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Ars Technica today has an opinion piece about the cell carriers and ISPs of this nation. It asks if the public ever gets a feeling that these entities don’t really like us. The answer most assuredly is yes, but for different reasons.
While it would be simple to hack away at the cell carriers over [...]

After suffering from the removal of the entire alt.* hierarchy from Verizon’s newsservers just today, I now see that the Governor and Attorney General of California have gone soft in the head also.
Why? It could be obtaining political capital with the religious right, but it may just be stupidity. I would not count either one [...]

The area of net neutrality is getting much discussion these days, and everyone has an opinion. Everyone wants to affix blame for the problems, and that may be fine, but blame must be assessed correctly, and put at the feet of the right people.
One person that might be dangerous, both because his opinions are wrong, [...]

The idea of the limitation of a service that has previously been unlimited is anathema to me. Not only do I feel this way on principle, I also feel that the reasons typically given for it are partially or completely wrong.
John Dvorak is someone I agree with more often than anyone else who writes on [...]

With Verizon making such a push for the ubiquity of FiOS, their abbreviation for fiber optic service, cable provider Comcast looks toward the future, and the offer of speeds in excess of 100Mbs for their service over coaxial cable.
The DOCSIS 3.0 standard allows for theoretical maximum download rates of 150Mbs, so the possibility of [...]