Posted Feb 10, 2010
The Hill By Kim Hart Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a bill today to update the E-Rate program to help close the digital divide.Markey authored the original E-Rate bill that, in 1996, allowed schools to link up to the Web. He said 95 percent of public...
Posted Feb 03, 2010
PCWorld Representative Matsui calls on the FCC to subsidize broadband service through the USF. The U.S. government should spend more on broadband adoption by redirecting money from a fund that subsidizes traditional telephone service to high-speed Int...
Posted Jan 21, 2010
Light Reading The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to meet this morning and offer a status report on the National Broadband Plan, which is to be delivered to Congress on March 17, a month later than expected. (See FCC Delays National Broadba...
Posted Dec 30, 2009
Gov Monitor The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it has awarded Georgia one of 15 grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities under NTIA’s State Broadba...
Posted Dec 30, 2009
BroadbandBreakfast.com By Winter CaseyWASHINGTON, December 29, 2009 – Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., last week joined the bandwagon of lawmakers voicing support for the government grants currently being awarded to support broa...
Posted Dec 29, 2009
Multichannel News By John EggertonFederal Communications Commission broadband advisor Blair Levin\'s team has been working over the holidays as they bear down on a Feb. 17 deadline Levin tells Multichannel News they will meet, if not beat.Levin says the c...
Posted Nov 09, 2009
InternetNews.com By Kenneth CorbinLawmakers are set to consider a measure next week to reform the federal subsidy paid to telephone companies to provide service to low-income and rural households to include broadband service.Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and...
Posted Oct 28, 2009
TheHill By Kim HartRep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced legislation today to block the FCC from implementing net neutrality regulations, saying in a press release that the FCC\'s proposals \"ironically would make the Internet less neutral by allowin...
Posted Oct 22, 2009
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang With a unanimous vote to move forward on a rule-making process for how the federal government will police access to the Internet, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski won a victory on his first major policy issue at the agency.T...
Posted Sep 29, 2009
CNBC By: The Associated PressCHARLESTON, W.Va. - Developing a strong broadband infrastructure is vital to West Virginia\\\'s future, U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller said during a statewide conference Monday.Expanding broadband access across the entire state can...
