Archive for the ‘Policy’ Category
Friday, July 20th, 2012
The San Francisco Business Times reports that a San Francisco judge has rejected a challenge to AT&T’s planned cabinet deployment, which will soon deliver AT&T’s U-verse broadband and television services.
I’ve written in the past in support of the infrastructure necessary for broadband service delivery, and I am heartened by this ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2012
The state’s leadership today approved the most expensive infrastructure project ever undertaken in California, a high-speed rail project that will connect San Francisco and Sacramento with Los Angeles. The cost: $68,000,000,000.
Generally speaking, rail in the US is useless for public transportation, so I’m sure this will be a wonderful resource ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
The Federal Universal Service Fund fee has spent the last decade climbing upward without any apparent end in sight. This next quarter it is set to drop a little, but this isn’t an indication of a change in the overall trend: upward. A Sonic.net Fusion customer pays roughly $2.40 monthly ...
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Thursday, May 31st, 2012
The Electronic Frontier Foundation today released their 2012 privacy report, and Sonic.net has come out with top marks.
The EFF assessed the policies of 18 leading Internet companies, including “email providers, ISPs, cloud storage providers, and social networking sites — to assess whether they publicly commit to standing with users when ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
Protection of customer privacy is one of our core values at Sonic.net. We seek to provide as much transparency as possible regarding legal processes and customer privacy, so in furtherance of those efforts, we are releasing our first annual Transparency Report.
This year we saw an increase in the number of ...
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011
I have always felt that our customers buy connections from us to use them. Abuse them. Hog up big chunks of the web. Fill up those tubes! And to just generally consume what they are buying: a big fast broadband pipe, to use however they see fit.
As more and more broadband ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Today, Congress holds a hearing on a bill that would create America’s first system for internet censorship. Stand with us to stop it.
Please join the Free Software Foundation, EFF, Public Knowledge, Creative Commons, Mozilla and Sonic.net in speaking out against SOPA and PROTECT-IP. These bills give too much control of ...
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Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Michael Powell
When was the last time someone offered to sell you Broadband over Power Line (BPL)?
BPL was one of the FCC’s five “modes” of competitive access, and the FCC traded this flawed concept of “intermodal” competition for true open market competition.
In 1996, Congress passed The Telecom Act, a major update ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011
NOTE: If you’re interested in broadband & policy, you are in the right place!
Read the related post, “Help us, protect your privacy online” and sign the EFF petition. Then, learn “Why U.S. Broadband is so Slow“. If you are concerned about capped Internet consumption, see “Drilling Through the Caps“. Finally, learn more about Sonic.net’s ...
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