A coalition of consumer groups and technology companies urged members of the congressional supercommittee on deficit reduction to preserve unlicensed television spectrum, or white spaces.
Phone and cable companies are attacking our right to an unrestricted and unregulated Internet for one reason only: money. Americans must act now to fight for an equal and fair Internet.
Two weeks ago, Deutsche Telekom (DT) Chief Technology Officer Olivier Baujard accidentally spoke truth about T-Mobile to an audience of German investment analysts. After running through the usual company talking points about the effort to sell T-Mobile to AT&T (e.g., it will happen, DoJ is just playing hardball with negotiations, etc.), Baujard said at a public presentation at a Paris broadband conference that: “any rational company had a Plan B and that Deutsche Telekom had other opportunities for its U.S. operations should the U.S. Department of Justice succeed in terminating the deal.”
Efforts to modernize the Universal Service Fund have been underway in Washington nearly as long as the Fund has been in effect. Very little progress has been...
Anchor institutions are pillars of many communities in the United States, those institutions inextricably linked to the community they are rooted in…immovable and with immeasurable effects. In most communities, medical ...
Keynote – FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, “Transition of Universal Service from Phone to Broadband” Panel 1 – Economic Development Benefits of Connectivity Panel 2 – Sustainable Broadband Adoption Tuesday, November 8, 2011, ...
Participants will have the chance to envision and share their own solutions, and we will share some timely policy issues like supporting community broadband networks, Universal Service Fund reform, and unlicensed ...
The FCC is addressing the failure of CableCARD's in its National Broadband Plan that takes further steps to encourage development of the Home Gateway, a device in which consumers can easily and seamlessly access ...
As FairPoint (Nasdaq: FRP) continues to move ahead with its reorganization process, the service provider believes that deregulation in its New Hampshire markets could level the competitive playing field.
Now that this year's fall COMPTEL Plus show in Orlando, Fla. is behind us, I thought we'd take the time to take a look at some the trends we saw during the show.
One of the country’s smallest cable operations grew a little bigger this month with the acquisition of 113 US Cable-owned systems in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The Federal Communications Commission will give companies two years to comply with new regulations to make advanced communications services accessible to people with disabilities.
Opponents of the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules won an important court victory last week, one that may eventually mean the death of the rules, a major setback for FCC chairman and net neutrality proponent Julius...
Or more narrowly, what if just our anchor institutions within our communities mostly bought local? How many farms would spring up if school cafeterias bought their produce from local grocers and farms?
There are still numerous areas in the USA where broadband isn't available at all, and the new Comcast data underscores how important it has become to address that deficiency.
M-banking services and the role of regulators; Wireless broadband spectrum pricing; Satellite regulation,; Open access regulation,; Setting national broadband policies, strategies and plans; Financing universal access/service ...
Colorado program paying CenturyLink millions to serve "rural" areasDenver PostFCC Chairman Julius Genachowski last week announced plans to reform the Universal Service Fund, the federal version of the high-cost fund.
However, new government grant are in the works in order to bring high speed broadband services to these colleges. One college that hopes to take advantage of the new grants is the University of Arkansas Community ...
Slow speeds, low caps and high prices have long made satellite the Rodney Dangerfield of broadband connectivity, though ViaSat has been promising that their new ViaSat-1 satellite will change all that.
On the MIRC tour earlier this month, we were able to stop and visit the Computer Commuter in Madison, MN – the souped up bus with the mobile computer lab. I posted a tour of the Computer Commuter earlier.
Click here to view the embedded video. Comcast has been showing off changes to the company’s set top boxes, which have been effectively “dumbed-down” by removing internal processing power for box-based program guides and other content functions and...
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune… The wireless share of the Twin Cities Internet market rose nearly 7.5 percent in the 12 months ended in March, while traditional broadband providers — Comcast cable and CenturyLink (formerly Qwest...
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