Scott Bradner

Articles by Scott Bradner

Japan ahead of US on high-speed Internet access front

The Washington Post last month ran an article on "Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future," in which it paints an impressive picture of the current and future state of residential Internet service in Japan, while not saying much good about what has been happening in the United States.

Some sobering reading for the news business

A series of technological developments have had major impacts on the media industry. The Internet, the latest of the series, threatens to do a better job at disruption than any of the previous ones

FCC decision ignores the lesson of Wi-Fi’s history

As just about everybody predicted, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission recently decided that only giant telephone companies are smart enough to manage wireless spectrum.

Recrafting Internet a dicey proposition

Much has been written of late in the press about

Truth in speeds – broadband access

Graeme Samuel, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission recently took Australian broadband ISPs to task over their failure to make it clear to potential customers just how fast their services are. The admonition should not be confined to Australia.

Decisions that enabled the Net

Ten key decisions that paved the way for the Internet we have today.

WGA: When a planet becomes a black hole

I just do not understand why companies are not more upfront in their interactions with customers. Far too many of them refuse to tell you what they are doing, even in cases in which it

Media-via-cell-phone is over-hyped technology

If the U.S. were like the rest of the world, this would be the ideal time to sell some of the specialty cell phone services that so far just seem to be eating investors

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