WASHINGTON, May 4, 2010 - Colin Crowell, a senior counselor to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, will leave the FCC in June.
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2010 – The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners is applauding a decision that no Federal Communications Commission ruling preempts states from collecting...
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2010 – The Commerce Department has announced nine broadband investments totaling more than $114 million in grants, in more than a dozen states....
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2010 – House Republican leaders sent a letter last week to the House speaker and chairman of the Administration Committee requesting that lawmakers...
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2010 – The American Civil Liberties Union is applauding Google’s new tool that tracks and displays the number of government requests that the...
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2010 – The Federal Communications Commission this morning announced the launch of a spectrum task force designed to promote the agency’s spectrum agenda...
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2010 - BroadbandBreakfast.com on Friday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Broadband Breakfast Club event on April 20, 2010: "The Great...
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2010 – The Commerce Department is seeking public comment on the impact of privacy laws in the United States and around the world...
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2010 - The Federal Communications Commission has kicked off its latest efforts to reform the much-maligned Universal Service Fund, which was created to...
The Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan seeks to promote telemedicine, but the national health care bill recently-passed by Congress fails to include support for it....
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2010 - BET Networks announced on Monday its submission of a proposal to the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) for...
BroadbandBreakfast.com, a daily web site with definitive and independent news on broadband stimulus funding, wireless internet, and the national broadband plan, will be there giving the...
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2010 - The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Friday announced an investment in broadband growth to help boost economic growth,...
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2010 -- Blair Levin, who became the chief architect behind the Federal Communication's National Broadband Plan as director of the FCC Omnibus Broadband...
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2010 – The Open Internet Coalition reiterated its wish on Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission move quickly to classify high speed Internet...
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2010 – A group of well-known economists has determined that the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed network neutrality regulations would harm consumer welfare.
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2010 - Groups advocating minority rights have sent a letter to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission expressing their dismay that Puerto...
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2010 - The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced it has received 867 applications requesting $11 billion in funding for proposed...
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2010 - Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas is urging foundations and other grant-makers to dive into the broadband issue to help expansion and...
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2010 - The White House has issued a presidential memorandum directing government agencies to intensify efforts to improve reporting compliance by recipients of...
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2010 – The Commerce Department announced an $8 million broadband investment in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
We heard about Google renaming itself 'Topeka.' But Technology Liberation Front shares some other "headlines" from yesterday. Read the post here.
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2010 - Deborah Taylor Tate, a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, lauds some of the agency’s National Broadband Plan, but cautions...
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2010 – Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced that the state has submitted an application for $45.4 million in federal stimulus funding to expand...
WASHINGTON, March 26, 2010 – On Friday, Google announced the latest responses to their request for information on town seeking ultra high speed broadband connectivity to....
WASHINGTON, March 26, 2010 – The Commerce Department on Thursday announced 10 investments in broadband growth across the nation that total approximately $63 million.
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2010 – Lawyer and former Federal Communications Commissioner Tyrone Brown will take over as president of the Media Access Project beginning Apr. 1.
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2010 - Millions of people rely on library computers for employment, health and education information, according to a study released Thursday.
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2010 - Adults living with chronic disease are significantly less likely than healthy adults to have access to the internet, according to a...
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2010 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday announced broadband infrastructure projects to give rural residents in eight states access to better economic...
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2010 - Since the rise of mobile phones, a debate has raged among regulators whether mobile phones are a substitute or a compliment...
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2010 - The Commerce Department announced broadband investments totaling more than $29 million in two of the nation’s largest urban cities – New...
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2010 - The Commerce Department earlier this month announced it has awarded grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Virginia and...
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2010 - Broadband Census News LLC on Monday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Broadband Breakfast Club event on March 16,...
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2010 - Project Tomorrow, a group advocating for better availability and use of digital technology in schools, visited Capitol Hill this week to...
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2010 – The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released a report this week looking at the evolution […]
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2010 - President Obama said today, "America today is on the verge of a broadband-driven Internet era that will unleash innovation, create new...
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2009 - The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday released the full version of its National Broadban Plan, which is available on the FCC's...
The Knight Digital Media Center web site promotes the upcoming Broadband Breakfast Club, "Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Where to From Here?"
WASHINGTON, March 11, 2010 – The FCC launched its consumer broadband test today, enabling consumers to test the speed and other performance measurements of their broadband...
