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  • June 2008

    • ISPs Should Stay With Flat-Rate Pricing

      newser  |  GigaOm  |  Jun 5, 08 5:05 PM CDT

      ISPs Should Stay With Flat-Rate Pricing

      Cable companies are wooing Wall Street by saying they’ll offset expensive implementation of a new, high-speed software protocol by metering broadband Internet access. Bad move, Om Malik writes on GigaOm. Flat-rate high-speed access has enabled recent revolutionary innovation in the telecom business, which led to almost 70 million broadband subscriptions in 2007, and a cash cow for the cable companies. More »

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      broadband Internet  • telecom industry  • Internet service providers  • telecommunications companies  • cable operators  • Time Warner Cable

  • March 2008

    • Virgin May Try '3 Strikes' for File Sharers

      newser  |  The Register  |  Mar 31, 08 8:40 PM CDT

      Virgin May Try '3 Strikes' for File Sharers

      Virgin Media may become the second ISP to unplug users who share files illegally, the Register reports. The company is in talks with a UK record industry association over a  "three strikes" system, which would disconnect users who share copyright-infringing files after two warnings. "We are taking this problem seriously and would favor a sensible voluntary solution," Virgin Media said. More »

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      file sharing  • Internet service providers  • Virgin  • P2P  • peer-to-peer

    • Google Still Wants Unused TV 'White Space' for Wireless Web

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 24, 08 4:25 PM CDT

      Google Still Wants Unused TV 'White Space' for Wireless Web

      Google is re-doubling its efforts to get the FCC to allow the development of unused space in the TV spectrum for wireless Internet service, the Wall Street Journal reports. "The vast majority of viable spectrum in this country simply goes unused," the tech giant wrote to the commission. "There is no benefit to allowing this spectrum to lie fallow." TV broadcasters, fearful of interference, oppose the co-opting of the white space. More »

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      Google  • FCC  • Wi-Fi  • Internet service providers  • spectrum

    • Web Inventor: Don't Track Me, Bro

      newser  |  BBC  |  Mar 17, 08 5:35 PM CDT

      Web Inventor: Don't Track Me, Bro

      He may have created a web that's worldwide, but Internet founder Tim Berners-Lee is very proprietary when it comes to tracking programs, such as Phorm, that allow ISPs to monitor their customers. Berners-Lee says he’d drop any company caught mining his data. “It’s mine—you can’t have it,” he said. “If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me.” More »

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      Internet  • Internet advertising  • online privacy  • ISP  • Internet service providers  • Web tracking  • private data

    • In Surprise Turn, Verizon Embraces File Sharing

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 14, 08 5:22 PM CDT

      In Surprise Turn, Verizon Embraces File Sharing

      Verizon announced today that it plans to use peer-to-peer software to speed the deployment of legitimate content over its networks, in a break from the industry’s usually negative stance towards file sharing, the AP reports. Working with a P2P company named Pando Networks, Verizon found that when an ISP optimized sharing software like BitTorrent or Kazaa, they could increase download speeds by 60%. More »

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      NBC  • Verizon  • file sharing  • copyright infringement  • Internet service providers  • television watching  • p2p

    • AOL Goes Social, Buys Bebo

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 13, 08 1:46 PM CDT

      AOL Goes Social, Buys Bebo

      AOL will buy Bebo.com for $850 million in an attempt to enter the social networking market, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bebo has 22 million unique visitors a month, well behind MySpace's 109 million, but the site’s strong European presence will give AOL access to key youth demographics outside the US. The move comes amidst reports of internal turmoil and a possible sale of the Time Warner subsidiary. More »

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      social networking  • online advertising  • Internet advertising  • AOL  • Time Warner  • Internet service providers  • Bebo

