Expert Opinion
BroadbandCensus.com Wishes You a Happy One Web Week!
WASHINGTON, September 22 – Today is September 22, 2008. Happy One Web Day and Happy One Web Week!
Drew Clark
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.
Broadband Mapping and Data
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 Fr
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
Expert Opinion
CWA Publishes State-by-State Download Speeds. How About Carrier-by-Carrier Speeds?
August 15 – The Communications Workers of America’s Speed Matters blog this week published its state-by-state report on download speeds in the United States. According to the report, the median download speed for the nation was 2.3 Megabits per second, and the report provides state-by-state totals.
Expert Opinion
In the Coming Battle over Net Neutrality, Bell Companies Prefer the FCC to the FTC
August 11 – Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain is preparing to launch a new telecom and technology agency, in which he’s pushing for the Federal Trade Commission — and not the Federal Communications Commission — to be the key internet enforcement agency.
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.
Broadband Mapping and Data
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 c
Expert Opinion
FCC Hammers Comcast For Deception and Unreasonable Internet Practices
WASHINGTON, August 1 – The Federal Communication Commission’s enforcement action against Comcast can be seen either as a limited response to a company’s deceptive practices, or a sweeping new venture by the agency into regulating internet policy.
FCC
FCC's 'Findings' in Order Against Comcast's Network Management Practices
WASHINGTON, August 1 – The following are the six “findings” of which the Federal Communications Commission found Comcast guilty. As is standard practice for the agency, no written document encapsulating these charges was publicly released.
AP
Combatants in Net Neutrality Fight Take Aim at Each Other, FCC Chief and Comcast
WASHINGTON, July 31 – Combatants on the subject of Net Neutrality debate took aim at each other on Thursday, with House Minority Leader John Boehner blasting FCC Chairman Kevin Martin in advance of a Federal Communications Commission meeting on Friday.
FCC
Democratic Party Debate Over Net Neutrality Over, Advocates Declare
WASHINGTON, July 29 – In lining up the support of all major Democratic challengers running for Senate this fall, advocates for Net Neutrality said that this complicated issue of telecom politics has now become a partisan issue in November’s general election.
Expert Opinion
How to Achieve Open and Public Broadband Mapping
WASHINGTON, July 28 – Confused about how to put the “public” back into “public-private partnership”? How about making the data public, just as the government of Ireland has done with its “Broadband Information” web site!
Broadband Mapping and Data
Telecom and Transportation Should Be Focus of Infrastructure Investments, Says Think Tank
WASHINGTON, July 28 – By combining better public information, market mechanisms and smarter systems of subsidization, the government can play a positive role in funding infrastructure investments in telecommunications, according to three reports released Friday by the Brookings Institution.
Virginia
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.
Press Releases
BroadbandCensus.com’s Experience Using the Network Diagnostic Tool as a Beta Speed Test
Experience with NDT Featured in Presentation at Joint Techs Conference in Lincoln, Neb. Case Study Editor’s Note: Since the launch of our beta speed test on February 21, 2008, BroadbandCensus.com has been using the Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) speed test developed by the educational consortium Internet2. The following
Broadband Mapping and Data
BroadbandCensus.com Partners With National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
Press Release WASHINGTON, DC, July 22, 2008 – BroadbandCensus.com and the National Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors (NATOA) announced that they are working together to help provide the public with better data about their high-speed internet options.
