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| Broadband plan sent to Congress |
| Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| The Federal Communications
Commission, FCC, aims to ensure every American in the country has broadband
connections by 2020.
It claims a third of all US
households - 100 million Americans - do not have a broadband connection.
Congress will now consider
whether to introduce legislation to enact some parts of the 360-page plan.
Some of the |
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| Tech industry group 'encouraged' by broadband plan |
| Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| Dean Garfield, president of
the Information Technology Industry Council, hasn't seen the full version of
the national broadband plan, but he is encouraged by its central goals.
In the "bipolar nature of Washington," he said it's easy to get
caught up in being for or against a particular policy.
"It's less about are we for or against it than what the |
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| Broadband plan has worthy aims, but implementing it won't be easy |
| Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| WASHINGTON
— While the overarching goals of the national broadband plan released Monday
will be difficult for anyone to oppose — extending high-speed Internet to
virtually all Americans and dramatically boosting its speed — getting there
will be neither quick nor easy.
Buried in the details of the 360-page report by the Federal Communications
Commission |
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| FCC's Broadband Plan: $15.5 Billion for Deployment |
| Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| The U.S. Federal
Communications Commission will recommend the deployment of a nationwide free or
low-cost wireless broadband network, and it will pour at least US$15.5 billion
into broadband deployment across the country over the next 10 years under a national
broadband plan to be officially released Tuesday.
The FCC's national broadband plan |
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| FCC's national broadband plan: What's in it? |
| Friday, March 12, 2010 |
| March 12, 2010 (IDG
News Service) The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to release a
national broadband plan next week that will lay out an ambitious set of goals
for broadband deployment and adoption
The official version of the plan will be released at a commission meeting
Tuesday, but FCC followers have seen the agency unveil several major |
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| IT groups warn on regulation |
| Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| The US and the European
Union are pushing China to soften or drop plans for compulsory certification of
a range of technology products, as foreign IT companies warn that Beijing's
regulatory requirements are pushing them out of the market.
The complaints come after Google's announcement last month that it was
reviewing the feasibility of operations in |
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| Screw slowly tightens on technology companies |
| Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| One month after threatening to pull out of China,
Google's complaint that the cost of doing business in the country may have
become too high is resonating far and wide.
Technology companies are "feeling
less welcome and finding it increasingly difficult to do business in
China", says John Neuffer, vice-president for global policy at the
Information |
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| The Full Employment for Scientists and Engineers Act |
| Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| With the future of the tax extenders package still
uncertain, lobbyists are scrambling to make sure the R&D tax credit gets
attached to a bill — any bill — and soon. The National Association of
Manufacturers, the Information Technology Industry Council, the Business Roundtable,
and the R&D Credit Coalition are all out in force on the Hill right now. |
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