Chattanooga: Companies line up to offer broadband service to area

Chattanooga Times Free Press
Competition for cable television and high-speed telecommunication services is heating up with EPB’s imminent rollout of broadband Internet for homes.
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Pilot Grant Program to Improve Internet Connections in Public Libraries

Information Today, Inc.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (www.gatesfoundation.org) announced a pilot initiative designed to help public libraries in seven states secure faster internet connections so more people can access a full range of online applications and opportunities. The foundation has awarded $6,959,771 in combined grant funding to Connected Nation (www.connectednation.com), a nonprofit broadband internet advocacy group, and the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP; www.ala.org) to support improved internet connections for public libraries in Arkansas, California, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Virginia.
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Bill And Melinda Gates Donate $7 Million To Improve Libraries' Internet Connections

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On the heels of President-elect Barack Obama's promise to make broadband access a priority, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded a new initiative to improve internet connections for public libraries across seven states.
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Broadband vendor decision in Riley's hands

The Mongotmery Advertiser
The fate of the state's broadband initiative now rests with Gov. Bob Riley.

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Gates Grants $6.9 Mil For Library Broadband

National Journal Online
A pilot initiative announced Thursday by the foundation run by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife will help public libraries in seven states secure faster Internet connections so more people can access a full range of online applications and opportunities. The foundation awarded $6.9 million in combined grant funding to Connected Nation, a non-profit Internet advocacy group, and the American Library Association to support improved Web access for libraries in Arkansas, California, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Virginia.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Announces Pilot Grant Program to Improve Internet Connections in Public Libraries

Resource Shelf
The foundation has awarded $6,959,771 in combined grant funding to Connected Nation, a non-profit broadband Internet advocacy group, and the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) to support improved Internet connections for public libraries in Arkansas, California, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Virginia.
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White House Opposes FCC's Free Internet Plan

CIO Today
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has written Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin that a free Internet would be inconsistent with the Bush administration's views. Gutierrez asked the FCC to reconsider its vote on the AWS-3 rule. M2Z Networks said the Bush administration is telling the FCC to break the law.
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Broadband and Retail: Black Friday and Cyber-24/7/365

Shelly Palmer Media
It’s official; we’re in a recession. Which is incredibly bad news to get at the opening of the holiday shopping season. Not that anyone needed the National Bureau of Economic Research (the private organization charged with making such determinations) to tell us that times are tough. We all know it too well. No matter what business you’re in, you have to be feeling the pressure. Retail is no exception.
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National Broadband Strategy Week Begins Today, 10 a.m., in Dirksen Senate

BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON – A total of 55 companies and non-profit organizations, including major corporate entities such as AT&T, Cisco Systems, Google, Intel and Verizon Communications, have signed on to a “call to action for a national broadband strategy.”

A National Broadband Strategy Call to Action

NextGenWeb.org
Today a diverse array of groups concerned about America’s broadband future released a Call to Action that provides a policy framework for a comprehensive National Broadband Strategy. The Call to Action was released at an event on Capitol Hill that featured presentations by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel for Google, Larry Cohen, President of the Communications Workers of America, Jim Cicconi, Sr. Vice President of External and Legislative Affairs at AT&T, and Ben Scott, Director of Policy at Free Press.
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