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	<title>&#45; CircleID</title>
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	<description>Postings from  on CircleID</description>
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	<dc:rights>Copyright 2026, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
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		<title> Biggest Deal in Telecom Policy Since the AT&T Divestiture (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest communications policy moment since the AT&amp;T divestiture has just happened: The $100 million-dollar-march (or more -- what Comcast spent to make sure this happened) has ponderously, self-evidently reached its conclusion with the FCC's approval of the merger between Comcast and NBCU. It wasn't the subtlest campaign; it didn't need to be; it was effective in its discipline and heavy persistence. The tweets are flying and the journalists are already weighing in. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20110118_biggest_deal_in_telecom_since_att_divestiture">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Bad Timing: Comcast, Netflix, NN, Cable Modems, and NBCU (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comcast, the largest broadband provider, largest pay-TV company, and third-largest telephone company in the country, distributes communications services to more than a third of the country. Today Comcast's existing overwhelming market power was on display in major public battles with (1) Level 3 and (2) cable modem manufacturer Zoom. The takeaway from today: No market forces are constraining Comcast -- or any of the other major cable distributors, none of which compete with each other. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20101129_bad_timing_comcast_netflix_nn_cable_modems_and_nbcu">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Trust Us (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the question: is it meaningful or important for a federal agency to have regulatory authority over high-speed Internet access connectivity? Right now, the FCC (which is supposed to oversee "communication over wire and radio") has no clear authority to make policy about high-speed Internet connectivity. (Transport is different than content - this post is not about applications or uses of this connectivity. Be careful when you talk about the Internet "ecosystem," because transport has been historically and remains different from everything else. I'm talking about the capacity to send packets from Point A to Point B, whether provided by wired or wireless providers.) <a href="https://circleid.com/poststrust_us">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The Militarization of the Internet (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20101020_the_militarization_of_the_internet</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone needs to take a good hard look at those Internet surveillance stories being strategically placed on the front page of the New York Times. There's a trail here, I believe, that's worth following. Here are some data points... there appears to be a deep interest in the ability to declare war online, as evidenced by cybersecurity research and public speeches by Herbert Lin, a key player who has worked on several cybersecurity reports for the National Research Council.
 <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20101020_the_militarization_of_the_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Nothing to See Here (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20100927_nothing_to_see_here</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Three parallel events in US communications policy today, all reported on widely - but with a common thread. ... Law enforcement and national security officials want to make sure that they have the same ability to execute warrants and surveillance orders online that they had in the switched-telephone-circuit age -- which will mean substantial government design mandates for new software, hardware, and communications facilities. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20100927_nothing_to_see_here">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The Broadband Adoption Rate (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's FCC report estimates that at least 80 million Americans don't have high-speed Internet access - defined as download speeds of at least 4 Mbps and upload 1 Mbps - at home. (Soon the Commission will release another report comparing these results to those in other countries.) This service is completely unavailable to at least 14 million Americans - the FCC estimates that "1,024 out of 3,230 counties in the United States and its territories are unserved by broadband[, and t]hese unserved areas are home to 24 million Americans living in 8.9 million households." <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20100721_the_broadband_adoption_rate">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Take That Down Right Now - and Give Me That Too (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20100421_take_that_down_right_now_and_give_me_that_too</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has released a government requests tool. It's highly illuminating and may end up being quite disruptive. That's what surprising data visualizations can do for us. ... The tool allows us to see the number of requests from different countries that Google received during the last six months of 2009. More than 3600 data requests from Brazil during those six months and more than 3500 from the US. But just 40 or so from Canada and 30 from Israel. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20100421_take_that_down_right_now_and_give_me_that_too">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Comcast v. FCC - "Ancillary Jurisdiction" Has to Be Ancillary to Something (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20100406_fcc_comcast_ancillary_jurisdiction_ancillary_to_something</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Big news today - Judge Tatel has written the D.C. Circuit's opinion in Comcast v. FCC, and Comcast wins. Bottom line: The FCC didn't have regulatory authority over Comcast's unreasonable network management practices because it failed to tie that authority to any express statutory delegation by Congress... