They are so incredibly brazen they throw the FCC’s rules back in their face upside down!
Despite the rules governing the 700 Mhz auction, Verizon has arrogantly decided that they are somehow not required to participate. Well, hell, that’s exactly what one ought to expect when there is a lawless administration, but that’s another story…
Google Accuses Verizon of Planning to Dodge 700 MHz Open Access Rules
Verizon has taken the public position that it may exclude its handsets from the open access condition. Verizon believes it may force customers who want to access the open platform using a device not purchased from …read more

Simply mho, but didn’t we really know this all along…
Google: Spectrum bid goal was openness, not winning
Google says it participated in the recent wireless spectrum auction not with the goal to win, but to help drive bidding high enough to ensure that open-access rules it had pushed for would be adopted.
“Google’s top priority heading into the auction was to make sure that bidding on the so-called ‘C Block’ reached the $4.6 billion reserve price that would trigger the important ‘open applications’ and ‘open handsets’ license conditions,” Richard Whitt, Washington telecom and media counsel, and Joseph Faber, corporate counsel, wrote in …read more

The Proposed Caps On Bandwidth are bullshite!
Hat tip to The EFF. Did you know that: “the wholesale price to Time Warner for 40gb for a month amounts to about $3.”
“While the cable industry suggests the move is to recoup costs incurred by heavy users, the low caps they’ve got planned (ranging from 5 to 40GB) are raising a lot of eyebrows.”
Once again new information emerges regarding Time Warner’s about-to-be-implemented overage charges for bandwidth consumption. I’ve found one comment of maximum interest;
swhx7 says:
“If it’s pay-by-transfer-amount with neutrality, or “unlimited” transfer with discrimination (i.e. filtering by traffic content or destination), then the …read more

Perhaps you don’t believe it is a First Amendment issue but I do. Make sure to read Constance Cumbey.
Couldn’t Help But Notice (123007)
By TBlumer
Google, with its transparently self-interested advocacy of “Net Neutrality,” is already engaging in rent-seeking and position-cementing behavior. Its (and Yahoo’s) willingness to sell out to the Chinese police state reveals the …
Another confused anti-Neutrality Op-Ed
An anti-Net Neutrality Op-Ed in today’s Seattle Times, Hysteria Makes for Bad Law, by information technology provider Avis Yates Rivers, is so riddled with omissions and sloppy logic, I do not know where to start taking it apart. …
The Year in First Amendment …read more

Stan Schroeder leads us off with a bit of a fantasy post containing;
A Web 2.0 Christmas Fairy Tale
By Stan Schroeder
Net neutrality is strictly adhered to except on BitTorrent Day, a special day in the year when corporate customers get their bandwidth reduced to let the BitTorrent users leech 20% more stuff. And finally, the increased income from …
Year in review: Quiet year for tech on Capitol Hill
by Anne Broach
It was also a quiet year for an issue that so dominated the political debate in 2006: Net neutrality. Just after Congress opened its new session, two senators reintroduced a 2006 bill …read more

Yes, this will be about Net Neutrality along with making money online. Folks, for the love of God, please, put these together and consider where you and all of us are moving and why there is such a hubbub from the Telecoms and broadband ISPs.

There is an unfathomable amount money to be made in this market!
Online Entertainment Steals TV Viewers
Pro and amateur videos, social networking and even streaming TV shows are luring audiences to the Web, study shows
NEW YORK (Reuters) – “More television viewers are turning to the Internet to watch videos, films and TV episodes, according to a new …read more

Good grief! A new ridiculous demeaning term is coined, Telecom Trotskyite…
Striking writers in talks to launch Web start-ups
By The Home Office
That’s why we’re so strongly in favor of Net Neutrality — because without NN, these efforts will run into the same Big Media distribution roadblocks as television. The Writers strike has hastened that evolution, as this LA Times story …
T-Mobile Attacks Net Neutrality Unnecessarily: Twitter Problem Not Its Fault
Wired Blogs – USA
The argument T-Mobile’s serviceperson offers is useful because it outlines the straightforward, no-messing-around strategy that bandwidth providers have for killing net neutrality: block the customer, then treat the …read more

I see my friend Mr. Cleland is up to his “normal” trick of attempting to diminish others to his benefit…
Wireless open access: happening or not?
Computerworld Australia – Australia
“Seems like carriers and content providers alike have been bitten by the open access bug. Big news recently was Verizon’s announcement that it plans to open up its wireless network to any device or application. And Google upped the ante by announcing its intention to bid on the available 700-MHz spectrum in upcoming auctions, a portion of which, thanks to Google’s lobbying efforts, is required to be open access as well.”
Engineers: P2P is …read more

Hmmm… yes, I’ve given my favorite obsessive, compulsive a bit of fair time – pay attention, analyze quickly, hit ignore.
Testing for Net Neutrality
By Joe Hodnicki
Law.com reports on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new software that can tell you whether your internet browsing issues are due to intentional ISP interference. More info on EFF’s Test Your ISP project here. The San Francisco-based …
Google’s not feeling the love from the state of California on net neutrality
By Scott Cleland
Two prominent Californians that matter recently did not side with home state Google on Google’s pet policy crusade — net neutrality. Awwwww. I feel bad …read more

FCC denies Verizon’s rate-relief request
“Federal communications regulators on Tuesday denied a petition by Verizon Communications Inc. that was seeking relief from government rules over how much it charges rival phone companies to access its network in six cities.
The Federal Communications Commission said “the current evidence of competition does not satisfy” its standard with any of Verizon’s requests.”
So… why do people like Scott Cleland continue to insist the opposite is true?
There seem to be additional, contradictory statements;
‘Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president for public affairs, policy and communications, said in a statement “If the FCC had approved these petitions, it would …read more