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Thursday, March 18, 2010

16 Page Summary of the National Broadband Plan and Mission Statement

Having completed the first of many readings of the FCC's National Broadband Plan, I have prepared a relatively short summary of the document. It is available at my web site: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/r/m/rmf5/. Scroll down toward the bottom of the page and under Broadband and Next Generation Network Development, click on the link titled Summary of National Broadband Plan.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Podcast on a Variety of Network Neutrality Issues

You might have an interest in a thoughtful and wide ranging discussion on the legal, regulatory and policy issues raised by network neutrality hosted by Surprisingly Free, a project of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University Law School: http://surprisinglyfree.com/2010/03/01/rob-frieden-on-internet-applications-content-providers-and-net-neutrality/.

Jerry Brito and I prove that reasonable people can disagree on aspects of network neutrality yet have a civilized and informative discussion.