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CNET - Week in review
from: CNET News
Week in review: Tech face-lift
By Steven Musil
Story last modified Fri Jun 30 12:10:36 PDT 2006
A massive communications bill is taking shape in the Senate, and it promises to change the shape of the tech world.
A U.S. Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon.com that had made enacting them a top political priority this year. By an 11-11 vote, the Senate Commerce Committee failed to approve a Democrat-backed amendment that would have ensured all Internet traffic is treated the same no matter what its "source" or "destination" might be.
Verizon’s TV Dilemma
from: Red Herring
Verizon’s TV Dilemma
Despite scoring easy wins on Capitol Hill, phone company may not get national TV franchise this year.
June 30, 2006
Faced with a growing impasse on Capitol Hill engineered by supporters of Net neutrality, Verizon Communications is increasing its lobbying and legal efforts at the state and local levels to hasten its entry into the pay-TV business.
Verizon: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Verizon must have the same confused legal and PR strategists as AT&T. On the same day, Verizon releases one press release that applauds the California Senate Committee for the passage of a terrible state franchise - and then another announcing they are suing Montgomery County, Md., over negotiations for a video franchise there. The odd thing about the lawsuit, a representative for Montgomery County claims Verizon hasn't even filed an application yet.
Just say "No" to AT$T
An older 6/23 article but interesting in light of USA Today's retraction about Telcos giving the NSA individual phone records(only AT&T is still implicated in the NSA scandal - AT&T is also suspected of housing secret NSA facilities to monitor network traffic).
In addition to the quote in the article below (where AT&T asserts it owns your private information), we also found this in their privacy policy:
USA Today Backs Off Report on Phone Records
From: NY Times
June 30, 2006
USA Today Backs Off Report on Phone Records
By MATT RICHTEL
In a note to readers today, USA Today backed off an earlier assertion that BellSouth and Verizon had contracted to provide telephone calling records to the National Security Agency.
The note referred to an article published May 11 that said those two companies and AT&T had provided calling records to the security agency, without warrants, for a database it was compiling to detect terrorist activity.
Moveon Targets Net Neutrality 'Nays'
from: Broadcasting and Cable
Moveon Targets Net Neutrality 'Nays'
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/29/2006
Moveon.org has sent an e-mail form to the constituents of the 11 senators who voted against explicit network nondiscrimination language in the video franchise reform bill that just passed the Senate Commerce Committee.
Senate Panel OKs Franchising Bill
from: Media Week
Senate Panel OKs Franchising Bill
Todd Shields
JUNE 28, 2006 -
The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday passed a bill aimed at easing telephone companies' emergence as competitors to cable operators, sending the measure on to the full Senate.
Net Neutrality: It's Pretty Simple, Really
from: TMC Net
[June 30, 2006]
Net Neutrality: It's Pretty Simple, Really.
By David Sims
david@firstcoffee.biz
The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is Creedence Clearwater Revival's Chronicle, probably the best greatest hits package ever assembled:
It's time to delve into net neutrality, see what yesterday's Senate committee vote meant, what portents of doom are portending and if Google of Yahoo! is going to win the bidding war for premium service the telecoms are slavering for.
When A Net Neutrality Tie Is A Win
from: TMP Cafe
When A Net Neutrality Tie Is A Win
By Art Brodsky
The news stories following the Senate Commerce Committee vote on Net Neutrality pictured it as a defeat for the forces of good. Don't believe it. Even though the Net Neutrality amendment failed on a tie vote, we got ourselves into a good position for the rest of the game.
The Seventh Inning Telco Stretch
A rant from the blogspehere by Matt Stoller with a net neutrality-centric position (this telco-communications bill goes way beyond the internet in its scope and list of controversial issues). Nonetheless, the insights into the proceedings are revealing. See the source for the extensive commenting.
from: Matt Stoller
