Articles Posted with the NCTA Tag
National Broadband Plan, Universal Service
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Universal Service Fund Needs Overhaul, and Most Want Broadband Included
National Broadband Plan, Net Neutrality
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Empiris Joins Multitude of Industry Groups in Anti-Berkman Chorus
By Winter Casey, Reporter, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, November 17, 2009 - The consulting firm Empiris LLC joined a host of cable and phone broadband network related entities on Tuesday when it slammed a recent study from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society on broadband policy. In July the Federal Communications Commission commissioned the Berkman Center to review the existing literature and studies on broadband deployment and usage throughout the world to inform the FCC’s development of a National Broadband Plan. The FCC is sought public comment on the study through November 16. Empiris held a teleconference with bloggers Tuesday to discuss its problems with the report. Empiris argues that the study failed to provide an accurate summary of broadband policies in other countries and advances “conclusions that conflict with the evidence found in existing research.” “The central question for developing broadband services and the infrastructure required to deliver them is how to provide the requisite incentives for carrier investment in such infrastructure,” noted Robert Crandall, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and a senior expert for Empiris, in a statement. “The Berkman Study ignores this issue, focusing instead on a policy of intra-platform competition that has been thoroughly discredited in...Broadband Events, Broadband TV, Broadband's Impact
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
What the Smart Grid and Telecommuting Mean for the Environment, at Broadband Breakfast Club
WASHINGTON, November 12, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com on Thursday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Broadband Breakfast Club event on November 10, 2009: "Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: The Environment and Telecommuting."
This video is 72 minutes, 58 seconds long. If you are unable to view the entire video, make sure to unclick the "HD" button on the right.
The event is available on BroadbandCensus.com at the following link.
The creation of a “smart grid” for electricity conservation may lead to parallel telecommunications networks by both utilities and traditional telephone communications providers; whether or not this was a positive development was debated at the Broadband Breakfast Club on Tuesday.
The event featured Jennifer Thomas Alcott, Telework!VA's program manager; Cynthia Brumfeld, Director of Research, Utilities Telecom Council; Kevin Moss, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BT Americas; Steven Ruth, Professor, George Mason University School of Public Policy; and Donald Thoma, Executive Vice President Marketing at the satellite company Iridium.
To register for the next Broadband Breakfast Club, to be held on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, please visit http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com. The Broadband Breakfast Club...
Broadband's Impact, FCC, National Broadband Plan
Friday, November 6th, 2009
USF Reforms Should Include Broadband, NCTA Tells FCC
By Andrew Feinberg, Deputy Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, November 6, 2009 - The National Cable and Telecommunications Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission to redirect up to $2 billion in "wasteful" spending from Universal Service programs towards broadband. The association did so in a filing submitted to the Commission on Thursday. With telephone subscriber contributions to the program now exceeding 12 percent of total usage fees -- and projected to pass 14 percent next year, it is "critically important" for the FCC to update the program, NCTA said in a press release. "The USF program operates as if nothing has changed since 1996," the association said in its filing. Americans continuous switch away from traditional copper-based phone service negates the need to subsidize it, and funds should be redirected towards the broadband infrastructure carrying Voice over IP traffic which Americans are increasingly choosing. "[A]s millions of Americans take service from facilities-based wireline competitors, the Commission continues to provide billions of dollars of support for [traditional] service." The NCTA suggests the FCC use a two-step process to reassess the level of USF support needed by measuring the availability of cable-based telephone service -- and reducing USF support where it can be shown that competitive service...Broadband TV, Broadband's Impact
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Four Doctors on How Technology Will Impact the Delivery of Health Care, at Broadband Breakfast Club
WASHINGTON, October 16, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com on Friday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Broadband Breakfast Club event on October 13, 2009: "Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Health Care and Telemedicine."
The event is available on BroadbandCensus.com at the following link.
The event featured Dr. Adam Darkins, who leads the National Telehealth Programs for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Dr. Ted Eytan, Medical Director, Delivery Systems Operations Improvement, Kaiser Permanente; Col. Ron Poropatich, M.D., Department of the Army, who is responsible for a range of telemedicine activities of the military; and Dr. Jay Sanders, CEO, Global Telemedicine Group; often dubbed the "father of telemedicine."
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Broadband's Impact, Net Neutrality
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Washington Technorati Toast Public Knowledge and Its IP3 Awards
By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
Public Knowledge's sixth annual "IP3 Awards" - which celebrates information policy, intellectual property, and internet protocol - drew a crowd of Washington's technorati to the Sewell-Belmont House in Washington on Thursday evening. Among the guests dropping by the event included White House science and technology policy aide Susan Crawford, the Obama administration's designee to be intellectual property czar Victoria Espinel, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, Office of Science and Technology Policy chief of staff Jim Kohlenberger, NTIA Administrator Lawrence Strickling, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn recommitted her organization to the principles of Net neutrality and to "balance" in the copyright wars. "Public Knowledge will not rest until we have an open internet," she said, and "universally accessable and affordable broadband." On copyright, she said, the non-profit group was "locked in a constant battle with Hollywood," including a fight over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement -- truly an intellectual property treaty -- which she said continues to be under seal and hidden from public disclosure. Sen. Warner introduced one of the awardees, Karen Jackson, the Deputy Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Jackson received the "information policy" award "for leading the Commonwealth’s broadband mapping...Broadband Events
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Broadband Breakfast Club Announces ‘Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan’
BroadbandCensus.com Unveils New Broadband Breakfast Club on 'Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan'
Series Runs from September 15, 2009, and Culminates on February 9, 2010, One Week Before the Federal Communications Commission's Plan is Due to Congress
Press Release
WASHINGTON, September 9, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com on Wednesday announced a new series of the Broadband Breakfast Club, “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan,” beginning on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, at 8 a.m. The series, which will run until February 9, 2010, one week before the FCC's plan is due to Congress, will continue the Broadband Breakfast Club’s year-long tradition of inviting top experts and policy-makers to share breakfast and perspectives on broadband technology and internet policy. The first panel, on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, will consider the FCC’s summer broadband workshops. What have they accomplished? What role have and will FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and his new staff play in shaping the plan? How will this plan unfold over the next six months? And how will the broadband stimulus program already underway affect the development of the FCC's plan? Confirmed panelists for the event include Joe Waz, Senior Vice President, Comcast; Aaron Smith, Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project; Bruce Kushnick, Executive Director,...Broadband Data, Broadband Stimulus, FCC, National Broadband Plan
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
The Week in Review: Whither Transparency?
From BroadbandCensus.com Weekly Report
WASHINGTON, August 3, 2009 – Less than two weeks remain before the first round of applications are due in the federal government’s broadband stimulus grants. The key issues facing the government can be summed up in three words: data, data and data. Last week began a three-ring affair to sort out the mess that is the current state of our nation’s broadband data. In one circle is the Federal Communications Commission, which opened an inquiry concerning how it should release the key data that it has about broadband deployment – the Form 477. Specifically, the FCC was asking what it means to “aggregate” data, and whether and how confidentiality restrictions should condition its further release of this data. Initial responses were due last Thursday. Many major carrier and non-profit groups have replied. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration was also buzzing last week on the very same topic. In remarks at a Charlottesville, Va., workshop reported on by BroadbandCensus.com, NTIA chief Lawrence Strickling dusted off a lamp and let the data genie out of the bottle. “We need the data: I think it is a national imperative in which this data be collected,” Strickling said about the $350 million...Additional Pages
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