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September 30, 2003
2005: The Year of Cable VOIP
The News.com article spins
Comcast's statement that it will deploy voice over IP service in 2004
as a "go slow" decision. With 2004 just 3 months away, I see the
glass as half-full. The Comcast comments are further evidence
that cable operators will launch serious VOIP marketing efforts in
2005, after testing it next year. At that point, the telephone
industry of we know it will cease to exist.
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September 29, 2003
Good question
Kevin Laws: "If the music industry is such a monopoly, why aren't music companies wildly
profitable?"
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Eli's cousin Mila
Eli has a new cousin, Mila Cassidy Werbach. Isn't she cute!
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More VOIP coverage
This time in Forbes, with an extensive focus on Pulver's Free World Dialup and related efforts.
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New York Times, IP Radicals
Has anyone else noticed that over the past month, the New York Times has run a series of articles suggesting that the current intellectual property system is broken? This one
about the history of patents and innovation is the latest. I
think IP protection has gotten way out of balance, to the detriment of
users and innovators, so I'm happy to see the Times' coverage. All of the articles are appropriately journalistic and accurate, to the Times' usual
high standards. It's striking, though, how aggressive the paper
has suddenly become on the digital IP issue. One suspects an
editorial decision, rather than conincidence. Given the powerful
forces on the other side, it's nice to have an influential and trusted
ally uncovering the truth about intellectual property.
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Conservatives in the academy
David Brooks writes in the Wall Street Journal about conservatives not being welcome in academia. Juan at the Volokh Conspiracy agrees, and links to several other posts on the topic.
American intellectual life is recreating the division between the Red
States and the Blue States made famous in the Bush-Gore election of
2000. Liberals are over-represented on most university faculties,
and conservatives are over-represented in well-funded, well-connected
think tanks. We seem to be self-segregating ourselves politically
the same way many cities self-segregate by race. It's sad to see
how quickly America is becoming two countries.
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You are getting dizzy...
Check out these amazing optical illusions by
Akiyoshi Kitaoka. But be warned -- they can be
nausea-inducing! You won't believe it, but they aren't
moving. Trust me. (via Brian Dear)
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Concerns about social networking services
Jerry Michalski explains why the new social networking services give him the willies. (And who knew that the Red Herring still had a functioning Website?)
UPDATE: It's the new, improved, post-bubble, relaunched, no-longer-dead Red Herring. That explains it.
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September 24, 2003
See you next week
I'm going out of town for a few days to visit family. Including
the latest addition, my three-week-old niece Mila. I'll be
checking email occasionally, but mostly offline through Monday.
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The latest from Jason Calcanis of Silicon Alley Reporter fame
"Weblogs, Inc. is a B2B Web site dedicated to creating niche Weblogs
(a.k.a. blogs) across niche industries in which user participation is
an essential component of the resulting product."
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Corante, Nick Denton's microcontent collection, TechDirt, AlwaysOn,
and now this. I do think there's room to build successful niche
content sites through blogging, but I agree with Nick Denton that it's
a bunch of small, low-risk opportunities rather than one big one.
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September 23, 2003
An oddly familiar story
Just read a wonderful article about the history of RCA from the September 1932 issue of Fortune,
courtesy of my friend Greg Staple. It turns out that spectrum
wasn't the only area of legal uncertainty in the early days of
radio. Here's a sampling: "A wholesale disrespect for the
sanctity of patent rights nurtured an independent radio industry."
I couldn't help but think about the parallels to the current conflicts
over digital distribution of music.
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How times change
Arianna Huffington:
"I mean, when I was a Republican, Saddam Hussein was our ally, George
Bush owned a mediocre baseball team, Enron was a respected energy
company and Michael Jackson was still black. Well, we all have our
vices. For some, it's booze. For others it's group sex. For me, it was
Newt Gingrich."
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What's wrong with Google?
From yesterday through this morning, I had trouble getting through to
the Google Website. My browser kept timing out when accessing the
page. That seems to be fixed, but now I notice that the Google
adwords boxes aren't showing up on my websites. I wonder if
Google is being hit with a denial of service attack?
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Tracking blog popularity
Blogpulse is another Weblog
popularity service, from a company called Intelliseek that does
business intelligence analysis for marketers. (via Biz Stone)
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RFID hits the mainstream
A long article about RFID tags in Time magazine.
