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Small cable operators are complaining that an FCC proposal to reform the $8 billion Universal Service Fund will favor telephone companies.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski pushed back on Thursday on the perception that he let telephone companies write the plan for overhauling the nation’s $8 billion phone subsidy system.
Zayo may never be a household consumer broadband player, but in western Ohio their presence will be seen as a wholesale fiber enabler to other broadband providers via the GigE Plus Availability Coalition (GigEPAC).
Job Announcement October 2011 Executive Assistant: Open Technology Initiative The New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative (OTI) formulates policy and regulatory reforms to support open architectures and open source innovations and...
The primary backers of the ABC Plan Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is scheduled to deliver a major announcement on reforming the Universal Service Fund (USF) — a federal program designed to subsidize the costs...
Courtesy: Gottabemobile Just two days after the less-than-overwhelming unveiling of the incrementally-upgraded Apple iPhone 4S, the “must-have-it” crowd has begun melting down the customer service lines of AT&T looking for special discounted...
Most cable operators are doing a better job of providing telephone service than traditional telephone companies, according to a new J.D. Power and Associates survey.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his plan to reform a phone subsidy program Thursday, calling the current system outdated, wasteful and unfair.
Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) is responding to its mid-sized and large business customers' "bandwidth heavy needs" by expanding its metro Ethernet service to over 55 markets stretched across 10 states.
Customers of Time Warner Cable in Maine preparing for the cable company’s all-digital conversion that will eventually impact every customer nationwide are reporting more problems with the equipment the cable company is supplying to those without...
... National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates and AARP today sent a joint letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to raise serious concerns about the broadband industry's proposal to restructure the Universal Service...
A study released today by the Phoenix Center shows the Universal Service Fund reforms proposed in the America's Broadband Connectivity Plan could save consumers $1.4 billion per year on traditional voice services.
Verizon Connected Health Care Solutions and Duke will work jointly to develop health information technology initiatives for lower cost health care for more people.
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In what may be an early victory for Verizon, a judicial panel announced Thursday that lawsuits against federal Internet competition rules will be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
BT Openreach (NYSE: BT) is finally making good on its promise to provide a 300 Mbps Fiber to the Premises (FTTP)-based service beginning next spring.
Users in our Verizon forums (both here and here) say that Verizon is sending both residential broadband and wireless users a new e-mail notifying them of some advancements in Verizon's location-based ad technology.
Vince Jordan, an advocate for broadband competition in Longmont, Colorado, wrote the following op-ed for the local paper about the upcoming referendum 2A. He has given us permission to reprint it here.
Over the years consumers have poured more than $25 billion into the Universal Service Fund, a program intended to bring phone connectivity to rural markets, and broadband connectivity to schools and libraries.
Time Warner Cable will be promoting the benefits of broadband access as a driver of economic development within historically poorer and Hispanic communities.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to use cash from the Universal Service Fund (USF) to expand mobile broadband service as part of a sweeping reform of the country' s telephone subsidy system.
Just one day after getting busted for lying about its supporters, a group funded by self-interested groups outside the community is accusing the City of distributing propaganda regarding an upcoming referendum over whether the City should have the...
RT @haroldfeld: TMCnet: #FCC #USF reform a baby step.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MCNC, the private, not-for-profit operator of...
Comcast's Rudy Brioche to Join FCC Advisory Committee for Diversity in the ...MarketWatch (press release)The mission of the Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age is to make recommendations to the FCC regarding policies...
LightSquared Threatens Court Date if FCC Blocks NetworkExecutiveGovLightSquared, the Reston, Va.-based company that has proposed to build a national broadband wireless network, said Monday it may take legal action if the Federal Communications...
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