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Can broadband save the Universal Service Fund?
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is back in action, and that means that it's once again time to grapple with that perennial nightmare: the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund (USF). The FCC's telecom subcommittee held a hearing on the program on ...
FCC Approves Touch-Enabled Motorola QA4
FCC Approves Touch-Enabled Motorola QA4
phonescoop.com — Documents seen on the FCC site provide details about an unannounced Motorola phone. The QA4 is a... slider that also features a touch screen for user input. It has tri-band 850/1700/1900 MHz CDMA radios, including EVDO, aGPS and stereo ... (follow ... (more) FCC Approves Touch-Enabled Motorola QA4
FCC Approves of LTE Device from LG
FCC Approves of LTE Device from LG
phonescoop.com — Documents seen on the FCC web site reveal information about a new device from LG that appears... to be one of the first -- if not the actual first -- Long Term Evolution devices approved for use in the ... (follow link to read) (more) FCC Approves of LTE Device from LG
FCC promises open process on national broadband strategy
arstechnica.com — Interim Federal Communications Commission Chair Michael Copps was clearly feeling his oats on Tuesday at the government's... "kickoff" of its national broadband campaign. "The years of broadband drift and growing digital divides are coming ... (more) FCC promises open process on national broadband strategy
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Big Telcos: “Open” for Broadband Grants?
dailywireless.org — ... National Telecommunications & Information Administration will dole out $4.7 billion. Under existing RUS rules, Qwest says companies serving more than 2% of the country cannot apply. “We want to see the guidelines for the grants,” Qwest spokesman Tom McMahon says. Meanwhile, the FCC’s Universal Service Fund is undergoing an overhaul. The FCC’s telecom subcommittee held a hearing last week (pdf), with a mandate that USF funding recipients provide broadband services. Arstechnica says there’s ...

A Crowd-Sourced National Communications Census
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... Korea, where broadband starts at 100 mbps. What that means is that most of the international rankings we see in the papers from the ITU and OECD are just nonsense. Second, we don't have an accurate idea of the extent of the digital divide here in the U.S. Our inner cities, rural areas, and schools are all greatly under-served and our policy makers can't see that when they administer programs such as the billion-dollar boondoggle that is the Universal Service Fund. To the FCC's credit, the new Chairman is ...

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