Is Voogle Slowing Down the Net Neutrality?


According to the FCC Chairman, hell they are! At the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday in San Francisco, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski talked about the ongoing debate over net neutralityVoogle (the pact between Verizon and Google) caused quite a fuss or better say mess a few month ago when they came out with their proposal for net neutrality regulation. The proposal has certainly pissed off many including the FCC Chair.

“I would have preferred if they didn’t do exactly what they did when they did. It slowed down some processes that were leading to a resolution,” Genachowski said. The FCC said when the proposal first came out that they weren’t looking for more discussion on the topic. Instead they intended to move forward with reasserting FCC control over broadband. Read more of this post

T-Mobile: America’s New Bastard


Voogle
(the pact between Google and Verizon Wireless) hasn’t killed the Net Neutrality yet, but many wireless carriers have already started their abuse. The new bastard is “T-Mobile” which happens to be my own carrier too :-( Their case is yet classic example of a totally arbitrary decision by a carrier to block text message calls between consumers and organizations they want to communicate with. Read more of this post

FCC Vs. Voogle – Which one would really benefit us more?

I have been monitoring the war of words between FCC and Voogle (the pact between Verizon and Google to kill the Net Neutrality) for a while now. If you have  also  been following my coverage on the subject, you can tell, I have been pretty much against the Voogle Pact from day first since the federal court decided in April  FCC lacked the authority to impose net neutrality.

I’ve also learned that regulation has been consistently captured by interests to further their own cause rather than any general “will of the people”.  Perhaps, it might make sense we just let the competition do its thing. I see DSL and Cable companies competing, with satellite and wireless providers creeping in. Read more of this post

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