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  • joly 12:02 am on 03/16/2011 Permalink | Reply
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    NoChokePoints: Report states Special Access reform would save $37bn, create 176k jobs. #fcc #broadband 

    NoChokePoints.orgRecommendation 4.8 of the National Broadband Plan  urges the FCC to ensure that special access rates are “just and reasonable,” noting that “special access circuits play a significant role in the availability and pricing of broadband service.” The Plan observes that the FCC is “currently considering the appropriate analytical framework” and calls on it to “establish an analytical approach” that will “ensure that rates, terms and conditions” for special access are “just and reasonable.” In Oct. 2009 the FCC established a pleading cycle on Special Access.

    The NoChokePoints Coalition, a broad-based group that includes BT, Sprint, the New America Foundation and Public Knowledge, have just announced a report, filed with the FCC, “Economic Benefits of Special Access Price Reductions” that estimates that special access reform would increase national output by as much as $37.7 billion and create as many as 176,000 new jobs across the U.S. economy.

    Spokesman Maura Corbett said “Currently, special access services produce excess rates of return as high as 77.9 percent, by contrast, the FCC’s last authorized rate of return was 11.25 percent.” and “The FCC has in its hands the power to create positive economic growth, and it needs to use it.”

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  • joly 1:55 pm on 02/11/2011 Permalink | Reply
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    THE NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN: One Year Later – DC 3/18 #broadband 

    The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) and Georgetown University’s Communication Culture and Technology Program will present a one day confrence THE NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN: One Year Later at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on Friday, March 18. Details as to the agenda and location will be available soon. Please save the date.

    The FCC’s National Broadband Plan was released on March 16, 2010. It laid out a number of ambitious long-term goals, including that 100 million US households would have affordable access to 100mbps broadband service within a decade and that the US should be the world leader on mobile broadband innovation with the fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation. After a year, is the Plan “on track”? What is the state of broadband in America in 2011? What has been accomplished and what are the major next steps in the implementation of the Plan? Have any of the facts, circumstances and analyses that underlie the NBP changed in such a way that the Plan itself needs to be amended? How will the Plan be administered and updated over the next decade?

     

  • joly 4:27 pm on 02/07/2011 Permalink | Reply
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    Video: Blair Levin and Craig Settles on the National Broadband Plan 

    Earlier today the New America Foundation and GigaOm hosted a discussion Two Perspectives on the National Broadband Plan between Craig Settles, a broadband industry analyst, and Blair Levin, chief architect of the National Broadband Plan, on the plan’s merits. This follows an earlier exchange of views in GigaOm [Settles|Levin| Settles|Levin] in December. Moderators are Wall Street Journal’s Amy Schatz and GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham. A recording is available here or below. It runs 1h20m.

     

  • joly 9:43 pm on 12/05/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Video: Susan Crawford – The State of Telecommunications Policy in the US Today #broadband #netneutrality #structsep #comcast #nbcu 

    Nov 29 2010: Evan Korth’s Computers & Society class presents an ISOC-NY sponsored talk by Susan Crawford, who previously served as President Obama’s Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy and was a former Board Member of ICANN. Currently, she is a professor at Cardozo Law School and a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Most recently Susan has been in the forefront of opposition to the Comcast-NBC merger.

    http://scrawford.net/blog/

    Download – Video: iPod | ogv | ogv (coming); Audio: mp3; Audio: mp3 | ogg ;

     

  • joly 2:37 pm on 12/03/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    FCC extends E-Rate to gigabit speed, off hours, open access #fcc #broadband #fiber 

    FCCThe FCC’s 6th R&O, upgrading and modernizing the E-rate program (providing Universal Service support to schools and libraries) will become effective January 3, 2011.

    In the 6th R&O, the FCC has upgraded and modernized the E-rate program, consistent with the National Broadband Plan’s (NBP’s) vision of improving broadband connectivity at the nation’s schools and libraries.

    The revisions adopted in the 6th R&O fall into three conceptual categories: (1) providing schools and libraries with greater flexibility to select and make available the most cost-effective broadband and other communications services; (2) simplifying the E-rate application process; and (3) improving safeguards against waste, fraud and abuse.

    In particular, the 6th R&O provides schools and libraries with more flexibility by allowing applicants to lease dark or lit fiber from the most cost-effective provider. The FCC has also changed its rules to allow schools to permit community use of E-rate funded services outside of school hours. With affordable fiber, these “School Spots” are a major step toward the NBP’s goal of connecting an anchor institution in every community to affordable 1 gigabit per second broadband. The FCC indexed to the inflation rate E-rate’s funding cap in order to maintain purchasing power. Finally, the FCC seeks proposals for a limited pilot program to establish best practices to support off-campus wireless connectivity for portable learning devices, such as digital textbooks, outside of regular school or library operating hours.