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September 22, 2003
The US military's new super-Internet
Federal Computer Week: "GIG-BE is DOD's bandwidth World Series — an $886 million initiative to
build a fast, secure, ubiquitous optical network based on IP. It will
connect 100 sites worldwide so warfighters and analysts can post and
access intelligence and data more quickly."
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HTML version of Supercommons
If you feel like scrolling through an 88-page article on your computer screen, you might like the HTML version of my Supercommons paper.
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I'll believe it when I see it
Converge Digest: "Evans confirmed that Verizon plans to pass one million homes with FTTP by the end of 2004...."
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Power back on
The lights finally came back on at my house late last night. Time to go clean out the fridge. (Ugh)
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September 20, 2003
In the dark
We lost power at my house Thursday night thanks to Hurricane
Isabel. It was still off Friday afternoon when I left for a
conference in DC. I'm hoping we'll have power when I get back on
Sunday. I may be in for a smelly fridge....
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September 18, 2003
The death of copper?
Some details in The Register on Intel's wireless plans.
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Me want
Walt Mossberg likes the Treo 600 smartphone. Sprint is supposed to start selling it next month.
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Hollywood vs. the record industry
Denver Post:
"The best-selling 'Chicago' movie soundtrack is available on CD
starting at $13.86. The actual movie, with the soundtrack songs
included, of course, plus
additional goodies ranging from deleted musical numbers to the
director's interview and a 'making-of' feature, can be had for
precisely $2.12 more."
A look at how the movie industry and the record industry have followed
different paths. However, Hollywood shouldn't pat itself on the
back yet. In many cases, such as the VCR, it has benefitted from
luck rather than foresight. The movie studios are even more
extremist on copyright than than the record labels, and it's only a
matter of time before it bites them.
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Tilting at windmills
Intel, Sony, and friends are announcing a
new digital rights management standard that would allow free sharing of
rich media within the home, but not outside it. The flaw in this
strategy is that most people don't spend their entire lives in their
homes. Neither do most handheld devices.
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September 17, 2003
Esther's personal Liberty Alliance
I was happy to read the end of this sentence in Esther Dyson's recent syndicated column: "I used [my mobile phone] not merely for voice calls, which you can (in theory) do from
anywhere, but for SMS (short message service) text messages, mostly
with my boyfriend, Eric." Hmmmm. Could Eric possibly be Esther's co-author for the June issue of Release 1.0?
As I know from working with her, Esther leads such a peripatetic life
that relationships must be difficult. It's nice to hear that
she's seeing someone. We can all use a soul mate.
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September 16, 2003
Bits meet atoms
Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City is the latest from William Mitchell, author of the influential City of Bits. From the MIT Press site: "Thus, Mitchell proposes, the 'trial separation' of bits (the elementary
unit of information) and atoms (the elementary unit of matter) is over.
With increasing frequency, events in physical space reflect events in
cyberspace, and vice versa...."
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Please Check Your Werblog Syndication Feed
I just noticed that many people are subscribed to an incorrect,
out-of-date URL for my RSS syndication feed. I must have
accidentally changed the directory when I had to reinstall Radio
Userland last year.
The correct RSS feed for Werblog is:
http://werbach.com/blog/rss.xml
Please check that you are using this address.
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My draft paper on spectrum policy
Supercommons: Toward a Unified Theory of Wireless Communication (459K PDF)
I will be presenting this paper at the 31st TPRC Conference
on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy this weekend. It's
an 88-page law review article calling for a fundamental reformulation
of wireless spectrum policy.
I argue that we should no longer treat spectrum
as a concrete physical resource, because new communications
technologies don't require exclusive
control of frequencies. The implications are profound. A
universal entry privilege, allowing
anyone to transmit anywhere, at any time, in any way, should be the
policy baseline. To resolve interference disputes, we can use a set of
backstops and safe harbors drawn from
tort and intellectual property law. Exclusive property rights
only add unnecessary transaction costs and create artificial
scarcity. The
"supercommons" represents a vast opportunity to enhance communications
capacity and open up access to the airwaves.
I welcome comments on the draft at kevin@werbach.com.
