In 2009, I was lucky and flattered enough to be invited to speak at Freedom to Connect, the telecom policy organised in Washington DC by David Isenberg. David's events are always wonderful, thought propoking and very networking friendly, but this
In the wake of AT Kearney's infamous report A Viable Future Model for the Internet, many analysts, journalists and activists pointed out the terrible flaws in this paper. I myself blogged about it a number of times, to point
I was interviewed last Friday by dutch web newspaper Web Wereld about Net Neutrality. You are no doubt aware that the Netherlands could be the first European country to put net neutrality into law in response to incumbent KPN announcing
A number of highly visible telcos are pushing policy makers to adopt net discrimination rules so that they can earn revenue from content providers using their networks to deliver content to end users. Otherwise, they say, they won’t be able
The Canadian UBB scandal is still ongoing, and this video by The UBB Deception really resonates with me right now because I'm in the final stages of concluding the analysis on the "bandwidth hog" dataset. I wish I'd had
I'm increasingly puzzled by the net discrimination stance that a number of European Incumbents have started to push forward in the last few months despite mounting evidence that the "alternative business model for the internet" that they are pushing forward
In one of my briefings with a leading vendor last week in Milan, I asked them if they had a strategic response to the eventuality of one of more incumbents going bust in the next five years. Their first answer
For a number of weeks I've been itching to write a piece on the revival of the so-called Net Neutrality proceedings by the US FCC. I stalled because I wanted to read Chairman Genachowski's remarks on preserving Internet Freedom and
L'Arroseur Arrosé was one of the first ever movies to be filmed and shown in cinemas by the Lumière brothers in 1895. I'm not just saying that to display my (quite considerable) education but more importantly because this phrase
The whole net neutrality debate is heating up again, both in Europe and the US. As usual, the positions are quite clear: application and content providers generally support a truly neutral internet ecosystem, network operators support an ecosystem where discrimination
