Johna Till Johnson

Articles by Johna Till Johnson

Google and the spectrum wars

Networks aren't about technology. They're about two things: scale and service, says columnist Johna Till Johnson

Remember the Internet’s past, or risk repeating it

Internet pioneer John Day's new book, Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals, is compulsively readable and technically detailed -- possibily the most panoramic technical and social review of the Internet's development ever

Lessons from YouTube’s shutdown

Your Internet presence, or that of your major suppliers, partners and customers, may be effectively denied intentionally or accidentally

Carriers must take a stand on searches

The feds want to wiretap? Warrant, please. And the RIAA wants to see personal information? Show us the subpoena

U.S. 700 MHz auction a yawner so far

Odd constraints have made the sale of old TV spectrum a boring affair

2008 Predictions for carriers

How the carrier industry will change in the new year

Think a ‘Net shut down couldn’t happen here? Think again

The feds pulled the plug on California once. Why wouldn't they do it again?

Why the government shouldn’t run the Net

As Myanmar demonstrated, a government that controls the communications infrastructure can also choose to shut it down, and people can die as a result

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