Following Verizon Wireless’s Recent Adventure in Throttling

A look at regulatory and practical considerations around the high-profile misstep

Thanks to my friends at No Jitter, I’ve been able to write extensively about some of the issues associated with Net Neutrality.  If you know me, or are familiar with my commentary, you know where I stand. To recap, in my opinion, Net Neutrality is essential to our ability as Americans to communicate and consume information as we so choose.  During the recent spate of California fires, when Verizon got caught throttling data in order to secure a more lucrative contract from a California municipality, I was dumbfounded.

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Kari Hunt Case Jury Awards $41.55 Million

On Friday, June 22nd, a 12-person jury in Marshall, TX awarded $41.55 million to the family of Kari Hunt Dunn following week long civil trial following her death in 2013.  She was fatally stabbed by her estranged husband at a hotel in Marshall on December 1, 2013 where she’d brought her children to visit with their father.  In facts that are well known, while Ms. Hunt’s estranged husband repeatedly stabbed her, her eldest daughter, who was 9 at the time, repeatedly tried to call 911. Because the hotel’s phone system had been designed to require the dialing of “9” in order to reach an outside line, the 9-year old was unsuccessful in reaching anyone who could help her.

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Senate Net Neutrality Vote Exercise in Futility or Something Much More Important?

As widely discussed, the U.S. Senate on May 17 secured passage of a resolution designed to thwart the FCC’s December 2017 decision to abandon the Net neutrality rules announced and implemented by the Obama Administration in 2015 and sustained by the D.C. District Court in 2016.  While most quarters view the protections offered by Network neutrality as imperative, the Trump Administration’s deregulatory push has enabled the FCC’s Republican majority to force abandonment of the rules, despite overwhelming bipartisan support of keeping them in place and intact. 

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Sprint/T-Mobile: Beyond the First Week Hype

So many factors to consider... and not only for consumers, but enterprises, too. You've seen the well-publicized facts and figures about the proposed Sprint/T-Mobile merger, and you've cut through the marketing and other varieties of hype about this transaction, but still you're probably wondering, what's really going on?

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Getting Legal on AI - Part II

There are some who claim that reading legal boilerplate makes watching paint dry seem exciting. Some of those people might even be lawyers.  But the issues associated with the ever-increasing presence of AI make consideration of legal issues and vulnerabilities more important than ever.  In Part I of this series, we considered qualitative issues, as opposed to the quantitative ones that often arise when considering adoption of AI techniques. Right at the top of the list of important considerations before an AI investment decision is made are contractual issues that must be given their due.

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