EDUCAUSE | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Telecommunications

FCC asked to bar cellular carriers from blocking SMS traffic

ckeller — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:40:38 -0600

A handful of public-interest groups have filed a petition (PDF) with the Federal Communications Commission asking it to prevent cellular service providers from blocking text messages from advocacy groups and advertisers. Filed by Public Knowledge, the Consumers Union, EDUCAUSE, Free Press, and four other groups, the petition cites a couple of recent examples of text-message blocking by cellular carriers.

Information and Communications Infrastructure: Confidential Presidential Working Paper

ckeller — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:23:28 -0500

The events of April 16, 2007 and the response, investigation, and recovery at Virginia Tech that followed placed extraordinary demands on telecommunications network resources and university Information Technology professionals. This report provides a comprehensive inventory and analysis of the communications infrastructure and information systems used during this time period. It addresses resources depended upon by emergency responders, investigating law enforcement officers, university officials, media, faculty, staff, students, and families of the university community. It includes information about communications resources owned and operated by the University and relevant resources owned and operated by providers and responders.

Going VoIP

ckeller — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:44:41 -0500

"IHEs are at different points when it comes to VoIP, but many see the same benefits, and face the same challenges."

Virginia Tech Reports on IT Performance During Shootings

ckeller — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:08:14 -0500

"An internal review of Virginia Tech's information and communications infrastructure in the wake of the April shootings found that the campus telecommunication systems were "dramatically stressed during the initial response period but performed adequately," according to a report in The Roanoke Times."

Missed Connections

drupal — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:55:59 -0500

Landlines are increasingly unused on college campuses. Does this have to mean revenue has gone missing as well?

AT&T Offers More for BellSouth Deal Approval

drupal — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:08:56 -0600

" AT&T has agreed to stiffer conditions on its acquisition of BellSouth to try to win approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, according to a letter filed with the agency late Thursday."

Broadband Reality Check II

drupal — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:42:55 -0500

Broadband Reality Check II exposes the truth behind America's digital decline: A failed policy that has left Americans with higher prices, slower speeds and no choices for Internet service.

An Internet for the few or the many?

drupal — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:39:06 -0500

Michael Copps has a message for the technology industry when it comes to Net neutrality: Get involved.

Industry, others object to data retention

drupal — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:29:02 -0500

Internet providers and telecommunications companies expressed concern on Wednesday about the feasibility of recording Americans' online activities, a proposal that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has recently endorsed.

Substrate neutrality

drupal — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:04:42 -0600

For a generation of intellectual property scholars, communications issues were peripheral. The telephone wires were humming along, doing their jobs -- what really mattered were Hollywood's attempts to control formerly unregulated uses of content. Now communications issues have come to be central. As we've discussed in the past, communications law is to this networked age as intellectual property law was to the information age and labor law was to the industrial age.