Network Neutrality – FCC Broadband Plan

Is Google planning pricey Potemkin broadband villages? As part of an expensive lobbying move, the search giant last week unveiled plans to fund fiber-to-the-home broadband networks in the U.S. that would deliver unprecedented speeds of 1 Gigabit per second. The search giant said it initially plans to deliver such lightning-fast speeds to at least 50,000 customers, at what Google promised would ... More

The federal government was shut down for much of last week due to a pair of back-breaking record snowstorms. But thanks in part to broadband connections — and unlike the U.S. Postal Service on at least one of those days — the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband team continued to deliver. More

Google is getting into the broadband network business, at least on a small scale. More

The National Telecommunications & Information Administration has given out $21.5 million in broadband stimulus grants to middle mile projects in Southern Virginia. More

Looks like the National Telecommunications & Information Administration could be handing out more broadband stimulus money even on a day when the federal government is ostensibly closed. More

What broadcasters have seen as a possible spectrum grab that would leave them beached and gasping for air is being billed by the FCC as more of a "spectrum tug" that would leave broadcasters with a range of options. More

The debate over whether the federal government should reclaim part, or all, of broadcasters' spectrum and reallocate it for wireless broadband applications continued at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Thursday (Jan. More

The FCC has taken network neutrality to the next level, agreeing to launch the process of codifying and expanding its network openness principles. Astroturf groups and think tanks were in overdrive early last week, warning of the dangers of overregulation. But also expressing caution were the Urban More

The kinder, gentler FCC got a little rougher and more circumspect last week as the mutual admiration society that characterized the first weeks of the new chairman's tenure ran up against the first big policy call. That would be Julius Genachowski's announcement that he was pursuing codified More

The two federal agencies administering the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus program have extended the deadline for the first round of grant applications to Aug. 20, in part because of heavy volume. The initial round of the broadband programs, a $7. More