About: Jesse Masai was a Reporter-Researcher for BroadbandCensus.com until May 2009.
Email: masai@broadbandcensus.com
Website: http://BroadbandBreakfast.com
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2009 – With the fast-moving broadband stimulus package almost certain to stretch the capabilities of federal agencies such as the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, state governments and agencies say they can help expedite the process.
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2009 – The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners on Thursday ratcheted up their call for greater state involvement in disbursement and use of the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus funds with a letter to top Commerce and Agriculture Department officials.
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2009 – Fourth-generation media was the buzzword at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s show here, as although several panelists disagreed on what to make of current trends.
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2009 – The role of states in the communications landscape were discussed in a Wednesday panel of state public utility commissioners at the Cable Show here.
SILVER SPRING, Md., April 1, 2009 – The interaction between climate change and broadband took center-stage in the third session of the Freedom to Connect conference here on Tuesday. Panelists called for a cost-benefit analysis.
SILVER SPRING, Md., April 1, 2009 – The Federal Communications Commission is an agency in the midst of a transition, said Wharton business school professor Kevin Werbach, recently co-leader of the Obama administration’s FCC transition team.
SILVER SPRING, Md., April 1, 2009 – Panelists speaking at the Freedom to Connect conference here on Tuesday hopefully urged the possibility that electrical “smart grids” could bring utilities into competition with incumbent telecommunications companies.
SILVER SPRING, Md., March 31, 2009 – Not all attempts to deploy municipal wireless networks across the country were failures, panelists said at a packed Monday afternoon session of the Freedom to Connect conference here.
SILVER SPRING, Md., March 30, 2009 – The morning session of the Freedom to Connect conference here probed the status and conditions of broadband quality and access in municipal America.
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2009 – A consortium of broadband interest groups calling itself the Rural Mobile Broadband Alliance (RuMBA) USA, on Wednesday announced its “Broadband Bill of Rights.”