Price War Gets Ugly – Shaw Sues Competing ISP
For many in a particular area of Vancouver, it was the deal of a lifetime. High definition TV, phone and high speed internet connection for $9.95 a month. The problem? A small ISP by the name of Novus is also in the area trying to sell the exact same thing. In [...]
NC Level The Playing Field Senate Bill Stopped and Sent to Committee
Citizens in North Carolina’s cities, Wilson and Salisbury, who showed support for project Greenlight have gotten even more good news recently. The North Carolina senate bill that was part of the so-called “Level the Playing Field” legislation that was suppose to be voted on was sent to committee in a similar fashion to that [...]
‘Level the Playing Field’ Bill Delayed – Sent to Committee
It’s being hailed by municipal broadband supporters as a major victory in the fight over whether or not Salisbury and Wilson should be allowed to start their own ISP. The ‘Level the Playing Field’ legislation, HB 1252, has been voted to go to committee for further studying – eliminating the chances of it being [...]
Major Opposition Mounts By Eve of Municiple Broadband Vote
It’s certainly a big debate in the United States – namely in two cities in the state of North Carolina – but should barriers be erected to stop city governments from creating their own ISP in the name of competition in a marketplace? That appears to about to be decided on and efforts to [...]
Big US ISPs Roll Out Push Polling to Stop Cheap Internet
There’s been some dramatic developments in the Greenlight project happening in North Carolina. Essentially, the big US ISPs are doing everything in their power including lobbying the state to make it illegal to set up a superior ISP in the area. Now, reports are coming in that say that the big US ISPs [...]
Home Office Backs Down from ‘Super Database’ Surveillance, Launches Consultation
Britain’s Home Office has been wanting to take all communications including everything in social networking sites and phone conversations and put all the information into what has been dubbed a “super database” for police access without a warrant. Recently, though, the Home Office has backed off of such a proposal and, instead, wants to [...]
Canadian ISP Bandwidth Consumption Growth Falls 45%
Jesse Browns Search Engine on CBC covered a very interesting topic recently. The growth of bandwidth consumption went down 45% in Canada recently.
As Michael Geist is pointing out, if you’d like to talk about network neutrality to the CRTC, now is the time to do it, but you have until the 23rd to do [...]
EFA Responds to Professor Over Net Filtering
Says that the professor who insinuated that an unfiltered internet had no place in a democracy is misrepresenting the issue.
Yesterday, we highlighted a professor who called people at the EFA “Extremists” on Australian IT. Now, Electronic Frontier Australia has issued a response to what they consider, among other things, misrepresentations he published.
The EFA says [...]
Professor – Unfiltered Internet Has No Place in a Democracy
Says people like the Electronic Frontier Australia are a bunch of extremists.
It may be difficult for some to read what this professor has published in Australian IT without noting a certain amount of irony, but a he has essentially said that the internet doesn’t belong to people who have “Libertarian” beliefs. It does seem [...]
An International Look on Why Canada Shouldn’t Consider Surveillance Legislation
The Canadian government made signals that it wants to reintroduce the modernization of investigation techniques which brought forth the infamous “lawful access” provision. Is this a good idea when one looks at what has happened internationally?
A few days ago, Michael Geist highlighted news that the Canadian government was planning on introducing new surveillance legislation. [...]
