FCC approves a new fee to be added to your phone bill

If you pay any attention to your phone bill you know that buried within the “other charges” section is something called the Universal Service Fund Fee. Of course, there are lots of such “other charges”, so much so that for me, at least, they amount to 39% of my phone bill, excluding any long distance…

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Stimulus to create 5000 jobs

Great news!   The President is announcing today the “winners” of his “we need to expand broadband in America” program.  Remember, this plan was part of the Stimulus Package passed last year.  And, the winners are… You’ll have to go to this link to find out, but I will tell you that should you live in…

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Now broadband internet access a human right?

No, you’re not reading an Onion story. In Finland, the government has deemed a fast Internet connection is a right and will mandate service providers offer broadband service to everyone. This means anyone can get a VPN service as some streaming services are only available in UK and USA and use it to not only…

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Castro’s Cuba and Complete Opression

I’m quite sick of seeing celebrities cozy up to the likes of Castro and Chavez. Last week, I was wondering what Internet access was like in Cuba. We frequently here about China limiting access to the Net and blocking sites; and even just a week or so ago Pakistan made some DNS changes to block…

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