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The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration is launching accounts to share more information with the public through the social networking sites Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter. But though Department of Commerce employees are blocked from using these sites at work.

Long-awaited European Union telecommunications rules are set to take effect this week, the EU Commission said Monday. The rules, which must be adopted by EU member states by June 2011, will establish a new national governing authority for the field of telecommunications.

The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association, an association representing locally owned and controlled telecommunications cooperatives and commercial companies in rural America, sent a letter Friday to members of the House Commerce Committee urging lawmakers to oppose a recent request by a number of technology companies to ban state regulation of Internet protocol-based services.

A number of Democratic lawmakers jumped on the broadband bandwagon Thursday to support the use of federal money to encourage adoption of the technology, while one Republican was quick to criticize the Obama Administration for excessive government spending.

Developing countries frequently ask the World Bank for advice on how to roll out a national broadband strategy, said a speaker Thursday at a Federal Communications Commission workshop on the benefits of global broadband connectivity.

The Songwriters Guild of America is the latest intellectual property-focused group weighing into the debate about whether the government should take steps to regulate Internet access to support so-called Network Neutrality principles.

On Friday, Sen John Ensign (R-NV), the ranking member of the Senate Communications Subcommittee, said the US must act soon to meet the increasing demand for more spectrum.

Despite government delays in announcing the grant awards for the $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus money Congress allocated in January, Vice President Joe Biden Thursday said that within the next...

The opening speaker of a summit focused on improving broadband penetration to minority and low-income areas of the country, and criticized advocates of network neutrality for being out of touch with the needs of minorities.

In a report to Congress, the NTIA said Wednesday that it won't conclude doling out the first round of broadband stimulus funding until February 2010.