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		<title>Rob Frieden &#45; CircleID</title>
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		<description>Postings from Rob Frieden on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:rights>Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
		<dc:date>2008-07-31T13:44:00-08:00</dc:date>
		

		
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			<title> Another Wrong-Headed WSJ Editorial (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Those wacky editorial writers at the Wall Street Journal just cannot seem to get the facts straight about network neutrality and what the FCC has done or can do on this matter. In the July 30, 2008 edition (Review and Outlook A14), the Journal vilifies FCC Chairman Kevin Martin for starting along the slippery slope of regulating Internet content. The Journal writers just seem to love hyperbole, and are not beyond ignoring the facts when they do not support a party line. Here are a few examples from the editorial... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/87313_wrong_headed_wsj_editorial_fcc">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-31T13:44:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Consequences of Opt-in Better Than Best Efforts Internet Routing (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While attending the International Telecommunications Society's 17th bi-annual conference I attended yet another network neutrality session. Economists predominated at this conference and their collective read on network neutrality emphasizes the need for ISPs to "extract value" from content providers primarily by converting zero cost peering with ISPs into specific payments from individual content sources. I have no problem with offers of non-neutral, "better than best efforts" routing options to content providers who voluntarily opt in, particularly if the offer is made transparently and anyone can opt in. What troubles me is the impact of opt-in on content providers that opt out... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/87960_opt_in_best_efforts_internet_routing">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-07-09T06:21:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Who Makes the Any Apps Any Handset Call? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal today reported that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants to reject a Petition for Declaratory Ruling filed by Skype that would establish a wireless Carterfone policy, i.e., that wireless carriers must allow subscribers to use any compatible handset to access any application, content or software. Chairman Martin has confidence that the marketplace solutions obviate any necessary FCC intervention. Such optimism must derive in part from the apparently newfound willingness of one major wireless carrier, Verizon, to support aspects of open access. Perhaps Chairman Martin has confidence in the marketplace based on the magnanimous offer of most wireless carriers to pro-rate their early termination penalties by $5 a month. But here's the rub... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/84211_who_any_apps_any_handset_call">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-04-02T11:55:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> The Internet's Weakest Link (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This week two major transoceanic cables experienced outages that may last several days. The outages provide a reminder that several Internet bottlenecks exist where these cables make landfall. When one thinks of bottlenecks in telecommunications the first and last mile come to mind. Yet equally vulnerable are the last few 1000 feet of submarine cable links. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_internets_weakest_link">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-02-03T08:34:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Telecommunications Advocacy: Who's Behind That Blog? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[An assignment in a Media and Democracy course I teach at Penn State invites students to select a telecommunications advocacy web site for analysis. I want my students to decode the message and attempt to identify whether a bias exists and who financially supports the site. The exercise typically fails miserably... Most students cannot infer that a site that advertises books by Ann Coulter trends to the right and one that talks about social justice trends to the left. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/telecommunications_behind_the_blog">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2007-11-29T11:49:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> In Praise of Relatively Dumb Pipes (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Comcast's furtive and undisclosed traffic manipulation reminds me of a curious, red herring asserted by some incumbent carriers and their sponsored researchers: that without complete freedom to vertically and horizontally integrate the carriers would lose synergies, efficiencies and be relegated to operating "dumb pipes."... Constructing and operating the pipes instead of creating the stuff that traverses them gets a bad rap. It may not be sexy, but it probably has less risk. But of course with less risk comes less reward, and suddenly no one in the telecommunications business is content with that. So incumbent carriers assert that convergence and competitive necessity requires them to add "value" to the pipes. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/711281_praise_relatively_dumb_pipes">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2007-11-28T13:16:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> FCC Chairman Martin a Tireless Consumer Advocate - Who Knew? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In a counter-intuitive move for a Republican free marketeer, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has sought to impose substantial additional regulations on cable television. Chairman Martin ostensibly can retain his credentials by claiming that a 1984 law requires the FCC to act when cable television systems serve 70% or more of the U.S. population and 70% who can subscribe do so. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/7112812_fcc_chairman_consumer_advocate">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2007-11-28T13:09:00-08:00</dc:date>
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