The latest update of the Australian National Broadband Plan might suggest the financial risks fiber to the home networks represent, even in a scenario where there is a monopoly national wholesale network that sells capacity to all the country’s retail…
Friday, March 16, marks the second anniversary of a document that has made a huge impact on U.S. telecom policy—the National Broadband Plan. Telecompetitor caught up this week with Blair Levin, who headed up the 70-person team that put the…
A post I did earlier this week about the Great Disconnect initiative spearheaded by some rural Iowa telcos drew a slew of responses, including an email from National Broadband Plan crafter Blair Levin—which lead to a phone call with him…
HEBRON, Ind., May 26 /PRNewswire/ — Northwestern Indiana Telephone Co. plans to increase high-speed broadband speed to 100 percent of its customers within one year, achieving a federally mandated requirement three years earlier than the federal government’s deadline, the company…
Part three of our three part National Broadband Plan series explores how the challenges in freeing up the spectrum needed to meet the broadband wireless goals of the plan While the challenges involved with obtaining greater broadband availability on the…
Part two of our three part National Broadband Plan series explains how the Connect America Fund would replace today’s voice-based universal service fund and how inter-carrier compensation also would get a revamp A critical element of the National Broadband Plan…
Part one of our three part National Broadband Plan Series focuses on the plan’s ambitious goals and potential implementation challenges Drafted by a team assembled by the Federal Communication Commission, the National Broadband Plan is a series of policy recommendations…
Yesterday the FCC released its 2010 ‘broadband action agenda’ for carrying out key recommendations of the National Broadband Plan it submitted to Congress on March 16 related to rulemakings and other “notice-and-comment” proceedings. With the intent of “accelerating deployment and…
Organizing in response to and in support of the FCC’s recently submitted National Broadband Plan, which calls for public-private partnerships to improve broadband adoption, a coalition of ISPs, computer technology companies and non-profit organizations, the Digital Adoption Coalition, has filed…
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…
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 that…