American net users are being asked to help decide what ISPs can do to the web traffic flowing over their networks. … more

The authority that controls New Zealand’s numbering plan is embarking on a fact finding mission to Europe, to determine how numbers should be allocated in the transition from traditional fixed-line PSTN voice services to VoIP. … more

On the Internet, data moves at the speed of light. The Federal Communications Commission, not so fast. … more

The country’s major Internet providers such as BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Telus Corp. must lease network space to smaller competitors at matching speeds to ensure competition for broadband services, the telecom regulator said in a key ruling Monday. … more

India has toughened its scrutiny of telecoms firms with a directive demanding “access to everything”. … more

The influx of new internet access technologies and accompanying devices has put pressure on the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to rethink how it regulates service providers and manages user identities. … more

The company’s stance on net neutrality shows it’s trying to monopolize a market just like a conventional, Microsoft-style Bigfoot would, with corporate guile and misdirection. … more

I’ve been trying to figure out what the Google/Verizon announcement means. It’s not easy to do, in large part because the announcement doesn’t precisely announce anything. It’s titled a “legislative framework proposal.” That is, on its own terms it’s not an agreement between two companies — neither is bound to do anything by it, which I guess is how they could deny last week’s New York Times report about a “deal on web pay tiers” — but it does represent a meeting of the minds between them about what ought to happen in the world, in particular what American (and presumably others’) law should become here. … more

Internet and telecommunications lobbyists restarted talks to develop a proposal for how Internet traffic should be managed. … more

Experts have again ridiculed Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s sheer lack of knowledge surrounding broadband and labelled the Coalition’s policy “technical ignorance on a national scale”. … more