WASHINGTON, May 6, 2010 - FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski this morning announced his agency's plan to take steps to deal with the issue of broadband regulation.
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2010 - Chapter 8 of the National Broadband Plan deals with the fundamental issue of availability. The chapter sets out a very systematic...
WASHINGTON, April 28, 2010 - Chapter Seven of the national broadband plan is one of the shortest of the entire document, with a primary focus on...
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2010 - Chapter Six of the National Broadband Plan tackles one of the most basic issues with broadband expansion by focusing on infrastructure....
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2010 - Qwest Communications has announced a merger with CenturyLink. The new firm will span 37 states with 5 million broadband customers, 850,000...
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2010 - Chapter Five of the plan focuses on spectrum, and its content is the most technical of the entire 360-page document. The...
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2010 – Chapter Four of the plan focuses on broadband competition and innovation policy. It’s one of the most far-reaching sections in the...
WASHINGTON, April 1, 2010 - Section Four of the plan focuses on broadband competition and innovation policy. It’s one of the most far-reaching sections in the...
WASHINGTON, April 1, 2010 - Section Four of the plan focuses on broadband competition and innovation policy. It’s one of the most far-reaching sections in the...
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2010 - The third chapter in the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan focuses on the current state of the broadband ecosystem. It...
WASHINGTON, March 26, 2010 - On Friday, Cisco Systems announced a partnership with Grid Net, a smart meter company that employs WiMax Technology to send data...
WASHINGTON, March 26, 2010 - The national broadband plan aims to present not just a roadmap of how to expand broadband but also to provide a...
WASHINGTON, March 15, 2010 - Blair Levin, head of the Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan and the “national purposes” team at the agency previewed key...
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2010 - With the national broadband plan due to be unveiled next Tuesday at the Federal Communications Commission, the commissioners have been speaking...
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2010 – Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan on Tuesday compared broadband expansion in the United States to the development of the...
WASHINGTON, March 8, 2010 - The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners on Monday urged the Treasury Department to clarify the tax implications for the American...
WASHINGTON, February 22, 2010 - A meeting of regulatory commissioners last weekend included much discussion of major telecommunications issues such as the state of the nation’s...
Washington, February 16, 2010 - Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski previewed the agency’s upcoming plan to outfit the nation with broadband access at a winter...
WASHINGTON, February 8, 2010 - While the federal government is closed today due to inclement weather, Sen. Mark Warner and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra...
WASHINGTON, February 8, 2010 - The Federal Communications Commission has received thousands of comments both lauding and criticizing its proposed plan to address the controversial issue...
WASHINGTON, January 18, 2010 – Verizon Communications’s net neutrality filling is unique in that the telecom giant is one of the only companies which provides broadband...
WASHINGTON, January 15, 2010 - The National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Rural Utilities Service on Friday announced the availability of a second round of...
WASHINGTON, January 15, 2010 - Researchers looking at California to determine whether broadband boosts local economic development found it's tough to determine since broadband providers tend...
WASHINGTON, January 13, 2010 - The consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge on Tuesday hosted the first-ever World Fair Use Day. “Fair use” refers to the defense,...
WASHINGTON, January 11, 2010 - The National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Rural Utilities Service on Thursday launched a new web site designed to foster...
WASHINGTON, January 7, 2009 – The head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Monday urged the Federal Communications Commission to take steps designed to...
WASHINGTON, December 4, 2009 - A top government official focused on the need to improve the allocation of spectrum for future broadband expansion during a telecommunications...
WASHINGTON, November 19, 2009 - The Native American population is one of the most disconnected groups in the country, according to a study released Thursday on...
WASHINGTON, November 19, 2009 - The Government Accountability Office on Monday released a report analyzing the possible challenges faced by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration...
WASHINGTON, November 17, 2009 – The main purpose of the report by the Berkman Center at Harvard University, commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission, was to...
WASHINGTON, November 9, 2009 - On Friday, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced seven new state recipients of the State Broadband Data and Development Grant...
WASHINGTON, November 2, 2009 – A top technology advisor to President Obama said Monday that the administration was committed to reforming and streamlining the patent system...
October 31, 2009 - Finland made headlines earlier this month in declaring that broadband had become a legal right. While this startled some people, the Finns...
WASHINGTON, October 30, 2009 – At a Friday workshop that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration held on data collection and the broadband stimulus, NTIA announced...
NEW YORK, October 26, 2009 – NTIA Administrator Lawrence Strickling, speaking at a telecommunications conference here on Friday, said that a national broadband plan is key...
WASHINGTON, October 2, 2009 – The Federal Communications Commission says that it wants to ensure that the pending national broadband plan addresses the needs of minorities,...
WASHINGTON, October 9, 2009 - The Federal Communications Commission workshop on economic issues in broadband competition on October 9 brought together regulators and academics, who agreed...
WASHINGTON, September 15, 2009 - Most hospitals are unable to effectively use telemedicine because of the lack of a truly high-speed connection, said Douglas Van Houweling,...
ARLINGTON, Va., September 26, 2009 - Fiber to the home has been touted by many as the next great leap in broadband connectivity, and in Japan...
ARLINGTON, Va., September 26, 2009 - Location-based software has become one of the hottest new web applications, fueled by the expansion of smart phone users, these...
