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The New York Times writes an editorial on Net Neutrality, thereby launching the issue into the mainstream. In typical Left leaning fashion, the NYT comes out for government regulation of ISPs, and argues that consumers should be guaranteed service regardless of application.
Net neutrality is about big media against big telecom, not big telecom against the […]

Who would have ever thought a staid industry like telecom could produce mudslinging antics worthy of two Hollywood studios? Seidenberg shot back at comments made by Comcast CEO Roberts, covered in a CNN/Money article as well as a clarification of where Verizon stands on Net Neutrality in Forbes.
Here’s what Seidenberg had to say about Comcast:

“Customers […]

I like Fred Wilson’s blog. It’s eclectic and good reading for both business and pleasure. He wrote something on Net Neutrality today, and how carriers are discussing charging for incremental tiered services.

I have blogged about this issue before and I will reiterate that this is about jealousy and greed plain and simple.
It’s about business Fred, […]

Good but short interview in the Financial Times this morning with Ed Whitacre, CEO of AT&T (prior CEO of SBC).
Some choice quotes:
If someone wants to transmit a high quality service with no interruptions and ‘guaranteed this, guaranteed that’, they should be willing to pay for that,” the AT&T chief said.
“Now they might pass it on […]

Reed Hastings, The CEO of Netflix (NFLX), had some of the most sensible and level headed words I’ve heard on the highly polarizing issue of Net Neutrality. I wrote about the subject in “More Government != Better Broadband“.

Bottom line, some may not like the concept and others may agitate for FCC intervention, but letting the […]

There is a groundswell of public opinion that government intervention is going to increase the availability and decrease the price of broadband. Read this sentence again. See the problem?
As a college freshman, I had an Economics professor (Carrington-Crouch) who told me that the scariest words you will ever hear are the following:
Hello, I’m here from […]