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Rural Cooperatives Deliver High-Speed Internet for Less

May 27, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

24 May 2019 – IEEE Spectrum TELCOM By Lucas Laursen “Rural Cooperatives Deliver High-Speed Internet for Less,” tired of waiting, some rural residents are funding their own Wi-Fi networks to bring broadband to their homes.

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Finanace, IT Failures, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: broadband, Cooperatives, FCC, High-Speed Internet, IEEE, TELCOM, Wi-Fi network

The Fake-News Fallacy

April 7, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the September 14, 2017 New Yorker, Adrian Chen wrote an essay on fake news. They use the byline ” Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet”. Naturally, this containing some radio history, I was interested in the points made. “The greatest organizers of mass hysterias and the mass delusions … [Read more…]

Posted in: IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: Dorothy Thompson, Father Charles Coughlin, FCC, Huey Long, Lyman Bryson, Mae West, NBC radio, Orson Wells, radio

The FCC Speaks to ALEC

May 8, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Read this closely, it is unedited, force yourself, read all the way to the end and see what our new administration is doing and thinking. It makes my skin crawl. Remarks of FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly Before the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Spring Task Force Summit Annual Summit, Charlotte, NC May 5, 2017 Thank you … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Thinking about Tagged: 2015 Net Neutrality Order, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, broadband, common carrier, Congressional Review Act, CRA, FCC, FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, Federal Communications Commission, Internet, Municipal Broadband, Net Neutrality, Privacy, Title II, Universal Service, Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP

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