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Federal Internet Law & Policy
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* Telecom but not a
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Title I Information Service.
Derived From: Broadband Internet Regulation and Access: Background and Issues, CRR Jan. 26, 2006 OpenCRS
Traditionally, Internet users have accessed the Internet through the same telephone line that can be used for traditional voice communication. A personal computer equipped with a modem is used to hook into an Internet dial-up connection provided (for a fee) by an Internet service provider (ISP) of choice. The modem converts analog signals (voice) into digital signals that enable the transmission of “bits” of data.
The faster the data transmission rate, the faster one can download files or hop from Web page to Web page. The highest speed modem used with a traditional telephone line, known as a 56K modem, offers a maximum data transmission rate of about 45,000 bits per second (bps). However, as the content on the World Wide Web becomes more sophisticated, the limitations of relatively low data transmission rates (called “narrowband”) such as 56K become apparent. For example, using a 56K modem connection to download a 10-minute video or a large software file can be a lengthy and frustrating exercise. By using a broadband high-speed Internet connection, with data transmission rates many times faster than a 56K modem, users can view video, make telephone calls, or download software and other datarich files in a matter of seconds. In addition to offering speed, broadband access provides a continuous “always on” connection (no need to “dial-up”) and a “two-way” capability — that is, the ability to both receive (download) and transmit (upload) data at high speeds.
Broadband access, along with the content and services it might enable, has the potential to transform the Internet — both what it offers and how it is used. For example, a two-way high speed connection could be used for interactive applications such as online classrooms, showrooms, or health clinics, where teacher and student (or customer and salesperson, doctor and patient) can see and hear each other through their computers. An “always on” connection could be used to monitor home security, home automation, or even patient health remotely through the Web. The high speed and high volume that broadband offers could also be used for bundled service where, for example, cable television, video on demand, voice, data, and other services are all offered over a single line. In truth, it is possible that many of the applications that will best exploit the technological capabilities of broadband, while also capturing the imagination of consumers, have yet to be developed.
Broadband Services Price and Bandwidth
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Price rounded to dollar amount.
Introductory Prices Ignored.
Sources:
- Service Provider Websites
- AT&T DSL one year contract
- Earthlink
- Charter 6 month Contract St Louis MO
- Comcast
- Cox Faifax VA
- Verizon
3G: $60 "unlimited" with two year contract, or $80 month to month
- Sprint
- 3G: $40 for 40 meg per month, or $60 unlimited with two year contract, or $80 month to month
- * UBS, Telecommunications and Cable Services (April 4, 2007)
If there was any ambiguity, we used the
higher price. Data rate was the listed potential "up to"
rate - actual data rates may vary. If a zip-code had to be provided to
get information, the zip-code 22201 was used. Prices may reflect annual contracts.
Broadband or high-speed Internet access is provided by a series of technologies that give users the
ability to send and receive data at volumes and speeds far greater than
current Internet access over traditional telephone lines. In addition
to offering speed, broadband access provides a continuous, “always on”
connection (no need to dial-up) and a “twoway” capability, that is, the
ability to both receive (download) and transmit (upload) data at high
speeds. Broadband access, along with the content and services it might
enable, has the potential to transform the Internet: both what it
offers and how it is used. It is likely that many of the future
applications that will best exploit the technological capabilities of
broadband have yet to be developed.
Speeches, Press Releases, Hearings
- Networked Nation: Broadband in America, 2007
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News Release: NTIA today released the report, "Networked Nation: Broadband in America, 2007," that highlights the dramatic growth of broadband in the United States. The report shows that the Administration's technology, regulatory and fiscal policies have stimulated innovation and competition, and encouraged investment in the U.S. broadband market contributing to significantly increased accessibility of broadband services.
"Today's report shows the nation's broadband success story. The President's policies have made a significant impact on the availability and affordability of broadband in the United States," said U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez. "The broadband policies put in place by the President have created a competitive environment to foster innovation and provide effective technologies, services and cost-effective solutions to revolutionize health care delivery, education, society and the economy. We look forward to continuing our progress on this issue."
Four years ago, President Bush established a national goal of universal, affordable broadband access for all Americans. Since then, the United States has witnessed remarkable results in the growth of the broadband marketplace and the proliferation of broadband platforms and service options. The existing data indicate that broadband is available to the vast majority of U.S. households:
- According to the FCC's 2006 data, broadband service was available in 99 percent of the nation's zip codes, encompassing 99 percent of the nation's population;
- Since President Bush took office, the total number of broadband lines in the United States has grown by more than 1,100 percent from almost 6.8 million lines in December 2000, to 82.5 million in December 2006, according to the most recent FCC data.
- By December 2006, 91.5 percent of ZIP codes had three or more competing service providers and more than 50 percent of the nation's ZIP codes had six or more competitors.
The report examines the comprehensive package of technology, regulatory, and fiscal polices implemented by the Administration to lower barriers to investment and create an environment in which broadband innovation and competition can flourish.
- News
- Taking Credit Where None is Due (NTIA Broadband Report), Global Crossing 2/15/2008
- Pathetic NTIA Broadband Report: Inflated ZIP Codes and BPL, Peerflow 2/13/2008
- COMMISSIONER MICHAEL J. COPPS QUESTIONS NTIA'S BROADBAND REPORT, FCC 2/7/2008
- COMMISSIONER JONATHAN S. ADELSTEIN RESPONDS TO NTIA REPORT ON BROADBAND, FCC 2/7/2008
- NTIA Says Bush Has Met Broadband Goals - Findings based on flawed data, dslreports 2/4/2008
- George Bush Claims Broadband Mission Accomplished, Open Left 2/4/2008
- Gutierrez Hails Dramatic Broadband Growth, NTIA 1/31/2008
- Ignoring Reality, Bush Declares Broadband Mission Accomplished, Free Press 1/31/2008
- Bush Administration Broadband Report Distorts Reality, PK 1/31/2008
- Communications, Broadband and Competitiveness: How Does the U.S. Measure Up? Senate Commerce Committee Apr 24, 2007, Senate 4/24/2007
- The State of Broadband: Hearing Before the S. Comm. on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 110th Cong. 5 (2007)
- AT&T /
BellSouth pledge 100% broadband availability in region as part of merger conditions.
- Promoting
Broadband Deployment Across America, NTIA 11/15/2005
- Strategy
- Obama admin has called on the FCC to, within one year, create a Broadband Strategy. The FCC is already under an obligation to report to congress on a rural broadband strategy.
- Government Papers
- Speeches
- Meredith
Attwell, Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for
Communications and Information, spoke on "Promoting Broadband
Deployment in Rural America" at the Southeastern Association of
Regulatory Utility Commissioners (SEARUC) 2005 Annual Conference in
Covington, Kentucky on June 7, 2005, NTIA 6/10/2005
- REACHING
BROADBAND NIRVANA UNITED POWERLINE COUNCIL ANNUAL CONFERENCE REMARKS OF
COMMISSIONER KATHLEEN Q. ABERNATHY. CMMR. September 22, 2003 (As
prepared for delivery), FCC 9/24/03
- Julie Veach, Why Should We
Talk About Broadband Oct 2002 PPT
- Remarks of Michael K. Powell, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, at the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program University of Colorado at Boulder, Broadband Migration III: New Directions in Wireless Policy (Oct. 30, 2002)
- Assistant
Secretary Nancy J. Victory spoke before the European Institute Seminar
on "U.S. and European Approaches to the Future of Broadband.", NTIA
6/20/02
- Assistant
Secretary Nancy J. Victory spoke to the Broadband Outlook 2002
Conference on "The New Medium for a New Media?", NTIA 1/24/02
- National Summit on
Broadband Deployment October 25-26, 2001 Real
Audio archive Including Ch. Powell's Broadband Speech
- REMARKS OF KEVIN J.
MARTIN, COMMISSIONER, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION,. CMMR. AT THE
NATIONAL SUMMIT ON BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT, OCTOBER 26, 2001, (As Prepared
for Delivery), "Framework for Broadband Deployment" DOC-217205A1.pdf
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- REMARKS OF MICHAEL K.