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20100406_fcc_comcast_ancillary_jurisdiction_ancillary_to_something">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The Canoe Tipping Point (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20100216_the_canoe_tipping_point</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has successfully created a nationwide (worldwide) fine-grained, targeted ad market by using queries to its search engine. The cable industry would like to be able to use its cable and broadband subscriber data to create a nationwide, fine-grained, targeted ad market. This race has substantial implications for the future of online video -- and online activity generally. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20100216_the_canoe_tipping_point">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Leadership and Persuasion: Internet Freedom (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsleadership_and_persuasion_internet_freedom</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Secretary Clinton's major address on internet freedom made the connection between humanity and technology. We've been waiting a long time for our political leaders to have the courage to express thoughts like this, to have a vision about the role of the internet in human history, and yesterday the day arrived. The speech wasn't an isolated event, of course. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsleadership_and_persuasion_internet_freedom">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> White Spaces: Timing (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20081025_white_spaces_timing</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week's emergency petition by the broadcasters to delay the FCC's Nov. 4 vote is just part of the white spaces atmosphere right now. Ars Technica reports that the mud is really flying -- the broadcasters are accusing proponents of white space use of wanting to kill off television. It's a familiar argument -- "If you do Y, broadcast television as we know it will be destroyed." <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20081025_white_spaces_timing">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> White Spaces News... Interesting First Step (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20081015_white_spaces_fcc_first_step</link>
		<description><![CDATA[When the U.S. Digital Television Transition (DTV) transition happens in Feb. 2009, channels 2 through 51 will remain allocated for television transmission. Few of the nation's television markets actually use 49 channels. Indeed, most use less than half of that number... Today, with Congress in recess, leaving less room for last-minute-Lucy-with-the-football lobbying gambits, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) appears to be poised to release a report saying the white spaces can be used without necessarily causing interference to existing broadcasts. There are still many questions to be answered... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20081015_white_spaces_fcc_first_step">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> McCain Tech Plan: The Only Vision is Backward-Looking (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts88152_mccain_tech_plan_vision_backward</link>
		<description><![CDATA[So I've spent more time with the <a href="http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/CBCD3A48-4B0E-4864-8BE1-D04561C132EA.htm">McCain tech plan</a> today. At a time when this country is suffering economically and looking for fundamental change, it looks as if Sen. McCain is in the back office having lunch with a bunch of accountants. The heavy emphasis in the policy on tax cuts seems designed to appeal to people who equate lower taxes with progress. Haven't we already had years of that kind of approach? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts88152_mccain_tech_plan_vision_backward">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Comcast and the Internet (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the FCC is condemning Comcast's practices with respect to P2P transmissions.I'm happy for FreePress and Public Knowledge today, and I know they have achieved a substantial change in the wind. The basic idea that it's not okay for network access providers to discriminate unreasonably against particular applications is now part of the mainstream communications discourse. That has to be good news. I'm concerned on a couple of fronts. The FCC has taken the view that it can adjudicate, on a case-by-case basis, issues that have to do with "Federal Internet Policy." They used that phrase several times... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts88110_comcast_and_the_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Deep Packet Inspection: When the Man-In-The-Middle Wants Money (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts87287_dpi_man_in_middle_wants_money</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Say you're walking down the sidewalk having a talk with your best friend about all kinds of things. What if you found out later that the sidewalk you were using wasn't really a sidewalk -- but instead a kind of false-front giant copying machine, unobstrusively vacuuming up what you were saying and adding to its database of information about you? Or, say you send a letter to a client of yours (to the extent you still do this), and it turns out later that your letter was intercepted, steamed open, and the contents were read... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts87287_dpi_man_in_middle_wants_money">More...</a>]]></description>
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