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The issues of Internet capacity, Net neutrality, broadband investment and network management are interconnected. And make no mistake about it: Those interconnections are laced with dollar signs.
Last week, I interviewed University of Minnesota mathematics professor Andrew Odlyzko, who said that the rate of growth in Internet usage is slowing from about 100 percent to about […]

It’s likely that the procedure described in this Wired piece, the use of an online application called Phweet and Twitter to make VoIP calls on airplanes, soon will be squelched by the airlines or service provider Aircell. On the other hand, if Phweet can facilitate voice so easily, it is likely that other applications will […]

This Computerworld piece does a good job of previewing the unified communications infrastructure that the New York Mets are creating at Citi Field, the stadium they are moving into next season.
Though at the moment they may be willing to trade the Nortel system for a closer who isn’t hurt, the UC system will prove helpful […]

It’s not surprising that the telecommuting landscape has changed during the past few years, as broadband and mobile devices have become ubiquitous and, more recently, fuel prices have hit the roof. An expected telecommuting report from CDW, which is previewed in this Web Workers Daily piece, dissects those changes.
The report says that as of a […]

The saga of Comcast and, by extension, all big ISPs, against the FCC and/or bandwidth hogs continues.
The latest twists, reported by IT Business Edge and elsewhere, are that Comcast will limit bandwidth for people it deems to have used too much for periods of 10 to 20 minutes and that the FCC has ordered the company […]