How to Hack a Car
Condé Nast’s Andy Greenberg is all over car hacking, with three articles about security exploits and Congressional actions here here and here this week. A pair of hackers discovered Chrysler Jeeps…
India Issues Net Neutrality Report
After taking comments from interested parties (including your faithful correspondent), India’s Department of Telecommunications has issued a committee report outlining a high-level approach. The report spends most of its time…
Internet Versatility
The Internet is remarkable compared to most historical networks because of its versatility. In the bad old days, networks were designed to do one thing and one thing only, and…
Populists Want FCC to Probe Broadband Prices
The populist wing of the Democratic Party is making trouble for FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler by asking for a survey of broadband prices across the US: A group of US…
State of the Internet, Q1 2015
Wednesday’s Internet events illustrate the importance of the Akamai “State of the Internet” quarterly reports. Because of failures at the New York Stock Exchange, United Airlines, the Wall Street Journal…
Can LTE Unlicensed Steamroll Wi-Fi?
A recent article in Washington Post seems to be confusing people. In “The future of mobile data pits cellphone carriers against cable giants,” Brian Fung claims, among other things, that…
Internet Use Nears Saturation
Here’s a rosy picture: the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s data shows that Internet use is effectively universal for some very significant US population groups: 96% of young adults (aged…
GTT’s Growing Pains Behind Over-Hyped Congestion Claims
Last Wednesday, I filed a story on claims by Free Press’s “Battle For the Net” that AT&T and other ISPs were causing massive Content Delivery Network (CDN) slowdowns at several…
Internet Slowdown Rumor Greatly Exaggerated
The Guardian ran a story on Monday, June 22nd claiming that major US ISPs are slowing traffic speeds for thousands of users. Given that 70 million US households have broadband…
5G: A Revolution in Networking
A couple of weeks ago I went to the ATIS 5G Symposium in Chicago held in conjunction with the Light Reading Big Telecom Event. ATIS is the chief organization of…