White Spaces and the Future of Broadband
In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) are asking the FCC to prioritize actions on broadband white space while adhering to the scheduled Broadband Action Agenda. The National Broadband Plan consist of a total of 360 recommendations, the broadband white space issue is one of [...]
Free Broadband In The Future?
Next week the Federal Communications Commission will be publicly presenting the National Broadband Plan to Congress. In their presentation, the FCC will ask Congress to “consider use of spectrum for a free or very low cost wireless broadband service”. The FCC gave no specific details for this request. Many speculate this request could be a [...]
Net Neutrality Causing a Debate Over Wireless
The Net Neutrality clause in Sec. 12 of the Broadband Policy- “It is the policy of the United States- To maintain the freedom to use for lawful purpose’s broadband telecommunications networks, including the Internet, without unreasonable interference from or discrimination by network operators, as has been the policy and history of the Internet and the basis [...]
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 [...]
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.