POWELL, CHAIRMAN, FCC,. CMMR. AT THE NATIONAL SUMMIT ON BROADBAND
DEPLOYMENT, WASHINGTON, DC DOC-217168A1.pdf
- Hearings
- Digital Future of the United States: Part VI: The Future of Telecommunications Competition House Commerce Telecom and Internet Subcommittee Oct 2, 2007, House 9/27/2007
- Commerce Announces Broadband and Competitiveness Hearing, Senate 4/18/2007
- Competition
in the Communications Marketplace: How Technology Is Changing the
Structure of the Industry.
Hearing by the Full Committee on Energy and Commerce Wednesday, March
02, 2005 10:00 AM 2123 Rayburn House Office Building
- House
Commerce Hearing: Competition in the Communications Marketplace: How
Technology Is Changing the Structure of the Industry., House
2/22/2005
- Statements on Competition
Issues in the
Telecommunications Industry, Before the Committee on Commerce, Science
and Transportation, United States Senate., FCC 1/15/03
- Feb
26 House Commerce : Health of the Telecommunications Sector: A
Perspective from the Commissioners of the Federal Communications
Commission, House 2/10/03
- Senate
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2003 9:30 a.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine the state of competition in the
telecommunications industry. SR-253, Senate 1/13/03
- Reports
- Press Releases
- Lieberman Calls for Adding
Broadband Policy to Agenda at White House Tech Forum Continues push for
national strategy to speed deployment and spur economic growth 2002 Press
Release
- Legislation
- USDA
RUS Public Meeting on Rural Broadband Access Thursday, June 27, 2002
- President
Discusses Technology (Real Audio), WH 6/17/02
- The
Development
of Broadband in OECD Countries October 2001
- NTIA
Broadband Forum Meeting Announcement, NTIA 10/12/01
- May 17 House Subcommittee
on Regulatory Reform and Oversight and the Subcommittee on Rural
Enterprises, Agriculture and Technology of the Committee on Small
Business, joint hearing, Economic Development in Rural America - Small
Business Access to Broadband. 2:00 p.m. in Room 2360 RHOB.
- Report
to the 77th Texas Legislature -Availability of Advanced Services in
Rural and High Cost Areas.Jan 2001
- Report
to the 77th Texas Legislature on Intrastate Switched Access Charges Jan
2001
- Mar. 28. Senate Commerce
Committee Hearing on Deployment of High Speed Internet Service
9:30 am Room 253 RSOB.
- Deploying
Broadband More Broadly: Working Together to Roll-out Access in
America's Small Cities and Rural Areas Commissioner Gloria Tristani,
Federal Communications Commission ,New
Mexico
Communications Network Symposium, Albuquerque, New Mexico , November
10, 1999
- Press
Release: BellSouth Needs Your Help to Create a Faster, More Affordable
Internet!
- Rural Telcos
Actively Deploy Broadband NTCA Surveys Independent Telcos on Status of
Internet Deployment Sept 15, 1999
- Bell
Atlantic Press Release: Bell Atlantic Says Clear Away
Restrictive Regulations That Threaten Growth of the Internet June 24
1999
- FCC OET Tutorial: Voice and Data over Power
Lines. May 5, 1 - 4 pm. Announcement.
- US West
Press Release: On Eve of Telecom Act 3rd Anniversary, U S
WEST Says FCC Policies Putting "ROAD CLOSED" Sign on Info Highway for
Millions of Americans 2/3/99
- Intel
Press Release: Computer Industry and Regional Telephone Firms Join
Together to Accelerate Widespread Availability of Fast Internet
Services to Consumers - Companies to Present Landmark Broadband Access
Proposal to FCC (December 7, 1998)
- December 7, 1998 Statement
of FCC Chairman William E. Kennard On Companies' Request for
Guidelines On High-speed Networks
- Press
Release : Bell Atlantic Introduces Infospeed DSL Service to the
Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh Markets (October 5, 1998)
- Press
Release: High-Speed Data Networks Blocked by Regulatory
Restrictions, U S WEST Tells Panel 09/04/1998
- AT&T
reaction to FCC NPRM on Bell data networks, AT&T News Release
(August 6, 1998).
- Chairman Kennard's Speech Before
the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Seattle,
WA. 7/27/98
- ALTS
Commends NTIA for Being a Voice of Reason in the Competitive
Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications (07/20/98)
- Remarks
of Commissioner Susan Ness Before the Computer and Communications
Industry Association's 1998 Washington Caucus, Washington, D.C., JUNE
9, 1998. "To Have and Have Not: Advanced Telecommunications
Technologies".
- ALTS
Press Release: "ALTS Dismisses Bell Monopoly Petitions that seek .
. . (sic)" (June 15, 1998).
- Bell
Atlantic Press Release: Bell Atlantic Launches Next-Generation Long
Distance Data Network to Address $80 Billion Market for 21st Century
Communications Lucent to Supply Equipment and Operating Systems (June
8, 1998)
- Remarks by
William Kennard Chairman Federal Communications Commission to
USTA's Inside Washington Telecom April 27, 1998 (as prepared for
delivery)
- URGENT ACTION
ALERT- Support Needed for APT's Petition to the FCC for
Accelerating Advanced Services to All Sectors of Our Society - March
31, 1998
- BA Press Release: Bell Atlantic
Files Petition to Hasten Deployment Of High-Speed Network (Jan 27,
1998)
- Ameritech
Press Release (March 5, 1998) asking for regulatory relief.
- FNC Resolution May 1997 (
"The FNCAC firmly believes that the Internet is a critical resource for the national reseach and education communities. This resource should be made available to the widest possible customer/user base with the highest possible level of service. For this reason, the FNCAC recommends that the FCC in its deliberations about the pricing of communications services to Internet service providers give serious consideration to policies which encourage and promote the rapid emergence of Internet access alternatives (ADSL, ISDN, wireless) and other options which provide market differentiation through quality of service.")
Papers
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Balancing Regulation and Public Policy to Facilitate Investment and Innovation in Advanced Communications -
Johannes M. Bauer, Michigan State University TPRC 2009
- Structural Separation versus Vertical Integration: Lessons from Electricity Reforms for Telecommunications
- Bronwyn Howell, New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation (ISCR), Richard Meade, ISCR, Seini O'Connor, ISCR TPRC 2009
- William Lehr, Tony Smith-Grievo "Measurement and Assessment of Broadband Availability,"
report prepared for John Adams Innovation Institute of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, January 2009
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Government Intervention: Why competition is not sufficient for broadband deployment?
- Orada Teppayayon, Erik Bohlin TPRC 2009
- William Lehr, Tony Smith-Grieco and Grace Rusi Woo, "Broadband Metrics Best Practices: Review and Assessment," report prepared for Massachusetts Technology Collaborative/John Adams Innovation Institute (MTC/JAII), February 2008. ( pdf )
- Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University; Ryab McDevitt, Northwestern University
The Broadband Bonus: Accounting for Broadband Internet's Impact on U.S. GDP
(TPRC 2008)
- Mark Jamison, PURC, University of Florida; Lynne Holt, Public Utility Research Center
Broadband and Contributions to Economic Growth: Lessons from the U.S. Experience
(TPRC 2008)
- Jed Kolko, PPIC
The Effect of Broadband on Local Economic Development
(TPRC 2008)
- David Clark, MIT
A Simple Cost Model for Broadband Access: What Will Video Cost?
(TPRC 2008)
- Crandall, Robert, William Lehr and Robert Litan (2007), The Effects of Broadband Deployment on Output and Employment: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of U.S. Data
, Issues in Economic Policy , 6 (July)
- Joseph Fuhr, Jr. & Stephen B. Pociask, Broadband Services: Economic And Environmental Benefits Internet Innovation (2007)
- David Shideler, Narine Badasyan & Laura Taylor, The Economic Impact of Broadband
Deployment in Kentucky, 3 REGIONAL ECON. DEV. 88 (2007).
