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NTIA

Broadband

"NTIA is engaged in a range of efforts to increase broadband Internet access and adoption in America, which supports economic growth, job creation, and improved education, health care, and public safety. These activities include administration of the Recovery-Act-funded Broadband Technology Opportunities Program and State Broadband Initiative; creating and maintaining the first public, searchable nationwide map of broadband availability; broadband-usage research that can inform efforts to close the digital divide; and promoting digital literacy to help Americans compete in the 21st century economy. 

• Broadband Opportunity Council 
• NTIA's Recovery Act broadband programs
• Digital Literacy initiative
• National Broadband Map
• Broadband adoption research
• ASR Analytics Reports and Case Studies"
• Broadband Researchers' Data Workshop, NTIA 5/25/2010
• NTIA and RUS Public Meetings to Help Shape American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Broadband Initiatives, pk 3/18/2009
• NTIA Broadband Forum Meeting Announcement, NTIA 10/12/01
• ALTS Commends NTIA for Being a Voice of Reason in the Competitive Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications (07/20/98)
• NTIA Federal Rights-of-Way website for telecommunications projects : This website provides information for project applicants about the different federal agencies' rights-of-way processes and contacts. Our goal is to improve access to information about obtaining rights-of-way for projects over federal land or property otherwise controlled by the federal government.

Statements

• Statement of Assistant Secretary Michael D. Gallagher on FCC broadband actions., NTIA
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Promoting Broadband Deployment Across America, NTIA 11/15/2005
• 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

Reports

• Broadband Opportunity Council Report and Recommendations Sept 21, 2015 "To make sure that the Federal government does everything within its power to support broadband deployment and adoption, on March 23, 2015, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum “Expanding Broadband Deployment and Adoption by Addressing Regulatory Barriers and Encouraging Investment and Training.” The Memorandum created the Broadband Opportunity Council and tasked it to produce specific recommendations to increase broadband deployment, competition and adoption through executive actions within the scope of existing Agency programs, missions and budgets. This Report responds to that directive."
• Digital Nation - Expanding Internet Usage , NTIA Research Preview: NTIA's report on U.S. broadband Internet adoption based on an October 2010 survey of over 50,000 households commissioned by NTIA and conducted by the U. S. Census Bureau. (1.7MB) - Current Population Survey (CPS) Internet Use 2010 Posted February 17, 2011

Digital Divide

• Assistant Secretary Michael D. Gallagher spoke on "Promoting Broadband Deployment in Rural America" at the Governor's Agriculture and Rural Renewal Expo, Jackson, MS., NTIA 9/7/2004
• Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information outlines digital divide problem NTIA Aug 9

Digital Divide Reports

• NTIA's Digital Divide website (terminated by the Bush Administration)
• Networked Nation: Broadband in America, 2007 , NTIA

• Federal Trade Commission, Municipal Provision of Wireless Internet (2006)

• A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age , NTIA 2004

• NTIA A NATION ONLINE: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet Washington, D.C. February 2002

• Falling Through the Net, Toward Digital Inclusion , NTIA 2000
• Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide , NTIA 1999
• NTIA: Falling Through the Net II: New Data on the Digital Divide
• NTIA Press Release:  NEW COMMERCE REPORT SHOWS DRAMATIC GROWTH IN NUMBER OF AMERICANS CONNECTED TO INTERNET July 8, 1999
• Falling Through the Net II , NTIA 1998
• Falling Through the Net , NTIA 1995

Proceedings

• NTIA Broadband Inquiry: 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.

Funding

• BTOP
• TOP
• Public Telecom Funding Program
• Economic Development Administration

See also

• Broadband Map
• ICANN / IANA
• Digital Divide
• Child Safety