Articles tagged with Community Connect on BroadbandBreakfast.com

May 3, 2010 Broadband Updates/Broadband's Impact/FCC/National Broadband Plan/States/Universal Service/Wireless

National Broadband Plan: A Look at Chapter 8 and Availability

WASHINGTON, May 3, 2010 - Chapter 8 of the National Broadband Plan deals with the fundamental issue of availability. The chapter sets out a very systematic and long-term set of policies intended to expand availability. Keep Reading

June 18, 2009 Net Neutrality/NTIA/Recovery Act

Boucher 'Has Some Ideas' on Stimulus Definitions, Looks to Genachowski to Lead on National Plan

ARLINGTON, Va., June 18, 2009 - House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., has no plans to influence the Federal Communications Commission's development of a national broadband plan. But speaking Thursday morning at the Pike and Fischer Broadband Policy Summit here, he made clear his experience representing a rural district informs his ideas on how the FCC should assist the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Rural Utilities Service in defining unserved and underserved markets. Keep Reading

May 12, 2009 Broadband Data/NTIA/Recovery Act

House Chairman Rick Boucher: Private Companies Should Embrace Broadband Stimulus Funds

WASHINGTON, May 12, 2009 - The chairman of a House Communications Subcommittee on Tuesday warned against too narrowly defining eligibility limits for grants in dispensing $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus money authorized by Congress. Keep Reading

May 4, 2009 NTIA/Recovery Act/Weekly Report

Rural Utilities Service Outlines Its 'Community Connect' Rules

DALLAS, May 4, 2009 – Regulations have not yet been issued regarding the federal government’s program to invest $7.2 billion in broadband networks, but experts inside and outside of government took their best shot at explaining the program’s contours at the Broadband Properties conference here. Keep Reading