- William Lehr, Robert Crandall and Robert Litan, "The Effects of Broadband Deployment on Output and Employment: A Cross-sectional Analysis of U.S. Data," with Robert Crandall and Robert Litan, The Brookings Institution: Issues in Economic Policy, Number 6, July 2007 ( pdf )
- Eun-A Park, Richard Taylor, Barriers to Entry Analysis of Broadband Multiple
Platforms: Comparing the U.S. and South Korea
TPRC 2006
- Kenneth Flamm, Diagnosing the Disconnected: Where and
Why is Broadband Access Unavailable in the U.S.? TPRC 2006
- Michael Clements, Amy Abramowitz, The
Deployment and Adoption of Broadband Service: A Household-Level Analysis
TPRC 2006
- Sharon E. Gillett, William H. Lehr, Carlos A. Osorio & Marvin A. Sirbu, Measuring The Economic Impact Of Broadband Deployment
(2006)
( pdf )
- Irene Wu, Broadband
Adoption in Canada, South Korea, and Japan PURC Jan 2005
- Andrew
Odlyzko, Pricing and Architecture of the Internet: Historical
Perspectives from Telecommunications and Transportation, TPRC
10/2/2004
- Kenneth
Flamm, The Determinants of Broadband Competition: Economics,
Demographics, and State Policy, TPRC 10/2/2004
- Reed
Hundt, Reforming Telecom Policy for the Big Broadband Era: Why is
Government Subsidizing the Old Networks When 'Big Broadband'
Convergence is Inevitable and Optimal?, NAF 2/5/2004
- New Millennium Research
Council, Directions for the Next New Age of Telecom Regulation (PDF)
Jan 2004
- Stagg
Newman, Broadband Access Platforms to the Mass Market an Assessment ,
TPRC 9/13/03
- Debra
J. Aron, David E. Burnstein, Broadband Adoption in the United States:
An Empirical Analysis, TPRC 9/13/03
- Serena
Chan , Investing in the Development of a Space-Based Information
Network Infrastructure, TPRC 9/13/03
- William
H. Lehr, Carlos Osorio , Local Government Broadband Initiatives,
TPRC 9/13/03
- Crandall, Robert, et al., "The
Effect of Ubiquitous Broadband Adoption on Investment, Jobs and the
U.S.Economy," Washington, DC: New Millennium Research, September
17, 2003.
- "Accelerating
Advanced Broadband Deployment in the U.S.," Position statement of
the IEEE-USA Board of Directors, Washington, DC: IEEE, February 2003
- Communications
Policy, Media Development and Convergence, IJCLP 1/21/03
- Bauer, J., Kim. J. & Wildman, S. Broadband Deployment:
Toward a More Fully Integrated Policy Perspective,Quello Center
Working Paper 001-2003. (2003)
- Sharon Eisner Gillett, David
Clark, William Lehr, Marvin Sirbu and Jane Fountain, Local
Government Stimulation of Broadband: Effectiveness: E-Government, and
Economic Development, 2002
- Varian, Litan, Elder and Shutter (2002), The Net Impact Study: The Projected Economic Benefits of the Internet in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany
, v2.0
- Robert Atkinson, Shane Ham,
and Brian Newkirk, Unleashing the Potential of the High-Speed Internet,
Progressive Policy Institute (Sept. 2002).
- Technet, A
National Imperative: Universal Availability of Broadband by 2010
2002
- Stephen B. Pociask Building
a Nationwide Broadband Network: Speeding Job Growth 2002
- PAPER:
Whither Broadband Policy?, TPRC 9/18/02
- CTSB:
Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, CTSB 2/13/02 (Letter
from Ch Powell to David Clark, Chair, CTSB on its Bringing Home the
Bits Report, FCC 2/13/02)
- Technet
Broadband Report: TechNet CEOs Call for National Broadband
Policy Ambitious Goal of 100 Megabites to 100 Million Homes & Small
Businesses by 2010
- Crandall, R. and C. Jackson (2001), The $500 Billion Opportunity: The Potential Economic Benefit of Widespread Diffusion of Broadband Internet Access
, mimeo, Criterion Economics.
- The
Speed Gap: Broadband Infrastructure and Electronic Commerce BTLJ
by Howard A. Shelanski 1999
- Sharon Eisner Gillett,
William Lehr, Availability
of Broadband Internet Access: Empirical Evidence, . TPRC 1999
- Net-Heads
Vs. Bell Heads: Grudge Match of the Century Taking Place at the FCC, Boardwatch
(October 1998)
- FCC
Examines Obstacles to Advanced Telecommunications, Boardwatch
(August 1998).
Links
Regulatory
Proceedings
| NTIA Broadband Inquiry |
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| NTIA
has requested comments on several broadband deployment issues,
including supply and demand for broadband services and the technical,
economic, or regulatory barriers to broadband deployment. |
Comments Dec 18
2001.
New
Release.
Fed
Reg Notice. |
| CC Docket No. 01-337 |
Comments Due March 1
Replies Due April 22 |
Ex Parte Period |
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| Broadband
and Dominant Provider
Proceedinig |
Express
Your Views!
Comments can be filed with the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing
System. FAQ: How to participate
in FCC Proceedings. |
Fed
Reg Notice 1/15/02:
Synopsis of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
1. In this proceeding, the Commission initiates an examination of
appropriate regulatory requirements for incumbent
LECs' provision of domestic broadband telecommunications services
(broadband services). The NPRM focuses on traditional Title II common carrier regulation,
arising largely out of sections 201 and 202 of the Communications Act
of 1934, as amended, as applied to incumbent LEC provision of broadband
services. In particular, the Commission seeks comment on what
regulatory
safeguards and carrier obligations, if any, should apply when a carrier
that is dominant in the provision of traditional local exchange and
exchange access services provides broadband service.
2. The Commission asks for comments on the nature and scope of the
market for domestic broadband services. It also seeks comment on the
relevant market dynamics--including intermodal competition and the
nascent stage of market development for residential broadband
services--affecting the provision of domestic broadband services. The
Commission requests comment on the appropriate regulatory requirements
under Title II of the Act for the provision of broadband services by
incumbent LECs given current market conditions.
3. In particular, the Commission asks interested parties to address how
the Commission can best balance the goals of encouraging broadband
investment and deployment, fostering competition in the provision of
broadband services, promoting innovation, and eliminating unnecessary
regulation. As part of this proceeding, the Commission also invites
comment on the Petition filed by SBC Communications on October 3, 2001,
requesting an expedited ruling that it is non-dominant in the
provision
of broadband
services, and asking the Commission to forbear from dominant carrier
regulation of those services.
4. Background. The NPRM summarizes the various regulatory requirements
the Commission has developed in the past, which involve streamlining
regulation of firms in increasingly competitive markets, and
competitive safeguards to ensure competition in related markets.
5. Identification of Incumbent LEC-Provided Broadband Services Markets.
The Commission asks for comment aimed at defining and analyzing the
relevant markets in which incumbent LECs provide these broadband
services. Consistent with Commission precedent, our regulatory response
should be guided by a full understanding of the existing market
dynamics for broadband services. The Commission begins its analysis by
asking questions about the relevant product and geographic markets for
incumbent LEC-provided broadband services. It then analyzes what, if
any, market power the incumbent LECs may possess
in the
relevant markets for broadband services.
6. Appropriate Regulatory Requirements. Once the Commission has defined
the relevant product and geographic markets for broadband services, it
can use this information to determine what regulatory requirements, if
any, should govern the provision of broadband services. The Commission
begins by briefly describing relevant portions of the existing
regulatory structure for broadband services provided by incumbent LECs.
Then it invites interested parties to propose alternative requirements
for these broadband services in light of existing market and
technological developments. The Commission encourages interested
parties to develop proposals for new or modified regulatory
requirements for broadband services. |
FCC
Don / Non Dom webpage
Fed
Reg Notice 1/15/02
IN
THE MATTER OF REVIEW OF REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR INCUMENT LEC
BROADBAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES. Granted a limited extension so
that parties may file reply comments on April 22, 2002. Action by:
Deputy Chief, Common Carrier Bureau. Adopted: 03/22/2002 by ORDER. (DA
No. 02-705). CCB , FCC 3/25/02
FCC
Initiates Proceeding to Examine Regulatory Treatment of Incumbent
Carriers' Broadband Services
REVIEW
OF REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR INCUMBENT LEC BROADBAND
TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES. Corrected docket number in NPRM (FCC
01-360), released Dec. 20. Dkt No. 01-337 by ERRATUM. CCB, FCC
12/28/01
IN
THE MATTER OF REVIEW OF REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR INCUMBENT LEC
BROADBAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES. Comment Date 45 Days after
publication in the Federal Register. Reply Comment Dates, 30 days after
Comment Date. (Dkt No. 01-337). Action by: The Commission. Adopted:
12/12/2001 by NPRM. (FCC No. 01-360). CCB |
FCC To
Review Broadband Rules, ISP Planet 12/14/01
| Local Competition and Broadband
Reporting, CC Docket
No. 99-301 |
| LOCAL
COMPETITION AND BROADBAND
REPORTING. Adopted rules and standardized form to collect basic
information about two critical and dynamic areas of the communications
industry: the development of local telephone service competition and
the deployment of broadband services. Dkt No.: CC- 99-301. Action by
the Commission. Adopted: March 24, 2000. by R&Order.
