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You are hereAmazonDownload from my NN debate at Columbia MBA conferenceSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-02-09 18:50Just got back from New York where Dan Brenner of NCTA and I faced off against NN proponents Professor Susan Crawford and Skype's Chris Libertelli. It was a different format less washington-ish and more finance-ish given the audience and Eli Noam's deft moderating hand. The quip of the day goes to my colleague Dan Brenner who summed up the net neutrality proponents views as "love the carriage, hate the carrier."
I framed my views in an MBA context, explaining what was really going on competitively and commercially in the NN debate.
The best question was how could one bridge the gulf between the polarized sides. Kudos to Canada in resisting NN -- debunking that everyone else supports NNSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-02-09 18:01I was delighted to see Mark Goldberg's post alerting us in America that the Canadian Government is opposed to embracing net neutrality regulation as well. I love Mark's no apologies free market stance. He knows the Internet's growth, vitality, and diversity has come from free citizens, freely interacting and cooperating, free of government intervention. As he said, let freedom reign! This is more evidence that the rest of the world is not pro-net neutrality despite the balderdash NN proponents toss around. Don't slow the Internet with regulationSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-02-08 15:58What do the following three stories of the last few days have in common?
What's the common thread? Its obvious that the capacity of the Internet will have to increase exponentially and rapidly to handle the coming exponential increase in traffic generated by Internet video. Don't miss Esther Dyson's sage interview urging restraint on NNSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-02-06 11:38I have attached the link to Esther Dyson's important interview on net neutrality.
More on Microsoft's "reasonable" discrimination differences with ItsOurNetSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-02-06 11:30Wired has an interesting article on how Microsoft's new Vista operating system has had to make some tough and restrictive design calls that some could misread as "discriminatory".
Why this is relevant to net neutrality and Microsoft is that:
Why this is relevant to Microsoft's departure from ItsOurNet is that Microsoft evidently understands that regulation can be "unreasonable" and "unjust" as I explained in a previous post. Kudos to FCC Martin for proposing wireless broadband as info serviceSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-02-05 10:46I was pleasantly surprised and very pleased that FCC Chairman Martin proactively released a proposed order that would reclassify wireless broadband as a Title I information service, as reported in today's Comm Daily. This order, which looks to have the support of the Republican majority, would continue to harmonize the regulatory treatment of all the major modes of broadband.
Why this is relevant to NN is that the expert agency overseeing competition in this market segment is concluding that there is sufficient competition to not require common carrier-like regulation.
Don't bother NN proponents with the facts on broadband competition...Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-02-02 11:24As expected proponents of net neutrality ignore facts that don't push their anti-business, big government point of view. When the FCC broadband report is replete with powerful evidence that broadband competition and penetration are increasing impressively, NN proponents don't like the message so they shoot the messenger. Comm Daily today quoted a Public Knowledge spokesperson who said: the FCC numbers were "invalid" and that he wouldn't even "go there" what trends or developments the group sees in the report because it is "measuring a world that does not comport with reality." Wireless broadband dominates broadband growth in FCC Broadband ReportSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-02-01 17:52Evidence continues to mount that the broadband sector is increasingly competitive and that it is not the permanent cable/DSL "duopoly" that net neutrality supporters claim. The FCC just released its biannual report on high speed of broadband adoption and the new evidence showing more competition is powerful. The most important takeaway from the FCC's report is that 58% or 7.9m of the 11.0m total broadband adds over the first six months of 2006 were wireless broadband -- NOT DSL or cable modem. That's not how a "permanent DSL/Cable duopoly" behaves -- is it? Apparently Microsoft may not rejoin ItsOurNet after all... what I've learnedSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-01-31 19:07In my digging around to find out if Microsoft would be rejoining the ItsOurNet.com pro-net neutrality coalition, I have learned enough that strongly suggests to me that Microsoft may not be rejoining ItsOurNet now that the AT&T merger is complete. Why I believe this is that I heard Microsoft is telling both sides behind-the-scenes -- the ItsOurNet crowd and the NetCompetition crowd -- the same story.
This take on Microsoft's new position makes sense to me for three reasons. Tibits on why ItsOurNet website is downSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-01-31 18:25Today I asked some of the folks that are members of ItsOurNet.com why their site has been down for a week. All tried to downplay the significance. One said that they had changed vendors and that the site being down is not related to Microsoft withdrawing from ItsOurNet last fall. That rep went on to say that all the ItsOurnet folks are focused on influencing the grassroots, and that they will be working more closely with SaveTheInternet and FreePress because there may not be the need for both websites.
Another ItsOurNet member rep, Alan Davidson, Head of Google's Washington's office, told me today that he did not know why the website was down and said the fact that he didn't know about it being down for a week was evidence that Google is not the "puppet master" behind-the-scenes of the net neutrality movement that they are made out to be. Pages |