This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/navarrow-wright/put-the-politics-aside-an_b_772338.html Elections, the economy, and everybody is up in arms. With Nov. 2 right around the corner, I can’t help but think about how much political capital has been exhausted on the issues of net neutrality and Title II reclassification over the past few months. Though the future of the Internet — and the implementation of the National Broadband Plan — undergird our efforts at economic recovery [...]

Five years seem like a long time away, especially in days when everyone seems to be focused on the next election (which is a really important one), or the next football game, or a favorite TV program  (I’ll confess, I’m waiting for the next episode of “Lie To Me.”)   But we better start acting like it is approaching quickly. Think about how as all those events come and go, how much we call, search, [...]

As wireless companies race to deploy 4g networks, the hunger for access to for existing consumers grows and the need for access for those that are with out becomes more important.  Even if the 4G networks were live in full today the carriers still are  have trouble keeping up with increasing demand. An Article on GigaOm suggests that Wifi may be the answer we are looking for. Recently Towerstream, A company that offers tower based [...]

Image by waynetaylor via Flickr Blackweb20.com recently ran a story that caught my eye for several reasons.  Two young women from Spelman College participated in a contest put on by ATT : the AT&T Big Mobile on Campus Challenge encourages college students to build engaging mobile apps. I was especially excited to see two women of color be the winners to this years contest. I’ve made no secret, for some time now, of my desire [...]

Phillip It appears your record has a scratch in it because every time you play it it appears to be stuck on the same response no matter what the forum. Net Neutrality is not just about one thing. It’s about people perpetuating a misunderstanding of the issues to goat people into believing what they are fighting for will in the end help them. As this article shows pro net neutrality groups are not out improve [...]

Art, Your posts here seem as if you’ll go to any lengths to make parallels between things going on in other mediums and what’s going on in the broadband world. Cable TV and the Internet are two different environments and are not apples-to-apples comparisons. I cannot start a TV network in one day, but I can start a website, web video show or a web company today on the Internet. If you really do care [...]

On Oct. 5th the LA times published an article that makes the claim that donations that have been made to telecom companies to civil rights groups (NAACP, National Urban League) have swayed those organizations opinions when it comes to the Net Neutrality regulation debate that’s going on in DC.   My first problem here is that people want to infer that organizations that have a history of going against popular opinion in order to serve the [...]