Johna Till Johnson

Networks aren't about technology. They're about two things: scale and service, says columnist Johna Till Johnson

Internet pioneer John Day's new book, Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals, is compulsively readable and technically detailed -- possibily the most panoramic technical and social review of the Internet's development ever

Your Internet presence, or that of your major suppliers, partners and customers, may be effectively denied intentionally or accidentally

The feds want to wiretap? Warrant, please. And the RIAA wants to see personal information? Show us the subpoena

Odd constraints have made the sale of old TV spectrum a boring affair

How the carrier industry will change in the new year

The feds pulled the plug on California once. Why wouldn't they do it again?

As Myanmar demonstrated, a government that controls the communications infrastructure can also choose to shut it down, and people can die as a result