Broadband Infrastructure

Want Cable/Broadband Competition? Build Community Networks

Christopher Mitchell | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Competition, Community Network, Time Warner Cable, Video, Broadband, Telephone Companies, Broadband Infrastructure, Lobbyists, AT&T, Monopoly, Cable Tv, Local Government, North Carolina, Infographic, Technology News
Christopher Mitchell

2011-07-15-twc.jpg The federal government has done little to protect citizens from the telecommunications industry's natural tendency toward consolidation and monopoly.

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Baucus Proposes Cutting Broadband Build Out to Fund Tax Credits: Cut Programs That Create Jobs to Fund What Doesn't?

Harold Feld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure Investment, Tax Credits, Economic Stimulus Package, Broadband Infrastructure, National Infrastructure, Broadband Stimulus, Max Baucus, David Obey, Business News
Harold Feld

Politicians, news reporters, and now voters have become obsessed with deficit reduction. Unfortunately, this "deficit cutting fever" now threatens the money previously allocated for the broadband stimulus programs.

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Marvell's Nafea Bshara Talks about Broadband

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Nuez, Telephone Lines, Broadband Applications, Private Industries, Pandemic, United States, Download Speeds, Streaming, Huffingtonpost, Educational Institutions, Communications, Internet Content, Broadband Infrastructure, Marvell, Ubiquity, Education, Web, Data Footprint, Internet, Network Providers, Emergency Services, Eric Schmidt, Speed World, Productivity Growth, Broadband, Federal Communications Commission, Informational Resources, Psinet, Communications Infrastructure, Speed Broadband, Technology News
Ramon Nuez

Marvell CTO Nafea Bshara says lack of ISP competition coupled with the lack of government support may reduce broadband speed in the U.S..

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How a National Broadband Plan Will Be The Next Public Works

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Population, Private Sector Investments, Geographic Barriers, Government Performance, Converts, E Care, Match, Page Document, Care Adoption, Civic Services, Digital, Broadband Technologies, Federal Communications Commission, Health Care, Remote Monitoring, Google, Electronic Health Records, March 17, Economic Opportunity, Broadband Infrastructure, Energy and the Environment, Critical Areas, Education, National Purposes, Digital Literacy, Fcc, Hopefuls, Internet, Skin Disease, Eta, Students, Depressed Areas, Verticals, Health Care Costs, Technology News
Ramon Nuez

The National Broadband Plan has been a project that the Federal Communications Commission has been charged with since early 2009. The plan is designed...

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