Qwest CEO Ed Mueller met last week with the FCC commissioners and the Wireline Bureau to promote the company’s views on network neutrality, special access and overhauls of the Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation regime. Mueller met separately Thursday with the bureau and Commissioners Mignon Clyburn, Meredith Baker and Michael Copps, an ex parte filing said. The CEO met separately Friday with Chairman Julius Genachowski and Commissioner Robert McDowell.
California’s Public Utility Commission has aimed more than $23 million in state Advanced Services Fund grants at projects to increase broadband service. The commission said Friday it had approved slightly more than $6.8 million in grants to two projects and conditionally approved nearly $16.2 million for four others. The money is for projects in Northern and Central California communities. “These broadband grants are being made to ensure our residents and businesses in these communities in the state have access to high-speed Internet,” Commissioner Rachelle Chong said.
The FCC needs to take a close look at broadcast TV spectrum and whether it can be reallocated to meet the growing needs of wireless carriers, Commissioner Meredith Baker said during an interview on C-SPAN’s Communicators to be telecast Saturday. But Baker said other spectrum, including that now in the hands of the Department of Defense, also must be looked at closely.
The FCC is looking at ways to spur more research and development as it develops its National Broadband Plan, commission officials said at a workshop Monday. The effort may include outreach and more emphasis on rules on enabling research, they said. Industry executives warned that the U.S. is falling behind in doing basic research, and that this could hurt U.S. competitiveness.
California’s Public Utility Commission has aimed more than $23 million in state Advanced Services Fund grants at projects to increase broadband service. The commission said Friday it had approved slightly more than $6.8 million in grants to two projects and conditionally approved nearly $16.2 million for four others. The money is for projects in Northern and Central California communities. “These broadband grants are being made to ensure our residents and businesses in these communities in the state have access to high-speed Internet,” Commissioner Rachelle Chong said.
The FCC is looking at ways to spur more research and development as it develops its National Broadband Plan, commission officials said at a workshop Monday. The effort may include outreach and more emphasis on rules on enabling research, they said. Industry executives warned that the U.S. is falling behind in doing basic research, and that this could hurt U.S. competitiveness.
The FCC is looking at ways to spur more research and development as it develops its National Broadband Plan, commission officials said at a workshop Monday. The effort may include outreach and more emphasis on rules on enabling research, they said. Industry executives warned that the U.S. is falling behind in doing basic research, and that this could hurt U.S. competitiveness.
The FCC needs to take a close look at broadcast TV spectrum and whether it can be reallocated to meet the growing needs of wireless carriers, Commissioner Meredith Baker said during an interview on C-SPAN’s Communicators to be telecast Saturday. But Baker said other spectrum, including that now in the hands of the Department of Defense, also must be looked at closely.
The FCC needs to take a close look at broadcast TV spectrum and whether it can be reallocated to meet the growing needs of wireless carriers, Commissioner Meredith Baker said during an interview on C-SPAN’s Communicators to be telecast Saturday. But Baker said other spectrum, including that now in the hands of the Department of Defense, also must be looked at closely.
The FCC needs to take a close look at broadcast TV spectrum and whether it can be reallocated to meet the growing needs of wireless carriers, Commissioner Meredith Baker said during an interview on C-SPAN’s Communicators to be telecast Saturday. But Baker said other spectrum, including that now in the hands of the Department of Defense, also must be looked at closely.