<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Folks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As a tech reporter for almost 20 years, I get to learn from some of the best. There's a huge gap between what technologists know and what is discussed in policy. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">So I've put in the below proposal to ISOC for a series of six events, webcast from New York, on the most important things to know about access networks. The suggested speakers are very strong, from the Stanford professor who invented MIMO to CTOs of African telcos. One session will be special requirements to reach the last 5%.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>This is pending funding which I hope we will get.</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The material will be current enough to be interesting to active engineers but I hope to translate the technospeak for a lay audience as well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We'd like to work with any chapters interested. In particular, one of the hosts would be delighted to answer questions live after your local presentation of the video. Speaker suggestions welcome as well. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Better ideas welcome, but my thought is for chapters to show the video (40-50 minutes) live or on tape, then do a live Q & A and audience discussion. We'd hope ISOC would cover room rental and a tech if needed. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Access tech is moving incredibly quickly. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jio and Bharti in India are tripling capacity at modest cost with Massive MIMO. Think what tripling caps would do in countries dependent on wireless. Thailand is using 4x4 MIMO for realworld wireless speeds of > 75 megabits.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">These two upgrades in the last year have cheap enough they make sense even in emerging nations. Where applied, they will make a big difference to users and costs.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In addition, spectrum sharing works (think Wi-Fi plus) which means telcos need less, not more, exclusive spectrum. Shared spectrum generally delivers 2X the capacity, again, important. Almost all spectrum policy needs rethinking to deliver more capacity. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">And so on. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Email me offlist if you're interested. I'm happy to discuss any of the issues below on list as well. I care about connecting eberyone and have discussed it with true experts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="4" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Technologies of Access: How to build a great, affordable Internet</font><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Proposal to present six programs on advanced broadband technology featuring leading engineers, along with 18 interactive sessions, distribution over community and non-profit networks and continued availability.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">This series was inspired by a table at an ISOC event with people from six countries interested in policy. What should the engineers and network people be telling them to guide their policy work?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">We'll present facts on the ground to prove what is practical today. We will follow with world-class engineers to describe what's coming in the next few years. Throughout, we’ll emphasize technologies appropriate throughout the world, with a session dedicated to the special considerations for the last 5% often unserved.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">What we know:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Networks in 2017 can deliver 75 megabits at consumer prices with the capacity to watch plenty of HD video. Capacity will double by the end of the decade. Those best practices set the goal for networks around the world.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">In Paris, Jennie spent 20 euros for 100 gigabytes of high speed mobile. Across India Ambani sells unlimited voice, texts, and ~20 gigabytes for $6. Most Spanish and Portuguese homes can buy a hundred megabit fiber connection for ~$30.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">These are all commercial offerings, showing what’s practical. Network building today is similar in cities around the world. The goal of these sessions is to explain the technologies used in these networks, to allow policy people to judge whether proposed networks meet today’s best practices.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Team</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Jennie Bourne, Producer and co-host</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Dave Burstein, Host, writer, and executive producer</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Ms. Bourne and Mr. Burstein have collaborated on numerous projects, including video portraits of the “Father of DSL” John Cioffi and the inventor of MIMO, A.J. Paulraj, for the Marconi Foundation. See their work at </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjvzlYUz9Ro" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=YjvzlYUz9Ro</a><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:16px;display:inline">and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdjBU-FxUdE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=hdjBU-FxUdE</a></div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">They have co-authored two books, DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Pearson). Dave is currently working on a book, Gigabit Wireless: 5G, 4G, and Everything In-Between.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Ms. Bourne has taught at NYU and Rutgers, produced hundreds of videos for the web, and anchored the Nightly News on WBAI-FM, New York. Full resume available on request.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Mr. Burstein has reported broadband, now including wireless, since 1999 at DSL Prime, Fast Net.news, & Wirelessone.news. His previous work included 18 years of live radio at WBAI-FM, where he won 7 awards from the COmputer Press Association. He is a member of the executive committee of ISOC-NY</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Joly MacFie, Line Producer, is well known to everyone in ISOC, having produced dozens of videos for ISOC. He is Chair of ISOC-NY. He produces at the non-profit Manhattan Neighborhood Network ...</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Stu Reid, co-host, has been active for thirty years in community networking in Harlem and the South Bronx. He hosts a weekly show, Community & Technology, at WHCR-FM, a non-profit station serving Harlem from the campus of the City University.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Note: Both Bourne and Reid are African-American. I’ve included several women, Africans, and Asians in the suggested speakers as well.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Community involvement:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">We would broadcast on Non-profit MNN Cable TV & WHCR-FM.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">We would seek technically knowledgeable speakers from all ISOC chapters. Chapters would be welcome to present the shows, and one of the original Hosts would do a live interactive session for that chapter, using Zoom or similar.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">In the budget, there is a line for outreach to attract more community and media support.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Further audience: The information in the videos will be solid for 2-3 years, and we will promote for future audiences. (?YouTube and educational outreach.)