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  • USA: Oklahoma Broadband Mapping Initiative Seeks Oklahomans Assistance at BroadbandMapping.OK

    The state of Oklahoma recently launched a new initiative undertaking a massive effort to collect and process data related to broadband availability across the state at http://BroadbandMapping.OK.gov.

    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) directed the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to develop and maintain a comprehensive nationwide inventory map of broadband service capability and availability and to make the map publicly available via the Internet. NTIA has awarded a grant to the State of Oklahoma to collect and verify statewide data about the availability, speed, and location of broadband Internet service.

  • USA: Oklahoma: Pryor: Google Fiber for Communities

    Pryor, OK, is submitting a petition to Google to be considered for the Google Fiber for Communities program.

    Chamber of Commerce President Barbara Hawkins said Google is going to work with up to 15 U.S. communities to install broadband communications networks as part of the program.

    “The internet is an essential tool for many reasons,” she said. High speed broadband is essential for business infrastructure, both to draw potential businesses here or keep them here.

  • USA: Oregon: The Dalles: Google spendet öffentliches Stadt-WLAN

    Die Stadt The Dalles im US-Bundesstaat Oregon hat eine Spende des Internetdiensteanbieters Google in Höhe von 100.000 US-Dollar angenommen, mit der im Geschäftsviertel der Stadt ein öffentliches WLAN entstehen soll. Mit dieser Summe soll das Funknetz für mindestens die kommenden drei Jahre kostenlos bereitgestellt werden können, berichtet die Lokalzeitung The Dalles Chronicle auf ihrer Website.

  • USA: Organization works to prepare Southwest Alaska businesses for broadband

    Broadband connectivity is coming to Southwest Alaska, and a local economic development organization wants to make sure businesses are ready to take advantage of it.

    Current internet connectivity in most Southwest villages is slow and cumbersome, with satellite connections that tend to be sluggish and unreliable.

    The Southwest Alaska Broadband Consortium has only had one meeting since its formation about a year ago, and the turnout wasn't substantial. However, officials with the Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference, who started the consortium, are excited about the future, noting that outreach efforts are under way.

  • USA: Pennsylvania: Bedford County: Need for technological infrastructure explained

    While developing new infrastructure for technology such as broadband seems complicated and daunting, advocates insist its endpoint is crucial to the survival of places such as rural Bedford County.

    ‘‘We need this in order to grow economically,’’ said Edward Silvetti, president of the Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Commission.

  • USA: Pennsylvania: Broadband networks funded

    A pair of projects to expand broadband Internet access in rural Pennsylvania will receive almost $130 million in federal economic stimulus dollars.

    One project involving a group of Pennsylvania universities, including Bucknell University in Lewisburg, will receive $99 million in federal stimulus dollars to develop a broadband network. A related $29 million venture will fund a similar push to expand broadband in communities north of Interstate 80.

    The Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research, a coalition of Pennsylvania colleges and universities, health care organizations and economic development entities that submitted a joint application for the construction and management of the statewide broadband network.

  • USA: Plans for National Broadband Access May Be in Danger

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is gearing up to release its plan for national broadband access on March 17. The FCC is required under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to develop and present to Congress a plan to connect an estimated 93 million Americans to broadband service. Early releases of the plan indicate a broad vision, but problems concerning funding and net neutrality threaten its success.

    On Feb. 18, the FCC gave the public an idea of what will be in the plan by releasing its national purposes update, which outlines what the commission will present to Congress. The plan embraces a broad vision of public connectivity that some public interest groups consider long overdue. The vision includes increased public education programs to bridge the digital divide, efforts to utilize broadband to improve energy and health care efficiency, and plans to provide first responders with radio interoperability.

  • USA: Presidential Memorandum: Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution

    MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

    SUBJECT:Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution

    America's future competitiveness and global technology leadership depend, in part, upon the availability of additional spectrum. The world is going wireless, and we must not fall behind. The resurgence of American productivity growth that started in the 1990s largely reflects investments by American companies, the public sector, and citizens in the new communications technologies that are what we know today as the Internet. The Internet, as vital infrastructure, has become central to the daily economic life of almost every American by creating unprecedented opportunities for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs. We are now beginning the next transformation in information technology: the wireless broadband revolution.

  • USA: Relaunched Oklahoma City Wi-Fi Network Showcases City-Services Model

    Oklahoma may be without a statewide broadband strategy, but earlier this summer Oklahoma City re-launched what is being billed as the largest city-owned and operated municipal Wi-Fi network.

    Although the Wi-Fi mesh network went live in September 2006, it was re-launched in an expanded mode on June 3, 2008. It is devoted exclusively to public safety and municipal use, and is not available to the public.

    The city joined Corpus Christi, Texas, in launching a municipal wireless broadband network for municipal use only. Minneapolis and Riverside, Calif., are among the cities that offered mixed-use networks, allowing the public to access the system for internet connections, as well as for city function.

