Drew Clark

In light of the broadband stimulus awards announced last week, what probably got less attention was a key policy document released on Thursday by the White House's National Economic Council. Titled "Recovery Act Investments in Broadband: Leveraging Federal Dollars to Create Jobs and Connect America," this document represents a manifesto for the value of federal engagement in broadband's "middle mile."

A new report using an innovative approach to broadband data finds that the percentage of households in the United States that have adopted high-speed Internet services is 72.9 percent.

Alabama, Arizona, Missouri, Illinois and Kansas have made recommendations to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration for broadband stimulus grants.

The state of Texas on Thursday released its list of the 52 projects that should be prioritized in the broadband stimulus funding decision pending by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the Rural Utilities Service.

Public Knowledge's sixth annual "IP3 Awards" - which celebrates information policy, intellectual property, and Internet protocol - drew a crowd of Washington's technorati to the Sewell-Belmont House in Washington on...

The level of competition among special access providers in metropolitan areas has been an issue for a number of years. Some believe that simply allowing these providers to operate in a truly open market would solve these problems.

Whether Internet service providers will accelerate early efforts to prioritize bandwidth, and what impact such measure might have upon the open Internet, were actively discussed by panelists at the Telecommunications...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has "tried to hit the ground running" on a reform agenda since taking office last summer, he told members of a House Commerce Subcommittee on Thursday.

The Internet can serve as a means for enhancing consumer protections, provided that government agencies play their appropriate role in regulating and disclosing the practices of broadband providers.

House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-VA) has no plans to influence the Federal Communications Commission's development of a national broadband plan. But speaking Thursday morning at the Pike and Fischer Broadband Policy Summit, he made clear his experience representing a rural district informs his ideas on how the FCC should assist the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Rural Utilities Service in defining unserved and underserved markets.