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InternetNews June 23, 2005 Roy Mark	McCain Bill Would Help Municipal Wi-Fi New bill seeks to block state and incumbent telecoms' efforts to keep cities out of broadband business.
InternetNews October 31, 2007 Sean Gallagher	Senate Panel Blesses Community Broadband A Senate panel has approved legislation banning states' efforts to prevent local governments from providing community broadband access.
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Roy Mark	Legislation Aims to Stop Muni Wi-Fi A new bill would prohibit state and local governments from competing with private-sector broadband providers.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2005 Dave Mock	Intel: Not-So-Secret Agent of Disruption Intel backs government initiatives for wireless broadband.
InternetNews December 2, 2004 Michael Singer	'Wireless Philadelphia' Sparks Concern Philadelphia's controversial plan to create low-cost wireless Internet service is fueling a debate among Wi-Fi technology firms over business models.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	New York City Plans To Give Residents $70 Million Worth Of Wi-Fi In an effort to further bridge the New York City's digital divide, the de Blasio administration is spending $70 million to expand cheap, high-speed broadband across the five boroughs, the city announced today.
InternetNews October 4, 2005 Eric Griffith	EarthLink Scores with Philadelphia EarthLink launches its municipal wireless division with a win as the pick for Wireless Philadelphia.
BusinessWeek September 5, 2005 Catherine Yang	Wi-Fi With Its Own Zip Code As more municipalities set up wireless networks, a fast-moving business emerges.
InternetNews February 17, 2011	Commerce Dept. Releases Broadband Map With data from more than 1,600 Internet providers around the country, Commerce's NTIA releases long-awaited map of broadband speeds and availability.
Entrepreneur February 2007 Amanda C. Kooser	What Can Muni Wi-Fi Do for Your Biz? Tune in to the opportunities citywide Wi-Fi projects bring.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Yang & Green	Welcome to Broadband City Towns are rushing to build Wi-Fi systems. Cable and phone giants don't like it one bit.
InternetNews August 2, 2007 Roy Mark	Legislation Hypes Rural Broadband Access Lawmakers push legislation designed to protect community ability to build and offer high-speed connections.
Entrepreneur October 2005 Mike Hogan	Phone on the Range Head to the country, where Wi-Fi roams free and unrestricted by big-city politics. You'll be encouraged by the possibilities.
PHONE+ July 1, 2009 Kelly M. Teal	Broadband Stimulus Funding Questions Answered On July 1, the Rural Utilities Service and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced funds available for the broadband industry. Here are some of the most common questions regarding the funds.
InternetNews April 21, 2010	FCC Begins Moving USF Subsidy to Broadband In its first meeting following the release of the national broadband plan, Federal Communications Commission votes to convert USF subsidy to fund Internet service.
InternetNews July 27, 2005 Roy Mark	Major Reform of Telecom Act Proposed Legislation calls for eliminating many current state and federal rules for delivering advanced communications services.
InternetNews March 4, 2010	GOP Lawmakers Blast Broadband Stimulus Efforts House Republicans vent frustration at stimulus efforts that they fear will direct government subsidies to compete with private-sector firms, warn against interconnection requirements.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2007 Dave Mock	Too Windy for Wi-Fi While Chicago's decision and EarthLink's troubles don't spell the end of municipal wireless, it is increasingly clear that such networks will face a higher level of scrutiny regarding costs and returns on their investments.
InternetNews August 21, 2009	Feds Want to Know How to Define 'Broadband' As it presses ahead with its work developing a national broadband strategy, the Federal Communications Commission has issued a public notice asking for input on what, exactly, broadband should mean.
InternetNews November 5, 2007 Erin Joyce	Congress, Taxes and Broadband The tax moratorium lives another seven years. Will free community broadband access survive as well?
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Roy Mark	Deep Tax Breaks Offered For Broadband Access The rollout of national broadband picked up some speed from two lawmakers seeking tax incentives for service providers.
InternetNews April 14, 2004 Colin Haley	N. Ireland Sets Lofty Broadband Goal Northern Ireland has it sights on an ambitious plan to make affordable broadband Internet access available to all of its 1.7 million residents by the end of 2005.
InternetNews October 22, 2009	ISPs: Broadband a 'Great American Success Story' Cable and telecom execs explain what's wrong and what's right with broadband in the United States today.
PC World August 2005 Tom Spring	ISPs Attempt to Stop Public Broadband Cable and DSL providers battle cities that want to offer access to residents.
Inc. July 2006 Martha Baer	Wi-Fi for the Masses Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it - one city at a time.
