What is Net Neutrality?
Net neutrality is a debate over the future direction of the Internet. Net competition advocates continuing a free market Internet and opposes a "socialized-Internet." Net neutrality advocates activist regulation of broadband prices, terms, and conditions.
Market forces work! Clearwire/Sprint Wimax deal proves broadband competition remains robust
Thu, 08 May 2008 08:32:49 -0700Net neutrality proponents who argue broadband competition doesn't work and see a "duopoly" in every shadow, were confronted with powerful market evidence recently that their take on the broadband competitive facts is flat wrong.
The big Wimax consortium announcement this week by Clearwire, Sprint, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House, is obvious evidence that:
- National broadband competition and consumer choice continues to increase; and
- Congress' and the FCC's rejection of net neutrality legislation and regulation encourages investment in broadband deployment to all Americans most quickly.
This free-market, innovative business model development, which Google has embraced with a $500m investment, takes even more wind out of the sails of the net neutrality movement.
Signs of calculated retreat by net neutrality proponents at House hearing on Markey Bill?
Tue, 06 May 2008 14:34:09 -0700I have to admit that I was surprised by all the back-pedaling and calculated retreat by net neutrality proponents at the House Internet Subcommittee hearing on Chairman Markey's net neutrality bill HR5353.
Net neutrality proponents were clearly on the defensive, proactively responding to criticisms of the bill and not spending much time touting its benefits.
Google's founders understood the conflict-of-interest in its business model from the beginning
Mon, 05 May 2008 19:00:39 -0700A consistent theme in my ongoing analysis of Google, has been Google's corporate refusal to overtly disclose the fundamental financial conflict of interest inherent in their business model, i.e that Google does not work for users like they routinely claim, but for advertisers and publishers.
Is this House less supportive of net neutrality than last Congress'? Markey Bill has only 11 co-sponsors...
Mon, 05 May 2008 07:52:26 -0700It's surprising that in the three months since Chairman Markey introduced his new net neutrality bill HR 5353, only nine members joined the original co-sponsors of Chairman Markey, and Rep. Pickering, who is a retiring Republican from Mississippi. And all of the new nine are Democrats. (see the list at Thomas.gov)
Google wins as Yahoo allowed Google to paint Yahoo into a corner that hurts Yahoo shareholders
Sun, 04 May 2008 15:03:48 -0700Dominant #1 Google, in calling #2 Yahoo to discuss a slow competitive search surrender by Yahoo to Google, in order to thwart a purchase of Yahoo by #3 Microsoft, apparently succeeded.
