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NBN – Broadband duty cycle
Posted by Laurei in Australian Issues, Misleading Communications Quantities, NBN on May 20th, 2010
I am talking about http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/19/2903158.htm here, in which I introduce the new concept of “Broadband duty cycle”, otherwise “internet duty cycle” or “network duty cycle”. I figure out that the initial offering by iprimus for an NBN package in tasmania has a Broadband duty cycle of only 0.187%, this means that you can only run your broadband at top speed for 1.37 hours per month.
Transcription to follow
Phone companies using bait and switch
Posted by Laurei in Guaranteed Communication Quality on November 29th, 2009
A recent interview on Twisted Wire about prepaid phone companies has highlighted an area of some concern;
It seems that a standard practice in the pre-paid phone card market is for companies to produce multiple cards under different brands, which, when initially released to market use premium “high quality” routes for call connection, and then gradually begin to use cheaper, lower quality routes when the card is popular with customers.
Of course, this is akin to bait and switch tactics, but without a standard of communication quality, this underhanded tactic seems legal.
Open Standards now a core principle
Posted by Laurei in Open Standards on November 29th, 2009
The Freedom of Communication project is now the home for TotalFair’s efforts towards open standards.
Keep network neutrality fresh
Posted by Laurei in NBN, Network Neutrality on September 6th, 2009
We’ve all heard about network neutrality haven’t we? We all know how important it is to the future of humanity?
Keep it fresh in your head.
Should the internet be free?
Posted by Laurei in Non-Profit Communications Infrastructure on July 6th, 2009
Supporting people’s right to communicate is the responsibility of all civil society. In December of 1948, the United Nations passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . As the basis for much of today’s international law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights also addresses individuals’ right to communicate in Article 19:
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
Universal access to broadband connectivity supports this fundamental human right.
“Opposing views” has more debate at this link.
ACCC 2007 Comprehensive Guide to Broadband speeds.
Posted by Laurei in Australian Issues, Guaranteed Communication Speeds, Misleading Communications Quantities on June 29th, 2009
Below is a paper by the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumers Commission) for ISP’s about the trade practices act of 1974.
Comcast stacking the audience
Posted by Laurei in Network Neutrality, Peers, Save the Internet on June 29th, 2009
Transcript:
There was a huge turnout for a public hearing in Boston on the future of the internet, but when many citizens reached the door – they were turned away and left out in the cold. Why? Because the cable giant Comcast paid people like these to fill the seats, blocking out real citizens from the debate. They showed up 90 mins before the hearing began, and filled the room, with no Idea what the hearing was even about.
Bandwidth is misleading
Posted by Laurei in Misleading Communications Quantities on June 29th, 2009
Here is a primer on misleading bandwidth.
Save the internet video
Posted by Laurei in Network Neutrality, Peers, Save the Internet on June 29th, 2009
Network neutrality = free love?
Posted by Laurei in Australian Issues, Break up of telstra, FOC news commentary, Network Neutrality on June 29th, 2009
Remember who he works for, his name, and one thing about him:
Telstra Bigpond’s Justin Milne is a TWAT! I am sorry there is no other way to say it.
Why the strong words? Because Justin Milne has taken a leaf out of Sol Trujillo’s book and created the most rubbish Op Ed about Network Neutrality I have ever read. This monkey headed galoot is trying the whole FUD (Fear, uncertainty, doubt) trip that Sol thought he was so clever at by likening net neutrality to free love. Yes free love. This would have to be the most woeful analogy I have heard in a long time, and clearly he thinks people are going to buy it. Maybe they will, which is scary; Well, here are the facts:
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