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Genachowski Announces Wide-Scale Broadband Literacy Initiative, Connect to Compete
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski today announced a wide-scale initiative targeting the nearly one-third of Americans who don’t use broadband. The initiative, dubbed Connect to Compete, also aims to help some unemployed Americans find jobs. Genachowski,…
Blair Levin: Joint USF Reform Proposal Not Technologically Neutral
Blair Levin, who headed up the team that crafted the National Broadband Plan, had some tough words about the frontrunner proposal for Universal Service reform at an Information Technology & Innovation Foundation event in Washington…
Rural Broadband Alliance: FCC Has “Systemic Disdain” for Rural Telcos
Some members of the Federal Communications Commission have a “systemic disdain” for small rural carriers, the Rural Broadband Alliance argued in a press release issued today. “Both the official record and meetings with the Commission…
Wisconsin Is Latest State To Target Telecom Deregulation
The state of Wisconsin appears poised to adopt a telecom deregulation bill, which has been passed by state legislators. According to an Associated Press report this week, the bill will become law as soon as…
Is Canada’s Broadband Plan More Ambitious Than The FCC’s?
Canada’s telecom regulator CRTC has set a plan in place to achieve nationwide broadband deployment that has some striking similarities to efforts in the US—as well as some key differences. As Telegeography reports, Canada’s minimum…
National Broadband Plan Author Levin Responds to Telecompetitor
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…
Iowa Telcos Cite a Great Disconnect
Rural telcos in Iowa have created a new coalition called The Great Disconnect, which according to a press release issued April 20, is aimed at addressing “the lack of understanding about telecommunications in Iowa and…
Are Community Broadband Networks the Answer for the Underserved?
More than 54 U.S. cities own citywide fiber networks and another 79 own citywide cable networks, according to a new report from the New Rules Project, a program of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. The…
Broadband.com Hopes to Build On National Broadband Map Data
When the National Telecommunications and Information Agency released its interactive National Broadband Map last month, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski invited web developers to use the map’s open application programming interfaces to create new…
Much Interest in National Broadband Map, Questions Remain
The FCC’s National Broadband Map (NBM) elicited a dramatic response on its inaugural day Feb. 17: website requests averaged more than 1,000 per second, FCC Geographic Information Officer Michael Byrne wrote on the NBM blog.…
National Broadband Map Unveiled, Anchor Institutions Underserved?
Considering that the nation’s new interactive broadband map contains 25 million data points that can be searched in numerous ways, it’s impossible to devise a headline that summarizes what the new map reveals about the…
Is the Rural Broadband Business Model Fundamentally Flawed?
In a spirited debate at NTCA’s Annual Meeting, taking place this week in Dallas, National Broadband Plan author Blair Levin suggested that the business model of rural broadband is fundamentally flawed and the national broadband…