Public Policy & Community Relations
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Current Reports and News
[European Union Broadband Policy News] [India
Update ]
[UK - Ofcom Updates] [United States -
Broadband Policy News]
European Union Broadband Policy News
India Update
UK - Ofcom Updates (www.ofcom.org.uk)
Ofcom Consultation Documents
Ofcom Market Reports
United States - Broadband Policy News
Recent News
Nielsen/NetRatings: Two in Five U.S. Residents Have Broadband at Home, September 28, 2005
Forty-two percent of U.S. residents have broadband at home as of last month - a 16 percent increase from the beginning of this year, according to new research from Nielsen/NetRatings.
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Broadband Bill Addresses Advanced Services, September 15, 2005
A draft bill from the House Energy and Commerce Committee would address franchising requirements for video services and network-neutrality rules on broadband providers.
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NTIA Chief Defends National Broadband Deployment Policy, August 24, 2005
"NTIA administrator Michael Gallagher defended the Bush administration's broadband policy yesterday in a speech at the Progress & Freedom Foundation summit in Aspen, Colorado. "The President set a goal of affordable, universally available broadband by 2007, and we're sticking to it," Gallagher said. "We are creating the environment to unleash all these forces, and it's happening."
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Recent FCC Activities
FCC Changes the Rules for DSL: FCC Eliminates Mandated Sharing
Requirement on Incumbents' Wireline Broadband Internet Access Services.
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here to read article from Reuters, August 5, 2005.
FCC Adopts Policy Statement on Broadband Internet Access.
FCC Requires Certain Broadband and VoIP Providers to Accomodate
Wiretaps
U.S. Subscriber Official Data: High-Speed Services for Internet Access.
This report provides a summary of statistics for subscribership data that
facilities-based providers of high-speed services file twice a year on
FCC From 477.
Section 706: Advanced
Services Inquiry
Information on FCC's inquiry into whether "advanced telecommunications
capability" is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely
fashion. Advanced telecommunications capability is the availability
of high-speed, switched, broadband telecommunications that enables users
to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video
using any technology.
Fourth 706 Report
Availability
of Advanced Telecommunications Capability in the United States - Fourth
Report to Congress (FCC 04-208) (9 September 2004)
FCC Issues Inquiry for its Fourth Report on Advanced Telecommunications
Capability (GEN Docket no. 04-54).
- News Release: Fourth Notice of Inquiry (FCC 04-55) (17 March 2004)
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