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1:36 pm on April 7, 2011 · broadband (121), NY Tech Council (6), sree sreenivasan (2)

NY Tech Council event 5/3: The Pervasive Network – ubiquitous access? #nyc #broadband

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Sree Sreenivasan
Sree Sreenivasan

Today your desktop PC, laptop, tablet, phone and TV all act as gateways to the Internet. In the not-too-distant future, every electronic device and appliance we own will be networked together. At this general meeting of the New York Technology Council, Columbia journalism professor Sree Sreenivasan leads a discussion with representatives from Verizon Wireless, frog design, and others on the future of ubiquitous network access.
When: Tues. May. 3rd, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas
RSVP: https://www.nytech.org/the-pervasive-network

2:09 pm on April 1, 2011 · access (43), broadband (121), MAS (2), nyc (130), rachel sterne (6), webcast (110), wifi (7)

Video: Wireless City: Can All New Yorkers Get Connected? #nyc #broadband

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On March 8 2011, The Municipal Art Society of New York presented a panel Wireless City: Can All New Yorkers Get Connected?.

After introductions from MAS President Vin Cipolla and City Councillor Gale Brewer, NYC’s Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne delivered a keynote detailing recent advances in digital interaction between NYC’s government and citizens.

During the panel, moderated by Adam Balkin of NY1: Greg Goldman, former CEO of Wireless Philadelphia, discussed the successes and failures of that effort; Dana Spiegel, Executive Director of NYC Wireless, emphasized that its ability to provide open public WiFi is reliant on the availability of supporting wired infrastructure; Sonja Murray of One Economy detailed that organization’s work in bringing access to 25,000 of NYC’s underserved population, including implementation of Meraki mesh technology to overcome WiFi limitations in housing projects, plus a killer app in community elevator monitoring. Video is here

* Timecodes: 11:30 Rachel Sterne, 31:50 Greg Goldman, 52:30 Sonja Murray, 58:30 Dana Spiegel.

2:04 pm on March 29, 2011 · broadband (121), btop (9), nyc (130)

NYC BTOP Recipients Roundtable 4/12 #nyc #broadband #btop #nycbtop

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Broadband USA

Broadband USAJoin the Federal Communications Bar Association’s New York Chapter in collaboration with The Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute at New York Law School for a brown bag lunch program featuring New York City’s Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant recipients and benefitting organizations. Discussion will include an overview of the scope of grants received, a status report on the programs, on-going objectives for the organizations and more.

What: BTOP Recipients Roundtable
When: Tuesday, April 12th, 2011, Noon – 1:30 pm
Where: New York Law School 185 West Broadway (at Leonard St.), Room W-204, NY NY 10013
Who: RSVP
Speakers:
• Carole J. Wacey, Executive Director, MOUSE;
• Tom Kamber, Executive Director, Older Adults Technology
Services (OATS) ;
• Bruce Lai, Executive Director, School Technology Strategy,
Division of Instructional and Information Technology, New York City Department of Education
• Kate Hohman, New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (unconfirmed).

12:02 am on March 16, 2011 · broadband (121), fcc (92), NBP (17)

NoChokePoints: Report states Special Access reform would save $37bn, create 176k jobs. #fcc #broadband

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NoChokePoints.org

NoChokePoints.orgRecommendation 4.8 of the National Broadband Plan  urges the FCC to ensure that special access rates are “just and reasonable,” noting that “special access circuits play a significant role in the availability and pricing of broadband service.” The Plan observes that the FCC is “currently considering the appropriate analytical framework” and calls on it to “establish an analytical approach” that will “ensure that rates, terms and conditions” for special access are “just and reasonable.” In Oct. 2009 the FCC established a pleading cycle on Special Access.

The NoChokePoints Coalition, a broad-based group that includes BT, Sprint, the New America Foundation and Public Knowledge, have just announced a report, filed with the FCC, “Economic Benefits of Special Access Price Reductions” that estimates that special access reform would increase national output by as much as $37.7 billion and create as many as 176,000 new jobs across the U.S. economy.

Spokesman Maura Corbett said “Currently, special access services produce excess rates of return as high as 77.9 percent, by contrast, the FCC’s last authorized rate of return was 11.25 percent.” and “The FCC has in its hands the power to create positive economic growth, and it needs to use it.”

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9:58 pm on March 6, 2011 · broadband (121), fcc (92), fiber (26), gigabit (7)

New York Times: Cheap, Ultrafast Broadband? Hong Kong Has It #broadband #fiber

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A New York Times article Cheap, Ultrafast Broadband? Hong Kong Has It by Randall Stross reports that a Hong Kong ISP is offering gigabit residential service at $26/month.

From the article:

Inexpensive pricing of gigabit broadband is practical in American cities, too. “This is an eminently replicable model,” says Benoit Felten, a co-founder of Diffraction Analysis, a consulting business based in Paris. “But not by someone who already owns a network — unless they’re willing to scrap the network.”

In the United States, costs would come down if several companies shared the financial burden of putting fiber into the ground and then competed on the basis of services built on top of the shared assets. That would bring multiple competitors into the picture, pushing down prices. But it would also require regulatory changes that the Federal Communications Commission has yet to show an appetite for.

1:55 pm on February 11, 2011 · broadband (121), citi (45), georgetown (7), NBP (17)

THE NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN: One Year Later – DC 3/18 #broadband

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The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) and Georgetown University’s Communication Culture and Technology Program will present a one day confrence THE NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN: One Year Later at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on Friday, March 18. Details as to the agenda and location will be available soon. Please save the date.

The FCC’s National Broadband Plan was released on March 16, 2010. It laid out a number of ambitious long-term goals, including that 100 million US households would have affordable access to 100mbps broadband service within a decade and that the US should be the world leader on mobile broadband innovation with the fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation. After a year, is the Plan “on track”? What is the state of broadband in America in 2011? What has been accomplished and what are the major next steps in the implementation of the Plan? Have any of the facts, circumstances and analyses that underlie the NBP changed in such a way that the Plan itself needs to be amended? How will the Plan be administered and updated over the next decade?

2:02 am on February 8, 2011 · broadband (121), comcast (11), internet (14), nbcu (2), netnetrality (1), peering (42), Susan Crawford (26), video (21)

Video: The Strain of Online Videos #broadband

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On Jan 19, as part of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee State of the Net Conference 2011, a panel of experts discussed the changing landscape of video distribution, and its implications for lawmakers. The panel was preceded by a short presentation by MIT Research Associate Dr. William Lehr outlining the state of play.

Moderator
*Gary Arlen, President, Arlen Communications

Panel

  • Marvin Ammori, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Nebraska Law School
  • Richard Bennett, Sr. Fellow, The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
    • Susan Crawford, Professor, Cardozo Law School & Research Collaborator, The Center for Information Technology Policy
    • Adam Thierer, Sr. Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

4:27 pm on February 7, 2011 · blair levin (9), broadband (121), broadband plan (5), craig settles (3), gigaom (1), NAF (1), NBP (17)

Video: Blair Levin and Craig Settles on the National Broadband Plan

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Earlier today the New America Foundation and GigaOm hosted a discussion Two Perspectives on the National Broadband Plan between Craig Settles, a broadband industry analyst, and Blair Levin, chief architect of the National Broadband Plan, on the plan’s merits. This follows an earlier exchange of views in GigaOm [Settles|Levin| Settles|Levin] in December. Moderators are Wall Street Journal’s Amy Schatz and GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham. A recording is available here or below. It runs 1h20m.