general internet news - 27 January

Australia Day Honours list, part I
Karyn Anne HART, Springwood, Queensland, for service to
education, particularly through the Australian Secondary
Principals' Association, and to the wider community through
NetAlert and drug education organisations.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/25/1074965436108.html

Cuba law tightens internet access
The Cuban government is tightening its control over
internet access.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3425425.stm
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=5979
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2792189a28,00.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4176205

AOL Establishes New Email Protocol, Would Make The Spoof
Considerably More Aloof
E-mail forgery, or spoofing, is one of the toughest
problems facing Internet providers and anti-spam companies
today. Last week, Time Warner's America Online implemented
a new authentication protocol in a bid to eradicate
spoofing, a widespread practice of spammers worldwide.
 http://www.mediapost.com/dtls_dsp_news.cfm?newsID=235327

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/22/HNaolantispam_1.html

We Can Trap More Crooks With a Net Full of Honey
The site looks temptingly authentic. Its pictures are
graphic, the kind that would immediately appeal to a
pedophile. A customer cruising the Net for kiddie porn
would want to double-click to see more. But wait. Before he
touches the mouse, he's compelled to ask himself: Is this
online offer for real? Or is this an FBI setup? Is he
actually purchasing the photos? Or will his next keystrokes
provoke a felony arrest? He can't be sure.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5056-2004Jan9.html

.au:  Online porn crisis
Victorian children face a stranger-danger crisis as child
pornography flourishes on the Internet and related
child-sex offences are on the rise.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8484710%255E662,00.html

.nz: Man jailed for net porn was moderator
A man who has been jailed for trading some of the most
disturbing child pornography ever seen in New Zealand, was
supposed to be cleaning up the internet.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2789963a11,00.html

.eu: COUNCIL FRAMEWORK DECISION on combating the sexual
exploitation of children and child pornography

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2004/l_013/l_01320040120en00440048.pdf

.cy: We know who’s downloading child porn and we can’t do
anything about it
Police have in their possession a list of Cypriots that
have downloaded child pornography from the internet, but
the current rules on evidence and a lack of legislation
have made it impossible for offenders to be brought to
justice, according to a senior police official.
 http://66.84.25.241/news/main.php?id=12613&cat_id=1

India's cybercafe cops make a meal of net crackdown
Relatively few Indians can afford home PCs, so millions go
online in the nation's jammed internet cafes, enjoying
their low cost and anonymity.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/26/1075087944419.html

Japan sets sights on online child porn
Japan is planning to tighten the laws on child pornography
on the internet.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1939237.stm

Online Child Pornography Course
In the 80s, it was time for congratulations, as
law-enforcement efforts significantly stemmed the tide of
child pornography delivered via mail. In the 90s, it was
time for concern, as the proliferation of Internet
technology gave child pornographers a new and instant way
to ply their trade. Now it’s time for action — using the
very same Internet technology to track and prosecute this
new wave of exploitation. This three-day, hands-on course
gives you the tools and techniques you need to put a stop
to online child pornography from two directions:
Identifying, tracking, and apprehending the predators, and
using proven methods to help prevent kids from becoming
victims.
 http://www.lc-tech.com/ocpc.htm

.ie: Schoolgirl porn pictures circulated by camera phone
A major police investigation is under way in Ireland after
a pornographic image of a schoolgirl was circulated to
hundreds of mobile phones across the country.
 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_858227.html
 http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=3069334

.ie: Gardaí launch phone-porn investigation
The picture depicts a teenage girl dressed in a school
uniform jumper in a sexually explicit position. The jumper
appears to bear a school crest.
 http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=41690

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=irishpoliceinvesti1074855914

.ie: Kenny wants gardaí to tackle child pornography
The Fine Gael leader has called on the Minister for Justice
to set up a specialist Garda Corps to tackle the rise of
child pornography and paedophilia.