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Format:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Six 51 minute videos produced live to tape, each followed by three sessions for follow up questions on Zoom or similar.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Session One</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Facts on the ground and what's coming next</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">A review of the best commercial offerings around the world, both wired and wireless. On wireless,a close look at India, France, and Myanmar, where advanced 4G LTE has change the economics. On wireline why a gigabit is the standard on any new network.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Suggested guests</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Marconi Fellow Henry Samueli, Broadcom CTO, who chips are in many of the most advanced wired and wireless networks</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Wireline Tom Starr, Chair of the Broadband Forum and Distinguished Engineer at AT&T, who has led written two textbooks. He has been the leader in standards for 25 years. Marconi Fellow and Stanford Professor Emeritus, “Father of DSL” and one of the early MIMO wireless pioneers.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Senior wireless network engineer, Africa or Asia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Session 2</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Today's Gigabit Wireless</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Introducing the four key factors in capacity: Antennas, Density, Spectrum, and software.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Software includes open source/nfv/SDN.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Suggested guests</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Stanford Prof Andrea Goldsmith, MIMO and Wi-Fi pioneer</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Stanford Profs Sachin Katti or Guru Parulkar, Open Source pioneers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Session 3</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Massive MIMO</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">A 10x capacity improvement is possible with more antennas. Thousand of cells are being deployed in Japan and China already and Sprint has committed to deploying in the U.S. in 2018.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Massive MIMO is particularly important where there are few wires, especially Africa and most of South Asia. Currently, consumer priced wireless plans usually have caps of < 25 gigabytes in those areas, and often only 2-5 gigabytes. That allows very little video, a second-rate web experience by today’s standards. Massive MIMO can raise that to 50-150 gigabytes without the expensive extension into millimeter waves.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Paulraj in 2014 pointed to Massive MIMO as the best way to deliver capacity, especially in rural and suburban areas in less developed countries. The equipment is now reaching the field.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Suggested guest:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Stanford Prof A.J. Paulraj, who won the Marconi Prize for the invention of MIMO. He is deeply involved in technology policy in his native India, where he was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his government work.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Sanyogita Shamsunder, Verizon's director of network planning, who supports both Massive MIMO and mmWave.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Session 4</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Millimeter Wave 5G for more spectrum</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">There is about 15 GHz of readily available spectrum in high frequencies, about ten times as much as the total used today. Huawei and others have demonstrated 20 gigabits (shared) and that could probably be tripled. Verizon is currently testing in 11 cities and will go commercial with mmWave fixed in 2018. Mobile will probably follow in 2019-2021.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Millimeter wave in most practical deployments has limited reach, requiring a massive number of cells and backhaul for coverage. (The NY Times estimates Verizon would need over a million cells to cover most of the U.S.) Most deployments will only make sense where population is dense. (MIMO has much greater reach at high speeds.)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Suggested guest:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Prof Ted Rappaport, NYU, whose tests convinced the world that Millimeter Wave Will Work!</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">An engineer from one of the major Asian carriers now starting to deploy. NTT DOCOMO CTO Seizo Onoe would be my first choice. He speaks English, but we’d probably need to add subtitles as well.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Session 5</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Sharing to bring down costs</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">One network is cheaper than two. Two networks are cheaper than four. Around the world, sharing is rapidly becoming the norm for cost effective deployment, especially in rural areas. Mexico is leading the way (Red Compartida) and nearly all African planning assumes shared networks.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">W-Fi has demonstrated shared spectrum can usually deliver 2-5 times as much effectively capacity, particularly important where wires are few.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Suggested guests:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Prof Henning Schulzrinne of Columbia, recently chief technologist of the FCC, who has predicted that almost all future spectrum will be shared.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Prof Bitange Ndemo, former Permanent Secretary of Kenya's Ministry of Information and Communication, who offered an innovative plan.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Session 6</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Special Considerations for the most rural 5%</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Myanmar and India are soon to cover 95% with LTE, but that won’t solve the problems of the remaining areas. Massive MIMO, inexpensive long range Wi-FI, solar powered cell sites and other innovations can make a difference.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Suggested guests:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Thibaud Rerolle, CTO of Safaricom, Kenya</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Alphonzo Samuels, CTO, Telkom South Africa.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">(I’ve discussed this topic with both. They have innovative ideas.)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">------------------------------</span><wbr style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Dave and Jennie have interviewed all the suggested guests, often on live video, except Stanford Profs Sachin Katti and Guru Parulkar. We should expect positive responses from almost all or a peer if the project is approved.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">----------------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Editor, Fast Net News, WIreless One.news, Net Policy News and DSL Prime<br>Author with Jennie Bourne DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit)</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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