(FCC No. 00-114). CCB
FCC Adopts
Data Collection Program To Assess Local Telecommunications Competition
And Broadband Deployment. Information to Assist Commission's Efforts to
Further Deregulate Telecommunications Markets and Determine State of
Broadband Deployment; News Media contact: Mike Balmoris 202-418-0253.
by MO&O. Action by: the Commission. Adopted: March 24, 2000. Dkt
No.: CC- 99-301. CCB. News
Release
This
proceeding is promulgating rules requiring certain entities to report
data to the FCC on the deployment of broadband. Below is some
relevant language of significance to the Internet:
61.
The Commission does not regulate internet services, but recognizes that
Internet Protocol (IP) telephony may become an important substitute for
circuit-switched telephony. As a result, when evaluating the
development of local competition, we believe it is necessary to include
the development of IP-telephony service. However, while the
proposed survey instructions direct reporting entities to report lines
that may be used in connection with IP- telephony service, as discussed
below, the survey questions do not identify the use of IP- telephony
per se. We seek comment whether we should undertake a more
specific determination of the extent to which the internet is being
used to provide telephony services and how we should do so.
62. Survey instructions direct LECs to report lines in service
that connect directly to an end user at one end and, at the other end,
connect to a carrier switch or to a network that carries voice calls to
the public switched telephone network. For purposes of this
Notice, "public switched telephone network" includes the traditional
circuit-switched telephone network as well as all alternatives to the
wireline infrastructure, regardless of switching technology. The
distinguishing characteristic is that only those networks that enable a
telephone service subscriber to place a voice call to any other
telephone service subscriber are included. Thus, for example, the
number of lines reported by a LEC would not depend on whether that LEC
has deployed packet-switching technology into some, or all, of its
serving wire centers. Similarly, the LEC would report a line if
it connects an end user to the network of another entity that offers
telephone service to the general public, regardless of the switching
technology deployed in the network of that entity.
63. Reported numbers of lines in service to end users therefore
would include (but would not separately identify) lines serving
residences in which computer hobbyists, for example, have
installed software that enables voice calls to be placed over the
public internet. The reported number of lines also would include any
unbundled LEC loops that the LEC provides to another communications
carrier in connection with the second carrier's offering of an
IP-telephony service to the general public. By contrast, to the
extent that a corporation uses a dedicated network to carry IP-based
voice calls, the lines that comprise the dedicated corporate network
would not be counted in the survey.
64. We note that numbers of lines in service to end users,
reported in Sections I - III of the survey, also would not include
lines (or, more precisely, added functionality of lines) that connect
end users to internet service providers (ISPs) but which the reporting
carrier provides to the ISP rather than to the end user. Examples
of such arrangements are the recently announced agreements under which
America Online will lease, from Bell Atlantic and SBC Communications,
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) capacity that America Online will
incorporate into a premium (higher-speed) option for its internet
service. In these circumstances, however, the LEC that provides
DSL capacity to the ISP would continue to report the voice grade line
that it provides to the end user. Also, if the DSL capacity that
is provided to the ISP meets the definition of broadband that we
propose to adopt for purposes of the survey (i.e., supporting either
one way or two way communication, at bandwidthgreater than 200 Kbps),
and the line connects to a customer, then, as outlined in the next
section of this Notice, the ISP would report the line in Section IV and
possibly Section V of the survey. We invite comment on this
particular means of collecting data about DSL, and potentially other,
high-capacity communications services with internet-related uses.
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Exparte
Rules: This is a "permit-but-disclose" proceeding. You
can voice your opinion but must file a written summary of your views
with the FCC Secretary. See Ex Parte
Fact Sheet ¶¶ 9-10.
Apr 17 FCC Data
Collection Workshops. FCC, Wash D.C.
IN THE
MATTER OF LOCAL COMPETITION AND BROADBAND REPORTING. Erratum to R&O
(FCC-00-114), released March 30, 2000. Action by Chief, Common
Carrier
Bureau. Adopted: April 14, 2000. by Erratum. (DA No. 00-869). CCB
Released:
April 28, 2000. DATA COLLECTION WORKSHOP TO BE HELD ON MAY 1, 2000
SECOND WORKSHOP TO ASSIST CARRIERS IN COMPLYING WITH THE NEW LOCAL
COMPETITION
AND BROADBAND REPORTING REQUIREMENT. Dkt No.: CC-99-301. Contact: FCC
Call Center at 1-888-CALL-FCC or TTY: (202) 418-0484. News
Media Contact:
Michael Balmoris (202) 418-0253.
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FEDERAL
COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RELEASES DATA ON HIGH-SPEED SERVICES FOR
INTERNET ACCESS. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today
released summary statistics of its latest data on the deployment of
high-speed Internet services in the United States.. News Release.
Adopted: 08/09/2001 CCB. Contact Michael Balmoris at 202-418-0253 Report
| Press
Release
U.S. Report
Inspires Hot Debate over High-Speed Internet, Newsfactor 8/13/01
FCC:
Broadband customers up 158 percent, CNET 8/10/01
High-speed
Internet connections more numerous, FCC says, Nando 8/10/01
Broadband Use
Skyrocketing - FCC, Newsfactor 8/10/01
FCC
Reports 63 Percent Jump In Broadband Use, Washtech 8/10/01
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- FCC Kicks Off Effort to Develop a National Broadband Plan, Tech Policy Central 4/9/2009
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- FCC seeks input on national broadband plan, CNET 4/9/2009
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- U.S. Broadband Is Fine, Nothing To See Here - The New York Times methodically fixing all broadband issues.., dslreports 3/12/2009
- Broadband connects sick children with classrooms, Speed Matters 3/10/2009
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- Connected Nation Takes Aim At Stimulus Broadband Mapping; Rural Areas Could Be Hurt, PK 2/18/2009
- Public Knowledge Hails Open Internet Provisions of Stimulus Bill, PK 2/12/2009
- Network Neutrality Preserved In Stimulus, OpenLeft 2/12/2009
- Understanding What The Broadband Stimulus Does, and What It Doesn't Try To do., Tales from the Sausage Factory 2/10/2009
- Benkler analyzes Broadband in Stimulus Bills, Isen 2/3/2009
- House Expected to OK Billions for Broadband, Internet News 1/29/2009
- House Republicans Continue to Stand Up For Principle Despite Self Interest or Common Sense. Go GOP!, Tales from the Sausage Factory 1/29/2009
- Shane Greenstein, The Broadband Bonus: Accounting for Broadband Internet's Impact on U.S. GDP (Jan 2008), Greenstein 1/21/2009
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- Obama's Official Broadband Policy, Telecom Policy 1/15/2009
- Democrats sneak Net neutrality rules into 'stimulus' bill, CNET 1/15/2009
- Why Government Investment in Broadband Is Justified Now, CircleID 1/7/2009
- EDUCAUSE and Internet2 Join Broad Coalition In Support of a National Broadband Strategy Lauren Rotman, Internet2 12/10/2008
- Obama to include broadband in economic stimulus package , Speed Matters 12/10/2008
- Copper Thieves Threaten U.S. Infrastructure, FBI says , Wired 12/5/2008
- FBI: Copper Thefts Threaten U.S. Infrastructure - Reason number 1,237 to deploy Fiber to the home?, dslreports 12/5/2008
- 75% Of Broadband Customers Would Switch ISPs - If scheduling the new install wasn't such a pain in the ass., dslreports 11/25/2008
- New Study Says Go Green with Greater Telecommuting, USTelecom 11/25/2008
- Telcos: The Internet Will Collapse If The Gov't Doesn't Gives Us Lots Of Money, Techdirt 11/25/2008
- U.S. Telcos want $30-60B bailout, Telecom Policy 11/25/2008
- A National Broadband Strategy Call to Action, PK 11/18/2008
- Google's Schmidt calls for more innovation, stronger infrastructure, CNET 11/18/2008