    The Commission has separately announced that applications for the pilot program must be submitted on or before December 17, 2010.

    [Source: Frank Jazzo: CommLaw Blog]

     

  • joly 11:34 am on 11/10/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Claude Aiken at New York Law School Mon 11/15 #broadband #nyc 

    Claud AikenThe New York Law School Institute for Information Law & Policy is holding a discussion with NYLS Alum, Claude Aiken ’08, about his role at the FCC.  Mr. Aiken is Legal Counsel to the Senior Advisor to the Chairman on Broadband at the FCC, where he advises the Chairman’s office on issues relating to the National Broadband Plan.  Prior to this, he was an Honors Program Attorney in the Wireline Competition Bureau where he focused on broadband competition and universal service issues.  He also serves as a board member and general counsel for 100cameras, Inc., a non-profit that uses photography to help underprivileged youth.

    What: A Man, A Plan, Broadband
    When: Monday, November 15, 2010 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
    Where: Room SW930 – 9th Floor of 40 Worth St. NYC
    RSVP: If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to naomi.allen@nyls.edu
    Lunch will be served.

     

  • joly 1:41 pm on 11/09/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    NTIA Digital Nation II – minorities lagging in adoption #broadband #digitaldivide 

    Broadband USAThe NTIA has issued Digital Nation II – a follow up to February’s Digital Nation report. Amongst the findings:

    • the percentage of households that connect to the Internet using broadband grew to 63.5 percent in 2009 from 9.2 percent in 2001
    • 65.9 percent of urban households subscribed to broadband in 2009, compared with 51 percent of rural households.
    • 94.1 percent of households with income exceeding $100,000 subscribed to broadband in 2009, compared with 35.8 percent of households with income of less than $25,000.
    • 84.5 percent of households with at least one college degree subscribed to broadband last year, compared with 28.8 percent of households without a high school degree.
    • 77.3 percent of Asian-American households and 68 percent of non-Hispanic white households subscribed to broadband last year, compared with 49.4 percent of African-American households and 47.9 percent of Hispanic households.
    • 38 percent of Americans who don’t have broadband at home say they don’t subscribe because they don’t need it, while 26 percent say it’s too expensive and only 4 percent say it’s not available where they live.

    Notably, the analysis discovered a gap of 10 percentage points in broadband use between whites and blacks and a gap of 14 percentage points between whites and Hispanics even after controlling for socio-economic factors.

    Although the data do not provide an explanation for these numbers, Rebecca Blank, under secretary for Economic Affairs, believes it could reflect limited exposure to the Internet among certain racial groups.

    “Internet usage relies on networks,” she said. “If the people around you don’t use the Internet, you will be less likely to use the Internet, too.

    Lawrence Strickling, head of the NTIA, stressed that one key challenge for policymakers lies in convincing Americans who are not online of the benefits of broadband.

    [Source: AP]

     

  • joly 5:24 am on 11/02/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    FCC Technical Advisory Council – first meeting is Nov 4 #fcc #tac #broadband 

    FCCThe FCC’s newly formed Technical Advisory Council (TAC) will hold it’s first open meeting on Nov 4 1pm-4m. The TAC will “discuss organizational matters, be briefed on key technical issues facing the Commission, and will work to define the issues that the Council will address.”

    Live coverage will be via reboot.fcc.gov

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  • joly 3:08 am on 09/30/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Broadband comes to Harlem – Public Meeting Friday Oct 1 

    Friday, October 1, 2010 at 11 am Broadband comes to Harlem
    Harlem Consumer Education Council, Congressman Charles Rangel and the New York Public Library present Broadband comes to Harlem. Hear about the National Broadband Plan 2011 from  Keynote Speaker Commissioner Mignon Clyburg of the Federal Communications Commission. Come listen to the Department of Commerce/National Telecommunications and Information Adminsitration (NTIA) define broadband and its role in our community and what it means to Harlem and you. NYPL, Harlem Library, 9 West 124th Street, NY NY 212-348-5620
     

  • joly 11:11 pm on 09/02/2010 Permalink | Reply
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    FCC to M2Z: forgeddaboutit! 

    We have earlier noted the longstanding efforts of M2Z to obtain free spectrum in return for a nationwide free wi-fi service. According to The Register the FCC has finally pulled the plug on the deal, announcing that the desired unused AWS-3 spectrum will be auctioned off towards the middle of next year.

    In The Register’s opinion this “scuppers” any chance of a nationwide free wireless IP network.

     

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