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Calls for a National Broadband Strategy
- Baller-Lide, "America Needs a Fiber-Based National Broadband Policy Now"
- Baller-Lide, "Eight Bold Steps to a National Broadband Strategy"
- Baller-Lide: Comparing the broadband positions of the major presidential candidates (February 2008)
- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Senator Barack Obama
- Former Senator John Edwards
- Senator Rockefeller's S. Res. 191, establishing a national goal to bring, by 2015,
universal and affordable access to broadband networks with the capability of transmitting data at 100 megabits per second, bidirectionally, and calling upon Congress and the President to develop a strategy, enact legislation, and develop policies to accomplish this objective
- Senator Rockefeller's floor statement introducing S. Res. 191
- Senator Durbin on YouTube introduces his online series to develop legislation
to establish a National Broadband Strategy
- Senator John Kerry calls lack of clear national broadband policy "indefensible"
- Rep. Ed Markey: "America currently suffers from the lack of an overarching
broadband plan"
- Senator Lieberman's bill "The National Broadband Strategy Act of 2002"
- Fiber to the Home Council
- Cisco
- NATOA, NACO, USCM and NLC
- Benton Foundation
- Public Knowledge
- Communications Workers of America
- Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
- Center for Creative Voices in Media
- Open Access Coalition
- Free Press, Consumers Union and Consumers Federation of America
- Center for American Progress
- Verizon
- AT&T
- San Jose Mercury News
Why We Need a National Broadband Strategy
- Tim Wu, "Jump Starting Our Tech Policy" (April 2008)
- Dirk van der Woude, Presentation at F2C (March 2008)
- Philip Weiser, Aspen Institute: "A Framework For a National Broadband Policy" (March 2008)
- John Windhausen, EDUCAUSE: "A Blueprint for Big Broadband" (January 2008)
- Mark Lloyd, Center for American Progress: "Ubiquity Requires Redundancy: The Case for Federal Investment
in Broadband" (January 2008)
- New York State Universal Broadband Strategy (December 2007)
- Robert Atkinson: "Framing a National Broadband Policy" (January 2008)
- Peter Orme: "Japan Eyes 10 Gigs by 2010 as United States Sweats 200 Kbps" (December 2007)
- Report of the California Broadband Task Force (January 2008)
- Benton Foundation: Universal Affordable Broadband for All Americans (December 2007)
- Dirk van der Woude: FTTX in Europe (November 2007)
- Japan MIC Report (October 2007)
- Commissioner Michael Copps Before Senate Small Business Committee (September 2007)
- Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein Before Senate Small Business Committee (September 2007)
- Jim Baller, "A National Broadband Strategy: 'Make No Small Plans'" (September 2007)
- New Zealand: Defining Broadband Aspirations (September 2007)
- New Zealand Needs Nationwide FTTH (September 2007)
- Washington Post, "Japan's Warp-Speed Ride" (August 2007)
- FCC Commissioner Michael Copps interview on Bill Moyers Journal (August 2007)
- FCC Commissioner Michael Copps: "America's Internet Disconnect"
- Commissioner Adelstein responds to criticisms of OECD data
- FTTH Prism's Dave Chaffee on US fiber needs (August 2007)
- Comptroller General David Walker compares the US to Rome during its decline from
greatness (August 2007)
- Business Week: France's superior approach to broadband deployment (July 2007)
- Free Press (Derek Turner) refutes criticisms of OECD data (July 2007)
- Crandall, Lehr, and Litan: "The Effects of Broadband Deployment on Output and
Employment: A Cross-sectional Analysis of U.S. Data" (June 2007)
- Schement, Horrigan and Lacayo, "Universal Service for a Globally Competitive America"
- Communications Workers of America report on slow US data speeds
- China seeks to dominate cyberspace
- Robert Atkinson: "The Case for a National Broadband Policy"
- Horizon Project: "Report and Recommendations"
- Center for Creative Voices in Media: "The Case For Universal Broadband in America, Now"
- Susan Crawford: FCC and Congress asking wrong questions
- US drops from 12th in 2005 to 15th in 2006 in OECD broadband ranking
- US plunges from 1st in 2005 to 7th in 2006 in "Networked Readiness Index"
- US 15th in ITU broadband ranking for 2005 (now dated)
- US drops to 25th in Point Topic survey of broadband penetration
(Point Topic covers more countries than OECD or ITU)
- 100 Mbps available nationwide in Singapore as of December 2006
- Why the US has no national broadband strategy
- Ben Scott's testimony to Senate Commerce Committee (4-24-07)
- "When it Comes to Broadband, U.S. Plays Follow the Leader"
- FTTH Council: "A 100 Megabit Nation by 2015"
- U.S. Department of Commerce: "Understanding Broadband Demand" (September 2002)
- Robert Atkinson: "The Role of Competition in a National Broadband Policy"
- Marc Strassman interview of Jim Carlini.
- Jim Baller: "The 'ConnectKentucky' Model: A Limited Step in the Right Direction"
National Broadband Planning in Other Nations
Opposition to a National Broadband Strategy
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