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	<title>Communications Insights: Trends and Cool Stuff &#187; Broadband</title>
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	<description>The Musings of an Expatriate in European Communications</description>
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		<title>Rethinking the White Spaces decision</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/09/rethinking-the-white-spaces-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[TV White Spaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wireless Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Part 15]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the FCC’s monthly agenda meeting it unanimously adopted its Second Memorandum Opinion and Order which will enable unlicensed operation in the TV White Spaces.  The Chairman and Commissioners almost universally stated that the Order would unleash a wave of innovation, broadband access, “Wi-Fi on steroids,” and other Really Cool Stuff What was universally not said was that broadcast TV and wireless microphones are not the future.  Granted, regulators want to provide regulatory certainty and are loathe to picking winners and losers; however, this glaring absence begs the question: if all of the innovation, job growth, and economic development will come from the unlicensed use of the White Spaces, why aren’t we protecting those uses?]]></description>
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		<title>That’s not the Internet</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/08/that%e2%80%99s-not-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/08/that%e2%80%99s-not-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have continued to think about a tiered Internet as considered in the Google Verizon proposal on Network Neutrality.  I conclude that managed services already exist in the market place, but it is not the Internet. The Internet is an interconnected, end-to-end, packet switched network. There is nothing inherently anti-competitive about broadband service providers marketing managed services.  There is also nothing new about it.  However, it would be false advertising to claim it is the Internet.]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping up with the Jitsuzumis</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/04/keeping-up-with-the-jitsuzumis/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/04/keeping-up-with-the-jitsuzumis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimal Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiber to the House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first goal of the FCC’s recent National Broadband Plan is to ensure at least 100 million US homes have access to Internet connections with download speeds of at least 100 Mbps by the end of the decade (the year 2020).  This goal strikes me as not being a terribly ambitious.  I can’t help feeling that the FCC is trying to catch the US up in ten years to where Japan is now.  From what I have been reading on the listservs, given current pace of deployment of FiOS and DOCSIS 3.0, the market will accomplish this goal on its own.  This fact begs the question what is need for governmental intervention.  Instead, the FCC should propose a more ambitious goal (one that might have a higher risk of failure) and devise a road map necessary for achieving that goal.  Perhaps this will come out in follow on work to National Broadband Plan.]]></description>
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		<title>Broadband is an Adjective</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/03/broadband-is-an-adjective/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/03/broadband-is-an-adjective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Plan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Broadband is an adjective, not a noun.  It refers to the available frequencies in a given communications channel to transmit information.  Further, networks are not “fast”.  Signals in an electronic communications network travel at the speed of light for the given medium, no faster or slower.  The only thing that changes is the width of the band of frequencies used which has a direct impact on data transfer rate – the time it takes to transfer a file of a certain size between two points on the network.]]></description>
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		<title>Wi-Fi? Wi-Not?</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/02/wi-fi-wi-not/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/02/wi-fi-wi-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cool Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wireless Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Part 15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spectrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV White Spaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unlicensed wireless devices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wi-Fi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past several weeks, there have been several news articles and blog posts about congested mobile wireless networks and using Wi-Fi to alleviate that congestion.  This is a good idea; however, it is not a new one.  At a conference nearly eight years ago, I suggested that wireless carriers consider incorporating Wi-Fi into their networks.  Complementing existing 3G networks with Wi-Fi would increase carrier profitability. ]]></description>
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		<title>Network Neutrality and the Samurai</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/01/network-neutrality-and-the-samurai/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/01/network-neutrality-and-the-samurai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cool Stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sankin kōtai laws of the Tokugawa Shogunate imposed a rule of prioritization on the Tokaido and Nakaseido roads between Edō and Kyoto, as well as on other "kaido" emanating from the capital.  Access to Japanese roads was prioritized by social status, with only the Samurai class having access to the center of the road as their procession called a daimyo gyoretsu passed.   We think it is unfair to give preferential treatment to certain customers.  At the same time, we also think it is economically inefficient to mandate a single Internet access options for everyone, including those who are willing to pay more for premium services.  When the network (or Tokkaido Road) is congested, prioritization can make users better off.  Prioritization can be accomplished based on economic characteristics, arrival order, processing load, urgency, or even social status.

Since all messages on an IP-based network travel at the same speed (the speed of light), in discussions of Network Neutrality, it is never who gets to go faster, rather which packet, or which samurai, gets to go first.  Such prioritization must be done in a way which is socially permissible and economically desirable. ]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Communications&#8217; New Business Model</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2009/10/japan-communications-new-business-model/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2009/10/japan-communications-new-business-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Network Neutrality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimal Regulation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japan Communications Inc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JCI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimal level of regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spectrum policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wholesale Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wireles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japan Communications Inc. just launched a new product for Hewlett-Packard. HP will now sell netbooks in Japan which come with 100 minutes of mobile wireless connectivity. Consumers can buy connectivity on a pay-as-you-go basis from Japan Communications, but branded as an HP service. While Japan Communications negotiated with DoCoMo to get on its network, it was only able to do so because the Japanese Ministry for Communications and Information created which rules opened the networks of three largest wireless operators to wholesale.

This created for Japan Communications a really cool new business model with implications for carriers, devices manufacturers, and application service providers around the world. It remains to be seen whether the Europe and the US should follow suit.]]></description>
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		<title>Network Neutrality in Europe and the Ski Lift Line</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2009/01/network-neutrality-in-europe-and-the-ski-lift-line/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2009/01/network-neutrality-in-europe-and-the-ski-lift-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Neutrality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that the two most important and far-reaching aspects of our report are the taxonomy of network relationships we created and the way we describe end-to-end latency in IP networks.  In order to describe the nature of relationships in an interconnected-multilateral-all-IP network world, we characterize relationships among network participants and service providers as being one three dimensions: vertical, horizontal, or diagonal.  I am also very pleased with how we use ski lifts to explain of queuing and link delays in end-to-end latency.  It is my hope that these two approaches will make the debate more objective and approachable, and help to reduce the ever-present hyperbole.]]></description>
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		<title>European Parliament urges coordinated approach &#8220;digital dividend&#8221; spectrum, including public safety</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2008/06/european-parliament-urges-coordinated-approach-digital-dividend-spectrum-including-public-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2008/06/european-parliament-urges-coordinated-approach-digital-dividend-spectrum-including-public-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wireless Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Dividend]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public Safety Spectrum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous Cool Stuff, I wrote about the study which I completed demonstrating the social value from reallocating some of the Digital Dividend spectrum for broadband mission critical public safety communications. The European Parliament seems to agree. Yesterday, the European Parliament&#8217;s Industry Committee adopted a report urging that the EU should ensure a set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations from Supernova2008</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2008/06/observations-from-supernova2008/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2008/06/observations-from-supernova2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cool Stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been listening to a bunch of excellent presentations for the first two days of Supernova2008. Rather than rehashing what each speaker has said, I have been trying to formulate a theme. Not an easy task. I have noticed a few reoccurring themes: social activity, intellectual property, management of information, and marketing; all good [...]]]></description>
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