Category Archives: ISPs
Traffic Management on Mobile Gets Regulated
Shortly before Canada Day the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released their decision as to whether they were to modify the forbearance framework for mobile wireless data services. To date, the CRTC has used a light hand when it’s come to wireless data communications: they’ve generally left wireless providers alone so that the providers could expand their networks in the (supposedly) competitive wireless marketplace. As of decision 2010-445 the Commission’s power and duties are extended and the spectre of traffic management on mobile networks is re-raised. Continue reading
Packet Headers and Privacy
Juniper’s proposal may see ISPs leverage their existing customer service information to modify customers’ data traffic for the purposes of enhancing the geographic relevance of online advertising. This poses a severe problem for citizens’ locational and communicative privacy. Continue reading
The Consumable Mobile Experience
Failure to protect the consumer and provide an ecosystem for application developers to create the next killer mobile app, and failure to hold ISPs accountable for their social responsibilities to provide fast and cost-accessible mobile broadband, threatens to transform North America into an innovation ghetto, where innovation might emerge but is too expensive to actually be implemented and enjoyed on the continent from which it is born. Continue reading
Journal Publication: Moving Across the Internet
I recently had an article published through CTheory, one of the world’s leading journals of theory, technology, and culture. The article is titled “Moving Across the Internet: Code-Bodies, Code-Corpses, and Network Architecture.” The article emerged from a presentation I gave … Continue reading