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=92341976&p=9z34z68z

.cn: 'Children are losing in online love games'
Parents in China have voiced fears that Internet love games
are giving children a premature interest in adult family
life.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1075021023567B255

.za: Policeman faces child pornography charges
The one-horse town of Vioolsdrift in the Northern Cape has
had its fair share of skinner en skandaal but recent events
have sent shockwaves through the little community.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=15&art_id=vn20040123104053347C681621

.uk: Experts encourage ISPs to verify subscriber IDs
Child protection experts are encouraging ISPs to verify the
identities of customers using their service, in a bid to
protect children from the growing threat of online abuse.
 http://www.newmediazero.com/news/home.asp?sd=15012004

.uk: Porn shame of 'biker' Christian
A Church leader is facing a prison sentence after he
admitted downloading child pornography from the internet.
Alan Lowther was arrested when images of children having
sex with adults were found on his home computer after he
gave his credit card details to a paedophile site to view
and copy pictures of young children.

http://www.thisisbristol.com/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=86419&command=displayContent&sourceNode=86416&contentPK=8587813

.uk: Police search for 'chat site' girls
Fears were growing last night for the safety of two missing
girls who may have gone to meet boys they contacted on an
internet chat site.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1130715,00.html

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=484526

.uk: Interpretation of code of practice could damage mobile
industry
The mobile content industry has expressed fears that the
interpretation of the code of practice for adult content
formally launched by the UK's operators this week is likely
to seriously damage the market.
 http://www.newmediazero.com/output/print.asp?id=246022

.us: Capital School District offers tips for parents about
the internet
While the turnout for an Internet safety seminar was
insignificant Jan. 13 at South Dover Elementary School,
what was taught to the few parents of Capital School
District students in attendance was not.
 http://www.doverpost.com/pages/capitalschooldistric.html

.us: FBI Investigates Local Man For Internet Child-Sex
Allegations
An area man is under investigation for allegedly using a
computer to solicit sex from someone he thought was a
13-year-old girl, but who was really an undercover cop.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040123/lo_kmbc/1970964

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-01-23-another-net-predator_x.htm

.us: FBI online sex stings winning first convictions
"I remember there were girls I wanted in 8th grade that
were hot," the 31-year-old Florida man wrote. "Now I'll
have one all to myself."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-01-25-pedo-stings_x.htm

.uk: Of mice and men
Women are routinely abused by men in internet chatrooms,
yet receive scant protection from the cyberpolice. Mike
Anderiesz tours the websites where female surfers run the
gauntlet of stalkers.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1123984,00.html

.us: Kleefeld man busted for child porn
A 54-year-old man was arrested after a search of his
Kleefeld home turned up child porn, police say. Members of
the Integrated Child Exploitation Unit searched the home of
Thomas Fast on Jan. 14.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2004/01/22/320483.html

.us: Former Radio Personality Sentenced For Child Porn
Former Denver radio traffic reporter Sam Hammer was
sentenced to 8 years in federal prison Wednesday for
receiving child pornography through the mail.
 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2782908/detail.html
 http://www.9news.com/storyfull.aspx?storyid=23399

.us: In the Web: How paths of teacher, police met
Authorities weave a net online to lead to the arrest of a
Gresham educator accused of using a computer to solicit
boys for sex.

http://oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1074430703212660.xml

Why Do Men Want to Watch Porn? Asks Swedish MEP
A Swedish Euro-MP fighting the spread of pornography today
called for a study into “the reasons behind the sexual
behaviour of men”.
 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2428142

Is there a legal difference between a hyperlink and a URL?
In 2002 The United States Senate passed the Dot Kids
Implementation and Enforcement Act of 2002 (HR 3833), which
established an Internet domain (.kids.us) as a
kids-friendly area on the World Wide Web.  NeuStar, Inc.,
has been appointed to be the administrator of the kids.us
domain name space by the DoC to operate a shared
registrations system, domain name servers, and other
equipment for the kids.us second-level domain (For more
information see the Laws and Regulations section). Because
there is no foolproof method for protecting children online
at this time, the kids.us Act specifies limitations put on
specific technologies commonly used on the Internet today. 
Hyperlinks that take a user outside of the kids.us domain
are prohibited from use in any kids.us domain.
 http://www.linksandlaw.com/news-update13.htm

.uk: Record 20bn text messages in 2003
The UK's obsession with text messaging shows no sign of
slowing as new figures released today show over 20bn
messages were sent last year, with the total expected to
grow even further in 2004.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,1129045,00.html
 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_858377.html

Billions of Text Messages Ring in Chinese New Year
Chinese mobile phone users are expected to send 10 billion
short message greetings during the seven-day Lunar New Year
holiday that began on Thursday, Xinhua news agency said.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4194456

