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[Marianne Granoff]

Edited for interest.  FYI.

>FCC Discusses Auction to Give You Free Wireless
>Broadband - M2Z Networks proposal to offer free
>service to 95% of population is revisited, dslreports
>In 2007 the FCC considered (and then denied) a request
>by M2Z Networks to give the company a chunk of free
>spectrum to be used to provide free wireless broadband
>to approximately 95% of the country. The FCC is now
>considering a new spectrum auction which would be for
>almost the exact same purpose as that previously
>proposed by M2Z Networks. The new auction would be for
>25 megahertz in the 2155-2180 MHz advanced wireless
>services band. It would require that a free service
>tier be offered to 50% of the population within four
>years and to 95% of the population before the end of
>the term. The FCC will be voting on rules for this
>auction in mid-June at which time more information
>should become available as to whether the auction will
>take place this year and whether it will have any
>impact on the proposed re-auction of the D-block
>spectrum that failed to sell in the 700 MHz auction
>earlier this year
> 
>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Discusses-Auction-to-Give-You-Free-Wireless-Broadband-94694
>
>
>Canadians Rally for Net Neutrality, CircleID
>Hundreds of protesters are expected to descend on
>Canada's capital on Tuesday to urge government action
>on keeping the internet free from interference by
>service providers. The net neutrality rally is drawing
>together politicians, labor unions, consumer groups
>and internet activists, with protesters being bused in
>from several locations including Toronto and Montreal.
>At issue are the actions of big ISPs such as Bell
>Canada Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc., who have
>been slowing down the internet speeds of customers
>using certain applications, such as peer-to-peer
>software used for file sharing.
>  http://www.circleid.com/posts/canadians_rally_net_neutrality/
>
>
>New report confirms U.S. is slipping further behind,
>Speed Matters
>The United States has slipped to 15th in the world in
>high speed Internet penetration, with just 23.3
>percent, according a new report from the Organisation
>for Economic Cooperation and Development. This news
>follows an unfortunate down trend—in 2006, the U.S.
>was ranked 12th among OECD countries in high speed
>Internet penetration and in 2001, 4th.
>  http://www.speedmatters.org/blog/oecd_report_further_behind.html
>
>
>Internet address space: economic considerations in the
>management of IPv4 and in the deployment of IPv6, OECD
>With nearly 85% of all available Internet addresses
>already in use, experts believe that, if current
>trends continue, Internet addresses will run out by
>2011. What next? Will the Internet be able to scale to
>connect billions of people and devices to the
>Internet? This new report focuses on possible
>scenarios and on the need to deploy the newer version
>of the Internet Protocol, IP version 6 (IPv6).
> 
>http://www.oecd.org/topic/0,3373,en_2649_37441_1_1_1_1_37441,00.html?rssChId=37441#40605971
>
>
>DNSSEC Adds Value?, CircleID
>The recent news that .uk, .arpa and .org may sign
>their zones sometime this year is indeed good news.
>Each domain is highly significant... As the DNSSEC
>registry infrastructure moves inexorably forward --
>primarily driven by top level pressure and
>considerations of National Interest -- it now behoves
>us to clearly articulate the benefits of DNSSEC to
>domain owners and registrars. In particular I want to
>focus on the vast majority of us to whom cold, hard
>cash is important and parting with it requires as a
>minimum tangible benefits or, in extreme cases,
>surgical intervention.
>  http://www.circleid.com/posts/852611_dnssec_adds_value/
>
>
>Comcast 'Pruning' Rural Markets - 46 markets across
>eight states...., dslreports
>The Associated Press has a little more detail on those
>rural cable markets I mentioned Comcast was planning
>on selling last week. Comcast is looking to sell about
>46 rural markets in eight states (Maine, Kentucky,
>Louisiana, New Mexico, Virginia, Georgia, West
>Virginia and California), a move that would impact
>about 500,000 customers. "It's not about money at
>all," one analyst tells the AP. "They are pruning some
>of the more outlying areas in order to make a more
>efficient cluster." No buyers have been named yet.
>  http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Pruning-Rural-Markets-94753
>
>
>Mobile VoIP cuts free from Wi-Fi, CW
>One service gives users free or cheap calls over the
>cellular network when they're away from hotpots, and a
>rival service has launched.
>  http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/299149582/article.do