Quick post with my Rosum hat on. Today Rosum announced (pdf link) the launch of its Alloy chip, which utilizes broadcast TV signals to provide precise frequency, timing and location information for mobile devices and femtocells. Alloy was developed in partnership with Siano Mobile Silicon, which provides Mobile Digital TV receiver chips, for handsets, laptops, PNDs, and other mobile devices.

Speaking as a long-time Rosum contributor, this is a proud day.

I’m happy to announce Blue Field Strategies has moved to a new location downtown, at:

50 California Street, 32F
San Francisco, CA 94111

Speaking of network neutrality, multichannel, Ars Technica and others reported that Comcast settled the class action suit against it (Hart vs Comcast) for $16M.

In its current Network Neutrality Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, as well as its presentation at the October FCC Open Meeting, the FCC cited the Comcast case (throttling of P2P use) and the Madison River case (throttling of VoIP, i.e., Vonage, use) as formative in its thinking on the open internet. Note that in the NPRM the FCC seeks comments on a proposal *not* “to adopt the standard articulated in the Comcast Network Management Practices Order in this rulemaking.”

KDDI Research Institute published a report (Japanese-language) I provided on the recent Net Neutrality Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FCC 09-121, In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet).