09.21.09
Posted By: Speed Matters Blog Team
The Communications of America raised strong concerns about the proposed sale of 4.8 million landlines in 14 states by Verizon Communications to Frontier Communications, in a filing to the Federal Communications Commission. The deal as currently structured will cause substantial harm to consumers and communities, will be a step backward in terms of high speed broadband buildout and is contrary to the public interest. Read More »
09.21.09
Posted By: Speed Matters Blog Team
CWA supports the initiative announced today by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski to develop rules to protect an open Internet. At the same time, we look to the FCC to move forward in setting rules and policies that will encourage investment, ensure reasonable network management, safeguard transparency, promote media diversity and lead to the growth of good jobs in the telecommunications industry. Read More »
09.18.09
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
Broadband.gov, the official site of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, has introduced new online tools to interact with the agency. Using the IdeaScale crowdsourcing platform, anyone with an idea or suggestion can share it with the agency. Read More »
09.18.09
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
Colorado launched a website to gather public input to measure and map the penetration saturation of high-speed Internet throughout the state. The state government and the non-profit organization and Speed Matters partner, Connected Nation, collaborated to develop the website - http://www.connectcolorado.org. Read More »
09.16.09
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) received applications from 50 states, 5 territories and the District of Columbia for the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. Read More »
09.15.09
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
Public libraries are packed with job seekers waiting to use the Internet to search for job postings, update resumes, and fill out online forms. According to the American Library Association, seven out of ten libraries say they are the only public source of Internet access in their community - and job searching without the Internet is becoming increasingly difficult Read More »
09.14.09
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
Both public and private entities are successfully bringing broadband services to previously unserved or underserved residents in Ohio and the Appalachia area. Recently, a partnership between the state of Ohio and AT&T brought broadband access to several southern Ohio communities. Read More »
09.14.09
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
Last week, CWA submitted comments to the FCC with regards to benchmarks and definitions for the national broadband initiative. CWA made the case for measuring actual speeds instead of advertised speeds and for setting benchmarks of 10mbps download and 1mbps upload speed. Read More »
09.10.09
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
A new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that young people are becoming increasingly engaged in politics online, and that overall online activity leads to traditional offline participation. Read More »
09.09.09
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
As the Federal Communications Commission prepares its national broadband plan, it has turned to new media to help along the way. The FCC has launched a new blog called blogband and a Twitter feed. Read More »
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