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IP ping pong
Law professors Eugene Volokh and Lawence Solum argue back and forth (and back and forth)
over whether intellectual property is conceptually justified.
Volokh says it is, because analogies to tangible property hold
up. Solum questions his analysis (though he ultimately says they agree on a key point). Worth reading as background for
thinking about the digital music wars.
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Proof the Semantic Web is Doomed
Internet.com: "Other major players in the Semantic Web space [in addition to HP, Sun, and IBM] include Mitch Kapor of
Lotus 123 fame and his Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF),
MovableType.org, Teknowledge and Creative Commons.org,
which is focused on protecting copyrights and privacy."
This article is so clueless that I don't know where to start.
(The line that Tim Berners Lee "told W3C members earlier this year that
the Semantic Web is going to be very powerful, and fun" is one
possibility.) If a journalist is so confused that he lumps
together all the players in the paragraph above, I don't see how
backers of the Semantic Web can possibly succeed with their grand plans.
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NY Times copyright cartoon
This cartoon
about the RIAA's lawsuits against file traders looks like it could have
come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. If nothing else,
the record industry is raising public awareness of the digital
copyright battle, though probably not in the way they hoped. (URL updated -- thanks to Michael Shields!)
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September 15, 2003
The Next Episode of Capitalism
Great article in the Harvard Crimson by Shoshanna Zuboff about "disruptive capitalism," based on her new book, The Support Economy. I just wish I could be as optimistic as she is.
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States threaten to regulate VOIP
Jeff Pulver: "There are forces at work here which if they are successful will create
unnecessary taxes and crippling administrative burden on the Internet
and in fact would mark a real dark day for IP Communications in the
United States."
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The wrong alternative for digital music
Don Tapscott: "As CD's sales declined, a digital musical surcharge, or something similar, could be assessed by Internet providers."
So let me get this straight. To deal with the conflicts between
record companies and their customers over P2P file-sharing, we should
turn ISPs into government-regulated collectors of a mandatory music
tax. This is an innovative new business model?
Some sort of compulsory license makes sense for Internet radio, for the
same reason it works for conventional radio. But radio is
not the same is my personal collection, even in a world where every
piece of music is instantly available from a hard drive in the
sky. One is broadcasting, an inherently collective
activity. One is personal. It is reasonable to use
statistical approximations to allocate broadcast revenue flows, because
that's the only way to tie them back to individuals. But my
relationship with my content providers is something different.
The endpoints of the transaction are easy to identify; the problem is
just the mechanism in the middle.
iTunes and other second-generation licensed online music services are
getting closer to a workable alternative for the majority of users who
are willing to pay for digital downloads if given a reasonable price
and experience. A music tax would take all the pressure off the
industry to deliver the product their customers want. It puts
government in the position of guaranteeing the record companies current
revenue stream, and ISPs in the position of tax collectors.
Anyone who thinks a "digital music surcharge" makes sense should
consider the effect of universal service charges in
telecommunications. Decades ago, these mechanisms did help people
get phone service in rural areas. For the past thirty years,
though, universal service charges have been an albatross making true
phone competition nearly impossible. They created vested
interests who will do anything to keep the subsidy gravy train going.
Tapscott's article is positively scary. I know he and those he
quotes, such as Jim Griffin, mean well. They are looking for a
win-win solution to the current impasse. But this isn't
it.
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September 12, 2003
This is a test. Please...
This is a test. Please talk amongst yourselves. I'm experimenting with
the comments function and trying out Haloscan as an alternative to
what I'm using.
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Reach out and touch some packets
Investors Business Daily: "We're going to build out Voice over IP, whether we do it in
partnership or we go head-to-head and compete," [AT&T consumer president] Polumbo said in an
interview. "We're hoping that by the back end of next year we'll be in
full marketing."
That settles it. 2005 will be the year the VOIP revolution hits
full bore. Basic phone service as we know it is doomed... but
that's a good thing for end-users and a market opportunity for
companies that play the transition right. The FCC has a year to
deal with the regulatory issues, unless it wants to create another
train wreck like the unbundling process after the 1996 Telecom
Act.
