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The Top 10 net neutrality influencers

Since we couldn’t make it to Aspen this year to participate in the expected discourse on one of our favorite topics — network neutrality — we here at Sidecut Reports humbly offer our “Top 10″ list of net neutrality influencers, the people leading the debate into 2009, what we are calling Phase II of the [...]

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Now live: The Sidecut net neutrality report

As promised, our report on net neutrality — Net Neutrality Phase II: The Battle of 2009 — is now live and ready for ordering via instant download. By combining our long background of reporting and analysis of the issue with interviews of leading legislators, top policy execs from the biggest companies, as well as representatives [...]

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Rep. Ed Markey on net neutrality, and ‘Making sure we get policy questions right’

As we finish up the editing chores on our coming (now live!) Sidecut Report on net neutrality, we wanted to share with you now an email Q-and-A with Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, while last week’s FCC Comcast ruling was still fresh in everyone’s mind. [...]

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AT&T challenges Clearwire-Sprint merger

As we predicted in our Sidecut Report on WiMax, the “new” Clearwire deal, with its heavy-hitter lineup of investors and their $3.2 billion in capital, was sure to attract the attention of the big telcos, namely AT&T and Verizon. In our predictions we guessed that the big telcos would turn up the heat on Clearwire [...]

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WiMAX interview: Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff

Even though he’s busy managing day-to-day operations for the “old” Clearwire as he also works on integration issues for the “new” Clearwire and its planned nationwide WiMax network, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff still found time to talk to Sidecut Reports for a mid-summer update this week. In this edited transcript of our phone interview, Wolff [...]

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Google: We’ll help you keep ISPs honest

Was it really two years ago that I asked why couldn’t Google build a Desktop Bandwidth detector? In a post from my old blog on the Pulvermedia network, I wrote: One idea I kicked around a bit at this past weekend’s Vloggercon (in no small agreement with fellow blogger Matt Sherman, who is about 179 [...]

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Five things you didn’t know about the Clearwire WiMax deal

There was no shortage of headlines after the historic May 7 announcement of the joint venture and $3.2 billion in funding that formed the “new” Clearwire, and its plans for a nationwide WiMax network. But in the course of putting together our comprehensive research report on the topic, we uncovered several interesting factors you may [...]

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Google and cable companies get into WiMAX: what’s in it for them?

Paul Kapustka, wireless industry analyst and publisher of Sidecut Reports (also former VP of online content at Pulvermedia), thinks that the cable companies’ investment in Clearwire is a very smart move. In his most recent analyst report, Xohm Or Go Home: Why 2008 Is WiMax’s Breakout Year in the U.S. — Or Else!, he says: [...]

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Tiny Pennsylvania muni network may go private

Residents in many small cities, too tiny to attract major providers, have enjoyed cable TV service provided for years by their local municipalities. Over time, many of these munis have added Internet access. But now, some long-time muni cable providers are looking to private partners to help them with upgrades.Residents in many small cities, too [...]

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Maryland incumbents defeat broadband information bill

Art Brodsky sounds off on Verizon and Comcast lobbyists’ successful defeat of a Maryland bill that would have offered consumers access to information and boosted broadband competition in the state.Art Brodsky of Public Knowledge, a public interest group that advocates an open Internet, recently tackled the subject of incumbent interference in a Maryland bill to [...]

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