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FCC's push for broadband likely to spark lobbying by ... - Denver Post
The blueprint reflects the government's view that broadband Internet is becoming the common medium of the United States, gradually displacing the telephone and broadcast television industries ... indecency on the television airwaves than for ...

Louisiana gets $80 million federal broadband grant to stretch Internet service - Washington Examiner
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana is receiving an $80 million federal grant for 900 miles of fiber optic cable that will expand the reach of broadband Internet to rural and poor areas of the state. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says the cable will stretch broadband to 100,000 households, 15,000

ROCKEFELLER ANNOUNCES $2.9 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR IMPROVED BROADBAND ... - TMCnet
Mar 05, 2010 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- Washington, D.C. - Senator Jay Rockefeller today announced nearly $2.9 million in funding for broadband Internet access for West Virginia. A West Virginia company ...

Federal grant to extend broadband Internet to rural areas - News-Star
Louisiana has landed an $80 million U.S. Department of Commerce grant that will expand the availability of broadband Internet to the state’s rural areas, and much of the funding will be focused in northeastern Louisiana. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., announced

City ponders tower's lease - Bonner County Daily Bee
... committee — Ogilvie abstained from voting — recommended that council, at its next meeting, allow Geibel to pay the back rent and use the city-owned site to transmit broadband Internet. Because a rate sheet sets the price of renting space on ...

Montana looking to test speed of Internet service - Billings Gazette
HELENA - The Department of Commerce says it wants Montanans to help test the speed of the state's broadband Internet infrastructure. The agency says there is an online speed test at www.mtspeedtest.org . The goal of the project is to identify the ...

State looking to test speed of Internet service - Montana Standard
HELENA (AP) - The Department of Commerce says it wants Montanans to help test the speed of the state's broadband Internet infrastructure. The agency says their is an online speed test at www.mtspeedtest.org . The goal of the project is to identify ...

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The blueprint reflects the government’s view that broadband Internet is becoming the common medium of the United States, gradually displacing the telephone and broadcast television industries. It also signals a shift at the F.C.C., which under the ...

State to test speed of Internet service - Missoulian
HELENA - The Department of Commerce says it wants Montanans to help test the speed of the state's broadband Internet infrastructure. The agency says their is an online speed test at www.mtspeedtest.org . The goal of the project is to identify the ...

MEXICO: Consumers on the Offensive - Inter Press Service
... report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says Mexico has the most expensive international and business calls, cell-phone services and broadband Internet services - Slim's territory - of the 31-member grouping ...