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It's good to be the king
Virginia Postrel reports on
a new study by economists Austin Goolsbee and Judith Chevalier: "A 1
percent price increase at BN.com pushes sales down 4 percent,
making price rises a bad idea. By contrast, the same increase at Amazon
reduces sales by only 0.5 percent — a net revenue gain."
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September 11, 2003
The old Bell bait and switch
I'm shocked, shocked that the CEO of SBC suddenly sees no incentive to deploy fiber to the home,
now that the FCC triennial review order is out. After all, the
order supposedly granted the Bells huge regulatory relief so they would
deploy fiber to the home. Now that the Bells have what they want,
what's the incentive to hold up their end of the deal?
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There goes the neighborhood
AT&T is testing a hosted VOIP service (via Om Malik).
After Vint Cerf's comments about VOIP the other day, maybe this is a
trend. The long-distance companies know their traditional market
niche is doomed as the local Bell companies gain approval to offer
interstate service, so they are going virtual. It will be
painful, but they can survive the VOIP transition better than the Bells
(who also will soon face a major VOIP threat from cable
operators).
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Get Real
So the RIAA is making good on its threat and suing individual file
sharers. As a political strategy, this approach is
dangerous. Stories about confused 12-year-old defendants can't be
great PR for the record industry. But we need to be honest and
acknowledge that what they are doing now is legally more defensible
than suing Napster and its ilk.
Downloading copyrighted music that you don't own or have fair use
rights to is a violation of intellectual property. It's socially
acceptable and, until now, relatively risk-free, like speeding,
installing unregistered software on your computer, or making mix tapes
from CDs. One can say that makes fighting it futile. One
can argue, with some credibility, that it helps the record industry to
have unregulated file trading. And one can say that a legal
regime that offered weaker intellectual property protection, like the
one the Framers of the Constitution established, would be better for
everyone. By all means, lets change the law, and change the
business structure of the music industry, both of which are in
desparate need of reform.
Just don't pretend that makes file sharing perfectly legal. The
intellectual property extremists are in power, but the fact that they
are wrong doesn't mean, as Jonathan Peterson of Amateur Hour suggests,
that their legal argument is a fallacy. The bulk of those tens of
millions of Kazaa users are downloading files for the simple reason
that free is a better price than $17.99 or even 99 cents. There's
no honor in that.
Why does it matter? Because we risk cheapening the distinction
between free beer and free speech. Linux is thriving not because
it's cheaper, but because it's better. Fair use and the public
domain are valuable because they increase creative, political, and
educational output, not because they threaten private property.
Martin Luther King and Gandhi are heroes because they disobeyed laws
that were immoral; focusing only on the disobedience cheapens the
civility. Saying there is nothing wrong with file sharing only
reinforces extremists who see the world as black or white.
As I wrote
in the Spring, the endgame of the digital copyright wars is coming into
focus. As plenty of people predicted, distributed and private
file-sharing services are making it increasingly difficult for the
record industry to choke off the intermediaries. The last gasp of
their "Plan A" is to sue individuals. It won't work, but it won't
totally fail either.
We need to get as quickly as possible into "Plan B," which is to offer
customers licensed music dowloads with prices and terms they find
acceptable. And the best way to get there is to acknowledge that
the problem isn't the institution of copyright, or the idea of charging
for a piece of recorded music. It's to empower those within the
music industry who realize that scaring 12-year-olds isn't a long-term
solution to all their problems.
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Two years since the world changed
Remember.
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September 10, 2003
The guy is everywhere!
Reading today's entries on his Weblog, I can't help but conclude that Joi is Zelig.
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MCI going VOIP
Vint Cerf, interviewed by CNet: "We want to get 25 percent of our calls over an IP backbone by the end
of the year. We're at 10 percent now. We want to move all of it over by
2005."
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Good news on the spam front?
China is blocking 127 mail servers responsible for huge volumes of spam worldwide (via ITU Newslog). I wonder if this will make a dent?
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Still so big
I'm still receiving over 2000 SoBig-generated junk messages per
day. The annoying part are the bounces from emails that spoof my
return address. A few dozen of those per day go through my
current spam filters. I'm just worried about what things will be
like when the next, even more virulent version of the worm comes
out. I may be forced to go to challenge/response.
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September 9, 2003
Lessig is more
Congratulations to Larry Lessig and his wife Bettina on the birth of their first child, Willem! Seems like everyone's having kids these days....
