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		<title> 100 Years of Monopoly Phone Service (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 100th anniversary of the Kingsbury Commitment which effectively established AT&amp;T, a.k.a. The Bell System, as a government sanctioned monopoly. It was on December 19, 1913 that AT&T agreed to an out-of-court settlement of a US Government's anti-trust challenge. In return for the government agreeing not to pursue its case, AT&T agreed to sell its controlling interest in Western Union telegraph company... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131219_100_years_of_monopoly_phone_service">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> So, How Big Is the Internet? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results of an excellent study made, for reasons that will become clear, by an anonymous author reaches this conclusion... The problem is, to make the study, the author created a botnet - that is he wrote a small program that took advantage of insecure devices to enlist additional machines to help in the study. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130325_so_how_big_is_the_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> No Spectrum Shortage, Just an Allocation Problem (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a new study from Citi Investment Research &amp; Analysis make clear, the US does not have a spectrum shortage. We've just allowed a relatively small number of carriers to control the spectrum. ... Perhaps if we had an effective "use it or lose it" policy in place, or a heavy tax on unused spectrum a more vibrant market for this spectrum would emerge. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20110929_no_spectrum_shortage_just_an_allocation_problem">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Limitations of Carrier Grade NAT, and Some Workarounds (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qtel, the largest carrier in Qatar (and nearly the only Internet provider) appears to connect all their users (~600K) to the Internet through just one or a very few public IPv4 addresses. 82.148.97.69 was their single public address in 2006-2007. How can network address translation (NAT) put all those users through just one IP address? <a href="https://circleid.com/postslimitations_of_carrier_grade_nat_and_some_workarounds">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Comparative Broadband Speeds - US Loses Again (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Google Labs added the Ookla Speedtest data set to their wonderful Public Data Explorer so I just had to try it out. These are not bogus statistics. These graphs show the average of all the millions of actual speedtests run in the respective countries over the past 4 months. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20110621_comparative_broadband_speeds_us_loses_again">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Paid Peering: Issues and Misunderstandings (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was asked for my opinion on Google paying France Telecom (FT) to deliver traffic into FT's network, i.e. Google paying to peer with FT. I wasn't aware Google pays FT. I don't even know if it's true. But I do know this is a topic fraught with misunderstandings. Also, if there is a "problem" here, the problem is one of competition (or lack thereof) in portions of the French broadband access market. It is not a problem that can be or should be fixed by "network neutrality" regulations or legislation. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20110426_paid_peering_issues_and_misunderstandings">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Cable Trounces the Telcos (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Netflix posted graphs of how well various ISPs deal with Netflix video streams.  The results are striking. All the cable companies easily beat all the phone companies with the exception of Verizon where we're seeing a mix of DSL and FiOS results. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20110128_cable_trounces_the_telcos">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Singapore's Fiber Infrastructure Beginning to Pay Off (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's still early days, but Singapore's approach to fiber deployment is beginning to pay off. In December 2007, Singapore announced a major program to get fiber deployed throughout their city state. A critical advantage of their approach was government mandated structural separation between the dark fiber layer deployed in the public right-of-way (a natural monopoly) and higher layer services (where competition is possible and highly desirable. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20101019_singapores_fiber_infrastructure_beginning_to_pay_off">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Universal White Spaces: Moving Beyond the TV Bands (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FCC's recent decision allowing license-exempt access to TV White Spaces, i.e. unused TV channels, is a small but very important step in spectrum policy. But, more important than the TV bands, is the policy approach and the fact that it was adopted in the face of extreme lobbying by well established vested interests. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsuniversal_white_spaces_moving_beyond_the_tv_bands">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Network Neutrality is the Wrong Fight! (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We shouldn't settle for network neutrality. It's a poor substitute for what we had and much less than what we need. Let me explain. There are two topics to discuss. The first is "common carriage," a centuries old legal concept that applied to the US telecom industry throughout most of the 20th century. The second involves communications protocols. Both topics are complex, so I will cover only what's needed to understand why we shouldn't accept network neutrality and why, at a minimum, we should fight for enforcement of existing common carriage rules. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsnetwork_neutrality_is_the_wrong_fight">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> LTE and Spectrum Stupidity (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile operators are counting on Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology to handle surging demand for mobile data access. But LTE developers made some poor choices, cutting spectral efficiency and thus driving up operator costs. LTE was envisioned as an all IP system, but the RF allocations follow the voice-centric approach of earlier generations. While LTE standards allow for either Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) or Time Division Duplexing (TDD), all initial LTE equipment uses FDD. FDD requires two separate blocks of spectrum... <a href="https://circleid.com/postslte_and_spectrum_stupidity">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Wi-Fi Offload, Not Femtocells (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile operators face soaring data demand. The natural evolution of 2G/3G/4G infrastructure delivers about 2X additional capacity every 24 months. That's a major disconnect! (At least) two solutions are on the table, Femtocells and Wi-Fi offload. Both approaches solve the backhaul issue by using customer or 3rd party links (DSL, DOCSIS, T1/E1, WISP or otherwise)... As a solution for mobile data capacity, Wi-Fi wins, for many reasons. <a href="https://circleid.com/postswi_fi_offload_not_femtocells">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> White Spaces Could Be the Broadcasters Best Hope (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20091214_white_spaces_could_be_the_broadcasters_best_hope</link>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) fought the White Spaces Coalition and others interested in making US "TV white spaces" available for broadband, Wi-Fi or indeed, any new purpose. When the FCC voted 5-0 to permit license exempt use of TV White Spaces, the industry brought suit in Federal court. And they did this, despite rules in the FCC's decision that are so restrictive that, for now, white spaces devices are doomed to commercial failure. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20091214_white_spaces_could_be_the_broadcasters_best_hope">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Download Speeds of GSM and 3GSM Networks (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsdownload_speeds_of_gsm_and_3gsm_networks</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ARCchart is selling a new report entitled Mobile Broadband Performance of Carrier Networks. I can't personally justify the purchase, but I notice this wonderful graph in their sample. ARCchart gave mobile users free speed test applications... <a href="https://circleid.com/postsdownload_speeds_of_gsm_and_3gsm_networks">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> LTE: Another Way to Estimate when It Will Be Real (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hardly a week goes by without a press release touting how soon we'll be using a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network. Verizon has promised a major commercial launch in 2010 and a two-city trial before the end of 2009. Let me show you a little chart I put together for my 3G Tutorial and have repeatedly updated... <a href="https://circleid.com/postslte_another_way_to_estimate_when_it_will_be_real">More...</a>]]></description>
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