Yesterday I tweeted in jest (and in French) that it felt weird to think that the Great Firewall of China might be protecting me from the NSA. Since then that thought has been percolating in my brain, and I’m not
Is management T-Mobile USA’s layer of fat ?
There’s an article in French magazine Challenges this week about Iliad and T-Mobile. It’s entitled “How Iliad-Free bluffed the Americans” (in French). As usual with the business press, it doesn’t actually answer the question, and by and large
The Maddening Schizophrenia of US Incumbents
I must confess to a particular fondness for those moments of synchronicity when different news items happen to collide in the same cycle, violently contradicting each other. This week is a great example.
On Tuesday, Techzone 360 published a really
Diffraction Analysis at Broadband Communities
The Broadband Communities Summit is probably the most exciting broadband event in the US. It’s not one of those corporate events built by and for industry sponsors, it’s an event run by the good people at Broadband Communities magazine and
Kansas Legislature Introduces Bill to Limit Internet Investment
See on Scoop.it – Connected World
Benoit Felten‘s insight:
Looks like the US incumbents are at it again, trying to stifle competition through restrictive legislation, in Kansas this time. Commentary has been that it might be to hamper another
One Battle Won
As some of you may know, US incumbents and cable operators have been lobbying fiercely in the last few years to forbid local governments by law of investing in broadband infrastructure. This morning, one such bill which was to be
Susan Crawford Articulates the Ideas in her Book Captive Audience
“The rich are getting gouged and poor are very often left out…”
Must see if you want to understand the reality of the US broadband market.
Scary Picture of US Broadband Oligarchy
From Zing Broadband
Promises, promises
Well, looks like I overpromised on my blogging. I had all these great plans for last week, and then real life and (thankfully) real work hit me in the chest like a sledgehammer.
As some of you may be aware,
How disruptive could Google Fiber be?
The excellent Bill St Arnaud posts a very interesting analysis today of the Google Fiber project in Kansas City on his blog under the title Google’s secret strategy with the Kansas City Fiber project. In this post, Bill states