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Software on the edge
conference in New York on September 30-October 1. Participants include
David Axmark of MySQL, Ian Murdoch of Progeny, Marc Fleury of JBoss
Group, and Richard Gabriel of Sun.
Should be an excellent conference covering themes similar to Supernova.
It's also a partnership with Pulver.com, organized by venture
capitalists Marc Goldberg and Jeff Clavier. I've heard good things about the
previous ones.
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September 8, 2003
The VOIP battle heats up
BusinessWeek: "In Minnesota's view, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and
looks like a duck, it's a duck."
When I was at the FCC, I used to do a presentation called "Ducks,
Grandma, and Sausage." The Internet, and especially Internet
telephony, quacks like the duck of regulated communications
services. The problem is that, in the eyes of many, anything that
undermines the existing regulatory transfer system means grandma won't
be able to get decent phone service. And changing the system
means going through the regulatory and legislative process, which is
like sausage: you don't want to know what happens on the inside.
That was six years ago.
I felt strongly at the time that the FCC should stay away from voice
over IP regulatory questions, because raising them would open a
pandora's box. But over the years since, I've become increasingly
convinced that avoiding the issue could lead to worse outcomes.
Now we're starting to see the consequences of the FCC's benign
neglect. Other interests, like state regulators, are jumping into
the vacuum. It's time to for the FCC to take responsibility and
bring some enlightened rationality to the debate. Otherwise, one
of two things will happen. Either VOIP regulation will become a messy
quagmire driven by overblown political and lobbying interests, or it
will be a battleground between big cable and phone monopolies.
Neither outcome is good for innovative companies and for users.
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I cry uncle
Welcome to the world, Mila Cassidy Werbach!
Congratulations to my brother Adam and sister-in-law Lyn. This is
an even greater creation than the late-lamented SmashRegis.com.
I guess it's my turn to procreate. Check back in late December....
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WiFi on everything
Glenn Fleishman on Broadcom's single-chip WiFi solutions
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Wireless convergence
Kineto introduces hybrid
WiFi/cellular phone system.
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Using UWB
Ultra-wideband wireless technology will be used to scan
cargo containers for homeland security purposes.
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10,000 UK WiFi Hotspots
Cloud is serious about blanketing England with public WiFi. They
signed a deal to add up to 7000
payphone locations to the 3000 hotspots alongside slot
machines they announced previously.
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As goes Wal-Mart...
Eric Peters: The Watershed Moment for RFID
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VOIP2P
Looks like telephony
is the next front in the war of edge vs. center.
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September 4, 2003
Earthlink DSL follies
When I moved to my current house last year, I tried to sign up for DSL
high-speed Internet service. However, Verizon's Web-based
qualification form told me I was too far from the central office.
So I went with a cable modem. I've noticed construction work at
our local central office the past few months, so a few weeks ago I
thought I'd check again to see if they upgraded the facilities to
extend DSL coverage. Both Verizon and Earthlink indicated I was
now qualified for DSL. Oh happy day.
I signed up with Earthlink, and received a DSL modem in the mail.
Only, there was no signal. I gave it a few days, but still no
connection. So I called Earthlink technical support. The rep
pulled up my account and told me I was too far from the central office
(>15,000 feet) for Earthlink DSL service. I know I'm near the
limit of DSL range, so it's not surprising that Earthlink makes that
cutoff. But why in the world did they say I was qualified and
send me the modem, if their system clearly showed they couldn't serve
me?
This wasn't a great hardship for me, since I never cancelled my cable
modem account. It's just odd. Either Earthlink has a back-end
system problem, or there is a problem in the information exchange
between Earthlink and Verizon.
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Millions and millions
According to a Reuters report,
there will be half a billion mobile phone handsets sold next
year. That includes 100 million camera phones and 30 million
smartphones. Stop and think about those numbers for a bit.
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September 2, 2003
Spectrum policy demystified
The New America Foundation released the very helpful Citizens Guide to the Airwaves
last month. It translates the sometimes-arcane elements of
spectrum policy into plain English. This stuff is exceedingly
important, but it's easy to miss the significance if you don't realize
what's at stake in seemingly technical regulatory debates.
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