saschameinrath: FCC's OBI Technical Paper #4: "the average (mean) user consumed over 9 gigabyes [of data] per month." So why are telcos creating 5GB caps?

saschameinrath: #is4cwn Finishing up the last meetings of the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks. What an epic gathering!

saschameinrath: At #is4cwn here in Vienna, Austria -- today is all logistics all the time. More at: www.wirelesssummit.org

saschameinrath: Look for public interest mega-coalition ex parte from today's meeting with FCC Chairman Genachowski Friday afternoon.

saschameinrath: Eddie Lazarus just reported to me that the FCC 6-party talks are officially being called off for lack of progress.

saschameinrath: Two pannings of the Genachowski FCC: http://ping.fm/xLMXR http://ping.fm/0Facs

saschameinrath: Prelim hour 20 of 24... 35 pages written, a quick cat nap, and now to finish this sucker off.

saschameinrath: Just a few minutes away from the start of my last PhD preliminary exam: one question and 24 hours of frenetic research & writing.

saschameinrath: US drops from #1 to #2 in telecom industry backed "Connectivity Scorecard". Even spin-doctors having trouble maintaining the myth: http://pi

saschameinrath: Philadelphia OTI collaboration funded by BTOP -- $6.4m to support digital literacy and public computing centers throughout the city!

saschameinrath: New York Times editorial excoriates Congress for taking bribes from telcos & pressuring the FCC not to oversee broadband: http://ping.fm/1sA

saschameinrath: Hosting Larry Summers at New America to announce spectrum reform; IEEE Spectrum OpEd on same issue came out this morning: http://ping.fm/l2F

saschameinrath: Just finished watching u.s. vs. Algeria world cup game. Legend... dary!

saschameinrath: FCC Chairman's secret meetings with Industry to set national telecom policy are finally coming to light: http://ping.fm/Lpoue

saschameinrath: Matt Wood and I officially won our debate this morning at ITIF on the woeful state of U.S. broadband, according to audience voting. Huzzah!

saschameinrath: I'm taking part in a live Oxford-style debate tomorrow at ITIF re: the U.S. international broadband ranking: http://ping.fm/eMInQ

saschameinrath: Woke up at 4am and spent 3 hours fighting with HDMI and DRM. Apparently, my stereo thinks it knows better than I what I want to listen to.

saschameinrath: Community technologist, Phil Shapiro, highlights community wireless summit and WasabiNet in PC World: http://ping.fm/4sA42