Articles Posted with the Larry Landis Tag
Broadband Stimulus, States
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
The Scoop on NARUC: From Washington to Main Street, Broadband Questions Remain
Broadband Data, Broadband Stimulus
Friday, October 9th, 2009
NARUC Unveil Web Portal for ‘Best Practices’ on State Broadband Deployment
By Andrew Feinberg, Deputy Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, October 9, 2009 - An advisory board to the Federal Communications Commission consisting of state utility regulators has developed a new web portal for tracking and referencing broadband expansion projects nation-wide. The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act has allocated more than $7 billion towards broadband deployment and adoption projects, and the site, http://broadbandbestpractices.org, provides an easily searchable database for programs being established across the country. Users of the site will be able to research different projects and add their own information to collaborate on letting the best projects rise to the top, said the Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Services in a press release. The site will be maintained by the National Regulatory Research Institute, an independent research agency specializing in utility regulation. "BroadbandBestPractices.org will be the place to go for those responsible for pursuing greater broadband deployment in their State,” said NARUC President Frederick Butler. “The site will be an interactive, dynamic atmosphere that will embody the spirit of Web 2.0: Collaboration.” And State Chair of the Joint Conference Larry Landis said the site will be a "crucial resource" for State commissions as they determine how best to utilize ARRA grants. “The intent is to provide...Broadband Stimulus
Monday, March 16th, 2009
States Seek Best Strategies on Obtaining Broadband Stimulus Funds Close-to-Home
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By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2009 – As the Obama administration on Monday begins poring over the nitty-gritty details about how they will be spending $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funds, individual states are grappling to find their own best strategies to tap the funds. At the public meeting on March 10, officials at the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration made clear that the broadband grants – unlike the past several decades’ trend toward “block grants” – will not be channeled through states. Rather, with the exception that at least one grant be awarded within each state, the NTIA’s broadband grants will up for grabs by the most qualified applicant. But that hasn’t discouraged representatives from states and state groups. In fact, many are quite pleased with the way the broadband stimulus program is taking shape, and are eager to have their voice heard in the next phase of the broadband stimulus process. Among their grounds for optimism:- States and their political subdivisions are themselves eligible to receive grants through the various broadband programs of the NTIA and the Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service.
- States have the on-the-ground knowledge about particular communications needs that positions them to play the kind of coordinative and...
States
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
States Seeking Better Broadband Nationwide Turn and Make a Local Focus
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By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
November 11 – State telecommunications officials concerned about the universal deployment and use of high-speed internet services joined together at a San Jose conference on Thursday to compare notes, plot strategy and encourage programs and activities that will lead to better broadband nationwide. The states represented at the conference, the broadband summit of the Federal Communications Commission and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, were from Alaska, California, Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Tennessee. The FCC-NARUC joint summit meeting was the first in three years – or the first since the last sputtering of the legal battles precipitated by the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Those fights concerned whether state regulators should have a say in setting competition rules for telephone services. By the end of 2004, federal courts had sided with Bell companies in urging federal regulation of telecommunications, cutting state regulators out of interstate communications. Internet services have generally also fallen in that category, often hamstringing the efforts of state regulators to act on broadband access within their states. This focus on federal telecommunications policy is one reason why it is the notion of a national broadband strategy that has been the talk of Washington policy circles in the...Press Releases
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Broadband Census Executive Director to Speak at Federal Communications Commission Summit
Press Release
Executive Director Drew Clark to Provide Legislative Update on Broadband Data Improvement Act
