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Former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Says The Internet Needs Regulation
A Q&A with former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler.
China Will Likely Corner the 5G Market -- And the US Has No Plan
China is planning to deploy fiber-optic connections to 80 percent of the homes in the country. What’s new about China's massive deployment of fiber, both in its own territory and in its global market along its planned Belt and Road, is that China is likely to permit only 5G equipment made by Huawei and a handful of other Chinese companies to connect to that fiber. China, not America, will be the place where new online services are born. Although the US came up with the idea of the internet, we don't have a sandbox to play in, a giant market in which to test new high-capacity services.
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How Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt project plans to fix the web
Tim Berners-Lee wants to change the face of the internet he created. In Sept 2018, the father of the world wide web announced the launch of startup Inrupt, co-founded with cybersecurity entrepreneur John Bruce, which has as its mission “to restore rightful ownership of data back to every web user.” Since 2015, Berners-Lee has been working on a new web infrastructure called Solid, which rethinks how web apps store and share personal data.