News of the movement for June 18, 2010 Former Gov’t Officials Hired to Lobby As Congress Looks to Rewrite Telecom Law As leaders in Congress announced a series of hearings this June to tackle huge telecom issues with a focus on the Internet, the top phone and cable organizations that …
74 Democrats sold you out to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast
74 Democrats sold you out to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast. Dear Friend, 74 Democratic members of Congress sold you out to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast. Infuriatingly, they signed an industry-backed letter telling the FCC to abandon efforts to protect Internet users by prohibiting big companies from blocking Internet traffic.
Telecoms operators are well-placed to avoid a “dumb pipe” future, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit
Let’s Keep A Sharp Eye On What The Big Boys Are Doing! – Hazel Henderson, Ed. In the telecoms world, “over the top players”—industry shorthand for Internet companies delivering video and other content over third-party networks—are causing enormous anxiety for telecoms operators, the network owners. The latter worry that customers …
Netroots Flood White House, FCC with Calls to Reclassify Broadband
Netroots Groups Flood White House, FCC with Calls to Reclassify Broadband Members of grassroots Internet groups MoveOn and Free Press have flooded the White House and FCC with calls urging the FCC to assert authority over Internet access providers so that it can carry out a Net Neutrality rule. Cecilia …
Linking Smart Meters and Social Networks – GTM Daily
A Seventh Way To Generate Power from Water: Pico Hydro Can you name all seven without peeking at the answer? Recycling to Become More Popular with VCs? Steve Jurvetson touts Scientific Conservation and Wowd. Linking Smart Meters and Social Networks Finland’s vision for the consumer smart grid treads where few …
The Network Singularity and Supernetworks
The human understanding and relationship with networks is advancing at a breathtaking pace. The progression is so fast we are nearing The Network Singularity: an explosion of extraordinary network comprehension delivering an exceptionally new understanding of our world. People will inhabit new Supernetworks. Already, today, we depend on them for …
How the FCC Can Protect the Internet
How the FCC Can Protect the Internet from Pro-Corporate Judges and Greedy Telecoms Net Neutrality ensures a fair Internet. The telecom industry has the money and power to make sure that doesn’t happen — but the people and the FCC can and should fight back. Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet
The Courts Can’t Take Away Our Internet
News of the movement for April 7, 2010 www.Savetheinternet.com The Courts Can’t Take Away Our Internet The ruling for Comcast by the D.C. Circuit Court could be the biggest blow to our nation’s primary communications platform, or it could be the kick in the pants our leaders need to finally …
Free Press Media Reform Daily: Who Should Control Broadband?
FCC or Comcast? Who Should Control Broadband? Does the FCC have the legal authority to regulate Internet access? It’s a question that could throw a monkey wrench into the FCC’s national broadband plan. A case brought by Comcast against the FCC is pending before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, …
P2P Foundation
The grand alliance for the commons: the task of 21 cy. politics In my writings on P2P Theory, I have a rather simple, but I believe true, formula to describe the crisis of the global system of neoliberal capitalism.