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Comodo Appoints Carlos Rego
as Managing Director of PSOFT
Comodo Inc, a global leader in Identity and Trust
Assurance Management solutions today announced the
appointment of Carlos Rego as Managing Director of
PSOFT.
Mr. Rego has worked for PSOFT since 2002 as
Director of Business Development and will now assume
full control of global sales, marketing and business
development operations. Prior to joining PSOFT, Carlos
served in a wide range of senior management positions
including president of datacenter and hosting company
Datacolo, and CEO/Owner of WizardsHosting.
“From day one, Carlos took an energetic and
proactive approach to the establishment and nurturing
of relationships with key business partners,” commented
Igor Seletskiy, Technical Director Comodo Inc. “His
extensive knowledge of the web hosting and data center
industry has been invaluable both to the continuing
growth of PSOFT and to the development of our range
of hosting infrastructure solutions. We are delighted that
Carlos will use this track record to help shape PSOFT
and H-Sphere into the dominant force in the web hosting
industry.”
PSOFT, whose assets include offices in Brooklyn, USA
and a huge development center in Ukraine, were acquired
by Comodo in 2004.
Further information can be found at www.psoft.net and
www.comodo.com.
House Committee Releases
Plan for Telecom Reform
The New Draft Improved, But Still Flawed says
Competitive Enterprise Institute Technology Counsel
The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce
this week released a “Staff Discussion Draft” of its plan for
reforming regulation of the telecommunications industry.
The Staff Discussion Draft is a noticeable improvement
over the draft previously circulated by the Committee. And
while it updates current law to reflect new technologies and
ways of communicating, for IP-based communications it
actually creates new regulation. Consumers and industry alike
would be best served by legislation that is deregulatory in all
aspects.
The draft bill includes troubling provisions that prevent
video providers from targeting early adopter consumers
(“redlining”), even though this business practice is common
in most other technology industries. It still requires the filing
of registration statements with the FCC for broadband, VoIP
and video providers – regardless of size, messaging platform
or need for price regulation – that raises potential civil liberty
implications. And the draft bill does nothing to reduce the
number of telecommunications lawyers in Washington, D.C.,
due to broad language on interconnection, consumer protection,
and universal service.
Broadly speaking, new telecom legislation should be more
than just an update of existing law to reflect new technologies.
It’s time to go back to first principles and not just revisit the
1996 Telecom Act, but analyze the basis for communications
regulation itself. Market players – both consumers and
telecom companies – deserve more than a mere “update.”
For maximum benefit, the structure and powers exercised by
the FCC need to be radically re-examined and, in most cases,
phased out altogether.
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