Broadcasting & Cable

A quintet of law professors including familiar names to net neutrality debates, Lawrence Lessig of Harvard and Tim Wu of Columbia, have weighed in with the court in support of the FCC's finding against Comcast in the BitTorrent case. ...

Taking dead aim at broadband data-collection efforts to date was Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation. ... and more »

In an event hosted by New America Foundation, "... Page argued that opening up vacant TV spectrum after the February 2009 switch to digital TV will help to spread broadband as well as boost Google's bottom line, calling opening up the white spaces "the most important thing the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] can do this year to promote broadband deployment and tech-sector innovation..." LINK

...The New America Foundation issued a release Monday taking issue with the broadcasters’ arguments in a paper on the "myths vs. realities" of the white-spaces argument.

The White Spaces Coalition -- a consortium of computer companies that is pushing for the unlicensed devices -- responded to the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) announcement: “What's at stake here is simple: the promise of greater broadband access for millions of Americans including those in underserved rural areas,” coalition counsel Scott Blake… more