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16 Jan 2007, 12:40 pm
Professor Lessig wrote an interesting article in Wired commenting on municipal broadband initiative:Yes. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 2:13 pm
If it is at all available to them, Americans typically obtain broadband service from the incumbent cable company and the incumbent phone company at speeds that are little better than they were 5 years ago. [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 12:54 pm by Ben Sperry
Justice Department (DOJ) needs to investigate the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and its local power companies (LPCs) on grounds that abuses of the pole-attachment process appear to be slowing broadband deployment. [read post]
16 Sep 2022, 9:05 pm by Alexandra Walsh
Private companies and public universities have helped tribal communities avoid legislative oversight and targeted exclusion in some instances, Yoo, Haseki, and Gwaka state. [read post]
17 Oct 2023, 7:24 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The National Broadband Map has gotten major updates twice each year for more than a decade with info about which companies provide internet service to a given area. [read post]
10 Mar 2021, 7:35 am by C. Douglas Jarrett
This Program is administered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC). [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 10:32 am by Douglas Jarrett
[In many ways, this is the “next act” in the “play” that began 15-20 years ago when cable broadband offerings overwhelmed the local telephone companies that were wedded to DSL technology.] [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 8:53 am by Douglas Jarrett
 He notes that the major ISPs can secure better returns by buying content companies, buying competing cable companies, or investing in faster growing wireless businesses. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 9:35 am by Ernesto Falcon
Lastly, the legislation would open the door to open-access fiber entities, which are companies or local governments who build the wires but lease capacity to others to sell broadband. [read post]
27 Jun 2005, 11:42 am
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court on Monday upheld an FCC determination [FCC press release] that broadband cable modem companies are free from the mandatory regulations that apply to common-carriers. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 11:26 am by Jon Brodkin
(credit: Free Press) The Federal Communications Commission is dropping its legal defense of a new system for expanding broadband subsidies for poor people, and it will not approve applications from companies that want to offer the low-income broadband service. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 12:07 pm by Todd Janzen
 Existing electric companies thought rural America too sparse and too poor to afford electricity, which deterred companies from investing their time or resources in rural areas.President Roosevelt solved this issue by creating an administrative agency—the Rural Electric Administration (REA)—that brought electricity to rural America. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 10:33 am by Andrew Ramonas
-based company that is building a national open wireless broadband network, according to lobbying registration paperwork filed with Congress Thursday. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 8:40 am by Ars Staff
Large telecommunications companies have bankrolled campaigns to try to defeat referendums that would allow cities to build or expand their own high-speed broadband networks. [read post]
13 May 2019, 1:51 pm by Ernesto Falcon
That means Californians have very little access to wholesale open access fiber companies, or any broadband provider that is not a cable TV or telephone company. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 11:06 am by Casey Lide
Supreme Court considered the tax treatment of cash and property received by a shoe company from community groups as an inducement to locate company facilities in the community.[3] The Court held that the income received by the shoe company from the community groups represented “contributions to capital” by nonshareholders, and could, therefore, be excluded from income. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 3:00 pm by Jon Brodkin
That law, SB05-152 [.pdf], which was pushed by large telecommunications companies, can be overridden by a majority of voters. [read post]
3 May 2016, 7:14 am
  The company need only reallocate a 6 MegaHertz channel from video carriage to broadband carriage. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 12:44 pm
Broadband users have long been skeptical of the duopoly situation in the US Internet market, which often feels like “pick your poison”: telephone company or cable company. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 11:54 am by Michael Beder
  The FCC’s 2010 Open Internet Order generally prohibited both “fixed” and mobile broadband providers from blocking users’ access to lawful online content and services, with fixed providers — such as cable companies — subject to tighter restrictions than mobile operators. [read post]