We live in a civil society - a
place where primary education is freely available to all, where anyone
can enjoy a walk through our public parks or down our sidewalks and
freely drive through the streets. Libraries across the country loan out
books for free - literature that you can read on a spring day in our
parks or beneath the streetlights on main street on a warm summer's
evening. You don't have to tip the firemen who show up at your house or
pay… more
Statement of Public Interest Groups on
Proposed Broadband Principles in Upcoming Economic Stimulus Package
Local
and National Groups urge the Obama-Biden Administration and Congress to focus
on Accountability, Local Approaches,
Access and Adoption, Internet Freedom and a Coherent National Broadband Policy
As the saying goes:
Reports of the death of municipal wireless are greatly exaggerated. Most
mainstream media simply got it wrong. Most municipal wireless networks across
the United States
didn't take a tumble over the past year. Rather, in high-profile cities where
deals fell apart - including Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco and Houston - what failed were
exclusive commercial franchise forays.
Local governments were not going to finance, own or operate their
respective networks. These weren't municipal networks at all.
I stumbled across a really interesting paper this week, written by Derek Slater and Tim Wu, and it set me to thinking. Slater is a policy analyst for Google ...
Yesterday, representatives from technology and telecommunications
companies, labor unions and public interest groups frequently at odds
with one another agreed to provide the next president with a roadmap
for how to accomplish those goals. (Click here for the coalition's call to action and list of coalition members). Original article
The BB4US coalition, which has 55 members including consumer groups Free Press and the New America Foundation, technology companies such as Google Inc. and ...
"I don't know of any other major players" that would bid with such an approach, said Sascha Meinrath, research director at the New America Foundation. ...
In an unprecedented
display of consensus, a broad and diverse array of groups concerned about
America's broadband future
released a Call to Action that provides President-elect Obama and the incoming
Congress a policy framework for a comprehensive national broadband
strategy.
