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from: BlountViews

State Sen. Finney's constituent survey

Submitted by R. Neal on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 13:56.

If you're reading this, you probably got State Sen. Raymond Finney's annual constituent preference survey in the mail. If not, it's also in today's Maryville Daily Times. If you don't have that, it's online at Senator Finney Listens.

from: Wet Machine

There's Patriotism, But Then There's Cash

Posted By: Harold Feld

Like many, I have been both appalled at the federal domestic spying program and the subsequent the effort to undermine the Rule of Law by granting the telcos retroactive immunity. Which is why I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this USA today story reporting that the telcos shut down wiretaps legally authorized under FISA because the FBI failed to make the requisite billing payments.

from: USA Today

Audit: FBI's lapse in paying phone bill snips wiretaps

By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Jan. 11, 2008

WASHINGTON — Telecommunications carriers shut down some covert surveillance lines established by the FBI because the bureau failed to make timely bill payments, a Justice Department review found Thursday.

Note: AT&T developed coaxial cable in 1920 yet still considers twisted pair copper an adequate infrastructure for delivering their new network services to the home.

from: 3Screen.net (via AT&T press release)

AT&T Receives Technology & Engineering Emmy Award

Company Recognized for Helping to Shape Today's Entertainment and Broadband Industries with Invention of Coaxial Cable Technology

Another AT&T U-verse VRAD Cabinet Explodes

Updates 1/15/08:
AT&T Begins Massive Battery Replacement (Light Reading).
Wauwatosa residents had expressed safety concerns over AT&T cabinets (Save Access)
Additional Photos (Light Reading 1/22/08)

In the early hours of Christmas morning, an AT&T VRAD cabinet (DSLAM) exploded in the city of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Only days earlier, Governor Jim Doyle had signed Assembly Bill 207, a statewide cable franchise bill pushed through by AT&T despite the best efforts of municipalities and public interest advocates to stop it. A saveaccess reader concerned over the lack of any local or regional news coverage sent us the following note with the attached photos:

from: Web Pro News

AT&T Concessions Prove Meaningless

January 10, 2008
By Jason Lee Miller

Remember how after AT&T made Net Neutrality concessions to get their merger with BellSouth approved, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin was so quick to remind everybody that the FCC had no teeth to enforce that? Well, the lack of teeth is coming back to bite us.

from: NY Times

January 8, 2008, 7:07 pm
AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter

By Brad Stone

For the past fifteen years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet.

from: Nashville City Paper

AT&T vs. Cable, round 2
By John Rodgers, jrodgers@nashvillecitypaper.com

AT&T vs. Cable, round 2
Ding ding.

That’s the sound of the bell ringing to begin round two of the multi-million dollar battle between AT&T and the cable industry and local towns and cities over statewide television video franchising.