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Roy Mark	Bush Talks Broadband President promises that the U.S. will do a better job at rolling out high-speed Internet connections.
InternetNews March 11, 2010	FCC Mulling Free Broadband Plan, Again As more details surface of the national broadband plan the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to deliver to Congress, the commission said it will consider a plan to develop a free or low-cost wireless broadband network.
InternetNews June 25, 2004 Roy Mark	Bush Stumps For Internet Access Tax Ban President outlines broadband policy calling for fewer taxes and less regulations to achieve universal access by 2007.
InternetNews March 15, 2010	FCC Broadband Plan Eyes Competition, Spectrum Senior officials offer an advance copy of the long-awaited national broadband plan, outlining the commission's recommendations to spur competition in the service market and advance mobile broadband.
InternetNews November 6, 2009	Lawmakers Float Bill to Boost Rural Broadband House panel set to consider legislation to shift federal funding to broadband service.
PHONE+ June 5, 2009 Kelly M. Teal	National Broadband Policy Up for Comment The FCC will close the first round of comments on a national broadband strategy early next week.
Wired March 2005	Trackback Orkut says you can only have up to 1,000 friends... It's an open secret that the US intelligence community has its own classified, highly secure Internet... etc.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 David Kushner	Wi-Fi for the People Philadelphia plans to become the biggest wireless hot spot ever. But Philadelphia's plan is not designed just to put computers into underserved areas; it also aims to teach people how to use them.
InternetNews August 17, 2005 Eric Griffith	San Francisco Looks To Wireless Future San Francisco's TechConnect program is on the starting block to offer 'affordable broadband' - not necessarily free.
InternetNews June 2, 2006 Roy Mark	EBay Marshals Members For Net Neutrality Online auctioneer eBay raised its bid on network neutrality this week by sending 1 million-plus call-to-action e-mails to its members urging them to bombard Washington with e-mails and calls protesting efforts by broadband providers to create a two-tiered Internet.
InternetNews August 10, 2005 Roy Mark	Bells Win Video Vote After months of wrangling, Texas lawmakers streamline video franchising rules to accelerate TV-over-fiber rollouts.
InternetNews January 12, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Will Congress Give Billions to Broadband? Advocates on the Hill hope for a boost to the nation's digital infrastructure by grabbing a share of the nearly $800 billion stimulus package on the table.
InternetNews May 9, 2006 Roy Mark	Bush Broadband Goal Fading A new Government Accountability Office report says 28 percent of Americans had high-speed connections in 2005.
InternetNews January 21, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Battle Lines Drawn in Broadband Stimulus Debate With $825 billion recovery bill on the table, debate turns to the details.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2004 Ben McClure	Danger: Power Lines Overhead? Power line broadband technology may threaten cable companies -- but not anytime soon.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Willie D. Jones	United States Establishes "Level Playing Field" in Broadband--Or Does It? Reversing a longtime stance, the FCC no longer maintains that offering consumers broadband services on attractive terms requires there to be competing providers of digital subscriber line, or DSL, service.
InternetNews May 15, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Networking Firms Maneuver for Stimulus Windfall $7 billion is headed toward broadband for underserved markets. By helping customers help themselves to those funds, will even more money be made by networking vendors?
PC Magazine August 3, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Disserving the Public The United States has dropped to 16th in the world in per capita broadband deployment, and we can expect to slip further. While there is local interest in improving the situation, state and federal officials will make sure it doesn't happen.
InternetNews August 19, 2009	FCC Probes Demand Side of Broadband Debate As it continues its series of meetings working toward a national broadband plan, the Federal Communications Commission this morning considered what to some is the most important, and overlooked, aspect of the broadband debate: adoption.
InternetNews January 6, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Economic Stimulus Bill May Drive U.S. Broadband As the new Congress convenes, an economic stimulus package will be the first order of business. What role will broadband play?
The Motley Fool October 7, 2010 Anders Bylund	Note to the FCC: America Is Falling Behind "The average U.S. household has to pay an exorbitant amount of money for an Internet connection that the rest of the industrial world would find mediocre," starts a scathing critique of American broadband services in Scientific American.
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 Crockett & Ante	Equal Opportunity Speedway African Americans are snapping up broadband - and closing the digital divide.
InternetNews April 2, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	House Panel Calls for Fast Broadband Fund Payout Subcommittee chairman calls for agencies to consider speed, competition and price when evaluating grant applications.
CIO November 2, 2010 Marketa Hulpachova	The CIO Activist: Using IT To Improve Lives San Francisco CIO Chris Vein pushes for social change and seeks to extend broadband access to the masses.