A Catalan Village Wins A Battle Against Mobile Carriers

Yesterday the Catalan Supreme Court of Justice ruled that a Catalan village, Camprodon, has the right to charge mobile carriers 1.5% of mobile to a land line in reason of their use of the electromagnetic spectrum "belonging" to the administrative local area.

This new has been dismissed by the mainstream media, but the range of its implications over jurisprudence might be a turn-off.

We will follow-up the next steps and see the reaction of the parties, specially the pronunciation of the telecomm regulator (CMT).


Source: http://www.3cat24.cat/noticia/295975/ripolles/Camprodon-recaptara-l15-de-la-facturacio-de-les-trucades-de-mobil-a-fix

Actually there is a regulation over the internet!

Are not the property and intellectual rights a sort of regulation (not by the goverment but from private owned companies and organisations) over the content in internet?

Why cannot I listen to a canadian state-owned radio podcast?

"Malheureusement, nous ne disposons pas, pour le moment, des droits nous permettant d'offrir notre programmation en baladodiffusion."

Why BBC iplayer content can only be accessed within the Islands?

Why can't Pandora webcast their radio service?

Some news on the Net Neutrality debate

Just a quick post gathering some interesting links on the net neutrality debate:

• Next Net Neutrality Steps at the CRTC (Michael Gesit)
  

• New majority loses nerve on net neutrality (Zdnet)
  

• Broadcasting regulations to govern online video? (EJC Media)

Campaigne produite par Le Dépanneur

Nous avons planifié, produit et dynamisé une campagne afin de promouvoir le "vot laïque". Le client, "Mouvement laïque et progressiste" est une organisation à but non lucrative qui rejoint 170 organisation (jeunesse, écologie, formation, etc) de base avec 17.000 membres. Comme organisation elle a comme but l’élan de la formation dans les valeurs laïques parmi la société ainsi que d’une vision moderne de l'éducation et les activités visant les jeunes.

La campagne a été axé sur une vidéo virale qui en prenant et adaptant le récit popularisé par Bertold Brecht a par but avertir des intentions de l'Église et du partie conservateurs à l'égard des sujets comme l'homosexualité, l'éducation, le droit au avortement et la monoparentalité. La vidéo oppose les éléments du discours que l'Église à utilisé avec des images de la vie quotidienne.

Comme vous le savez, le passé 9 mars ont eu lieu les élections fédérales en Espagne. L'Église catholique à été un des acteurs les plus actifs en essayant d'avoir le rôle principale et établir l'agenda du débat politique. Face à ce discours et la manque d'un acteur politique laïque, le MLP a décidé mener cette campagne.

La campagne a eu une répercussion médiatique assez important en tenant en compte qu'elle a débouté en plein période de campagne électorale.

Voici quelques impactes dans les médias:

• http://www.europapress.es/00065/20080229185459/colectivos-no-religiosos-catalanes-piden-voto-laico-contra-ofensiva-ultraconservadora-iglesia.html
• http://www.elplural.com/politica/detail.php?id=18091
• http://actualidad.terra.es/provincias/barcelona/articulo/colectivos_iglesia_no_religiosos_catalanes_2290742.htm

Voici la vidéo (en espagnol):

What's up with del.icio.us? (some features to improve the service)

As you have noticed, lately I am concerned with the web2.o bubble to explode. I am a Del.icio.us user from the very beginning and I appreciate the usefulness of its service. Although there are some strange signals that scares me:

1. There is no evidence of improvement or new features. So, what are they doing in the office?
2. I cannot see a business model in the service. I thought they would launch a premium version, but no new in that sense.
3. They are not refer in the most web2.0 reference publications (techcrunch). Of course that is not a real signal, but it adds up to the other.

Since I am worried for the fact that some day it may come up they close down the service, I am starting to back up all my bookmarks.

I launch some recommendation on features to the outer space so if there is live in Del.icio.us planet they may hear it:

• Instant messaging tool to chat with other delicious users online
• Export/import tool
• Drag and drop bundle tool

Beware when enroling a 2.0 service

Related to the concerns arised from our last post, there is an important issue. What if you trust your content to a startup
which may disappear if they do not succed to find a buyer? There is the recent case of Stage6.

Of course, you may subscribe a product provided by a well known company as IBM and they may close down. But we know IBM business model is not a short-term one. Though, we know that most of web2.0 startup are based in a "grow as fast as you can and sell to Google". But what if Google does not buy?

There are lots of web2.0 services which are very useful, but should we trust our content? There might be this point when making a decision on which service we do enrol.

You can check a full list of goog ideas and services: Techcrunch Deadpool

Start-up but not risky business

A post in Mark Evan's blog about Seesmic venture capitalists inspired me to write this. It seems that there is a kind of start-up business ready-to-sell before they start operations.

This is my hypothesis: an enterpreuneur sells his/her company to a huge company. He/she gets the money and the popularity in the environment. Then is time to set up a new business, but never risk the money he/she got from the big-deal. He/she has to get money from venture-capitalists, if possible very popular in the hood. So the point is the first company and have a good idea-product to interest venture-capitalists. If it works, we share profits; if it fails, we share loses, but we never lose.

But my concern is that most of these VC are also web2.0 startup enterpreneurs. They invest in someone else's project. Is that a safe managerial strategy?

Bye bye Net Neutrality (and not because of regulators)

Time Warner to test Internet billing based on usage

By Yinka AdegokeWed Jan 16, 10:50 PM ET

Time Warner Cable Inc said on Wednesday it is planning a trial to bill high-speed Internet subscribers based on their amount of usage rather than a flat fee, the standard industry practice.

The second largest U.S. cable operator said it will test consumption-based billing with subscribers in Beaumont, Texas later this year as a part of a strategy to help reduce congestion of its network by a minority of consumers who pay the same monthly fee as light users.

The company believes the billing system will impact only heavy users, who account for around 5 percent of all customers but typically use more than half of the total network bandwidth, according to a company spokesman.

Slowing network congestion due to downloading of large media files such as video is a growing problem for Time Warner Cable. The company said the problem will worsen as video downloading becomes more popular.

But the move could prove controversial. Unlike with utility bills such as the phone or electricity, which have traditionally been based on usage, U.S. high-speed Internet subscribers have come to expect a fixed monthly charge. An Internet bill typically only varies based on the speed of the consumer's Internet access.

Time Warner Cable, which has 7.4 million residential Internet subscribers, is hoping the move will not confuse consumers if introduced nationwide and is planning a trial period.

"Largely, people won't notice the difference," said the Time Warner Cable spokesman. "We don't want customers to feel they're getting less for more." News of Time Warner Cable's plans was originally leaked on an online industry forum BroadbandReports.com.

Other cable operators may follow Time Warner Cable's lead and phone companies such as Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc are likely to be watching the New York-based cable operator's plans.

As U.S. consumers have become more used to streaming and downloading digital media over the Web, their Internet service providers have started to come under pressure to be able to keep up with growing demand in a cost-effective manner.

Comcast Corp, the largest cable operator with around 13 million Internet subscribers, has been accused by consumer groups of blocking Web traffic moving across its networks, prompting a notice of inquiry by the Federal Communications Commission earlier this week.

Comcast denies it blocks any Internet traffic saying it uses bandwidth management technology to help improve the customer experience but which may slow down some file transfers.

(Editing by Lincoln Feast)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080117/media_nm/timewarner_internet_dc&printer=1;_ylt=AitprTX2GJdEBUQLAbdFWH8VkmwF