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The National Broadband Plan, to be released today, focuses on four ways government can help ensure that every American has access to broadband. These include, 1) designing policies to ensure competition; 2) ensuring efficient management of assets such as spectrum and rights of ...

The details of the FCC’s national broadband plan are trickling out. The actual plan will be unveiled tomorrow at an FCC open meeting and delivered to Congress on March 17th. The creation of the plan was mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of ...

The recent Disney/ABC-Cablevision flap over retransmission of WABC in the New York area – which almost led to the Oscar’s broadcast being blacked out to 3 million Cablevision subscribers - has prompted a coalition of sorts among cable/DBS/telco providers, including the ...

The universal service fund (USF) has a legacy of bringing phone service to all parts of the country. The shift to wireless and broadband/IP as primary means for communication is putting strains on this support system, as more consumers leave traditional TDM voice service behind for ...

In about two weeks the FCC is scheduled to deliver a national broadband plan to Congress. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 mandated that the FCC author the plan, with the idea that the billions of dollars ...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in two recent addresses provided details about the National Broadband Plan relating to wireless connectivity. In a speech to the New America Association on Feb. 24 he revealed plans to ...

Nearly 2/3 of American adults use broadband connections of one type or another to access the Internet from home. A variety of factors--income, level of education, age, race or ethnicity and location among them--are associated with lower broadband adoption, however, according to an FCC's October-November 2009 survey. Six percent of American ...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his ‘100 squared’ initiative at a speech delivered to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) today. The ‘100 squared’ concept aims to deliver broadband capable of 100 Mbps to 100 million homes by 2020. The ...

The FCC has requested a one-month extension to the February 17 deadline for submitting a National Broadband Plan to Congress as mandated by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009. In letters to the four heads of the House and ...

Commenting on an FCC public notice regarding the congressionally mandated development of a National Broadband Plan and, more specifically, the transition from legacy, switch-based network infrastructure to IP, AT&T advocates broad-based, fundamental revisions to and updating of ...