- Eric Schmidt: Open Broadband to Competition, IP Democracy 11/18/2008
- Again, There's No Broadband 'Price War' - Non-price competition is the benefit of monopoly/duopoly power., dslreports 10/23/2008
- Bandwidth prices fall sharply, Tech Liberation Front 10/10/2008
- FCC ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER MEETING ON BROADBAND POLICY TO BE HELD BY THE FEDERAL-STATE JOINT CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED SERVICES. News Release. News Media Contact: Robert Kenny, FCC 9/30/2008
- Is It the Dawn of the Reregulation Era?, Telecom Industry and Regulation 9/22/2008
- Hearing shows high speed Internet opening doors for the disadvantaged, Speed Matters 9/22/2008
- Our broadband sucks but at least we have a lot of company, Muni 9/16/2008
- Another Voice Warns of an Innovation Slowdown, NYT 9/2/2008
- Broadband Draws Entertainment Traffic, clickz 6/26/2008
- Report shows U.S. high speed Internet deployment still lags behind, Speed Matters 9/16/2008
- Verizon: What Broadband Problem? - You're not looking at the data the way Verizon would like you to...., dslreports 9/11/2008
- State Broadband Speeds Compared - Who knew that Delaware was a broadband juggernaut?, dslreports 5/30/2008
- Slow growth for high speed Internet, Speed Matters 6/24/2008
- Broadband Signals Silent in Many Neighborhoods, Speed Matters 6/24/2008
- Hearing shows high speed Internet opening doors for the disadvantaged, Speed Matters 9/22/2008
- Is It the Dawn of the Reregulation Era?, Telecom Industry and Regulation 9/22/2008
- Our broadband sucks but at least we have a lot of company, Muni 9/16/2008
- Another Voice Warns of an Innovation Slowdown, NYT 9/2/2008
- What if you could own your Internet connection?, Google 7/24/2008
- NATOA ANNOUNCES ADOPTION OF BROADBAND PRINCIPLES, PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES AND ACTIONS, NATOA 7/21/2008
- Nation's Largest ISPs Crafting Fake National Broadband Policy - In order to make sure that no real, substantive ones take shape...., dslreports 7/18/2008
- Connected Nation: National Broadband Policy Or Big Telco Front?, Techdirt 7/18/2008
- Getting the Best National Broadband Data, Verizon 7/18/2008
- Report: High speed Internet opens educational opportunities, Speed Matters 7/8/2008
- U.S. Broadband Cannot Be Fixed Until You Tackle Corruption - Editorial: broadband cheerleading and Ivy League round tables aren't enough., dslreports 6/30/2008
- FCC Announces Public En Banc Hearing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Broadband and the Digital Future, FCC 6/30/2008
- Online Everyone: The Internet for Everyone, a new public/private coalition, Peerflow 6/26/2008
- Broadband Deployment Beyond 2010, Verizon 6/20/2008
- Debunking Broadband Myths, Verizon 6/20/2008
- Broadband Infrastructure Investment Would Have Ten Fold Payoff - $100 billion investment would net trillion dollar economic growth, says analyst, dslreports 6/4/2008
- Kevin Martin Defends Shoddy Broadband Record - You apparently have to put his failure in full context...., dslreports 5/30/2008
- Scuse Me Whilst I Pause to Savor the Irony - Wall St. J Writer Blames Kevin Martin For Slo., Tales from the Sausage Factory 5/30/2008
- Large sections of Washington are still not connected to high speed Internet, Speed Matters 5/28/2008
- Qwest begs for government subsidies for broadband, Muni 5/22/2008
- Tennessee outpaces nation in adoption of high speed Internet, Speed Matters 5/20/2008
- Media Access Project brings DC to Silicon Valley: May 12 and June 12, Muni 5/6/2008
- ITIF: Explaining International Broadband Leadership, Next Gen Web 5/6/2008
- Connect Kentucky Disconnected At Home, PK 4/15/2008
- FCC Bans Exclusive Contracts For Telecommunications Services In Apartment Buildings , FCC 3/25/2008
- Google backs 'white space' wi-fi, BBC 3/25/2008
- European Internet speeds up, prices down`, Globe and Mail 3/20/2008
- FCC Votes To Ban Exclusive Telco Broadband Deals - After applying the ban for cable operators last year., dslreports 3/20/2008
- Top Telecom Ambassador: No Broadband Lag in U.S., IP Democracy 3/20/2008
- ISP Lobbying Group: What Rural Broadband Problem? - Move along folks, there's nothing to see here., dslreports 3/7/2008
- Developing a Digital Strategy - Where to start?, Cisco 2/4/2008
- Shades of NSFNet: EDUCAUSE Proposes 100Mbps Nationwide Broadband, Peerflow 2/4/2008
- Broadband Policy, IIA 1/24/2008
- Gigi on Telecom on C-Span and NPR, PK 1/24/2008
- The "ConnectKentucky Model" -- A Limited Step In the Right Direction, Muni 1/17/2008
- The Future of Broadband, IIA 1/17/2008
- Connect Kentucky Provides Uncertain Model for Federal Legislation, PK 1/10/2008
- America's broadband shame, Salon 10/26/2007
- 100Mbps Symmetrical: $48.50 - Did we mention you need to live in Hong Kong?, DSLreports 9/25/2007
- ISPs Still Confusing 'Limited' & 'Unlimited' - Have their marketing cake and eat it, too..., DSLreports 9/21/2007
- When Broadband Duopolists Fight, We Win? Maybe . . . ., PK 11/13/2007
- Broadband Via Spy Plane - Russian Myasishchev M-55 spy planes, DSLreports 11/9/2007
- "Bread & Circuses" -- A telecom conspiracy theory, Verizon 11/9/2007
- U.S. Broadband Stuck in the Internet Slow Lane, CircleID 11/1/2007
- Commerce Committee Approves Bill to Make Broadband Access More Affordable, Senate 11/1/2007
- FCC To Ban Exclusive Broadband Deals - New rules to be handed down on Wednesday., DSLreports 10/31/2007
- Broadband is one of World Trade's 'Fabulous 50' - Driving world trade even if the U.S. is behind, DSLreports 9/4/2007
- Aspen Summit videos are up, PFF 8/29/2007
- FCC, Verizon: Rejoice over your broadband connection, CNET 8/23/2007
- Broadband Speeds Averaging About 1/3 Of The Speed On The Box, Techdirt 8/9/2007
- FCC: What Broadband Problem? - McDowell editorial..., DSLreports 7/27/2007
- What I told Senator Durbin, Part II, Isen 7/27/2007
- Stevens Cosponsors Bill to Make Broadband Access More Affordable, Senate 7/26/2007
- Swedish woman gets world's fastest Internet connection, USA Today 7/22/2007
- Opinion: Why ConnectKentucky makes a bad model for U.S. broadband, MuniWireless 8/29/2007
- Legislation Would Force New Broadband Rates, Internet News 7/22/2007
- It is Still True, More Bandwidth is Better, Verizon 6/19/2007
- Boucher Wants to Improve America's Broadband, PK 6/8/2007
- FCC Chairman Speaks - An interview with Kevin Martin, Broadband Reports 5/30/2007
- Inouye, Stevens Introduce Communications R&D Bill, Senate 5/25/2007
- US average broadband speed is 1.9 Mbps, versus 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in Sweden, MuniWireless 5/22/2007
- Why We Have No National Broadband Policy - Because we can't even agree there's a problem, Broadband Reports 4/27/2007
- State Department Letter on OECD Study on Broadband Use, State 4/27/2007
- Broadband Black Holes - FiOS? We've never been able to get DSL, DSLreports 7/5/2007
- Broadband Growth Slowing in U.S., Internet News 7/5/2007
- Google Fools: Web Service Through Toilet, Wash Post 4/3/2007
- Only 15% Sign Up For Triple Play - And most of them are with Comcast..., Broadband Reports 3/21/2007
- Speed Matters: Affordable High-Speed Internet for All, CWS 2/1/2007
- What does 'unlimited' mean?, Guardian 2/1/2007
- State of the
Union: Tech, Telecom May Get Overlooked, Ecommerce Times 1/23/2007
- GAO
To Allow Reimbursement of Home Internet Access for Some, Fed Smith
1/12/2007
- A Democratic House's
Impact on Telecom - Goodbye national franchises, hello net-neutrality
laws?, Broadband Reports 11/8/2006
- House
Democrats and the Internet, Telecom Agenda, IP Democracy 11/8/2006
- Having Our Lame Ducks
in a Row, Public Knowledge 11/8/2006
- America's
Internet Disconnect, Wash Post 11/8/2006
- Speed
Matters: Affordable High-Speed Internet for All, CWS 12:00:00 AM
- Cox: 6% Rate Hike -
Virginia: 35% increase since 2000, Broadband Reports 11/14/2006
- The
Truth Behind America's Digital Decline, GovTech 10/26/2006
- Broadband Is
Quickly Becoming a Package Deal, emarketer 7/10/2006
- A Duopoly By Any Other
Name..., PK 7/10/2006
- Broadband Scandal
E-Book - Kushnick offers it free for a week, Broadband Reports
6/21/2006
- Telco Lobbyist: $2
Million Salary - Business is booming..., Broadband Reports 6/16/2006
- If FCC Broadband Data
is Wrong... - What would that say about America's broadband policy?,
Broadband Reports 5/9/2006
- Rural Broadband
Remains Spotty, Clickz 5/9/2006
- Follow
up on Community Wirelsss Summit, AFCN 4/14/2006
- Preaching
to the Converted at F2C, IP Democracy 4/5/2006
- Comcast 16Mbps Vs.
