phone companies to "Internet/edge" players. "(There is a)  
consensus emerging that disputes about whether a wireline network  
management tool is 'reasonable' (or is actually blocking or degrading  
traffic) to be resolved on a case-by-case basis," Levin wrote in the  
note with analysts Rebecca Arbogast and David Kaut. He said the  
biggest "sleeper" issue will be privacy. With a major overhaul of  
healthcare records to the Web, the rise in behavioral advertising and  
cloud computing, where information is stored in computers strung  
across many geographies, consumer, business and government advertising  
will lead to privacy disputes at the FCC and courts.

Levin's note also downplayed the immediate success of Obama's push for  
high-speed Internet in every American household. He said the initial  
$8 billion in stimulus funds for constructing new high-speed Internet  
lines and other programs was modest and just a start. He also said the  
FCC's mandate in the stimulus plan to come up with a broadband  
strategy for the country within one year would be "more likely to  
produce a volley of targeted recommendations than a silver bullet." He  
added the FCC probably wouldn't quickly overhaul a $7 billion phone  
subsidy program to also include broadband Internet networks.

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