Comcast’s proposed acquisition of NBC Universal (NBCU) would be the most extensive merger of the Digital Age, due to its impact on a variety of media and communications sectors. Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, would control one of the four major broadcast networks.

This statistical artifact may say more about statistics than the Internet, but it is very interesting all the same.
South Korea’s average ‘Net speed plunges 24%, iPhone blamed
In the course of three months during 2009, South Korea’s average Internet connection speed dropped by a dramatic 24 percent. Think about the magnitude of the decline here: one [...]

The wireless industry wants us all to believe that “all you can eat” pricing will not endure. Maybe, maybe not.
Getting What You Pay for on the Mobile Internet
BERLIN – When TeliaSonera, the Nordic telecommunications operator, switched on the world’s fastest wireless network last December, customers quickly ratcheted up their consumption of mobile data [...]

Decision driven by FCC’s request for additional economic reports from Comcast and NBC Universal
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
The FCC has stopped the clock on the Comcast-NBC Universal merger and delayed the comment and reply comment deadlines until it receives more information from the parties.
A number of groups, led by Media Access Project, had asked [...]

Commission denied group’s 45-day extension request
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Media Access Project (MAP) Friday (April 16) asked the FCC to reconsider its decision denying MAP’s request for a 45-day extension on the comment period for the Comcast/NBCU merger, saying the court decision in the Comcast/BitTorrent case is one more reason to give interested parties more time to weigh [...]

Media Access Project filed a petition with the FCC asking the Commission to reconsider its denial of MAP’s earlier request for an extension of the deadline for public comments in the Comcast-NBC Universal acquisition proceeding.  MAP’s earlier request asked the Commission to extend that deadline until June 17, 2010.

Commission denied group’s 45-day extension request
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Media Access Project (MAP) Friday (April 16) asked the FCC to reconsider its decision denying MAP’s request for a 45-day extension on the comment period for the Comcast/NBCU merger, saying the court decision in the Comcast/BitTorrent case is one more reason to give interested parties [...]

Here is why Geekdom doesn’t like Apple’s closed platform. Apple refuses to approve an iPhone app for this week’s Pulitzer Prize winner because his political cartoons “ridicule public figures.” Yes, you read that correctly.
Mark Fiore Can Win a Pulitzer Prize, But He Can’t Get His iPhone Cartoon App Past Apple’s Satire Police
This [...]

Mary Meeker, perhaps the most influential financial analyst in the Internet space (which is not to say she has always been right), has published a dense, but extremely interesting presentation on Internet Trends. There are a lot of bold assertions in it, but the essential theme is that mobile computing is accelerating rapidly, and [...]

By Kamilla N. Kovacs, Media Access Project
Reposted from Voice of Philadelphia
A federal appeals court decision made last Tuesday has far-reaching impact on the future of freedom of expression and access for communities throughout the country – and especially Philadelphia.
The decision overruled a 2008 order made by the Federal Communications Commission requesting that Comcast stop blocking Internet [...]