Net Neutrality

2 New Books Exposing Massive Customer Overcharging and How Big Telecom Created the Digital Divide. Paraphrasing a conversation between authors David Rosen and Bruce Kushnick. “I didn’t order that Verizon service, Techsure, (which is an in-home maintenance service). I have no idea how it ended up on my broadband-internet bill. And it’s $15 a month. Then you tell me that it is also bombarded with…

How recent trends are shaking up the built environment This year’s report by the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) stated that just under 1% of all buildings worldwide are net zero ready. The remaining 99% are in the midst of a largest transition in decades or even centuries. Despite its…

Network Usage Fee Law Explained — Are you worried that your favorite Korean content will disappear with the passage of Korea’s controversial Network Usage Fee Law? Very similar to the ‘net neutrality’ debate, if this legislation is approved by Korean lawmakers, the entire global content industry could become infected, starting with South Korea’s media industry. South…

The story of those who are walking the talk. ESG here, sustainability there. Many are talking, but few are acting. The latest IPCC report from April 2022 says it all: emissions are higher than ever before — both for carbon, the main driver of climate change, and for other greenhouse gases. The way to limit global warming is indisputable…

The “go green movement” has been oversold. Although the number of companies pledging ESG and filing corporate social responsibility reports has increased a hundredfold in the past two decades, carbon emissions have kept rising and environmental damage has accelerated. Remember 2008? Like 2008, when financial rating companies came under scrutiny during the…

MIPIM 2022, a four-day program of conferences, events, and exhibitions with over 3,800 exhibiting companies from 100 countries has finally reopened its doors in Cannes. Everything seemed to be back to normal as far as excitement and engagement to meet in person at MIPIM, yet everything changed since the last…

Capital decisions and outcomes have again trumped climate.The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero has had problems from the start. If key questions on its integrity and objectives are not answered, it risks being nothing more than a misdirection project. The judas moment Mark Carney faced with the leaders of…

This is not a history lesson. It is a call to action. Chart 1: Will America Repeat the Fiber Optic, Broadband, Wireless, Bait and Switch? We present four charts from the new book, Violations & Egregious Acts: Trillion Dollar Broadband Scandal, which is a summary of 30-years of research, legal…