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1074859202394B255

Why WSIS-05 May Not Hold in Tunisia
AS the campaign to cushion the lapses witnessed in the
first-phase of World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS) hots up, and the Tunisian Government warms up for
the preparation of the second phase of WSIS in 2005, press
freedom groups may scuttle the plans.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200401220684.html

Online games make serious money
Multiplayer game worlds such as EverQuest and The Sims
Online look set to generate more than $1bn for the first
time in 2004.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3403605.stm

PC can take your marriage off line
Reading email at 3am, playing online games for hours and
relentlessly downloading pop or pornography from the
internet have turned the home computer into the most
dangerous threat to marriage to have emerged over the past
30 years, US lawyers claim.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8429679%255E401,00.html

.uk: Competition, Regulation and Renewal - Organised by
IPPR in association with MediaGuardian and PCMLP, Oxford
University - 13/1/04
The Oxford Media Convention is the major broadcasting and
communications conference for the UK media industry. The
event is organised by MediaGuardian and the Institute for
Public Policy Research and attended by leading executives
from British broadcasting, telecommunications, regulators,
advertising, academics and senior government advisers.
 http://media.guardian.co.uk/oxfordmediaconvention
For the blog of an attendee see
 http://www.oxfordmediaconvention.org
And for further information see
 http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem17471.htm

.ca: Fighting privacy law questionable by Michael Geist
In a year of headline-grabbing privacy developments in
Canada, the Quebec government saved the best for last. On
Dec. 17, just days before Canada's national privacy law,
the Personal Information Protection and Electronic
Documents Act (PIPEDA), was scheduled to take full effect,
the Quebec government initiated a constitutional challenge
that threatens the law's very existence. That challenge
will likely kick off before the Quebec Court of Appeal
early in 2004 and make its way up to the Canadian Supreme
Court either very late this year or early in 2005.
 http://shorl.com/dukuhagytrasu

.us: Easing of Internet Regulations Challenges Surveillance
Efforts
The Federal Communications Commission's efforts to reduce
regulations over some Internet services have come under
intense criticism from officials at law enforcement
agencies who say that their ability to monitor terrorists
and other criminal suspects electronically is threatened.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/22VOIC.html

.us: FTC: ID Theft Remains Top Complaint
Identity theft topped the list of consumer complaints filed
with the Federal Trade Commission for the fourth year in a
row, according to data released today by the agency.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38420-2004Jan22.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4189211

Kazaa Delivers More Than Tunes
Forty-five percent of the executable files downloaded
through Kazaa, the most popular file-sharing program,
contain malicious code like viruses and Trojan horses,
according to a new study.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61852,00.html

Kazaa owner gets OK to sue entertainment companies

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4199035

Online Music Industry Is Focusing on Europe
Europe is the next battlefield for portable digital music,
but complex cross-border legal and financial obstacles are
delaying the entry of the biggest names.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/26/technology/26music.html

Viruses turn to peer-to-peer nets
Virus writers are setting up peer-to-peer networks to help
their malicious creations spread.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3409187.stm

.us: Music Industry Returns to Court, Altering Tactics on
File Sharing
The music industry returned to the courthouse yesterday to
sue 532 people it accuses of large-scale copyright
infringement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/business/media/22music.html

Morpheus infiltrates other P2P networks
New file-swapping applications are bridging formerly
separate networks, promising to improve the efficiency of
peer-to-peer searches and sharpen competition among rival
software developers.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39119166,00.htm

Execs vow global crackdown on music file sharing
A music industry trade organization said on Thursday new
online download services are winning over customers, and
warned a globe-spanning legal crackdown on file sharers is
imminent.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/22/media.music.reut/index.html

French join fight against song swappers
Add the French to the war on Internet song swappers. Facing
their first annual sales decline in recent memory,
officials from the world's fourth largest music market told
Reuters on Sunday they would fight back with lawsuits.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4202456

.uk: ISPA reveals the heroes and villains of the Net
The ISPA, the body that represents UK ISPs, has announced
the shortlists for the 2004 ISPA Awards.
 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=52467

Mobiles may blow whistle on fake sickies - or save your
life
Children playing truant or employees who are at the beach
when they should be working could soon find their mobile
phone has dobbed them in.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/22/1074732543954.html

Netizens: In Singapore
A survey across 14 countries, including Singapore, reveals
how the Web affects ordinary life. For the Singapore study,
921 people between 18 and above 75 were polled. According
to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore website,
as of November last year, there were about 1.8 million
people here with Internet access, or some 43 per cent of
the population.
 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6803

