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By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, July 2 - Broadband growth in the United States has effectively stalled over the past five months, a possible victim of the economic slowdown, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Some 55 percent of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection, […]

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By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
Over at the Communications Workers of America’s blog, Speed Matters, the union claims credit for the Federal Communications Commission’s recent order requiring broadband companies to provide the FCC with more information, including data about availability by Census tract.
The blog notes:
The CWA Speed Matters campaign can claim another victory – this time […]

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June 22 - The subject of tiered access to high-speed internet services has been much in the news, with the announcements by Time Warner Cable, and also Cox Communications, that they would roll out tiered services.Well, the news out of NXTcomm08, the telecommunications industry conference last week in Las Vegas, only seems to underscore the […]

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By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, June 15 - In an effort to increase the data that the Federal Communications Commission has available as it designs broadband policies, on Thursday the FCC ordered broadband providers to provide the agency with more detailed information.
For the past eight years, broadband providers had to provide the FCC with semi-annual […]

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Today I’ve filed several articles on BroadbandCensus.com with extensive coverage from the Broadband Policy Summit last Thursday and Friday. You can also see the links to these stories and others on broadband, at the home page of BroadbandCensus.com. (Brief excerpts from several of these stories are included further below as well.)
Check back at BroadbandCensus.com on […]

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By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, June 14 - Critics and proponents of Network Neutrality squaring off on the topic on Friday agreed that recent actions by both cable and wireless providers had had re-vivified the debate about the topic.
Comcast’s actions blocking upsteam traffic using the peer-to-peer program BitTorrent – currently under investigation by the Federal […]

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By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, June 12 - Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., decried the move to impose Network Neutrality on broadband carriers, speaking at a keynote luncheon address at the Broadband Policy Summit IV here.
Restrictions on the ability of carriers to design the rules whereby data flows over their networks are a bad idea, Stearns […]

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By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, June 12 - Questions about the availability and detail of broadband data featured prominently in presentations and in discussions at Thursday’s sessions of the Broadband Policy Summit IV, which was sponsored by Pike & Fischer.
“I have been long lamented that we don’t have a national broadband policy,” said Jeff Campbell, […]

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Editor’s Note: I’ll be blogging much of today from the Broadband Policy Summit IV at BroadbandCensus.com. Check back for updates!
-Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps, in the keynote address: “The issue of a national broadband strategy is beginning to take on a life of its own. We are going to hear more […]

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In a speech just released on her Web site, Federal Communications Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate praised BroadbandCensus.com
In the speech (TXT DOC PDF), which was given at the Broadband Properties conference on April 30, 2008, in Dallas, Texas, Tate said:
I also appreciate and encourage private, state and local efforts to enhance the availability of such information.  […]

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I’ll be speaking about the quest for data about broadband availability, competition, speeds and prices at a conference on “Information and the Information Economy,” co-sponsored by The Intellectual Property & Communication Law Program at the Michigan State University College of Law, theThe Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University andThe Quello Center for Telecommunications […]

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I just presented BroadbandCensus.com at Freedom to Connect. Two people who are live-blogging or commenting on the event:

Heath Row’s Media Diet
Listics
Suw Charman-Anderson’s Strange Attractor on Corange

One point that I forgot to mention in the talk: BroadbandCensus.com is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, meaning that individuals are free to copy and redistribute the information […]

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Over at IP Democracy, Cynthia Brumfield has this to say about BroadbandCensus.com:
BroadbandCensus is coming online at the right time. As Drew notes in his blog post announcing the new site, a lot of states are trying to collect their own data and legislation is moving in both the House and Senate to collect better […]

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Note: I guest-blogged this morning at the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet:
By Drew Clark
Most Americans who have high-speed Internet can’t imagine life without broadband. How could you connect to the Internet of today without it? In today’s world, broadband is as basic as running water and electricity. And yet the U.S. is falling […]

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Today, the BroadbandCensus.com has added a collection of the 1,527 carriers that the Federal Communications Commission says are providing broadband in the United States. If you don’t see your carrier when you Take the Broadband Census, please use the e-mail link to tell us who is missing!
I’ve been really heartened by the incredible response from […]

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