Verizon Fios - But where's the upstream?, Broadband Reports
3/28/2006
- Verizon
VP Calls for New National Broadband Policy, Americas Network
6/10/2005
- More
on Bush/Martin broadband policy, Isen.blog 6/10/2005
- Telecoms
seen beating cable on broadband in Q2, Wash Post 7/19/2005
- "CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE U.S. BROADBAND MARKET". IB. For Delivery by Donald Abelson, July
1, 2005, RITE Broadband Symposium, FCC 7/8/2005
- Orwell's
FCC chair, Free Press 7/8/2005
- Verizon
VP Calls for New National Broadband Policy, Americas Network
6/10/2005
- More
on Bush/Martin broadband policy, Isen.blog 6/10/2005
- Meredith
Attwell, Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for
Communications and Information, spoke on "Promoting Broadband
Deployment in Rural America" at the Southeastern Association of
Regulatory Utility Commissioners (SEARUC) 2005 Annual Conference in
Covington, Kentucky on June 7, 2005, NTIA 6/10/2005
- Higher
Education Unites Around Telecom Reform, Firstmile.us 6/7/2005
- Afterthoughts
on Broadband Policy Summit 2005, Firstmile.us 6/7/2005
- FCC blamed for
lack of competition in US broadband market, Muni 6/7/2005
- Universal
Broadband Access: Implementing President Bush's Vision, Brookings
Institute 6/7/2005
- FCC's
Martin: Broadband No. 1 Priority, Isen.blog 6/3/2005
- Disservice,
disingenuous and just not true, Isen.blog 5/27/2005
- Children
drive home internet use, BBC 5/21/2005
- Cable,
phone companies duke it out for customers, USAToday 5/21/2005
- Consumer
broadband revenues seen doubling in one year, Information Week
5/6/2005
- DC
telecom day, Susan Crawford 5/6/2005
- IEEE-USA
White Paper: U.S. Prosperity at Risk; Gigabit Networks Should be
National Priority, IEEE 5/3/2005
- Why
our broadband policy's still a mess, CNET 3/2/2005
- The
broadband crisis that isn't, Topix 1/11/2005
- But there's
nothing wrong with broadband in the US!, Muni 1/11/2005
- ISPs
fear losing broadband rights, CNET 12/14/2004
- Bandwidth
Glut Lives On, Wired 9/30/2004
- Watchdogs:
Broadband policy a bust, CNET 10/29/2004
- Why Broadband's
Pipes Need Reaming, Ecommerce 10/19/2004
- More
Broadband Usage Means More Online Spending, Clickz 10/8/2004
- FCC
Takes Action to Promote Broadband Deployment to Multiple Dwelling Units
(MDUs)., FCC 8/9/2004
- Baby
Bells win another FCC victory, CNET 8/9/2004
- Small
towns tired of slow rollout create own high-speed networks, USA
Today 9/24/2004
- Stealing
Back the Airwaves, Wired 5/7/2004
- Study:
Broadband market to triple by 2008, CNET 7/9/2004
- EarthLink
hooks up to wireless broadband, CNET 5/20/2004
- Broadband
Policy Show Moves to House, Internet News 5/20/2004
- Broadband
'set for speed boost', BBC 5/7/2004
- Study:
Bright outlook for broadband, CNET 4/30/2004
- Will
Wireless Broadband Go Rural?, PC World 4/16/2004
- Verizon
readies national broadband network, CNET 4/14/2004
- Verizon
to launch expanded business network services, CW 4/14/2004
- Broader
broadband?, USA Today 3/26/2004
- More
Internet users leaping to broadband, Mercury 3/11/2004
- AT&T
supports 'alternative' broadband, CNET 2/26/2004
- Broadband:
What's the Holdup?, BWO 2/24/2004
- Tauzin
Resigns Key Technology Committee, Internet News 2/5/2004
- Verizon
Wireless puts $1 billion on broadband, CNET 1/8/2004
- Does the
Residential Broadband Market Need Fixing, CBO 12/22/2003
- Deck
The Halls With High-Speed Access, BWO 12/2/2003
- In
Utah, public works project goes digital, CNET 11/17/2003
- Broadband
numbers show heightened demand, CNET 10/31/2003
- Study:
Price matters for broadband, CNET 10/14/2003
- Putting a lid on
broadband use, CNET 9/24/03
- Porn and
music drive broadband, BBC 5/30/03
- Broadband
balloons take off, BBC 5/28/03
- Tapering
expectations for broadband, CNN 5/23/03
- Study
details broadband in states, FCW 5/23/03
- Bringing
broadband to the masses, BBC 5/19/03
- Can price cuts boost
broadband, MSNBC 5/19/03
- Speeding's
the ticket for U.S. surfers, CNET 5/19/03
- Point-Counterpoint:
FCC Decision on "Unbundling", CTCNet 4/7/03
- Point-Counterpoint:
About the FCC's New Local Competition and Broadband Rules, CTCNet
4/7/03
- BT accused
over broadband cut, BBC 4/4/03
- Broadband
Boom Is Almost Here, CommWeb 4/4/03
- STATEMENT
BY FCC COMMISSIONER KEVIN MARTIN REGARDING VERIZON'S BROADBAND
ANNOUNCEMENT. STMT. News Media Contact: Emily Willeford at (202)
418-2100 CMMR, FCC 3/21/03
- Porn and
music drive broadband, BBC 5/30/03
- Broadband
balloons take off, BBC 5/28/03
- Tapering
expectations for broadband, CNN 5/23/03
- Study
details broadband in states, FCW 5/23/03
- Bringing
broadband to the masses, BBC 5/19/03
- Can price cuts boost
broadband, MSNBC 5/19/03
- Speeding's
the ticket for U.S. surfers, CNET 5/19/03
- Study:
Broadband To Hit Quicksand, Newsfactor 5/19/03
- Comcast:
DSL won't sever cable's lead, CNET 5/9/03
- San
Francisco Leads In Speed, Cyberatlas 5/9/03
- Assistant
Secretary Nancy Victory spoke to the NARUC National Summit on Broadband
Deployment II, "On the Path to Making the Broadband Vision a National
Reality.", NTIA 5/2/03
- e-Data Telecom:
Gartner Says Next-Generation Network to Begin to Evolve in Next Two
Years - New Networks Will Allow Voice, Video, Data, and Multimedia
Collaboration, ITAA 4/17/03
- e-Data Internet:
Broadband Reaches Critical Mass, "Next Level" Users Move Beyond the PC
and Web Browsers, ITAA 4/17/03
- Point-Counterpoint:
FCC Decision on "Unbundling", CTCNet, 4/7/03
- Point-Counterpoint:
About the FCC's New Local Competition and Broadband Rules, CTCNet,
4/7/03
- BT accused
over broadband cut, BBC, 4/4/03
- Broadband
Boom Is Almost Here, CommWeb, 4/4/03
- FCC
Likely to Keep Broadband Competition -Sources, Yahoo 1/27/03
- Hollings Blasts
FCC Rule Changes, Internet News 1/15/03
- Deregulation
Plans Assailed: Senators Question Agenda of FCC's Chairman, Wash
Post 1/15/03
- Upcoming
FCC Reviews has big implications, NWFusion 1/10/03
- Feds
may shake up broadband market, CNET 1/7/03
