As I’ve said many times here increased regulation including net-neutrality regulation will result in poorer quality services and/or higher costs. This is a natural byproduct of governmental interference in the market. Gizmodo had an article that articulated this very point in regards to the recent regulation called for by the FCC chairman Julian [...]

So President Obama is hard up for cash to fund his spending spree. He is seeking to charge fees to wireless carriers. According to CNET he’s seeking $4.8 billion over the next 10 years on top of the fees charged in spectrum auctions. The thing is these fees will be passed along [...]

Steven Musil at CNET posted a report about how Comcast was going to appeal a ruling by the FCC regarding traffic blocking. In this ruling Comcast would be required to stop this activity and advise customers on how it’s going to manage traffic. Personally I think the transparency is great but this is [...]

Techdirt had an interesting article about the audacious claims made by both camps in the net neutrality debate. Including the comment below:
Net neutrality proponents…. would prohibit Internet service providers from using price to address the ever-growing popularity of streaming video and other bandwidth-intensive programs that cause bottlenecks.
As Mike Masnick points out in his [...]

There is a rumor going around over at BroadbandReports.com that Comcast is considering creating a 250GB/month cap for broadband users and charging $15 for every 10GB over the cap. Additionally their source says there will be one “slip up” wavier every 12 months. I really don’t have an issue with this. It [...]