Breakfast Media LLC CEO Drew Clark has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008. He founded Broadband Census crowdsourcing. He ran the state broadband Partnership for a Connected Illinois. He has six kids and lives in Great Falls, Virginia.
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Nearly 1,700 comments and questions were filed with the NTIA in the broadband grant program: hundreds were substantive documents. The NTIA, RUS and the FCC now enter an extensive evaluation phase, with rules for the stimulus funds expected to emerge within the next two months.
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WASHINGTON, April 19, 2009 – Building on its prior lists of comments filed with the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration on April 13, 14 and 15, on Sunday BroadbandCensus.com published a collective list of 222 substantive comments regarding the $7.2 billio
Breakfast Club
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2009 – Graham Richard, the former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, has agreed to join the panel discussion for the April meeting of the Broadband Breakfast Club, which takes place on Tuesday, April 14, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Old Ebbitt Grill.
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The Federal Communications Commission officially unveiled a proposal for a national broadband plan. Meanwhile, commenters worked to finish filings for the NTIA/RUS broadband grant program, due April 13. And states continue their efforts to serve as the de facto coordinator of broadband applications.
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[http://www.eventbrite.com/img/button/register_blue.gif]http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com/ WASHINGTON, April 8, 2009 – With the fast-moving broadband stimulus package almost certain to stretch the capabilities of federal agencies such as the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications a
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What’s the biggest broadband need: better infrastructure, or greater adoption? Different world-views on America’s broadband challenge emerged at two Washington-area conferences this past week. Meanwhile, less than one week remains before comments on broadband grants are due at the NTIA and the FCC.
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WASHINGTON, April 3, 2009 – BroadbandCensus.com Executive Director Drew Clark will participate in a webcast on “New England and the Broadband Recovery Act,” hosted in Boston and available online over the Internet, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET on Friday, April 3, 2009.
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WASHINGTON, March 30, 2009 – BroadbandCensus.com on Monday launched the BroadbandCensus.com Weekly Report, a newsletter summarizing the top broadband-related news of the previous week, and looking forward to the week ahead in broadband.
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The public record from Commerce Department’s NTIA and the Agriculture Department’s RUS forums is complete, with 18 sessions over six days. Now comes the hard part: the agencies must generate an application form satisfying the terms of the broadband stimulus legislation while meeting real-world broad
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WASHINGTON, March 25, 2009 – The Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) filed comments in the FCC’s inquiry into rural broadband policy.
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WASHINGTON, March 25, 2009 – Microsoft filed comments in the FCC’s inquiry into rural broadband policy.
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In four days of meetings at the Commerce Department, NTIA and RUS entertained debate on eligibility rules, coordination between the Commerce and Agriculture Departments, the definition of broadband, and reaching vulnerable populations. The meetings set the tone for decision-making about broadband st
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WASHINGTON, March 16, 2009 – The detailed-oriented open meetings to consider the structure for deploying the federal government’s $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funds began on Monday morning with five presentations about which sorts of private-sector entities should be eligible for the grants.
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WASHINGTON, March 16, 2009 – As the Obama administration on Monday begins poring over the nitty-gritty details about how they will be spending $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funds, individual states are grappling to find their own best strategies to tap the funds.
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WASHINGTON, March 13, 2009 – BroadbandCensus.com and CCMI have teamed up to offer a free public webinar on tapping into the $7.2 Billion Broadband Stimulus on March 19, at 2 p.m. ET, aimed at both incumbent service providers and new market entrants.
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WASHINGTON, March 12, 2009 – Thursday’s wireless edition of My Technology Lawyer Radio will focus on the hot topics of federal applications for stimulus spending grants, plus developments in the federal prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges.