Public Libraries and the Children's Internet Protection Act
(CIPA): Legal Sources*
Mary Minow is a library law consultant with LibraryLaw.com.
She received her B.A. from Brown University, her A.M.L.S.
from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her J.D.
from Stanford University. Mary is coauthor with Tomas
Lipinski of The Library's Legal Answer Book (ALA: 2003).
 http://www.llrx.com/features/cipabiblio.htm

Globalization of prurience: The Internet and degradation of
women and children by Indhu Rajagopal with Nis Bojin
This paper explores some key questions: How does the Web
facilitate the production and dissemination of pornographic
materials? How, and why, does pornography that depraves and
corrupts unwary children, and exploits women, go
untrammeled through the Web?

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_1/rajagopal/index.html

Hate and peace in a connected world: Comparing MoveOn and
Stormfront by Noriko Hara and Zilia Estrada
What part does the Internet play in social mobilization?
The Internet has been hailed as a great potential force to
enrich a civil society. Many authors have claimed that the
Internet would mobilize grassroots activities. By
scrutinizing two particular grassroots activities and their
use of the Internet, this article sheds light on
conceptualizing the use of the information and
communication technologies (ICTs) in mobilizing grassroots
activities. The framework may help inform social scientists
as well as practitioners who are involved in grassroots
activities, and provide a baseline for comparison with
future research, which examines mobilization of such
activities with the use of the Internet over time.
 http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/hara/index.html

Gregory K. Laughlin, Sex, Lies, and Library Cards: The
First Amendment Implications of the Use of Sofware Filters
to Control Access to Internet Pornography in Public
Libraries, 51 DRAKE L. REV. 213 (2003).

http://www.law.drake.edu/students/organizations/lawReview/Laughlin.pdf

Follow the Leaders:  A Constructive Examination of Existing
Regulatory Tools that Could Be Applied to Internet Gambling
by Ronnie D. Crisco, Jr.
Many articles have explored the explosive growth of
Internet gambling.  As of August 2000, over forty percent
of American homes has access to the Internet, and an
estimated 4.5 million Americans had already gambled online
at least once.
 http://www.jolt.unc.edu/Vol5_I1/web/Crisco%20v5i1.htm
 http://www.jolt.unc.edu/Vol5_I1/pdf/Crisco%20v5i1.pdf

The use of the Internet for political action by non-state
dissident actors in the Middle East by W. Sean McLaughlin
This paper examines how non-state dissident actors in the
Middle East use the Internet for political action in the
face of state-imposed constraints on Internet access.
Non-state dissident actors have revisionist goals and the
Internet offers certain advantages for accomplishing these
political objectives. States seek to limit the
effectiveness of these dissident objectives and can use
various methods, such as limiting Internet infrastructure
or imposing censorship constraints, in efforts to oppose
Internet-based dissidence. In response, dedicated
dissidents can find ways to overcome these state-imposed
constraints and continue with their dissident activities.
Based on this understanding, this paper develops a dynamic
model for Internet-based dissidence and then applies it to
three different case studies: The Muslim Brotherhood in
Jordan, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the Movement
for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA). All three case study
groups used the Internet in a surprisingly competent and
sophisticated manner, overcoming the various state-imposed
constraints on their activities. That non-state dissidents
in the Middle East have successfully used the Internet for
political dissidence may have important implications for
the political landscape in the region.

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_11/mclaughlin/index.html

Do Web search engines suppress controversy? by Susan L.
Gerhart
Web behavior depends upon three interlocking communities:
(1) authors whose Web pages link to other pages; (2) search
engines indexing and ranking those pages; and (3)
information seekers whose queries and surfing reward
authors and support search engines. Systematic suppression
of controversial topics would indicate a flaw in the Web’s
ideology of openness and informativeness. This paper
explores search engines’ bias by asking: Is a specific
well–known controversy revealed in a simple search?
Experimental topics include: distance learning, Albert
Einstein, St. John’s Wort, female astronauts, and Belize.
The experiments suggest simple queries tend to overly
present the "sunny side" of these topics, with minimal
controversy. A more "Objective Web" is analyzed where: (a)
Web page authors adopt research citation practices; (b)
search engines balance organizational and analytic content;
and, (c) searchers practice more wary multi–searching.
 http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_1/gerhart/index.html

