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- Edtech advocates take to the Hill
- Even as he called for the country to beef up math and science education, President Bush slashed education technology in his 2007 budget. Now as Congress take up the budget, edtech organizations spent March 9 on the Hill, trying to educate lawmakers about the importance of the funding, eSchool News...
- Tags: John Ensign
- Blog posts 2006-03-16
- Revealed: Muni WiFi's enemy #1 is SBC-AT&T's #1 campaign contribution recipient
- In her article entitled Senators can't agree on municipal broadband rules, my colleague Anne Broache "broaches" the subject of municipal broadband hearings in the U.S. Senate.She correctly describes the resistance of big broadband service providers to the idea, and the sentiment expressed by Sen. John Ensign (R-Nevada) for their position."I...
- Tags: Sessions, government, John Ensign
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
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- EXCLUSIVE: AT&T CEO's political donations to net neutrality opponents
- As AT&T continues its battles with net neutrality proponents on Capitol Hill this week, I thought it would be interesting to see where AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has been spending his own money this campaign and election cycle.I went to Opensecrets.org, and checked under "Whitacre." I found several donations,...
- Tags: Ed Whitacre
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- No action on Net Neutrality
- The first day of mark-up of the Senate's version of a new Telecom Bill ended after only two hours, with no decisions on Net Neutrality, News.com reports. Sen Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee vowed to hold firm on his "bill of rights" for consumers, which is...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Sen Ted Stevens
- Blog posts 2006-06-22
- Are you a pro- "Open Internet?" Libertarian or Republican? Better read this
- I try not to get overly political on these pages, but I feel the need to make an exception here.Reading my colleague Anne Broache's excellent coverage of Tuesday's net neutrality hearings before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, it is plain to see that those Committee Members who would prohibit...
- Tags: broadband, broadband Internet
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Senators grapple with Net neutrality
- Some highlights from News.com's coverage of the Senate hearings on Net neutrality: Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said at the hearing that he plans to introduce a bill that "will make sure all information transmitted over broadband networks is made available on the same terms so...
- Tags: broadband, network
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Intel stands up for government-owned Wi-Fi
- The brewing battle over municipal Wi-Fi heated up yesterday as Intel, with the support of Dell, Cisco, IBM, and SAP, unveiled the "Digital Communities" effort. Thirteen cities - from Philadelphia to Rio - are participating in the project, which is designed to provide technical resources and discounts to help them...
- Tags: wireless, government, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-08-19
- Congress turns up the pressure on city wireless
- The latest attack on municipal broadband networks comes in the form of the Broadband Investment and Community Choice Act, a bill recently introduced in the Senate, which, according to an article on O'Reilly Network, would seriously limit local governments' ability to create and deploy public networks. Richard Koman writes:...
- Tags: network, government
- Blog posts 2005-08-09
- Broadband Act's VoIP access provision means "watch out, here comes the fee monster"
- Verizon absolutely luvvs Nevada Republican John Ensign's Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act. One of its many provisions is that traditional phone companies must continue to provide access to competing services on "commercially reasonable" terms."Commercially reasonable?" No company, no enterprise thinks they are being commercially unreasonable. "Commercially reasonable" to me...
- Tags: Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier, VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-07-31
- Lawyer for local governments blasts broadband bill
- Jim Baller, an attorney who represents governments seeking to build their own municipal networks, has issued a statement about the municipal network providsion of the Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act, introduced by Sen. John Ensign (R-Nevada). The full statement is here PDF. Baller writes that the bill rests on...
- Tags: Americaâ€, broadband, municipal network
- Blog posts 2005-07-29
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