http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/ Tracking key issues for independent ISPs: changes in policy, technology and monopoly business practices. en-us Copyright 2008 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:18:54 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification They don't need warrants and don't need evidence. And now, they might be criminals. The Register in the UK is reporting that criminals like the mafia tactics of copyright enforcement so much that they're paying those tactics the sincerest form... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/new-phishing-scam-pretend-to-b.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/new-phishing-scam-pretend-to-b.html copyright scam Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:18:54 -0500 The actual title of the article is FCC To Stop Collecting Phone Reliability Data. Karl Bode writes, "If you didn't know, the FCC is pretty cozy with the nation's largest phone companies, rarely meeting a merger or baby bell proposal... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/bbr-fcc-loves-ilecs.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/bbr-fcc-loves-ilecs.html fcc Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:11:56 -0500 Being a CEO blogger is risky. Jupitermedia's CEO Alan Meckler was, I believe, one of the first CEOs to blog. Meckler shares his experience, which goes back to the start of the commercial internet, but he also gives credit to... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/isp-ceo-credits-key-technician.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/isp-ceo-credits-key-technician.html isp Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:10:13 -0500 Broadband Genie in the UK reports that the BBC may switch from Akamai to Level 3 to deliver content from its iPlayer. The change would cost small ISPs money. Whereas Akamai will set up a server in a small ISP,... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/bbc-level-3-deal-could-be-bad.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/bbc-level-3-deal-could-be-bad.html bbc uk Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:18:31 -0500 Free World Dialup is no longer free of charge. The "communication ISP" wants to offer applications that Pulver would have called purple. It wants VoIP to do all those things you cannot do on the phone network. That takes cash.... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/innovation-costs-money.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/innovation-costs-money.html free Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:26:10 -0500 Even a child could see what's wrong http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20080819/cxnquc/nq20080819... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/fcc-in-a-cartoon.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/fcc-in-a-cartoon.html fcc Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:13 -0500 This is an ongoing story, and today's update comes from InternetNews' Sean Michael Kerner in the article Lots of Foot-Dragging on IPv6. No surprise, of course, that the U.S. government has been hopeless on the issue, but it is a... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/ipv6-no-progress.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/ipv6-no-progress.html IPv6 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:16:17 -0500 I don't think that anyone should buy an ISP or WISP in today's market -- or sell to a rollup for anything other than cash. The wireless business is a good business, and some companies are making real money doing... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/dont-buy-subscribers.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/dont-buy-subscribers.html acquisition subscribers Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:13:33 -0500 That would be the Wireless Innovation Alliance. There are partners too, a few congresspeople (mostly blue). A few companies, like Microsoft. And a few associations, like CompTIA. And friends of competition like New America and Free Press. The site does... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/googles-tv-white-spaces-websit.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/googles-tv-white-spaces-websit.html google tv white spaces Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:42:28 -0500 The Communications Workers of America are measuring upload and download speeds on their Speed Matters blog, created to argue for a national broadband policy. The speed tests appear to show that service is lacking in some areas of the U.S.... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/union-measures-connection-spee.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/union-measures-connection-spee.html data Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:09:02 -0500 Wired's Threat Level blog got a look at the network for the Defcon convention. With nifty photos.... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/a-hacker-noc.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/a-hacker-noc.html defcon noc Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:01:06 -0500 In his post of two weeks ago (I only just read it, but it's really very good, so I'm writing about it here), Sascha Meinrath, permanent broadband to the people over wireless activist, criticizes Meraki, the network that can be... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/07/meinrath-explains-why-meraki-i.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/07/meinrath-explains-why-meraki-i.html wireless Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:41:26 -0500 On our ISP-Wireless list in July, members have been discussing the DNS poisoning exploit you should already know about. New sites such as internetnews.com reported last week that the flaw is now available in the wild. Internetnews' Sean Michael Kerner... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/07/dns-flaw-remains-unpatched-for.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/07/dns-flaw-remains-unpatched-for.html dns Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:33:30 -0500 The Consumerist's Worst Company in America contest has reached the finals (h/t Fark), and it's Comcast vs. Countrywide. The site notes, "In order to get to the final, Comcast defeated Menu Foods, The American Arbitration Association, Ticketmaster, Exxon, and Diebold.... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/07/comcast-is-losing-to-countrywi.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/07/comcast-is-losing-to-countrywi.html monopoly Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:55:49 -0500 Om Malik reports S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services. S3 is the backbone of several other services, he writes, all of which went down for 8 hours when S3 was out for that long. Services are the key to... http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/07/amazon-s3-outage-highlights-ch.html http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/07/amazon-s3-outage-highlights-ch.html services Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:19:05 -0500