Week In Review 51W2009

TeliaSonera now has LTE commercially available in Oslo and Stockholm. The non promotional prices are around the 60EUR mark which isn’t insanely high considering not too long ago 1.8Mbps with crapy service was over 30EUR. Meanwhile, LTE keeps pounding on UK with O2+Huawei doing a network trial. It’s closed and I bet it’s being pushed by Huawei but it’s better than nothing.

In more high bandwidth new, the french government is going to invest in getting 100Mbps to 70% of the population. Or, as I like to call it, the FranceTelecom/Alcatel bailout plan. I don’t see the point anyway as the french government plans to be more busy disconnecting people than connecting them.

In a move that shames western world Microsoft was finned in India for using power to obstruct justice. In a nutshell, a judge ruled that if Microsoft wants to persecute an individual they must deposit a legal fees fund to cover the defendant’s expenses in case he wins. The point is ensuring a fair trial, which is a constitutional right in India, as opposed to RIAA^WMPAA^WMicrosoft just dragging poor people through court and well, winning. And when in China, be chinese. That at least is what Microsoft thinks after ripping off a competitor’s site. Microsoft meanwhile as claimed it was done by a local contractor and they don’t want anything to do with it, but hey, it’s Microsoft!

And in a WereIlliterateFundies move, Australia is pushing ahead with mandatory ISP-level Internet Censorship thus joining the ranks of China, Iran and of course, North Korea. Next stop, do away with pesky elections I guess. As always, the strawman here is child porn which is clumped together with educational material about drugs or euthanasia. Basically anything the Government finds distasteful.

And in a stupidest^Wlowest bider move, the US Army doesn’t encrypt it’s video feeds so you can tap a Predator live feed with a satellite download modem/software (that used to be popular you know!).