In 1993, I wrote a paper entitled, How Ubiquitous Free Communication will Alter the Status Quo. I noted that because of electronic chat rooms [Prodigy, AOL and Compuserve] as more women became enamoured of the connectivity options available to them via a ubiquitous global network, that the divorce rate would rise dramatically. I [...]
Can’t be done say the experts. Well what if a company was going to build out a 1 GB per second internet backbone that would allow you to do so? Google yesterday announced their intention to do just that. On their Blog at Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network they [...]
I received a letter today from Optus with my comments in parentheses and italics. Here is what it said: Dear Valued Customer (What is the problem here? Optus can address the envelope to me personally, but can't invest in a data base that personalizes the letter itself? What sort of technology company is this?) Firstly [...]
Or – The Havenots become the Haves. Preamble It’s a well known fact that when placed under restricting circumstances, all animals will look for an escape or release from the restriction. “The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” – John Perry Barlow. ——————————————————————————————————————————– The Article IRC stands for [...]
Every Government knows that to keep the sheep constituency happy – you need to feed them four hours of entertainment daily to “pay” them for the addition to the national coffers (Tax). The other day I found some DVD’s at a barrow stand in a shopping centre selling for $2.00 each. They were all [...]
I am a regular visitor and poster on the P2PNet.net site in Canada and its users/readers taught me something new in the last few days. Users are unaware of the impact their online activities have on the networks. For three days I ranted, raved (and generally got extremely frustrated) that they could not [...]
In the last decade I owned and managed various ISP’s and Co-Lo businesses; I used to get a buzz out of sitting in front of the monitors and watching the MRTG graphs never peaking. (MRTG Graph “borrowed” from Wikipedia) Peaking was bad; peaking meant that customers were not getting what they were paying for, [...]
Economists advise the Government. In fact, working for the Government is a lot more interesting for an economist than working for a bank, the numbers are just so much bigger – and economists like big numbers. The bigger the numbers, the more accurate the statistics are and therefore, the more spectacular are the results. [...]
A section of my Introduction to the Responses to Digital Economy Future Directions Consultation Paper By Thomas P. Koltai, on Behalf of Perceptric Pty. Ltd. Submitted 10th of February – Before the Governments National FTTH rollout announcement and before the ACCC ruling against Telstra on last mile local loop. – A section of my [...]
I’m sitting here in Sydney Australia looking at my newest acquisition. My £49.95 Skype phone from 3. And I’m fuming. Yep – you cant buy this phone in Australia yet and if the Vodafone takeover obtains ACCC approval – probably never. I’m fuming because the latest and greatest gadget ever released on the worldwide “must-have” [...]