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Last week FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled his "100 Squared" initiative, which sets the goal of America having 100 million households connected to 100Mbps by 2020. But what does that goal really mean? Is that 100Mbps symmetrical, with as much...
While we often bemoan America's trailing position in the Great Bandwidth Race, I've just learned that not only are we not doing enough to catch up, we're actually slowing down, so says the latest State of the Internet report from...
I've recently come to the realization that in my desire to see the national broadband plan do great things for America and my disappointment about the lower than hoped for trajectory its goals seem to currently be on, I've failed...
While germinating for a while, it recently dawned on me what the central challenge to crafting effective broadband policies is: the do-nothing attitudes of most of America's broadband players. This line of thinking was set off by reading Blair Levin's...
I recently framed the debate about how much bandwidth we need around what happens when we reach a point where everyone's using high quality video applications all the time. But there are other ways that demand for bandwidth is trending...
Continuing my exploration of the comments to the FCC on how best to formulate a National Broadband Strategy I wanted to dive into those filed by Brett Glass. Brett heads up LARIAT, a wireless Internet service provider in Wyoming that...
Last week was the deadline for submitting initial comments to the FCC on the formulation of a national broadband strategy (NBS). Not surprisingly this has been a hot topic, with more than 8,000 pages submitted by a wide range of...
While there's lots of energy behind the development of a national broadband policy, how can we discuss strategies for making progress when we don't yet know where we're going and what goals we're setting out to achieve? For this reason...
This is an open letter to all current and future members of the US Broadband Coalition. Last week I shared how the lack of a national broadband strategy cost our industry billions of dollars in the economic stimulus package. This...
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