The Internet and the right to communicate by William J.
McIver, Jr., William F. Birdsall and Merrilee Rasmussen
The development of the Internet challenges traditional
conceptions of information rights. The discourse
surrounding these rights and the Internet typically deals
with each right in isolation and attempt to adapt long
established understandings of each right to the new
technological environment. We contend there is a need to
address information rights within a comprehensive human
rights framework, specifically, a right to communicate.
This paper examines the development of a right to
communicate and how it can be defined and implemented.
 http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/mciver/index.html

InternetNZ gets tough on spam this year
InternetNZ is hoping this year will see the end of the spam
epidemic that is plaguing New Zealand in-boxes.

http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/A4AB4AD0541FC21ECC256E230010C2A6

Gates forecasts victory over spam
Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time,
Microsoft boss Bill Gates has promised.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3426367.stm
 http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=95142004

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46337-2004Jan25.html

http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,251068-1-454,00.html

Politics of the Web: Meet, Greet, Segregate, Meet Again
Online political discussion has become so fragmented that
some public policy scolds warn that the Internet may be
narrowing the spectrum of debate.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/weekinreview/25harm.html

.us: Report Says Internet Voting System Is Too Insecure to
Use
A new $22 million system to allow soldiers and other
Americans overseas to vote via the Internet is inherently
insecure and should be abandoned, according to members of a
panel of computer security experts asked by the government
to review the program.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/21/technology/23CND-INTE.html

The Tyranny of Copyright?
Is copyright law curbing our freedoms and making it harder
to create anything new? This could be the first new social
movement of the century.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/25COPYRIGHT.html

Linux Takes on the Windows Look
Snazzy desktops are everywhere at this week's LinuxWorld.
But as developers strive for a user-friendly interface,
many roll out products that bear a striking resemblance to
Microsoft software.

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62016,00.html

For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule
Brazil's electronic voting system has drawn praise as a
model for other democratic nations. But election experts
are critical of legislators' recent decision not to require
paper printouts of ballots.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61654,00.html

Wireless e-voting machines raise concern
The new terminals - already bought by several US states -
do not yet have wi-fi cards installed, but many computer
scientists are still worried.
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994584

Good Internet, Bad Internet
The Internet made a lot of things possible that were never
possible before, two of the more prominent being the
nationwide garage sale and the "sharing" of music. The
first trend has come to be dominated by a single
company--and is proceeding happily--while the second has
been controllable by no one, and has been fraught with
tumult and court actions.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/01/22/cx_da_0122topnews.html

Open source's local heroes
Software: If the commercial sort does not speak your
language, open-source software may well do so instead.

http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2246308

Tablet PCs offer new methods in the classroom
For years educators and computer vendors have explored ways
in which technology could aid with learning. Back in the
1980s when PCs first became affordable, technology was
considered something to be taught, but now is considered an
essential medium by which students learn.

http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/5A5E4028794FF593CC256E220064349C

US Congress to tackle Internet tax issues
Internet taxes will be on the U.S. Congress' agenda early
this year, as lawmakers grapple with how to implement a tax
policy for Internet sales and access.
 http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/23/HNtax_1.html

.nz: Internet banking scam helpers face jail
The police are threatening prosecution and jail time for
those who assist in internet banking scams, even if they do
it in ignorance.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2794163a28,00.html

.eu: Commission Staff Working Document profiles role of
wide-screen and high definition in global digital TV
roll-out
Promised in the Commissions' recent Switchover
Communication, this Commission Staff Working Paper argues
that the wide-screen (16:9) format can help accelerate the
transition to digital television. Broadcasters can use
wide-screen to differentiate the quality of digital
television from analogue TV, with its traditional "old
movie" screen format using the 4:3 ratio. The document also
notes that the time is ripe for a revival of high
definition television (HDTV) in Europe.

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/ecomm/shortcuts/digital_broadcasting/comm_staff_working_papers/text_en.htm

Queen to give knighthood to Bill Gates - but you can blame
it on Gordon Brown
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world's
wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for
"services to global enterprise".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/25/ngates25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/25/ixnewstop.html

NZ City Councils controversial broadband decision
Smartlinx3 has proposed implementing broadband networking
across Hutt, Upper Hutt and Porirua to service
corresponding communities, essentially providing
infrastructure that may interrupt surrounding cities.

http://www.net4nowt.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=1762


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