Articles By Author Steven Titch
Articles by Steven Titch
08/01/2008 12:00 AM
Overstock.com has become the second online retailer to mount a legal challenge against a New York law that effectively defines them as state-based merchants, ...(read more)
08/01/2008 12:00 AM
The language describing the process by which an "affiliate" is defined as a "nexus" in New York's controversial new law redefining out-of-state merchants ...(read more)
07/01/2008 12:00 AM
The city of Provo, Utah has announced it will sell its money-losing municipal fiber network, iProvo, to Broadweave Networks, a South Jordan, Utah startup, ...(read more)
06/01/2008 12:00 AM
As financial trouble continues to plague municipal-funded broadband efforts, planners in mid-sized, small, and rural cities and towns around the nation ...(read more)
06/01/2008 12:00 AM
If you live in Brunswick County, North Carolina, you just might get fiber-to-the-home courtesy of the U.S. government--provided your home is in a pricey ...(read more)
05/01/2008 12:00 AM
In an effort to revive a failed municipal wireless project originally envisioned to cover most of Silicon Valley, Covad Communications has launched a technology ...(read more)
05/01/2008 12:00 AM
After a flurry of legislative initiatives at the state level and policy action at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), federal legislation to criminalize ...(read more)
05/01/2008 12:00 AM
Illinois was among the first states in the nation to make it illegal to pretend to be an account holder in order to gain phone records and other personal ...(read more)
04/01/2008 12:00 AM
Current broadband policy is directed too much toward infrastructure development at the expense of demand-side initiatives that prove better at closing the ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
Congress is planning to revisit network neutrality legislation by year end, with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce expected to move as early as ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
A Cook County, Illinois proposal to impose a $4 tax on all wireline and wireless phone lines has drawn fire from all sides, including the local phone company, ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
Peer-to-peer, or P2P, networking involves the sharing of files between two PCs that are connected either directly or, as is most common, through a third-party ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
Congress approved an extension of the national moratorium on Internet taxes one day before the previous moratorium was due to expire.
A measure protecting ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
After a day at the annual Rural Telecom Conference, or Rural TeleCon, advocates of free-market policies had reason to emerge downcast.
The 2007 conference, ...(read more)
12/01/2007 12:00 AM
The CEO of a privately held broadband company has called on the federal government to end low-interest loans for broadband to rural phone companies that ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
Contending Microsoft still is in position to abuse its dominant position in PC operating systems, six states and the District of Columbia pressed the federal ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
Utah's sales tax-backed statewide fiber-optic backbone is coming under fire over what legislators see as a deliberate shift in strategy to seek new, so-called ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg in September upheld a 2004 European Commission (EC) decision finding Microsoft illegally leveraged its ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
Regulators and policymakers worldwide must embrace telecommunications competition and privatization to stimulate a sound climate for the growth of broadband ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
A successful municipal wireless operation requires top-to-bottom understanding of the applications, costs, and limitations of the technology plus committed ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
Corpus Christi is one of two cities to which EarthLink remains committed for municipal wireless, the other being Philadelphia, which stands as EarthLink's ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering banning exclusive agreements between cable companies and owners of condominiums and apartment ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
Microsoft's attempts to compete for state contracts took a hit in early September when it failed to win an open standards designation from a major international ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
There's been a lot of confusion lately over whether there is enough competition in wireless telecommunications.
In the more than 20 years since cellular ...(read more)
10/25/2007 12:00 AM
In October 2007 I had the privilege of attending the annual Rural Telecom Conference, or Rural TeleCon, held this year in Springfield, Illinois.
As I sat ...(read more)
