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!
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WASHINGTON, June 29, 2009 – This is the week many following broadband stimulus activities have been waiting for: rules from the NTIA are expected on Tuesday, plus Vice President Biden is set to tout broadband in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. At the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski
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WASHINGTON, June 29, 2009 – States and cities are continuing their extensive engagement in the question of broadband data and mapping. In fact, the Massachusetts Broadband Institute announced on Friday afternoon that it would issue its request for proposals on broadband developments on Monday – posi
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WASHINGTON, June 22, 2009 – Last week’s confirmation hearings for Federal Communications Commission Chairman-designee Julius Genachowski highlighted the fact that, for months now, there’s been a federal broadband troika-in-waiting, and that none of them have yet made in through the Senate.
Broadband's Impact
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2009 – Last week the Pew Internet & American Life Project released its eagerly-awaited report about broadband penetration. To nearly everyone’s surprise, in light of the current recession, the percentage of homes with access to high-speed internet access continued to rise.
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WASHINGTON, June 22, 2009 – The Pew Internet & American Life Project’s latest numbers rebut any presumption that broadband’s importance is diminishing. Federal agencies are edging toward full-fledged broadband programs. Julius Genachowski nears confirmation as FCC Chairman, and federal stimulus deta
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WASHINGTON, June 21, 2009 – In an interview that aired on C-SPAN’s series “The Communicators,” Andrew Feinberg, Deputy Editor of BroadbandCensus.com, addressed Tuesday’s Senate Confirmation Hearing for Julius Genachowski, selected by President Obama to head the Federal Communications Commission.
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WASHINGTON, June 15, 2009 – The next state to provide a detailed blueprint for its efforts at broadband data and display is Texas, which on June 9 issued its Request for Proposals on broadband data.
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WASHINGTON, June 15, 2009 – As the promised June 30 deadline for the federal government’s broadband stimulus rules approaches, the three agencies responsible for aspects of broadband stimulus are directly engaged in detailed questions about how high-speed internet service is being defined.
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WASHINGTON, June 15, 2009 – Entities focusing on the broadband stimulus program are watching closely for clues about the implementation details of the $7.2 billion program. At the same time, individual state efforts at broadbanddata and mapping are beginning to take shape, as in Texas.
Broadband Mapping and Data
WASHINGTON, June 11, 2009 – In comments filed before the Federal Communications Commission, BroadbandCensus.com said that basic broadband data — information about the speeds, prices, availability, reliability and competition of local service — is not proprietary and should be part of a public and tr
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WASHINGTON, June 8, 2009 – Late Friday afternoon, the Federal Communications Commission announced that Blair Levin, former chief of staff to Clinton FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, will be rejoining the commission “to help coordinate its development of a national broadband plan.”
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WASHINGTON, June 8, 2009 – The NTIA faces a choice between scoring broadband grants according to a common criteria, or meeting the manifold objectives of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, panelists said at the Broadband Stimulus National Town Hall Meeting on June 4.
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WASHINGTON, June 8, 2009 – A White House official involved in technology policy last week called U.S. broadband networks inadequate. This week, attention is likely to turn to the Federal Communications Commission, as entities and individuals weigh in on the National Broadband Plan by the June 8 dead
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WASHINGTON, June 7, 2009 – The BroadbandCensus.com List of NTIA Comments has been updated to include summaries of comments from AT&T, Atkins Telephone, ATSI, Barling Bay, Benton Foundation, Big Think Strategies, Boston, Bresnan Communications, Broadband Development Corporation, Broadband Diversity S
Breakfast Club
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2009 – BroadbandCensus.com announced the next in its popular series of Washington-based breakfast meetings. The June 9 Broadband Breakfast Club will showcase at least four major broadband industry representatives discussing “Technologies That Enable Universal Broadband Connectivi
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WASHINGTON, June 3, 2009 – Jim Kohlenberger, Chief of Staff in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has confirmed that he will headline the Broadband Stimulus National Town Hall Meeting, live on the Internet, on Thursday, June 4, from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET.
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