- Indisputable
Facts About RBOCs, Network Mag 1/7/03
- BT
admits broadband mistakes, Guardian 2/10/03
- Broadband's
Reach Gets Broader, atNY 2/7/03
- Building
Out Broadband, OSTP 2/4/03
- Broadband
Broadens Its Pitch, Wash Post 2/4/03
- Rural
Broadband Coalition Begins Congressional Agenda Promoting Rural Access
To High-Speed Internet, BBExchange 1/31/03
- Narrowband
Net use declines in US, Register 1/31/03
- Public broadband
catching on, MSNBC 1/27/03
- Broadband
aims for mile-high club, Cnet 1/15/03
- How Are
Customers Connecting?, Ecomm Times 12/20/02
- Cost
of broadband still a problem, NUA 12/20/02
- FCC says
broadband growth slowed, NWFusion 12/20/02
- FCC
Releases Data On High-speed Services For Internet Access., FCC
12/18/02
- US
firms opting for DSL and cable connections, NUA 12/16/02
- Is it
too late for FCC hearings? NW Fusion 10/28/02
- FCC
Chief Says Telecom Isn't Doomed by Cutbacks NYT 10/21/02
- Copyright, Slow
Broadband Growth Internet News 10/24/02
- Broadband
Plan Gets Confusing USA Today 11/5/02
- Broadband
Battle - Content Vs. Access BBC 10/15/02
- Speeding Up
Broadband Newsfactor 11/5/02
- DSL
is the leading broadband technology NUA 11/8/02
- Good, Bad News
About Bandwidth Prices, IDG 10/9/02
- Cost Of
Broadband Falling, BBC 10/7/02
- Broadband
Disconnect, Wash Post 10/1/02
- Price
of high-speed access too high for US users, NUA 9/26/02
- Report:
Demand Low For Broadband In U.S., USA Today 9/23/02
- Study: Broadband
demand not there, MSNBC 9/23/02
- The New Era of
High-Speed E-Commerce, Newsfactor 9/23/02
- Report:
Broadband Price Remains Too Steep, Newsfactor 9/23/02
- US
Broadband subscriber market set to grow, NUA 9/20/02
- High-income
groups fuel broadband take-up, NUA 9/18/02
- Over
one million new broadband users in US, NUA 8/21/02
- When Will
Broadband Rule the Market?, Newsfactor 7/17/02
- Broadband
Providers Back Need For Speed, BBC 7/15/02
- Searches
by police, FBI target bandits of bandwidth, Toledo Blade 6/28/02
- Assistant
Secretary Nancy J. Victory spoke before the European Institute Seminar
on "U.S. and European Approaches to the Future of Broadband.", NTIA
6/20/02
- Bush
Highlights Broadband 'Net Access, Wash Post 6/17/02
- Bush on broadband,
CNET 6/17/02
- Broadband Growing
At High Speed, Newsbytes 5/22/02
- A
Broadband In Every Pot, Wired 5/29/02
- Broadband Growing
At High Speed, Newsbytes 5/22/02
- Powell
Reiterates Need For Telecom Rewrite, Internet News 5/3/02
- Web
surfers snub pricier broadband Internet access, USA Today 4/26/02
- Bandwidth
Price Plunge Nearing End?, Internet News 4/26/02
- UK
Rural residents demand broadband, BBC 4/17/02
- BT
Lifts Off Satellite Broadband, BBC 4/15/02
- BT
launches budget broadband service, Guardian 4/8/02
- Familiar
Bedfellows Splitting Sheets Over Broadband, Internet News 4/5/02
- Broadband slowed by
high-prices, MSNBC 4/3/02
- Company Touts
Technology That Tops DSL, Cable, Newsfactor 4/3/02
- Interest
Groups Combine Forces In Broadband Battle, Wash Tech 4/3/02
- Broadband
gets popular, BBC 3/19/02
- ISPs Are
Nuts Of Any Broadband Future, ISP Planet 3/15/02
- Study:
Broadband demand "strong", CNET 3/13/02
- Broadband:
Big promises, little action, USA Today 3/11/02
- High-speed Internet
Usage Soars, MSNBC 3/6/02
- High-speed Internet
usage soars, MSNBC 3/6/02
- Bush Tech
Advisors Will Tackle Broadband Demand, Wash Tech 3/6/02
- Broadband
Net Surfing Accounts for More than half of all time spent online,
Netratings 3/6/02
- Broadband
Internet Never Cometh, Newsfactor 2/28/02
- Superbroadband
may transform net, Austin Statesman 2/25/02
- BT
'to Slash Broadband Costs', BBC 2/25/02
- 3Com
Chief: Broadband Must Be Nat'l Priority, Internet News 1/28/02
- UK
- Trouble ahead for broadband providers, BBC 1/28/02
- Broadband
Goes Down The Drain, BBC 1/24/02
- Why
Should Broadband Get A Tax Break?, BWO 1/24/02
- High-Tech
CEOs Talk Broadband Policy On Hill, Wash Tech 1/24/02
- More
IT executives urge government broadband push, Computer World 1/24/02
- Lobbying
group Outlines Big Pipe Dream, NWFusion 1/22/02
- ITAA Telecom: ITAA
Says Better Content Will Speed Adoption Of Broadband, Action Agenda
Must Stimulate Wider Use, ITAA 1/18/02
- Tech
leaders see super-fast Web access as new manifest destiny, AP
1/18/02
- Study:
Broadband fees climbed in 2001, CNET 1/18/02
- Groups Lobby For
More Broadband, Wash Tech 1/17/02
- ITAA Telecom: ITAA
Says Better Content Will Speed Adoption Of Broadband, Action Agenda
Must Stimulate Wider Use, ITAA 1/18/02
- Does
Fast Internet Need a Push?, Wash Tech 1/17/02
- Broadband
Fees Up; Adoption Rates Down, Cyberatlas 1/17/02
- CEOs
Issue Broadband Challenge, Internet News 1/17/02
- Will
2002 Be The Year Of Broadband?, BBC 1/14/02
- The
Nine Assassins of Broadband, by John Dvorak, PC Mag 1/11/02
- FCC
grants broadband license to Boeing , Nando 12/28/01
- FCC
Approves Airline Internet Service, Inews 12/28/01
- Michigan
Pushes Broadband, FCW 12/5/01
- Is High-Speed
Internet About To Crash?, Newsfactor 12/4/01
- Broadband
Deregulation Around The Corner - Verizon Chief, Wash Tech 12/4/01
- Bringing
broadband to the home: more steam for Internet Access, ITU 12/4/01
- ISPs
See More Broadband Disasters, INews 12/7/01
- Gates
appeals on broadband access, Guardian 12/7/01
- Broadband
woes hobble Net ads: Gates, Times India 12/7/01
- 'Broadband
fiasco' looms, Guardian 11/27/01
- Big
telcos nearly dominate broadband arena, USAtoday 11/23/01
- Can
broadband revive tech industry?, ZDNet 11/23/01
- Mercedes
Demos Drive-By Info Gathering, Allnet 11/13/01
- High-speed
Net In Most Homes? Ha!, EComm Times 11/13/01
- AOL, Sony
Announce Far-Reaching Broadband Pact, Newsfactor 11/13/01
- AOL,
Sony to collaborate on broadband entertainment venture, Nando
11/13/01
- BT
and the failed revolution, Guardian 11/9/01
- Broadband defectors
on the rise, MSNBC 11/7/01
- AT&T
Is Sticking to Timetable on Cable Unit, NTY 11/7/01
- Broadband
suffers economy's pinch, CNET 11/7/01
