Author: tdenton

Terence Corcoran is the senior editor of the Financial Post. He is a committed opponent of a host of economic follies: unfunded liabilities, statism,  junk science – of which the largest example is anthropogenic global warming, and a host of fashionable fads. On the subject of network industries, however, I regret to say he is persistently […]

The German subsidiary of Verizon has lost the contract to provide telecommunications services to the Bundestag. The German interior ministry said the cancellation was linked to the “relationship between foreign intelligence agencies and companies” that the rogue US National Security Agency contractor exposed last year. The Financial Times reported: “Among the revelations, it emerged that Verizon […]

What is the nature of the Internet? I ask this question as I listened to a discussion of Internet security features. The more fundamental answers to the question can be found in one of my articles, “The Internet Illustrated” on this site. But there is another approach to thinking about the Internet, as an addressing system for […]

http://www.vox.com/2014/4/27/5655622/congress-could-fix-the-net-neutrality-mess-but-it-probably-wont A good fast review of the US situation is offered here.

Mobile television apps are now before the CRTC. They put the question at the heart of Canadian communications policy front and centre: will carriers be able to evade net neutrality rules whenever they declare their signal to be “broadcasting”? There is a contradiction between the two statutes the CRTC administers. The Broadcasting Act says “go […]

The revelations that the National Security Agency has been spying on the Internet’s traffic, and that corporations like Google  would be obliged to lie about the degree of their cooperation, has come as a shock to the naive, and an opportunity for those who would like to detach the governance of the Internet from the […]

Let me begin with what I know to be true. Over the course of the time I was there, a Commissioners had growing sense of the inadequacy of facilities-based competition, with a limited duopoly of cable and telco in each market. There are two problems with moving to a policy of leased access to cable […]

  I asked Ben Klass what this graph means. He replied:   ” This graph shows that in Canada:    a.) mobile carriers charge substantially more per GB than they do in other countries; and b.) on average, monthly plans include less data in Canada than they do in other countries.   Notably this chart […]