  • USA: Retooling for a modern transportation infrastructure

    In the 20th century the development of new infrastructure helped turn the United States into the greatest superpower the world has ever seen. Electrifying rural America, providing phone service, the Interstate Highway System, airports for the jet age, even opening the Great Lakes to the oceans of the globe with the St. Lawrence Seaway gave our society mobility for people and products, as well as the ability instantly communicate across vast distances.

    The 20th century was a time when new ideas changed everything. Now, in the 21st century, we are on the verge of a new transformational era, with new technologies for transportation and communication.

  • USA: San Franciscos WLAN-Pläne sind in trockenen Tüchern

    Die Stadt hat jetzt Verträge mit Earthlink zum Aufbau eines der größten kostenlosen Funknetze unterzeichnet.

    San Francisco, Earthlink und Google sind sich nach sieben Monaten Verhandlung einig: Gemeinsam wollen sie in der Stadt an der Pazifikküste das größte öffentliche US-amerikanische WLAN-Netz aufbauen. Über das Funknetz sollen die mehr als 800.000 Einwohner der Stadt Zugriff auf das Internet erhalten. Mit 72.000 potenziellen Nutzern galt bislang der WLAN-Dienst, den Google an seinem Hauptsitz in Mountain View aufgebaut hatte, als größte Installation.

  • USA: Seeding 'a culture of broadband' in rural Minnesota

    Spurred by long-shot chances to land a Google fiber system or federal broadband bucks, Minnesotans are trying everything from jumping into frigid Lake Superior to toiling over tedious grant applications.

    But there's another side to the challenge of connecting Minnesota to its brightest prospects for the future: getting people to make full use of high-speed Internet service once it is available.

  • USA: Senate Committee Seeks Faster Internet and More Broadband Data

    Senators on the Commerce Committee on Tuesday promoted the benefits of high-speed internet access and called for the passage of measures designed to provide more public information about broadband, and more broadband connectivity.

    At a hearing on “Why Broadband Matters,” the committee heard testimony – remotely – from an Alaska telehealth facility, among others.

    Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, pressed for passage of his Broadband Data Improvement Act, S. 1492, and Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, announced his Telehealth for America bill designed to expand current programs supporting broadband-enabled telehealth applications.

  • USA: Senate Panel Blesses Community Broadband

    A Senate panel has approved legislation banning states' efforts to prevent local governments from providing community broadband access.

    The Community Broadband Act of 2007 would pave the way for cities to install free Wi-Fi networks without being forced to contract through existing commercial providers. A similar measure is moving forward in the House, and both bills have broad bipartisan support.

  • USA: Smartgrids, telemedicine could drive broadband adoption

    The advent of sensors that let systems talk to each other via the Internet -- think smart-grid technologies, telemedicine programs, homeland security surveillance -- will begin to fuel the demand for broadband services.

    So much so, in fact, that it could eclipse consumer demand in the future, said John Horrigan, Consumer Research Director of the FCC's National Broadband Plan.

  • USA: Southwest Virginia: High-speed connection: Broadband project key for future growth

    Another phase of a far-reaching broadband backbone project for Southwest Virginia will soon be connected.

    U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., recently announced the award of a $1 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through its Rural Utilities Service to establish high-speed Internet services in the community of Hurley. Boucher’s announcement coincided with the 60th anniversary of the federal agency’s telecommunications program.

  • USA: State on wrong side of digital divide

    The global race to embrace broadband Internet is creating a world of digital haves and have-nots, according to the Communication Workers of America.

    The surprising news in that is where the United States finds itself in the high-speed Internet race.

    Americans are mired in a broadband world that leaves them far behind their global competitors in Japan, South Korea, Finland, France and even our neighbors to the north in Canada.

  • USA: Stimulus ties spending on broadband to civic participation

    A Federal Communications Commission initiative to create a nationwide plan for expanding high-speed Internet access also is expanding e-government, FCC officials said.

    The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act set a February 2010 deadline to create a plan that would provide high-speed Internet access to all Americans. By law, the plan must include using broadband to increase civic participation in policymaking, also known as e-government. A cornerstone of the Obama administration's transparency agenda, announced the day the president took office, has been to increase public participation in government through the Web.

  • USA: Study: 45 pct of West Virginian Internet speeds below marks

    A new study shows that 45 percent of West Virginians are using Internet connections with speeds below federal standards.

    The study by the Communications Workers of America ranks the state 11th in the nation for the percentage of people with speeds of at least 4 megabits per second, the minimum standard set by the Federal Communications Commission.

    The study says that 49 percent of Internet users nationally failed to meet the federal standard.

  • USA: Tennessee: Grass-roots effort will end digital divide

    High-speed Internet, or broadband, is now as essential as electricity and roads.

    With broadband, Tennesseans can communicate with a loved one serving overseas or get expert medical attention without traveling to a larger city. With the right technology, Tennessee school children can prepare for tomorrow and adults can complete their college degrees online and find better jobs.

    Broadband makes all of these opportunities possible, but not all Tennesseans can access broadband at home. Some Tennesseans remain on the wrong side of the digital divide. Connected Tennessee is working to change that.

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