Obama Wants New Taxes & Fees for National Broadband Network

Wow, okay, in the U.S. yesterday, a huge national broadband plan the FCC proposed creates a national policy for the taxation of digital goods and services imposing a fee to create a national public safety wireless broadband network. Being a network guy, especially a wireless expert, I am all for expanding the wireless networks! However, the Obama administration has a plan to do it with more taxes and higher fees. Nice.. new taxes and fees, couldn’t be better timing. What I don’t understand is why this new ridiculous plan proposes a...

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The New IPv6 Whitelist, are you on it?

Did you hear about this? Probably not, so here it is… Google’s YouTube IPv6 traffic increased 30% last week. This intel comes to us from one of the world’s largest IPv6 ISP’s—the venerable Hurricane Electric in Fremont, Ca—whose own IPv6 traffic has already doubled this year. Just yesterday, Hurricane Electric actually claimed to be the world’s largest IPv6 ISP! Meanwhile, across the country on the East Coast, Comcast is the IPv6 Big Dog, and is already rolling out IPv6 to test subscribers in Philadelphia of all places. And...

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