Horse Trading with The Men

More on the Men of Telecom

NY Times writes about another move towards convergence of cell and land lines

Vonage is offering free mobile web calls in the UK

MIT Technology Review talks about Fon's "open source" vision of Hotspots

On the other hand, Dan Farber reports telecom companies are winning the Net Neutrality battle. They clearly understand workings of Congress better and have the patience of Job to wage long battles.  If you are concerned (as a blogger I am concerned I pay for access on my nickel and then may have to also absorb new surcharges for content and delivery), lobby your Congressman. We need to balance the lobbyists the Men have in place. Of course, as I have written before with telecom taxes at 15 to 25%, Congress itself has little incentive to change the status quo and go finding other revenue sources.

Update: Tom Foremski makes a good point. Telecom companies are big customers of several tech companies. He thinks those revenue interests are also causing them to be muted about speaking more loudly about this issue.

Update: this site promises to forward to Congress petitions around network neutrality.