WASHINGTON, November 3 - Drew Clark, Editor and Executive Director of BroadbandCensus.com, will speak in Silicon Valley on Thursday, November 6, at the summit on broadband data sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Clark, the journalist who launched BroadbandCensus.com in January 2008 as a means of providing the public with an objective measure of where broadband is available and which carriers offer it, was invited to speak at the "Broadband Summit: Connecting America." The joint FCC-NARUC summit is co-located with the Wireless Communications Association Symposium and Business Expo in San Jose, Calif. Clark will provide a "Legislative Update: Broadband Mapping Bill," from 12:40 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. He will speak in particular about the Broadband Data Improvement Act, S. 1492, which passed Congress and was signed into law by President Bush on Friday, October 10. He will also address other versions of broadband data legislation. Clark's remarks at the conference will be preceeded by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commissioner Larry Landis, California Public Utility Commissioner...States
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Indiana’s Larry Landis: Mapping Provides a Guide for Broadband Policy
Broadband Census Indiana (Sidebar)
By Drew Bennett, Special Correspondent, BroadbandCensus.com
Editor’s Note: BroadbandCensus.com has been surveying the state of broadband deployment and broadband data within each of the United States and its territories. Click here for the Indiana article. As part of BroadbandCensus.com’s goal of mapping out broadband speeds, prices, availability, competition and reliability, BroadbandCensus.com recently sponsored (with Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas at Austin and Virginia Tech’s eCorridors Program) the “Broadband Census for America Conference” on September 26, 2008. Indiana Utility Regulatory Commissioner Larry Landis was one of the speakers at the event. The spring 2009 conference, “Broadband Census for America: The New Administration,” is tentatively scheduled for Friday, March 27, 2009. October 22 - Indiana Commissioner Larry Landis is one of the most knowledgeable state utility regulators on telecommunications and broadband. In 2005, Landis was named to the Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Telecommunications Services, of which he is now State Chair, by Michael Powell, then-chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Last year he was appointed to a second four-year term on the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels. Through his service with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), Landis has been a first-hand...States
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Indiana Universities Leading Broadband Investments On- and Off-Campus
Broadband Census Indiana
By Drew Bennett, Special Correspondent, BroadbandCensus.com
This is the 17th of a series of articles surveying the state of broadband, and broadband data, within each of the United States and its territories. (Update, 10/22: Also see "Indiana’s Larry Landis: Mapping Provides a Guide for Broadband Policy," BroadbandCensus.com, October 22, 2008.) October 21 - Universities in Indiana are seeking to stay ahead of a potential traffic jam in broadband demand through investments in broadband infrastructure, cutting-edge research and rural connectivity in the Hoosier state. According to a recent study by EDUCAUSE, U.S. universities are at the leading edge of an explosion in broadband supply and demand: availability at research institutions increased by 60% in 2007. A network of universities in Indiana has set out to build one of the world’s premier fiber networks known as I-Light. It would support enhanced internet access in Indiana beyond university campuses, too. In part, campus bandwidth demand is driven by music and movie downloaders seeking the next Bit Torrent tool. But that is only part of the story. The EDUCAUSE report cited faculty research as the key demand driver for the highest bandwidth-usage activity, particularly large data sets, data visualizations and other applications. In fact,...Broadband Data
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Broadband Census for America Conference: About Our Experts
The Broadband Census for America Conference welcomes the nation’s foremost broadband policy-makers and experts on broadband data collection, distribution and mapping. Also see the official conference web page at http://broadbandcensus.com/conference.
Conference Bios and Key Resources:
- Art Brodsky, Public Knowledge
- Art Brodsky has been the communications director of Public Knowledge since February 2004. He is a veteran of Washington, D.C. telecommunications and Internet journalism and public relations.Art worked for 16 years with Communications Daily, a leading trade publication. He covered Congress through the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other major pieces of legislation. He also covered telephone regulation at the the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and at state regulatory commissions. In addition, he has covered the online industry since before there was an Internet, coming in just after videotext died but before the World Wide Web. Art was later an editor with Congressional Quarterly, with responsibilities for the daily and Web coverage of telecom, tech and other issues. Art’s freelance work has appeared in publications as diverse as the Washington Post, Huffington Post, TomPaine.com, TPMcafe and the World Book encyclopedia....
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