Broadband's Impact
How to Find New Light Bulbs for the Internet Age: Parallels Between Electricity and Fiber-optics
Electricity is history. Today we face the next-generation infrastructure: gigabit networks.
Drew Clark
Drew Clark has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008. He founded Broadband Census crowdsourcing app to force ISPs to disclose their service. He ran the state broadband Partnership for a Connected Illinois. Better Broadband, Better Lives!
Broadband's Impact
‘Lobbying for the Future’ Aims to Protect Innovation for Companies Yet to Exist
WASHINGTON, September 14, 2015 – The pro-innovation advocacy organization Lincoln Labs on Monday introduced a report, “Lobbying for the Future,” which is aiming to promote policies that will benefit the companies not yet in existence. The report, co-authored by Derek Khanna, Aaron Ginn, Garrett Joh
Infrastructure
Former Architect of National Broadband Plan Says That Every City Needs a Broadband Plan
September 14, 2015 – Every city should create a city-wide broadband plan of its own, said the former director of the National Broadband Plan, in wide-ranging speech touting four strategies useful for different types of city broadband plans. Speaking on Friday at the National Association of Telecomm
Broadband's Impact
In Gigabit City Provo, Utah, a Startup Ecosystem Thrives in Good Soil and Deepening Roots
PROVO, Utah, September 11, 2015 – Utah is uniquely hospitable to entrepreneurship, and its deepening roots in software and search analytics have enabled it to become a significant technology hub, said Gov. Gary Herbert and a host of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and national journalists partici
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Giants of Broadband: A Personal Remembrance of Scott DeGarmo
Editor’s Note: The broadband world has lost three visionary giants over the past several months: Scott DeGarmo, Charles Benton and Don Samuelson. Each of these men had a significant impact on the world of advancing high-speed communications. Personally, each of them also had a significant impact on
Infrastructure
Startup Festival and Startup Culture Taking Root in Modern Provo, Home to BYU and Google Fiber
Editor’s Note: This past week, Drew Clark’s column [http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865635687/The-zeitgeist-of-modern-Provo-Jobs-and-a-good-quality-of-life.html] in the Deseret News of Salt Lake City, Utah, was on the “The zeitgeist of modern Provo: Jobs and a good quality of life.” Click here [h
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Drew Clark: Why a Well-Functioning Intellectual Property System Needs to Strike Down Bad Patents
Editor’s Note: This past week, Drew Clark’s colum [http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865635169/Feeling-the-refreshing-breeze-of-Washington-politics-in-Aspen.html?pg=all]n in the Deseret News of Salt Lake City, Utah, was on the importance of balance in our patent system. Click here [http://www.deser
Broadband's Impact
While Universal Service Reforms Show Promise, Politics Clouds Fund’s Future
ASPEN, Colorado, August 19, 2015 – In spite of several positive efforts to reform the complex and dated rules that govern the Federal Communication Commission’s universal service fund, key decisions surrounding the $8 billion annual fund remain ineluctably political. That was the message shared by
Broadband's Impact
White House Cybersecurity Czar Highlights Escalation Paths for Cyberdefense, Highlights ‘Risk-Management’
ASPEN, August 17, 2015 – The Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen 2015 Forum [https://techpolicyinstitute.org/aspen2015/agenda] opened here on Sunday night with a focus on the increasing prominence that cybersecurity threats play in core national defense matters. “A greater and greater percentage of
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Scott DeGarmo, President and CEO of Broadband Communities, Dies on Saturday
August 17, 2015 – Broadband Communities announced that Scott DeGarmo, President and CEO of Broadband Communities, the publisher of Broadband Communities Magazine and the organizer of the Broadband Communities Summit, died on Saturday, August 15, 2015. The organization posted this announcement on the
Broadband's Impact
Beehive Startups Built a Startup Studio in Utah
Beehive Startups announced their newest project StartStudio, which isn’t an accelerator but rather a studio dedicated to creating strong tech companies. Sourced through Scoop.it from: tech.co Big news out on the Wasatch Front with the launch of a new accelerator/studio designed to help launch new te
Infrastructure
FCC Workshop on eRate Funding Shows New Flexibility for School and Library Fiber Builds
June 18, 2015 – Recent changes to the eligibility rules for the Federal Communication Commission’s eRate program open the door for new fiber connections for schools and libraries using agency funds. Among the rule changes were the suspension of the requirement that applicants seek funding for large
Broadband's Impact
Drew Clark: Innovation debate between rival visions promotes progress and useful arts
““Innovation” is among the most highly prized civic and commercial virtues today. So much so that opposing sides in policy contests each claim its mantle. Nowhere is this truer than in now-bubbling debate on Capitol Hill in Washington over patent reform. This isn’t a battle of David against Goliath.
Broadband's Impact
Broadband Conferences This Week in Three Time Zones to Consider National, Regional, State Initiatives
June 8, 2015 – Broadband conference this week in three time zones will consider the next stages of nation-, region- and state-wide broadband initiatives. The conferences, in the Mountain, Central and Eastern Time zones, begin on Monday and Tuesday in Vail, Colorado with the “Mountain Connect” progr
Broadband Breakfast
Washington Telecom Insiders Focusing on New ‘Broadband Moment’ Through Significant Policy Tweaks
June 8, 2015 – Some are calling it a second “broadband moment.” More than six years after the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was responsible for more than $7 billion in federal funds being spent on broadband infrastructure, internet adoption and telecommunications mapping, there’s a new lev
Broadband's Impact
Drew Clark: Congress should modernize highway funding with ‘chips,’ not ‘concrete’
WASHINGTON — So much of politics here in the nation’s capital is about moving money from someone’s pocket to someone else’s. As a result, the threat of generational or sectional warfare frequently lurks below the surface of budget debates. That’s why it’s refreshing when think tanks and politicians
