The latest by:
Steve Effros
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04/24/2024
Effros: The Utility of Competition
the underlying theories now being bandied about for either regulating broadband internet access services (BIAS) as a utility or something that should be freely competitive are in major conflict.
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04/17/2024
Effros: Transaction Fees
Create a service, whether an AI-powered “app” or a device that can work with video delivery networks, broadcast and/or broadband streaming. “Teach” it to recognize all the major video providers and learn how to “sign in” and “sign out” of them for the secure user.
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04/10/2024
Effros: Ignore the Noise
You’re going to be inundated shortly with stories about our good old standby “net neutrality.” But the stories are likely to be bathed in hyperbole about what the FCC is likely to do, and then does, when it votes at the end of April to declare “BIAS” (broadband internet access service) a “utility” or “common carrier.”
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Premium Content
04/03/2024
Effros: Hubris
Yes, folks, we’re back at “net neutrality,” and the real implications of the idea are coming into clearer focus.
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03/27/2024
Effros: The Cable Comeback
It’s happening faster than I thought it would: the realization that the “cable” model of delivering video was the right, and probably only workable business model. “Cable” is making a “comeback.”
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03/20/2024
Effros: Billion Dollar Bets
Don’t worry about things like teraflop and petaflop speeds, or claims of thirty times increase in inference ability (that’s what AI does). Just know that the folks competing with each other for the “next new thing” are taking billion dollar bets.