Freedom-to-Connect partner and speaker Esme Vos has a post on MuniWireless called Find out if your ISP is a bad ISP with Glasnost in which she asks if your ISP is “playing funny games” with your Internet connection. She urges inquiry: Simply go to Glasnost (appropriate name as it refers to a period in the …
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Friends and Colleagues, Just a quick note. The price of admission to F2C: Freedom to Connect goes up $100, from $395 to $495, this Sunday, February 1. The details are at http://freedom-to-connect.net F2C: Freedom to Connect will occur March 30 & 31 in Washington DC. This year, F2C is a partnership between isen.com, LLC and …
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This book was recommended on Jerry Michalski’s Yi-Tan call on Wireless Broadband this morning: …and Communications for All: A Policy Agenda for the New Administration. It will be available on January 31, 2009.
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F2C speaker Sascha Meinrath and The New America Foundation is in the news again with a report entitled Building a 21st Century Broadband Superhighway: A Concrete Build-out Plan to Bring High-Speed Fiber to Every Community. In this report, the authors describe a fundamental commitment to building an open and accessible high-speed links, allowing a multitude …
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I’m live-blogging part of the Pacific Telecom Council Conference (PTC ’09 in Waikiki, Hawaii, over the next four days at ManyMedia. Topics I’ll be covering include the state of the undersea fiber cable industry, emergency communications management, satellite, and policy and regulatory changes. For more information on the conference, check the website.
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Lee S. Dryburgh interviewed F2C Speaker Sascha Meinrath on Spectrum 2.0, Battling the Incumbents and Future Telecom Networks. The audio interview is downloadable, and the transcript is available. Well into the interview, Dryburgh asks: What do you see as the future of telecommunications infrastructure? What will it look like and how will we get from …
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The House Appropriations Committee released a Stimulus Draft Bill (PDFs: text of bill, House Report) which has a broadband component. This should be no surprise as the incoming Obama administration has promised that broadband would be a key to the overall approach to healing the economy. Ars Technica reports: The “American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill …
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Telephony Online has an article featuring Benoît Felton about a global report issued by the Yankee Group Dec. 31. Felton points out that While incumbents remain convinced that open access or wholesale models won’t enable them to earn a return on their investment, regulators would prefer open access models, said Benoît Felten, senior analyst with …
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"Creating Sustainable Broadband Solutions for Communities and Anchor Institutions" May 23 & 24, Wash DC.
"Human Rights & Technology" May 31 & June 1, Rio de Janeiro.
