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Squawk Box October 9: Regulatory Thursday!

by alec on October 10, 2008

InterCarrier compensation battles continue at the FCC. Most recently, Verizon has sent their view.

Guest host Carl Ford takes a look at the last six months of petitions and discussions and ask the question “What is the impact of the election on the commissions decision?”.

On the Calliflower Conference Call this morning: Carl Ford, Jim Kohlenberger, Brita Strandberg, Dan York, Mark Hewitt, James Body, Sergio Meinardi, and Tom Orr.

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Squawk Box October 2: Regulatory Thursdays with Carl Ford

by alec on October 5, 2008

Carl Ford and members of the VON coalition engage in a wide ranging discussion of regulatory issues with the Squawk Box regulars. Part of a regular Thursday series in which Carl Ford discusses regulatory issues related to VoIP.

On the Calliflower Conference Call this morning: Jim Kohlenberger, Hudson Barton, Carl Ford, Jim Courtney, Jeanette Fisher, Bill Volk, Carsten Helmuth, James Body, Phil Wolff, Sheryl Breuker, Tom Orr, Sergio Meinardi, Michael Graves, Triona Carey

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Gunfight at the Telco Corral… Canadian Style

December 12, 2006

Free-marketers wonÂ the day in Canada, yesterday.Â Industry Minister Maxime Bernier declared that there is no need to regulate local telephony service in markets where there is sufficient competition.Â That means most Canadian cities, except in rural markets. On Monday, Industry Minister Maxime Bernier gave BCE (Bell Canada), Telus and the country’s other incumbent telcos the [...]

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Policing the Thoughts of a Billion People

April 20, 2006

Yesterday, Reporters Without Borders released a copy of the verdict in the case of Chinese dissident Jiang Lijun, who was sentenced to four years in jail in 2003 on a charge of subversion, supported in part by email evidence provided by Yahoo! to the Chinese government. Here is a PDF translation of the court document, and the press release [...]

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Industry Perspective: Jeffrey Citron

September 19, 2005

Jeffrey Citron is here to talk a little about Vonage, and a whole lot about regulatory — that’s what he says. That’s great. The last time I saw him speak it was a stump speech for Vonage — a live press release. Vonage’s strategy has four key planks: Improve people’s lives. Using Vonage should be [...]

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ILEC Landline Attrition Accelerates

August 16, 2005

James Enck has just posted annualized rates of landline attrition for several ILECs. The numbers are shocking. Attrition has doubled in the first half of this year, with some US states seeing annualized rates as high as 16%. I’ve previously written about this in the context of Bell Canada and CRTC policy, but it looks [...]

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