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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...

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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...

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By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2009 - The BroadbandCensus.com List of NTIA Comments has been updated to include summaries of additional comments filed with the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Check back to this page frequently to view additional summaries of the substantive comments filed before the NTIA. The comments are summarized by the staff of BroadbandCensus.com. If you have a question about, or suggestion for, the BroadbandCensus.com List of NTIA Comments, please e-mail Cody Williams, Business Development Manager, BroadbandCensus.com, williams@broadbandcensus.com

Comments updated on the Broadband Census.com List of Comments

• AT&T
• Atkins Telephone
• ATSI
• Barling Bay
• Benton Foundation
• Big Think Strategies
• Boston
• Bresnan Communications
• Broadband Development Corporation
• Broadband Diversity Supporters
• Broadpoint
• Center for Democracy and Technology
• Cheetah Wireless
• Chicago
• Cisco
• Community Connect Network
• Connected Nation
• US Cellular
• US Telecom Association
• Utopian Wireless