During tough economic times, library usage increases. During the glum economy of the early 1990's, people flocked to libraries to pour over the classified section of the newspaper for jobs, and when the economy picked back up circulation went back down. Now, people are using the free high speed Internet at libraries to find new jobs. For example, in the last year at Kelley Library in Salem, MA, high speed Internet usage has risen at a notable rate. Read More »
The Pennsylvania legislature is currently considering a bill -- The Consumer Choice Cable Franchising and High-Speed Broadband Promotion Act (HB 1490) -- that would bolster cable competition throughout the commonwealth, lowering prices for consumers and giving them more options for phone, TV, and Internet services. Read More »
City buses rolled out of parking garages in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1 with a message for city leaders and residents -- "This bus isn't the only thing passing you by. Verizon is bringing high-speed Internet to the suburbs: Not to D.C." While Verizon has been advertising its high-speed FiOS network on D.C. airwaves, plans to actually install high-speed Internet in the city are far from the drawing board, and the Communications Workers of America and other groups are calling on city council members to push back. Read More »
Despite a sluggish economy, Internet providers aren't slowing the pace of high-speed network deployment and expansion. In fact, the major internet service providers have big plans to improve their available Internet speeds and capabilities. This is because, regardless of the current economic climate, there is an undeniable demand for speed. But in order to ensure that the buildout reaches all Americans, including those in rural and lower-income areas, our country is still in urgent need of a national high speed Internet policy. Read More »
A recent survey found that Americans are relying on the Internet as a source of information about presidential candidates more than ever before. The poll found that the Internet is the primary source of information about presidential candidates for 48 percent of respondents. Younger people were even more likely to use the Internet to find out about candidates. But because candidates and their supporters are making more and more use of online video, people with slower Internet access or no access at all are being cut off from part of the conversation. Read More »
CWA President Larry Cohen attended the "Building a Movement for Worker Justice" conference in Montpelier, VT last weekened. At the conference he highlighted the recent campaign by labor and community activists to "Stop the Sale" of Verizon's landlines in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire to FairPoint communications, a small, financially unstable company. Read More »
Connected Tennessee has released a county-by-county report of average Internet speeds. The report was gathered with data gathered from 86,000 people over all 95 counties in Tennessee, including data collected by SpeedMatters. Read More »
Using metrics such as the Federal Communications Commission's definition of high speed Internet (200kbps, barely fast enough to stream a video) and the FCC version of access (just one person with access in an entire zip code), a new study has optimistically determined that President Bush's promise of universal high speed Internet by 2007 has almost been reached. Read More »
On Tuesday, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) held a discussion on the need for a national high speed Internet policy and what such a policy should look like. ITIF's president, Robert Atkinson, kicked off the event with a discussion of his new paper, "Framing a National Broadband Policy." Read More »
In a recent report, the California Broadband Task Force found that 96 percent of Californians have high speed Internet access, although speeds vary. Those numbers sound good, but coverage is concentrated in metropolitan areas. Over 1.4 million Californians, living almost exclusively in rural areas, are still without high speed Internet. Read More »
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