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Verisign sues ICANN

I fall off my chair when I saw this news today. Are they nuts!? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has no authority to prevent VeriSign from rolling out a search engine for users who mistype Internet addressees, VeriSign said, as well as another feature that allows users to sign up for a […]

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Pulver FWD won FCC hearing!

Yesterday, FCC has a hearing on FWD appeal and they rule 3-2 in favour of FWD! In other words, IP-to-IP telephony is now classified as “information service” not “telecommunication service”. This means FWD and other like it, will not be subjected to telecom regulations, taxes, univeral services or E911 requirements etc etc. This is a […]

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Guiding Principle of the Internet

I just read Michael Powell speech on 8th Feburary called Preserving Internet Freedom: Guiding Principles For The Industry. It is excellent piece on giving power to the people, reduce regulation of the Internet and most of all, maintain “Internet Freedom”. I am impressed! I mean, as the Chairman of FCC, it is easier give some […]

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Observations from Japan

Broadband pentration in Japan rise to 13.6M or 29% of the household at the end of Dec 2003, according to MPHPT. This means there are nearly 5.8M new subscribers in the last 12 months. Following the trend, we are seeing about 1/2M new subscribers per month. The main driver for this growth apparently are Broadband […]

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Architecture of the Internet

Andrew Odlyzko, author of The many paradox of Broadband, published an equally thought-provoking article: Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives from telecommunications and transportation While engineers and technologist like myself have been arguing the need for “End-to-End” principle either on ideological or technical reasons, Andrew provides an economical perspective of why the “threats” […]

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