Wi-Fi Networking News: Sock Puppets of Industry

Wi-Fi Networking News: Sock Puppets of Industry

Sock Puppets of Industry

By Glenn Fleishman

A continuation from the previous post about a Feb. 3 announcement of a report on why municipal networks are a terrible, anti-competitive idea: In the previous post, below, I dissected BusinessWeek’s blog entry on a new report that will be released on Feb. 3 from the New Millennium Research Council. In this post, I include the announcement’s text after the jump below, and provide some background on each of the people who will be part of the press event.

I’ve done this annotation not because I wholeheartedly oppose their point of view, but rather because a light needs to be shone on the connections between organizations that call themselves independent but have ties among each other and to the industries about which they are stating they have an objective opinion about. This is about transparency, and a pro-municipal telecom group that was similarly opaque would receive the same treatment. (Oddly, there only appear to be pro-individuals and municipalities, not groups that I’ve heard from or about.)