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Ryan Singel over at Wired’s Threat Level blog has an interesting piece on the FCC’s belief that they have the authority to enter your house, without a warrant, in order to investigate potential interference-causing technology. The FCC believes that right stems from the Communications Act of 1934, though the right has never been contested in [...]

Why Isn’t Wireless Net Access Available Everywhere? wired.com 33% of U.S. Broadband Households Interested in Widget-ized HDTVs ehomeupgrade.com Air Force: GPS fears groundless theinquirer.net Senate Confirms Chopra As Chief Technology Officer multichannel.com EC To Regulate State Aid For Next-Gen Broadband eweekeurope.co.uk After 4 years of development Israeli scientists and engineers unveil VoIP cellular tech in [...]

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Last month, a Swedish court found the four men behind the popular Pirate Bay website guilty of assisting copyright infringement, sentencing each of them to one year in prison and a 5,000 fine. Shortly afterword, Pirate Bay lawyer Peter Althin demanded a retrial due to bias — given the trial’s judge is a member of [...]

Last year, the U.S. ranked fifteenth in penetration, thirteenth in average price per connection, and nineteenth in average advertised download speed, according to data from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). The OECD just updated their broadband data portal, and as of December 2008, The United States jumped from fifteenth in penetration….to fifteenth [...]

Research firm Instat tells the Orange County Register that the cable industry is losing about a million customers per year. That’s not to Internet video, which (for now) only erodes a fraction of the nation’s 66 million cable TV customers — but instead is thanks to customers fleeing to satellite and telcoTV due to poor [...]

Last year, Bell Canada started throttling wholesale customers without telling them, ensuring that smaller ISPs couldn’t offer an un-throttled connection to consumers that was better than Bell’s throttled Sympatico service. As their back up plan against competitors in case regulators stopped them, Bell Canada started devising a usage-based billing (UBB) system smaller Canadian carriers worry [...]

Given that free access to information is verboten by the great leader of destiny Kim Jong-il, North Korean citizens enjoy virtually no Internet access. However, in January of 2008, Egypt-based Orascom Telecom announced that they’d formed a joint venture named CHEO Technology with Korea Post and Telecoms Corp, and had been awarded an exclusive 25 [...]

The Recovery.gov website indicates that Uncle Sam has moved the timeline for broadband stimulus funds forward somewhat, though the first set of grants will be doled out early during the fourth quarter, and all of the awarded money to be delivered by September 2010. The NTIA will dole out .5 billion in government funds to [...]

A new report by Juniper Research claims that 12% of current DSL customers will migrate to fixed WiMax service by 2013. “”WiMAX will be an attractive offer in areas where there are no wired networks, and in areas where the existing DSL speed is suboptimal,” proclaims report author Howard Wilcox. AT&T (particularly their Alaskan subsidiary [...]

Broadband Around the World; 31 Countries Compared nytimes.com US broadband equipment market to shrink 36% over next 3 years telephonyonline.com NTIA To Hand Out First Broadband Grants In Q4 multichannel.com Intel to play WiMax vs. 3G game as capacity vs. coverage tgdaily.com Ofcom allows BT to raise the price of broadband line rentals by about [...]