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The Telecom Digest for December 24, 2011
Volume 30 : Issue 328 : "text" Format
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Stanford professor files net neutrality complaint against Verizon Wireless (Bill Horne)
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski comment on ATT - T-Mobile debacle (Bill Horne)
Bell Canada tells Canadian regulators it will end P2P traffic shaping (Bill Horne)
Sprint sues Cable Giants over digital phone technology (Bill Horne)
FTC warns that expanding DNS could lead to increased fraud (Bill Horne)
US Congress still trying to sell SOPA in the face of widespread opposition (Bill Horne)
AT&Ts failed bid for T-Mobile will be quite expensive (Bill Horne)
The Myth of the Bandwidth Hog (Bill Horne)
EFF reverse engineers Carrier IQ (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:49:58 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Stanford professor files net neutrality complaint against Verizon Wireless 
Message-ID: <jd27v8$kur$1@dont-email.me>

by Grant Gross on Computerworld.com:

     The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should
     investigate Verizon Wireless for allegedly blocking Google Wallet
     on a new smartphone available to the carrier's customers, a law
     professor has said.

http://tinyurl.com/7c3w4ex

-- 
Bill Horne
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:00:42 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski comment on ATT - T-Mobile debacle 
Message-ID: <jd28jb$p07$1@dont-email.me>

Statement from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski regarding AT&t Inc.'s
abandonment of its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc.

   The FCC is committed to ensuring a competitive mobile marketplace
   that drives innovation and investment, creates jobs and benefits
   consumers. This deal would have done the opposite. The U.S.  mobile
   industry leads the world in mobile innovation, and we agree with
   AT&T that Congress should pass incentive auction legislation that
   will unleash new spectrum for mobile broadband.

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db1219/DOC-311592A1.pdf

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Bill Horne
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:20:58 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Bell Canada tells Canadian regulators it will end P2P traffic shaping 
Message-ID: <jd29pc$fh$1@dont-email.me>

Bell Aliant and Bell Canada have informed the Canadian Radio-television 
and Telecommunications Commission that they will end traffic-shaping on 
P2P transfers.

from Michael Geist's blog:

     Bell advised the CRTC yesterday that it plans to drop all
     peer-to-peer traffic shaping (often called throttling) as of
     March 1, 2012.  While the decision has been described as
     surprising or as quid pro quo for the usage based billing ruling,
     I think it is neither of those. The writing was on the wall in
     October when Bell announced that it was dropping the traffic
     shaping for wholesale traffic, citing reduced network congestion
     from P2P.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6209/125/

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Bill Horne
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:10:46 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Sprint sues Cable Giants over digital phone technology 
Message-ID: <jd2967$sje$1@dont-email.me>

CNET - by Roger Cheng

Sprint fires off lawsuit at cable giants

     Sprint Nextel has sued several cable providers over what it
     claims is the illegal use of its digital phone technology,
     further fraying an already strained relationship between the
     carrier and the cable industry.

     In separate lawsuits filed yesterday, Sprint alleged that
     Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, and the
     Washington Post's Cable One all infringed on 12 patents related
     to digital phone technology it secured in the '90s.

http://tinyurl.com/c8bneaq

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Bill Horne
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:53:09 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: FTC warns that expanding DNS could lead to increased fraud 
Message-ID: <jd2857$m7t$1@dont-email.me>

FTC Warns That Rapid Expansion of Internet Domain Name System Could 
Leave Consumers More Vulnerable to Online Fraud

Letter Urges ICANN to Implement Pilot Program, Take New Steps to Protect 
Consumers

The Federal Trade Commission today sent a letter to the Internet 
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization 
that oversees Internet domain names, expressing concern that the 
organization's plan to dramatically expand the domain name system could 
leave consumers more vulnerable to online fraud and undermine law 
enforcers' ability to track down online scammers.

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/12/icann.shtm

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Bill Horne
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:42:12 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: US Congress still trying to sell SOPA in the face of widespread opposition 
Message-ID: <jd2b18$83l$1@dont-email.me>

US Lawmakers are backpedaling on the Stop Online Piracy Act now being 
considered by the House of Representatives. The bill's sponsors are, 
however, refusing to withdraw the measure, which is aimed at sites like 
Wikileaks, although they will hold it in committee until after the 
holidays.

According to CNET's FAQ on SOPA, authored by Declan McCullagh:

     Some critics have charged that [the bill] could blacklist the
     next YouTube, Wikipedia, or WikiLeaks. Especially in the case of
     WikiLeaks, which has posted internal documents not only from
     governments but also copyrighted documents from U.S. companies
     and has threatened to post more, it's hard to see how it would
     not qualify for blacklisting.

     Laurence Tribe, a high-profile Harvard law professor and author
     of a treatise titled American Constitutional Law, has argued that
     SOPA is unconstitutional because, if enacted, "an entire Web site
     containing tens of thousands of pages could be targeted if only a
     single page were accused of infringement."

http://tinyurl.com/7dfzeen

-- 
Bill Horne
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:06:03 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: AT&Ts failed bid for T-Mobile will be quite expensive 
Message-ID: <jd28td$qna$1@dont-email.me>

By Sean Ludwig - The Washington Post

The dust is settling on yesterday's news that AT&T has given up its 
T-Mobile acquisition plans, and it turns out the dust is quite expensive.

Because its proposed $39 billion merger fell through, AT&T now has to
give up piles of cash and benefits to T-Mobile. AT&T will enter into a
7-year 3G roaming agreement that will boost T-Mobile coverage and it
has to give up a valuable package of AWS mobile spectrum that covers
128 Cellular Market Areas (CMAs), including 12 of the top 20
U.S. markets.  Overall, the agreements will boost T-Mobile's blanket
coverage from 230 million to 280 million Americans.

http://tinyurl.com/cqde4nc

-- 
Bill Horne
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:59:30 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Myth of the Bandwidth Hog 
Message-ID: <jd250i$321$1@dont-email.me>

In the Level 3 blog, Mark Taylor speaks out against charging heavy data 
users extra fees:

     It seems like every method we use to access the Internet, wired
     or wireless, has some sort of data consumption cap. Some of those
     consumption caps are used to set a limit such that an additional
     revenue stream can be created at higher data volumes. But other
     caps are used to set a level that separates acceptable use of a
     network from abusive use of a network.

http://blog.level3.com/2011/12/19/the-myth-of-the-bandwidth-hog-part-1/

-- 
Bill Horne
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:01:03 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: EFF reverse engineers Carrier IQ 
Message-ID: <p06240891cb1a53684a41@[10.0.1.3]>

EFF reverse engineers Carrier IQ

By Sebastian Anthony
December 22, 2011

At this point we have a fairly good idea of what Carrier IQ is, and
which manufacturers and carriers see fit to install it on their
phones, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - the preeminent
protector of your digital rights - has taken it one step further and
reverse engineered some of the program's code to work out what's
actually going on.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/110061-eff-reverse-engineers-carrier-iq

Analyzing Carrier IQ Profiles

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/analyzing-carrier-iq-profiles

Some Facts About Carrier IQ

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/carrier-iq-architecture






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