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Does ARIN have the right to approve all IPv4 address sales?

Nortel/Microsoft deal highlights questions surrounding ARIN’s authority over IPv4 trades Network World A U.S. bankruptcy court in Delaware recently approved Nortel’s sale of 666,624 IPv4 addresses to Microsoft for $7.5 million. Despite this precedent, a debate is raging in Internet policy circles about how sales of IPv4 addresses — particularly […]

You hate AUPs, but you need one for guest Wi-Fi access

Network World Deb Boehling If you are a smart enterprise customer, you hate carrier “acceptable use policies” (AUPs). They have virtuous roots (avoiding liability for customer communications under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) but have morphed into lengthy, (allegedly) non-negotiable, overly broad and one-sided “agreements” that make the customer responsible […]

Turmoil in the TEM World

The Voice Report (Vol. 32, No. 12) Hank Levine and Justin Castillo The big news in TEM is the changes in the industry, including (and especially) among the leaders. Not to mention the products and how users pay for them or don’t. By way of background, consider that in 2010 […]

What the AT&T/T-Mobile Deal Means for You and Your Deal

The Voice Report –   Kevin DiLallo, Colleen Boothby, Ben Fox, David Rohde.   The Implications of AT&T’s Acquisition of T-Mobile for Enterprise Users –   AT&T’s announcement of its proposed $39B acquisition of T-Mobile was a bombshell few saw coming. And while the dust settles and the deal works its way through […]

Impact on Enterprise Customers of AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile

No Jitter (www.nojitter.com) Kevin DiLallo and Ben Fox AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA will, if approved, significantly degrade the competitive landscape in the wireless services market. When all is said and done it could effectively reduce the number of significant providers not by a quarter but by half. The […]

IPv4: Is the Sky Really Falling?

The Voice Report: Telecom Junkies –  Marc Lindsey and George David.   Summary: You can’t read the trade press these days without seeing ominous headlines about the recently announced “exhaustion” of IPv4 internet addresses and the imperative to adopt the new IPv6 number format. But is IPv4 exhaustion really an urgent […]