- Sprint
Takes $1.1 Billion Leap Into Future, INews 11/5/01
- Broadband Set
to Surge, Top ISPs Lead the Way, Newsfactor 10/30/01
- ISPs Push Heavy
Users To Broadband, Cyberatlas 10/30/01
- AT&T
Reconsiders Broadband Sale, TechTV 10/30/01
- AT&T
Broadband: A Hard Sell, Forbes 10/26/01
- Colt:
bandwidth demand will fall, Guardian 10/25/01
- Content
caught off-side, Guardian 10/25/01
- Sprint
kills ION, lays off 6,000 as profit falls, CW 10/18/01
- Sprint
Drops ION Business, INews 10/18/01
- MSN Vs. AOL In A
Broadband Battle, MSN 10/16/01
- Microsoft
aims at AOL with new MSN offer, Times India 10/16/01
- UK Broadband
prices 'too high' says BT Retail Boss, Register 10/10/01
- Optimism Runs
High For Residential Broadband, IDG 10/5/01
- Intel Says FCC Holds
Broadband Back, ISPPlante 10/4/01
- Cheaper
wireless broadband vowed (September 26, 2001), Japan Times 9/28/01
- Intel
Seeks FCC Aid In Promoting Broadband Deployment, Washtech 9/28/01
- A
Shift In MSN's Broadband Strategy?, INews 9/20/01
- US homes
upgrade to broadband, Register 9/20/01
- Residential
Broadband Customer Count Tops 10 Million, Cable Data 9/5/01
- Regulating
high-speed access debated, Nando 8/22/01
- Faster
Connections Drive Broadband Users To Surf More Of The Web, Nielsen
8/22/01
- AT&T:
Broadband still a tough sell, CNET 8/22/01
- Overview:
Superior Broadband, ISP Planet 8/22/01
- People Change Once
They Go Broadband - Survey, Newsbytes 8/22/01
- AT&T
in Talks with Microsoft and Disney on Broadband, Standard 8/13/01
- Bandwidth
Glut? Not In Metro Areas, Forbes 8/3/01
- Cablecos
Going Last Mile, Telcos Delay, 7AM 7/24/01
- Broadband
Market Could Lift Economy, Cyberatlas 7/17/01
- The
Quick and the Dead, BroadbandInfo 7/19/01
- Broadband
Goes To The Sewers, Opt 06/01/01
- Broadband--you
are the the weakest link, ZDNet 5/25/01
- SBC
primes for new role in broadband content, CNET 7/2/01
- Regulations
have slowed Internet offerings, SBC head says, Nando 5/18/01
- Broadband
Comes To The Corn Belt, Red Herring 5/18/01
- Phone
companies look to hike DSL charges, Nando 5/3/01
- Prices Rising
for DSL And Cable Internet, Newsfactor 5/3/01
- AT&T
Plans Broadband Rate Hike In June, CNET 5/1/01
- Broadband Battle
Turns Nasty, Newsfactor 5/4/01
- Ex-FCC
Chief Touts Broadband, DM News 4/27/01
- Broadband
Access Takes To The Rooftops, Cyberatlas 3/29/01
- Is
Broadband Net Access Recession-Proof?, CNET 3/19/01
- Study:
High-Speed Net Access To Transform E-Biz, Newsfactor 3/19/01
- High-Speed
Deliverance: Are phone companies using their clout to keep rural
Virginia from getting wired?, Washtech 3/21/01
- UK 'Puzzled'
By Broadband Debate, Register 3/14/01
- Say
No To Broadband? Never!, ZDNet 3/16/01
- 1.3M
Broadband Users In Singapore By 2005, ZDNet 3/16/01
- Warning
Signs Broadband Is Not For You, ZDNet 3/9/01
- Broadband
Makes Move Toward Mainstream, Cyberatlas 2/26/01
- Broadband:
Nice Pace If You Can Get It, Wash Post 2/28/01
- Sen. Brownback
Plans New Broadband Bill, Newsbytes 2/21/01
- Study: Access to
Broadband Widespread, But Use Is Not, Newsfactor 2/23/01
- Sony's
Broadband Plans For PlayStation, Standard 2/21/01
- High-Speed
Access: Can You Dig It?, IW 2/12/01
- The
Future Of Broadband In Asia, Emarketing 2/15/01
- Study:
Broadband Access Soars, Internet News 2/9/01
- Broadband:
There's No Place Like Home, MSNBC 2/9/01
- A
Million Canadians To Switch To High-Speed Net, CP 2/7/01
- BCE
Set to Marry High-Speed Internet, Satellite TV, Reuters 2/7/01
- Can't
Get Cable Or DSL? Look To The Stars, Anchordesk 2/9/01
- Broadband
Bright In FCC's Future, CNET 2/9/01
- Fixed
Wireless Challenges Cable, DSL mercurycenter
- Small
town tests TV, DSL combo via phone lines Jan 22 cnn
- Cable/DSL
Battle Rages On Dec 13 internetnews
- Broadband
Access Expected To Boom By 2004 Nov 29, 2000 techweb
- AT&T
Broadband In Expansion Scale Back Nov 24, 2000 internetnews
- Bandwidth
Is A Blessing Nov 24, 2000 zdnet
- Six
Million Consumers Go Broadband In 2000 Nov 24, 2000 internet
- AT&T
halts hardware buys over budget concerns Nov 24, 2000 cnet
- BellSouth:
High-Speed Access Limiting Growth Nov 17, 2000 cnn
- Consumer
Broadband Primed For Growth Nov 7, 2000 zdnet
- AT&T
High-Speed Net Hits 1 Million Customers Nov 15, 2000 excite
- Slow
going for high-speed lines: Users frustrated by hassles with DSL and
cable modems - USA Today (Nov 14, 2000) Nov 15, 2000 usatoday
- Cable
industry adds 690,000 cable modem customers Nov 15, 2000 yahoo
- EarthLink
gets satellite access off the ground Nov 15, 2000 cnet
- BT's ADSL
Roll-Out Hits Snags Nov 3, 2000 theregister
- US
High-Speed Subscriptions Soar Nov 3, 2000 nua
- AT&T
Broadband's $20M Smokescreen Nov 2, 2000 internetnews
- BT's ADSL
Roll-Out Hits Snags Nov 3, 2000 theregister
- US
High-Speed Subscriptions Soar Nov 3, 2000 nua
- Microsoft
to offer high-speed Net access Oct 26, 2000 boston
- AT&T
Brings Broadband To The Masses Oct 12, 2000 internetnews
- Cable Vs.
DSL: Round 2 Oct 8, 2000 techweb
- Broadband
Bickering Hits Silicon Valley Aug 23, 2000 infoworld
- The
Battle of the Bandwidths NYTimes Aug 11
- Pipe Dream
NWFusion Aug 11
- The
End Is Near for CLECs InternetNews Aug 9
- BellSouth
Gets A Backbone InternetNews Aug 9
- New modem
standard boosts dial-up access options A new modem standard called V.92
tweaks 56K bit/sec modems in ways that can save companies money, but
might scare ISPs.
July 20, 2000
- DSL Ramps Up
July 14, 2000 internetwk
- New
High-Speed Access Options Emerging July 14, 2000 internetnews
- Broadband Battle
Shifts to Beltway July 12, 2000 yahoo
- Cable,
DSL Will Coexist July 12, 2000 pcworld
- Covad
Extends DSL In New England July 12, 2000 internetnews
- Broadband
Coming To A Hotel Near You July 12, 2000 zdnet
- Broadband
hitting goals, AT&T says July 12, 2000 boston
- The
Terrible Twos Of High-Speed Access July 10, 2000 postnet
- DSL:
Live Short And Prosper? July 10, 2000 zdnet
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