March 28, 2003
Clay Shirky: Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data .
Everyone wants permanet -- the providers want to provide it, the customers want to use it, and every few years, someone announces that they are going to build some version of it. The lesson of in-flight phones is that nearlynet is better aligned with the technological, economic, and social forces that help networks actually get built.
The Economist: Launching Telecoms II.
By voting in effect to maintain the status quo, rather than embark on reforms aimed ultimately at dismantling the country's antiquated regulations that govern the telephone network, the Federal Communications Commission has consigned the telecoms industry to further floundering. Call the missed opportunity "Telecoms II".
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