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Cable's Social Contract on America and Other Cable Scandals: But Who's Counting?

Bruce Kushnick | Posted 12.29.2012 | Business
Read More: Surcharges, Taxes, Fcc, Internet, Broadband, Cable Service, Time Warner, Comcast, Social Contract, Universal Service Fund, Michael Powell, Fees, Business News
Bruce Kushnick

Shouldn't we get to choose who offers us Internet or broadband or cable programming services over the wires we've helped to upgrade? And if there's no serious competition, shouldn't the cable companies' prices for cable services be regulated again?

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More Wireless Broadband Is What Consumers Want, U.S. Needs to Close the Digital Divide

David Honig | Posted 03.04.2012 | Technology
Read More: Susan Crawford, Usf, National Broadband Plan, Digital Divide, Fcc, Universal Service Fund, Federal Communications Commission, Technology News
David Honig

For the United States to be competitive with other nations, and to end the digital divide, the Treasury should invest what's necessary to build out and sustain fast national wireline and wireless services.

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A Broadband Connection Per Household

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Broadband, Itif, Julius Genachowski, Universal Service Fund, Fcc, Om Malik, Basic Broadband, Gigaom, Oecd, Technology News
Ramon Nuez

It is the evolution of the Internet that fed, and continues to feed, the demand for broadband.

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