Economic Downturn and Broadband Usage
Despite the economic downturn in California, broadband use is on the rise. The Public Institute of California Survey interviewed more than 2500 people and found that 67% said they have broadband in their home… a 4 point increase over last year. The national average, reported by the PEW Center’s & American Life Project, is now [...]
Broadband Internet Fairness Act
New York Congressman, Eric Massa has introduced a bill called the Broadband Internet Fairness Act. In short, the Congressman was acting in response to Time Warner Cable and their attempts to experiment in certain markets with tiered broadband bandwidth plans. Time Warner found in this experiment that putting caps on bandwidth availability is much [...]
Broadband Providers Resist Net Neutrality
The “it’s the internet, stupid” campaign wants the FCC to implement the “non-discrimination and network interconnection obligation” that the group first outlined in 2005 to be part of The National Broadband Plan. These guidelines state that network must allow access to any lawful content, to run any legal web applications and to connect to the [...]
Civil Rights Groups Create Broadband Opportunities Coalition
Nine leading Civil Rights Groups have banded together to create the Broadband Opportunities Coalition. These groups include but are not limited to, The Asian American Justice Center, National Association for the advancement of Colored People, National Urban League. These groups and five others have created a unified front with plans to encourage the two governing [...]
Open and Free Internet
President Obama said Friday that he is committed to internet neutrality and that the internet should be “open and free”. He also said that additional infrastructure will continue to be built, “laying broadband lines to every corner of America.” A new cybersecurity office will be created that will be a member of the national security [...]
Caribbean Broadband Deal
Cuba and Venezuela reached further agreements on a plan to lay a new undersea cable to connect the countries and provide broadband Internet access to Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad. The project is scheduled for completion by 2010 and will be deployed by CVG Telecom (Corporacion Venezolana de Guyana) and ETC (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de [...]
Obama’s $6 Billion Broadband Plan
More details about Obama’s stimulus package emerged this week. $6 billion of the proposed $825 billion infrastructure investment plan will go to broadband. The funds will be allocated by the Rural Utility Service and the NTIA to fund infrastructure in under served areas. $350 million alone will go to mapping broadband.
