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The Rise and Fall of the Telecom Bubble
in 2000, the pure AI companies of interest today are private or capped profit vehicles. So there’s a loss of visibility because they are private. AI will result in successful companies, but I...
 
Followup on Cloudflare Outage
November 2, 2023, Cloudflare's customer-facing interfaces, including their website and APIs, along with logging and analytics, ceased functioning properly. That was bad. Over 7.5 million websites use...
 
Optus Outage in Australia
A bit of an unofficial post-mortem on #Optus #outage yesterday (please BOOST for visibility!) I have no insider knowledge, all I can do is look at what Optus's networking gear told the rest of the...
 
EU Data Regulator Bans Personalized Ads on FB and Instagram
https://dig.watch/updates/eu-data-regulator-decided-to-ban-personalised-advetising-on-facebook-and-instagramThe European data regulator has agreed to expand Norway’s ban on ‘behavioural...
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FCC robocall enforcement does little to stop illegal calls, Senate hears
hearing on robocalls was held by the Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), the subcommittee chair, said that FCC enforcement is...
 
” that telcos filed with the FCC
phone companies may soon have all their voice calls blocked by US carriers because they didn't submit real plans for preventing robocalls on their networks. The 20 carriers include a mix of US-based...
 
ISDN boxes outside
Hello! article mentions ISDN boxes outside of the house in the US. I am from Germany and I don't know about them. Here ISDN terminators (called NTBA) are mounted inside. They had the 2-wire Uk0 Bus at...
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FCC Commissioner Carr about internet regulation in form of throttling traffic
FCC statement is about the failed European-style regulation of networks, especially about the ideas to throttle down certain traffic to avoid congestion because networks don't have enough bandwidth....
 
Oct4 Presidential Alert results
Two of my phones, one on TMO, the other SIMless but running the Google Voice app via WiFi, went off at 1418. The third, on TMO/Voice, was silent until 1442.
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FCC and net neutrality
An interesting document covering the current state of net neutrality in the US:
 
s infrastructure woes run much deeper than lead cables
(Article from July 2023) we got to this point is largely a tale of three companies–since over the last decade, the market capitalization of AT&T and Verizon stock have both diminished by tens of...
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BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year
has updated the schedule to phase out 3G services from its networks a little later than planned, saying this will now start early next year. Britain’s former state-owned telecoms operator says the...
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[telecom] Google To Pay Phone Users $62M In Location Tracking Suit
(forwarding from: From: Telecommunications Law360 ) TOP NEWS Google To Pay Phone Users $62M In Location Tracking Suit By Lauren Berg A proposed class of smartphone users asked a California federal...
 
re: ISP performance by type
It's interesting, but understandable, that they chose not to compare Fixed-Wireless to any FTTH carriers, such as AT&T Fiber, Google Fiber, VZ FIOS, etc. I say 'understandable' as I suspect any FTTH...
 
ISP performance by type
from Rebecca Wetzel at "Peter Sevcik and I just published a report on the comparative performance of 5G fixed wireless (T-Mobile & Verizon), low-earth orbit satellite (Starlink), and cable (Charter &...