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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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It’s on the tip of nearly everyone’s tounge: America needs a National Broadband Strategy. With Capital Letters. Now. Or at least by January 20, 2009.
Seriously, it is amazing how much consensus there seems to have developed on this simple point. From the Bell carriers to Googlers, from public interest groups to local legislators, from Democratic […]

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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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In another article about the BroadbandCensus.com, in DSL Reports, Karl Bode gives a little appropriate historical background to the quest for better information about broadband in the United States:
Back in 2006, we interviewed Drew Clark of the Center For Public Integrity, an organization that’s trying to map the real state of media ownership and broadband […]

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Carol Wilson profiled BroadbandCensus.com today in Telephony Online. She quotes me as follows:
“What we’re trying to do in some respects is fact-check or truth-check the FCC’s numbers,” Clark said. “They have been saying there’s lots of broadband available anywhere. On a ZIP code basis, they have said there are eight, 10, 25 different broadband […]

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By Drew Clark
BroadbandCensus.com, a new Web site designed to provide everyday Internet users with the ability to learn about broadband availability, competition, speeds and prices – in their local areas — launched January 31.
The information launched yesterday evening on BroadbandCensus.com is really only the beginning. We understand that the information we have about local broadband […]

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By Drew Clark
Art Brodsky’s 4,789-word article about Connect Kentucky and its offspring Connected Nation has been the talk of telecom circles over the past week.
Connected Nation is a non-profit entity that has become one of biggest players in the currently topical field of broadband data. Using their work in Kentucky as a model for mapping […]

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