Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream

Both of these programs are outdated and need to be modernized to keep pace with 21st century demands of today's manufacturers and their customers in all corners of the United States.

This survey is sponsored by the University of Alaska Sustainable Broadband Adoption project. Together with over 30 partner organizations and agencies, we are interested in learning more about your experience in ...

To reduce the federal debt, the Obama administration has proposed rolling back a Medicaid financing mechanism that critics liken to a shell game. Here’s a primer on how the change would affect states.

The FCC and Congress have been wringing their hands over the need for reform almost since the program began. The FCC's National Broadband Plan, published last March, agreed that the time had come to significantly ...

Leading up to the Fall Broadband Conference, Blandin will be hosting a series of free webinars.

“This plan will bring enormous benefits to individual consumers, our national economy and our global competitiveness.” The plan would provide for broadband in ...

TODAY'S TAKE: A month after the nation's largest online retailer agreed to collect sales taxes in California, it struck a deal to do the same in Tennessee, adding pressure on Congress to come up with a national law governing online sales.

Senate Indian Affairs Committee HearingInsurance News Net (press release)The Recovery Act made major contributions to broadband deployment with over $4 billion for NTIA's BTOP grants and over $3.4 billion for RUS' broadband infrastructure projects.

Rachel Maddow reminds us that many areas of America still do not have broadband in her coverage of the broadband stimulus funds prior to an interview with USDA Secretary Vilsack on October 5 (transcript).

TODAY'S TAKE: States took a variety of steps to cut their budgets this year, but Kansas was the only one to eliminate all state support for the arts, according to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.

ECONOMY & BUSINESS BEAT: The White House wants states to offer unemployment benefits to laid-off workers who are not looking for jobs. The catch: They must be in the process of setting up new businesses of their own.

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Time Warner Cable Makes $1 Million Commitment to Run Broadband Adoption PSAsMarketWatch (press release)The campaign was funded by a $28.5 million Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant from the National Telecommunications and...

As expected, the draft reform proposal also promises to constrain the size of the Universal Service fund and recommends using satellite—or potentially unlicensed wireless solutions—for bringing broadband to the highest-cost ...

First, the chairman claims that 18 million Americans live in areas without access to broadband — up from the 14 million estimated in the National Broadband Plan. The size of this figure suggests to me that the FCC is still ...

Please watch for a green survey postcard in the mail that asks for your input on what role OPALCO might play in this important community effort. ...

State and local governments in two-thirds of the states have reduced their workforces in the past three years. The biggest reductions came in Nevada, Hawaii and Georgia. But other states, led by Wyoming, grew their public sector employment base.