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Stimulus Stirs Debate Over Rural Broadband Access
2009-02-16 16:00:00 From NPR Topics: Technology: President Obama's economic stimulus package includes $7.2 billion to expand broadband Internet access into rural areas. Advocates say high-speed access is necessary in a global economy. Critics say taxpayer dollars shouldn't be used for a "cyber bridge
Broadband access opens doors to networking, economic development for rural
2008-07-13 13:52:00 Amy Glasmeier. Contact Information: Department of Geography 312 Walker Building University Park, PA 16802. Phone: (814) 865-7323 email: akg1@ems.psu.edu Dept. website: www.geog.psu.edu/people/glasmei-er/Current Research Interests: Persistant poverty and social exclusion, Globalization and uneven development, Regional analysis, Globalization and the emergence of new labor market structures University Park, Pa.-- Proactive policies are needed to facilitate broadband Internet access and adoption in rural areas so that rural hospitals, schools and businesses can drive social and economic development and better position themselves to compete, say Penn State researchers in a recently released report from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania.The report, "Broadband Internet Use in Rural Pennsylvania," examines broadband availability and adoption in four sectors -- health care, local government, education and business -- through case studies, interviews with key information-technology personnel ...
Expanding Broadband Access and Allocating Spectrum More Efficiently
2008-05-19 02:59:00 Google Unwired (LIVE WEBCAST) Google Co-Founder & President Larry Page will be a featured speaker for Google Unwired on May 22, that is this coming Thursday. The event will be streamed live through ustream.tv at which time he will answer questions. Start: 05/22/2008 - 9:00am End: 05/22/2008 - 10:30am Ronald Reagan Building, Atrium Ballroom 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington United States Here are ...
By: macewan
Proof Congress is clueless when it comes to broadband access
2008-04-30 23:10:00 The man pictured at the left is Senator Robert Byrd, all time champion and reigning king of the pork barrel and earmarks. Senator Byrd has successfully driven more federal spending per capita to his home state than any other elected representative in history. West Virginia is home to boundless interstate highways and federal office ...
By: Third Pipe
Tax hungry Los Angeles goes after broadband access with a misleading ballot
2008-02-09 20:34:00 We devote a lot of space to condemning the duopoly for all of their misleading ads, contracts and terms. Governments are no different. Recently Los Angeles put a candle in a cowpie and sold it to voters as a birthday cake. Most of the LA media was too busy following Britney Spears to notice. Los Angeles this week passed a controversial new tax that should impact city VoIP users, reports the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Fearing the need to cut police services, the city took an existing telephone user tax, reduced it from 10% to 9%, but expanded the tax to include Internet phone services. Apart from lowering the tax 1 percentage point, it swaps in broad language that covers a wider range of telephone-like technology and allows the city to tax the routing of voice, audio, video, data or other communication information transmitted through fiber-optic coaxial cables, power lines, broadband, DSL or wireless systems. Locals are concerned that the new tax could ultimately be expanded in an...
By: Third Pipe
Broadband Access Up to 8Mb
2008-02-08 01:32:00 If you are internet user that wants wide access, maybe this article is right for you. BT Broadband will serve you with large broadband access up to 8Mb. It is more than 100 time dial up access). It is useful for you who work with video, music and playing online games. You can also check your ...
By: Voice of Blogger
22 Vermont Communities do what the Duopoly won?t, enable broadband access
2008-01-24 14:25:00 Rural Vermonters are demanding their Third Pipe, and they are making happen without the Duopoly. These small towns will be laying fiber to bring them into the 21st century. In a Third Pipe world, you can do almost anything almost anywhere, if you have access. Using Burlington Telecom’s municipal broadband network as a model, 22 rural ...
By: Third Pipe
Viasat plans high capacity satellite for broadband access
2008-01-09 21:32:00 It’s been some time since satellite ruled the access speed sweepstakes, and a planned launch by Viasat won’t change that much. It will offer up to 8MBPS downloads to those who have not other option, which is a significant increase from what’s available from incumbent providers now. ViaSat Inc. bills its forthcoming ViaSat-1 satellite as the ...
By: Third Pipe
WIMAX: Wireless Broadband Access throughout India by 2010!
2007-12-12 12:27:00 There is no doubt that Indian Telecommunication Industry is currently growing at an unimaginable pace. Normally, growth of Internet subscribers is directly relative to growth of telecom subscribers. However in India, Internet penetration has not taken off, especially broadband Internet subscribers (less than 3 million). Interestingly, with more than 100% growth, more and more people are accessing Internet through their mobile phones. However, mobile internet too has its own limitations, including speed, cost and small screen browsing.
VoIP Ranking, VoIP, Broadband access, the numbers game!
2007-09-23 17:30:00 One of my previous posts on VoIP Ranking has prompted Skypenumerology to do a recalculation of the numbers and show that Skype is on top!. It is a valid logic that he presents since the data for Skype was based on July 2005 data.I would not be as generous as Mr Mercier, but even doubling the numbers since 2005 will land Skupe on the top with 3600000 subscribers. I think it is a comfortable assumption. If you are interested more data about broadband access by country (Denmark and The Netherlands leads! Hooray!!) is available at OECD, if your business is based on broadband access, you will know where to take your business.Tags: Broadband, OECD, Broadband access, VoIP, VoIP Ranking, Skype
RUSSIA - ECI Telcom selected to provide broadband access in two important r
2007-09-06 15:13:00 Residential and government project in Chelyabinsk and Khanty-Mansi Regions, Russia, ...
By: Israel-Times.com
Free Broadband Access
2007-04-30 12:27:00 Good news from Indian Government to cheerup. We are getting free broadband connectivity!. Here is the answer to when,how and why?...The government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. While consumers would cheer, the move holds the potential to kill the telecom business as we know it.You have heard of free municipal broadband ? many cities in the US have drenched themselves in wireless broadband connectivity which is freely accessible to residents. The idea is to boost economic activity in general. The government of India plans to achieve free broadband connectivity at a speed of 2 MB per second across the country, with a similar goal. Senior government officials expect to be able to achieve this goal spending only a portion of the corpus of the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF).All telecom operators contribute 5% of their revenues every year to USOF. It is est...
By: Freebies
Free wireless broadband access in Singapore
2006-12-02 16:13:18 I heard this news from my friend, and quoted from Channel News Asia's article "Free wireless broadband access in Singapore public areas for 2 years" From January 2007, it will be rolling out wireless broadband Internet in all public spaces, called Wireless@SG, for free, for the first two years. Premium and higher access speeds will also be immediately available - but this will come at a fee. Singaporeans will be able to surf all over downtown, major town centres, recreational areas like East Coast Park, and maybe even at libraries and fast food outlets. Three operators - iCELL network, QMax Communications and SingTel - have been appointed to do this. They will carve out the island into three areas, and complete their deployment by end-September next year. Filed Under: News, Singapore Technorati: Free Wireless Access, Singapore
By: The Man in a Box
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