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WASHINGTON, July 6, 2009 – Vice President Joe Biden showcased the importance of broadband in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday as the Commerce Department, Agriculture Department and the FCC officially unveiled the eagerly-awaited broadband stimulus regulations. The rules, in two “Notices of Funds Ava
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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.
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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 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.
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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 1, 2009 – Reading through the Federal Communications Commission’s 90-page report, “Bringing Broadband to Rural America,” it is clear that questions of broadband data loom large over the pending national broadband strategy.
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WASHINGTON, June 1, 2009 – The FCC issued its rural broadband report, which many see as laying the groundwork for the national broadband strategy due February 2010. Upcoming events on computers, freedom and privacy – and the broadband stimulus – force a re-evaluation: is broadband about more than ju
Broadband Mapping and Data
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2009 – By June 30, the NTIA intends to hire an outside contractor to help administer its broadband grants program, release rules for $4.7 billion in grants, and issue two separate notices of funds availability.
Broadband Mapping and Data
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2009 – One key area of the broadband stimulus package in which states are certain to have an impact is in the area of collecting and releasing information about local broadband deployment.
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WASHINGTON, May 25, 2009 – Broadband stimulus funds from the Commerce Department will begin flowing in either October or in December, according to either an NTIA report or a White House report. In either case, the agency plans to release rules, and then begin to accept applications, by June 30.
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WASHINGTON, May 18, 2009 – Broadband policy is becoming central to a host of debates concurrently occurring: it’s about national infrastructure, the use of wireless frequencies, digital and social inclusion and connectedness, and even the future of journalism. These threads came together in conferen
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WASHINGTON, May 18, 2009 – The United States desperately needs a national broadband strategy, agreed a wide range of telecommunications experts, speaking last week at a conference on “Changing Media” at the Newseum in Washington.
