Sidecut Reports

More vendor video fun… got the soundtrack from this slick presentation from Sprint humming through my head all afternoon. Got to love the need to “evergreen” these things… such as the video talking about 4G downloads “in our Chicago office” though commercial 4G service isn’t quite available in the Windy City… at least not this week

As with the other vendor videos, these are basically unpaid ads… but the production quality is pretty amazing, and it helps to see what the vendors are saying themselves about 4G. Anyway, enjoy.

More vendor video fun: This one from Motorola touts the Clearwire launch of services in Las Vegas.. gratuitous Vegas Strip drive-bys!

If you are a telecom policy wonk/follower/billable hours lawyer, you have to love the style of AT&T as it battles Google for mindshare in the net neutrality tussle, calling Google a hypocrite for doing the same thing AT&T did a couple years ago. Of course, we told you last year that the big telcos would make this issue all about big bad Google, and like Brett Favre throwing last-second TD passes, why change a good game plan if it works?

While we agree with the many commenters and observers out there (as well as Google itself) who are correctly stating that Google’s practice of blocking calls to free Internet sites has nothing to do with net neutrality, we are scoring this one in favor of AT&T, simply because it saw an opportunity to give Google a good kick in the ego, and didn’t hesitate. Like the man says, “rules? In a knife fight?” (Before you enjoy the clip below don’t forget to download our FREE net neutrality report, titled Net Neutrality Phase II: The Battle for 2009, and learn why AT&T and Verizon are trying to paint Google as the big bad evil.)