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June 15, 2017 Cybersecurity/House of Representatives/Net Neutrality/Privacy

Rep. Marsha Blackburn at Partisan Hearing on Cybercrime: ‘Hackers are Smart, and They are Adapting’

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017 – Cybercrimes cost the global economy about $450 billion annually, House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, said Tuesday as she cited the 2017 Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report. “Hackers are smart, and they are adapting,” said Blackburn. “McAfee’s 2016 Mobile Threat Report notes mobile devices are quickly becoming the cybercriminals target… Keep Reading

March 8, 2017 Broadband News/Broadband's Impact/Rural Utilities Service/Universal Service

The Battle for Rural Broadband is a Subject that Can Unite Red States and Blue States

BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: Great piece from Ozy, a publication about which we weren’t familiar until this article, about the need for, and power of, broadband in rural communities. This, if anything, is an issue that blue states and red states can unite upon! The Battle for the Internet in Rural America, from Ozy So much… Keep Reading

November 19, 2009 Broadband Data/Expert Opinion

Broadband Census Launches BroadbandBreakfast.com for News; Keeps BroadbandCensus.com For Public and Transparent Data Collection

WASHINGTON, November 19, 2009 - Today, Broadband Census News launches BroadbandBreakfast.com, a new daily web site with definitive and independent news on broadband stimulus funding, wireless internet, and the national broadband plan. This new domain, BroadbandBreakfast.com, will be used for the journalistic operations of Broadband Census News LLC -- our company's news subsidiary -- and will cover broadband technology and internet policy. Our reporters are passionate about broadband, and we aim to maintain our focus on core issues of broadband technology and internet policy. Meanwhile, the web site BroadbandCensus.com has been relaunched for the purposes of Broadband Census Data LLC: ensuring that the public has free and transparent access to basic and granular broadband information about broadband Speeds, Prices, Availability, Reliability and Competition. Keep Reading

September 11, 2009 Broadband Data/NTIA/Recovery Act

NTIA Releases Names of Stimulus Applicants; Says All 50 States Will Get Broadband Mapping Grants

WASHINGTON, September 11, 2009 – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration late Wednesday released the names of all 2,200 applicants for broadband stimulus grants through an interactive and searchable database at the broadbandusa.gov web portal during the first round of the broadband stimulus applications. Keep Reading

July 19, 2009 Broadband Data/Expert Opinion/FCC/National Broadband Plan

A Crowdsourced National Broadband Census: The Time is Now!

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2009 - Carl Malamud's talking on O'Reilly's Radar about the need for a national broadband census. One of the things that BroadbandCensus.com has been doing since our launch, in January 2008, is to provide a crowdsourced, public and transparent collection of data about local broadband Speeds, Prices, Availability, Reliability and Competition. We call this the Broadband ‘SPARC.’ Keep Reading

May 6, 2009 Broadband Calendar

NEW VENUE Announced for Broadband Breakfast Club with Rep. Rick Boucher

WASHINGTON, May 6, 2009 - Unprecedented demand to attend the Broadband Breakfast Club has caused BroadbandCensus.com to relocate the event, beginning at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, May 12, to Clyde's of Gallery Place. Rep. Rick Boucher, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee, will speak at the event. Keep Reading

May 1, 2009 Broadband Calendar

Rep. Rick Boucher, Chairman of the House Commerce Communications Subcommittee, at Broadband Breakfast Club

WASHINGTON, May 1, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com announced that Rep. Rick Boucher, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee, will speak at the Broadband Breakfast Club on Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Keep Reading

January 27, 2009 Broadband Data

Google Enters Free Speed Test Marketplace with Academic Collaboration

WASHINGTON, January 27, 2009 - Search giant Google is preparing to enter the market for free broadband speed tests, through a collaboration with the university research consortium PlanetLab, and the New America Foundation. Keep Reading

November 3, 2008 Press Releases

Broadband Census Executive Director to Speak at Federal Communications Commission Summit

WASHINGTON, November 3 - Drew Clark, Editor and Executive Director of BroadbandCensus.com, will speak in Silicon Valley on Thursday, November 6, at the summit on broadband data sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Keep Reading

October 7, 2008 Broadband Data

House Defers to Senate Broadband Data Bill; Final Bill Deletes Funding and National Map

WASHINGTON, October 7 – Congress last week passed legislation, the “Broadband Data Improvement Act,” that seeks better information about high-speed internet connections but cuts all authorization of funds – an amount that had totaled $40 million for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012 in the Senate Commerce Committee version of the legislation. Keep Reading

September 8, 2008 Press Releases

Agenda for Broadband Census for America Conference on September 26, 2008

WASHINGTON, September 8, 2008 – Many of the nation’s foremost broadband policy-makers and experts will analyze and discuss best practices for improving the collection and sharing of public data about high-speed internet access at the Broadband Census for America Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, September 26, 2008. Keep Reading

August 19, 2008 Expert Opinion

BroadbandCensus.com Joins with One Web Day: Learn About Your Internet Options and Take the Census

WASHINGTON, August 19 - BroadbandCensus.com is pleased to support One Web Day on September 22, 2008. We join with One Web Day in helping you learn about your internet options and take the broadband census. Doing so will allow all of us to better understand the true state of broadband competition in our communities, our states, our country and our world. Keep Reading

August 8, 2008 Expert Opinion

A Debate About Data Confidentiality and the Forthcoming 'Broadband Census for America'

WASHINGTON, August 8 - Data about the names of broadband carriers and the locations in which they offer services, by ZIP code, is not confidential information. Data about the number of subscribers that carriers have in a particular ZIP code may well be confidential. Keep Reading

August 7, 2008 Press Releases

Announcing a Half-Day Conference About Universal Broadband Data on September 26, 2008

Save the Date Announcement WASHINGTON, August 7, 2008 - BroadbandCensus.com, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas at Austin's Robert S. Strauss Center, and the Virginia Tech eCorridors Program invite government officials, academic researchers and other key stakeholders to a half-day conference on collecting and sharing public data about high-speed internet access. Keep Reading

July 28, 2008 Recovery Act

Transcript of Gov. Kaine's Response to Question of Including Carrier Data in Virginia's Broadband Map

WASHINGTON, July 28 - The following is a transcript of Gov. Tim Kaine's response to a question at the Brookings Institution about whether Virginia had decided to shield carrier data - and if so, why - from the map of broadband availability currently being pursued by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Keep Reading

July 23, 2008 Press Releases

BroadbandCensus.com’s Experience Using the Network Diagnostic Tool as a Beta Speed Test

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, July 21 - The higher-education networking consortium Internet2 released a case study about BroadbandCensus.com and its use of the Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) speed test. This "case study" was distributed at the Joint Techs Workshops: an international conference of networking engineers, taking place here from July 19-24. Keep Reading

July 18, 2008 Press Releases

Comments of BroadbandCensus.com in FCC Rulemaking on Broadband Data

Regulatory Filing WASHINGTON, July 18 - Because the importance of conducting a national Broadband Census that includes consumer-focused information about broadband competition, broadband speeds and broadband prices, BroadbandCensus.com this week urged the Federal Communications Commission to disclose broadband information with the public. Keep Reading