  • February 2008

    • Repairs Begin on Cut Net Cable

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Feb 5, 08 6:18 AM CST

      Repairs Begin on Cut Net Cable

      Repairs have begun on a segment of undersea Internet cable reported severed off the coast of the United Arab Emirates last Friday, Reuters reports. FLAG, an Indian telecom, said that one of their ships had reached the cable, the most recently disrupted of three main lines to undermine access across the Middle East and South Asia. Another repair ship is expected to reach one of the other two cables today. More »

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      India  • Egypt  • Internet service providers  • undersea Internet cables

    • Mideast Web Woes Persist as 3rd Cable Is Cut

      newser  |  CNN  |  Feb 1, 08 1:18 PM CST

      Mideast Web Woes Persist as 3rd Cable Is Cut

      A third cable carrying Internet traffic to the Mideast was cut today off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, and web and phone service remained disrupted in large areas of the Mideast and India because of breaks in two cables in the Mediterranean Wednesday. The cables severed earlier carried as much as three-quarters of the traffic between Europe and the Mideast, so their loss was more serious, CNN reports. More »

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      India  • Middle East  • Dubai  • United Arab Emirates  • web traffic  • Internet service providers

  • January 2008

    • Sea Cable Damage Cuts Internet Service to Mideast

      newser  |  Financial Times (UK)  |  Jan 31, 08 6:59 AM CST

      Sea Cable Damage Cuts Internet Service to Mideast

      Damage to two underwater cables has huge swaths of the Mideast and South Asia offline and repair ships scrambling to restore internet service to millions. One of the cables has been completely severed, the Financial Times reports. Some 70% of Egypt's service was disrupted, including all of Cairo, and bandwidth in India is reduced nearly 60%. More »

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      India  • Verizon  • Internet service providers  • Mideast

    • Verizon Q4 Profits Ride Wireless Gains

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jan 29, 08 1:38 PM CST

      Verizon Q4 Profits Ride Wireless Gains

      Verizon Communications, riding a wave of wireless and Internet growth, yesterday announced net income rose to $1.07 billion for the fourth quarter, up nearly 4% from $1.03 billion a year ago, reports the New York Times . Verizon Wireless, second to AT&T in the US, added some 2 million customers in the quarter, despite a slumping economy. More »

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      cell phones  • Verizon  • corporate earnings  • telecommunications  • Internet service providers

    • Thailand Axes Anti-Monarchy Website

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jan 6, 08 6:32 PM CST

      Thailand Axes Anti-Monarchy Website

      A Thai ministry has shut down a website critical of the country's monarchy, the AP reports. Postings on Sameskybooks.com questioned news accounts that all citizens mourned the king's sister, who died Wednesday, and criticized officials. "I think we're one of the few sites posting remarks against the monarchy," Thanapol Eiwsakul, who ran the site, told a Thai newspaper. "This is the price we are paying." More »

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      Internet  • politics  • website  • Thailand  • Internet service providers  • monarchy  • freedom of expression  • web hosting

  • November 2007

    • Critics Blast Claims of Net Outages by 2010

      newser  |  Techdirt  |  Nov 25, 07 3:39 PM CST

      Critics Blast Claims of Net Outages by 2010

      Ominous warnings earlier this week of a looming Internet disaster are highly misleading, suggest critics. "As we've stated previously, most warnings of capacity armageddon come from traffic shaping companies looking to sell hardware," the industry web site Broadband Reports writes about a recent Nemertes Research study, which was funded in part by the Internet Innovation Alliance. More »

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      Internet  • broadband Internet  • web traffic  • Internet service providers  • bandwidth usage

    • FCC Put to Test Over Net Neutrality

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Nov 1, 07 4:53 PM CDT

      FCC Put to Test Over Net Neutrality

      Consumer groups and legal scholars filed a complaint with the FCC today asking the agency to fine Comcast for interfering with subscribers' file transfers. The case will be the first major indication of the FCC's actual stance on Net Neutrality. The petitions call on the FCC to fine Comcast $195,000 for every affect subscriber, the Associated Press reports. More »

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      FCC  • Comcast  • net neutrality  • ISP  • Internet service providers  • BitTorrent

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