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Microsoft President on Broadband Accessibility, New Hampshire Partnership, ‘Corrupted’ Consumer Advisory Committee

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, called for closing the broadband gap during a Thursday Axios webinar on leadership and the future of broadband. “Even post-COVID, the importance of the broadband gap is not going abate one bit,” Smith said, “it will remain just as important to our future as it is

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Broadband for America and Telecommunications Industry Association Reiterates Opposition to Public Utility Regulation

WASHINGTON, September 18, 2014 – The pro-business advocacy group Broadband for America reinforced its opposition to public utility regulation of broadband providers during a Monday teleconference on net neutrality. Instead, the group said that they support efforts to use Section 706 of the Telecommu

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Roadmap to Adoption Conference: Hardware Panel

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2010 – Beyond the National Broadband Plan lies the problem of hardware; the challenge is that even if broadband is spread to remote parts of the country, there will not be enough computers to take advantage of the benefits.

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Panelists Ponder Whether, ‘If We Build It, They Will Come?

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2010 – The last panel discussion of the Broadband for America conference discussed the promotion of broadband adoption. Several of the panelists cited the statistic that 37% of the population that has access to the internet does not use it even though approximately 94% of Americ

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Roadmap to Adoption Conference: Models for Community Adoption

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2010 – Broadband for America hosted a panel discussion yesterday focusing on models for community broadband adoption, and attempting to answer question such as where to implement such models, who should be targeted and how to manage the programs involved. The panel was led by Ka

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Aspen Institute Communications and Society Fellow Blair Levin Gives Insight to National Broadband Plan

[https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/099-300x225.jpg]https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/099.jpg WASHINGTON, June 23, 2010. Blair Levin, former executive director of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative at the Federal Communications Commission, spoke about so

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Roadmap to Broadband Adoption Conference: Adoption Paradox Panel

[https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/086-300x225.jpg]https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/086.jpg WASHINGTON, June 22, 2010 – Consumer Research Director for the Federal Communications Commission John Horrigan led a panel on broadband adoption at the Roadma

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Walter B. McCormick Addresses Broadband Adoption Conference

[https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/080-300x225.jpg]https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/080.jpg WASHINGTON, June 22, 2010 – Walter B. McCormick, President and CEO of USTELECOM, delivered the first keynote address at the Roadmap to Broadband Adoption confe

Broadband Updates

Study: Mobile Broadband Growth To Increase Competition

Mobile services in the U.S. are currently very competitive, according to a report (PDF) [http://www.broadbandforamerica.com/sites/default/themes/broadband/images/mail/LehrMobileandBroadbandCompetition.pdf] released Thursday by William Lehr of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The study, whi