Kim Dotcom, the flamboyant German-born intentrepreneurreneur facing extradition to the US for alleged piracy, has put forward a plan to give all householders in his new home of New Zealand free broadband access, financed by suing Hollywood studios and the American government.
Meanwhile, Germany opposes proposals to finance broadband expansion in rural areas.
Doubts over the prosecution's use of honest-service arguments led to the overturning of a conviction against Enron Broadband's former finance chief, Kevin Howard (he later admitted one charge to avoid undergoing a third trial).
(E.T., phone home on your new federally financed broadband line).
New services offering "free" music, bundled into the cost of a broadband subscription or financed by advertising, are proliferating.
I found it odd that Obama had to be prompted to address this question, but he warmed to it immediately, ticking off a list of public investments that his administration could bring to the region: broadband lines, school financing, the development of biodiesel fuels.
According to the deal, the News Corporation, IDG and China Broadband Capital will largely finance the operations.
If they're running for local office, get them on the record in support of publicly financed local broadband networks.
Perhaps because ACI, like Broadband for America, is financed by an ISP lobby group.
Labour's proposal for a £6-a-year tax on fixed-line phones to fund the rollout of superfast broadband, part of a separate finance bill, has also fallen at the wayside as the government attempts to push through legislation in the "wash-up" before parliament is dissolved later this week.
