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The Battle to Win 'LOCALnet Neutrality'

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Partner:: eComm
Location:: eComm
Desert Springs, CA
Event Date:: 03.03.09
Speaker:: Malcolm Matson
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Summary: Malcolm Matson is leading a project that could result in the first local telecom incumbent in the world to abandon the vertically integrated 'service provider' business model.

Malcolm provides an update on this politically sensitive 'world first' and outlines the underlying principles and goals of the project.

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Malcolm Matson

Malcolm Matson is a successful entrepreneur and has been a pioneer of the broadband era since the early 1980s. He was the first person to understand and articulate the disruptive consequences of abundant bandwidth, and how infrastructure and contents would eventually become totally independent of each other. He progressively developed the concept of the OPLAN (open public local access network) owned and operated independently of any service or content running over it. In the late 1980s he founded COLT Telecoms - Europe's first all-fibre public network. Since then he has advised governments and cities around the world on open access broadband strategy and has written and spoken widely on the subject - doing so now in the name of the non-profit OPLAN Foundation (www.oplan.org) which he founded. He is currently involved in a number of ground breaking ventures focused on re-structuring telecoms companies around an open access business model. Married with three adult children Matson lives in London.

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01.: The Importance of Conversation

02 min 46 sec

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02.: Neutrality in Our Personal Networks

03 min 46 sec

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03.: The Classical Model of Communication Networks

02 min 52 sec

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04.: Privatization and Monopolization of Communication

02 min 59 sec

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05.: The Dangers of Maintaining Monopolies

02 min 09 sec

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06.: Problems with the Current Digital Infrastructure

03 min 32 sec

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07.: Rethinking Digital Communication

02 min 49 sec

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08.: Building Political Support for a New Infrastructure

03 min 12 sec

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09.: Breaking the Phone Companies' Monopoly

04 min 32 sec

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10.: Q & A

00 min 07 sec

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11.: Q1: Cities with Public Networks

00 min 54 sec

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12.: Q2: The Dangers of Centralized Networks

00 min 43 sec

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1984: The Year Telcos Tamed Disruptive Technology

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"Vested interests were handed power in 1984 by the state to tame disruptive technologies," says Malcom Matson, founder of The OPLAN Founation. He makes his point by telling the history of the canal and train industries, had they been regulated like the telcos.
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