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InternetNews April 17, 2007 Roy Mark	More Info For Better Broadband The FCC wants more information to more accurately determine high-speed rollout.
InternetNews May 9, 2006 Roy Mark	Bush Broadband Goal Fading A new Government Accountability Office report says 28 percent of Americans had high-speed connections in 2005.
InternetNews June 27, 2007 Roy Mark	New Numbers Show U.S. Lag in Broadband The United States continues to lag behind most industrialized nations in broadband speeds, according to a new report by the Communications Workers of America.
InternetNews September 9, 2004 Roy Mark	FCC Splits on U.S. Broadband Rollout Success Despite the U.S. being ranked eleventh in the world in broadband penetration, commissioners narrowly approve a report to Congress praising deployment rates of high-speed services.
InternetNews December 23, 2003 Roy Mark	Broadband Growth Slightly Cools High-speed connections increased 18% during the first half of 2003 to put 23.5 million lines into service.
InternetNews October 26, 2004 Roy Mark	Kerry, Bush Split on Broadband Senator John Kerry wants to use federal subsidies to help spur broadband deployment while President Bush supports continued deregulation.
InternetNews August 26, 2005 Roy Mark	Same Broadband Numbers, Different Conclusions Consumer advocates claim the FCC is misleading public about pace of broadband rollout -- and DSL and cable modem users are paying more because of it.
InternetNews September 2, 2009	Major U.S. ISPs Want Low-End Broadband Standards Advocates and the nation's largest Internet providers clash as the FCC weighs the definition of broadband.
InternetNews September 3, 2010	FCC Study Finds Broadband Speeds Lagging In its latest snapshot of the broadband market, Federal Communications Commission finds that less than half of households have sufficient connection speeds.
InternetNews May 2, 2006 Roy Mark	Senate Bill Dumps Net Neutrality Wide ranging legislation relegates network neutrality to further FCC study.
InternetNews January 6, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Economic Stimulus Bill May Drive U.S. Broadband As the new Congress convenes, an economic stimulus package will be the first order of business. What role will broadband play?
PC Magazine November 1, 2009 Chloe Albanesius	The Truth About Broadband According to a new study, "high-speed" Internet may be an overstatement.
InternetNews March 15, 2010	FCC Broadband Plan Eyes Competition, Spectrum Senior officials offer an advance copy of the long-awaited national broadband plan, outlining the commission's recommendations to spur competition in the service market and advance mobile broadband.
IndustryWeek July 1, 2008 Brad Kenney	Plugging The Gaps In U.S. Broadband Lack of broadband hurts productivity.
InternetNews March 23, 2007 Roy Mark	FCC Begins Net Neutrality Inquiry The FCC launches a period of public comment on need for network neutrality provisions.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Willie D. Jones	United States Establishes "Level Playing Field" in Broadband--Or Does It? Reversing a longtime stance, the FCC no longer maintains that offering consumers broadband services on attractive terms requires there to be competing providers of digital subscriber line, or DSL, service.
InternetNews August 2, 2007 Roy Mark	Legislation Hypes Rural Broadband Access Lawmakers push legislation designed to protect community ability to build and offer high-speed connections.
InternetNews April 8, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	FCC Takes First Step Toward Broadband Strategy FCC formally begins work to draw a roadmap for universal, affordable access to high-speed Internet as directed under the economic stimulus package.
InternetNews December 23, 2004 Colin C. Haley	U.S. Broadband Lines Jump 15 Percent The number of home and business broadband lines in the United States jumped 15 percent to 32.5 million during the first half of 2004, according to new data released by the Federal Communications Commission.
InternetNews March 23, 2005 Roy Mark	Brand X Case Challenges Open Access Rules Supreme Court to hear case questioning 2002 FCC decision declaring cable modems an information service.
InternetNews March 11, 2010	FCC Mulling Free Broadband Plan, Again As more details surface of the national broadband plan the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to deliver to Congress, the commission said it will consider a plan to develop a free or low-cost wireless broadband network.
InternetNews June 17, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Study Finds Broadband Adoption Up 15% Americans say broadband is more valuable than cell or cable service, according to Pew research.
CIO July 15, 2005	They Want Their DSL While broadband users in the US prefer cable, DSL services are more popular worldwide.
InternetNews May 12, 2004 Roy Mark	EarthLink: Telecom Reform Unnecessary Nation's third largest ISP tells Congress it should focus on enforcing current law, while broadband providers Verizon and Comcast argue for new ones.
InternetNews July 16, 2007 Roy Mark	U.S. Broadband Not So Bad? A new report claims stats showing U.S. decline in global broadband are misleading.
InternetNews June 27, 2006 Roy Mark	Net Neutrality Faces Senate Panel Vote The Senate Commerce Committee pushes vote on network traffic management rules to Wednesday morning.
InternetNews October 31, 2007 Sean Gallagher	Senate Panel Blesses Community Broadband A Senate panel has approved legislation banning states' efforts to prevent local governments from providing community broadband access.
InternetNews May 19, 2006 Roy Mark	New Net Neutrality Bill Hits Senate Legislation would prohibit broadband providers from charging premium fees to deliver content.
InternetNews June 28, 2006 Roy Mark	Senate Panel Kills Net Neutrality After almost two hours of often contentious debate, the Senate Commerce Committee defeated a measure to insert controversial network neutrality provisions into the panel's ambitious telecom reform legislation.
InternetNews June 9, 2010	FCC's Michael Copps Pushes Broadband Plan In a speech at Stanford University, the FCC commissioner explains why he thinks the country needs to implement a national broadband strategy.
InternetNews February 27, 2006 Roy Mark	Rural America Closing Broadband Gap According to a new study, 24 percent of adult rural Americans went online with a high-speed connection by end of 2005, compared to 39 percent of home broadband users in urban and suburban areas.
InternetNews June 13, 2006 Roy Mark	Senate Showing Little Interest in Net Neutrality The network neutrality debate resumed today in the U.S. Senate the way it ended in the House of Representatives Thursday night: apparently dead on arrival.
InternetNews June 21, 2006 Roy Mark	VoIP Bills Set to Increase In a long anticipated move, the Federal Communications Commission ruled today Voice over IP services must contribute a portion of their revenues to the Universal Service Fund
InternetNews April 27, 2004 Roy Mark	Senate Likely to Extend Net Access Tax Ban Urged by President Bush to permanently ban connection taxes, lawmakers are likely to extend new ban.
InternetNews March 31, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Bush Calls for Universal Broadband by 2007 The president calls for affordable, high-speed Internet access for all Americans. How to get there?
InternetNews June 27, 2005 Roy Mark	Court Backs Cable in Brand X Case The Supreme Court ruled that cable broadband providers do not have to share their lines with independent Internet service providers.
InternetNews August 5, 2005 Roy Mark	Bells Free From DSL Obligations In a significant policy victory for the incumbent carriers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously voted today to eliminate DSL line-sharing rules. The FCC imposes a one-year transition period for ISPs to renegotiate.
InternetNews May 25, 2010	Next Steps for FCC's Broadband Plan After striking out in court, the FCC's general counsel plots his next moves to regulate the broadband services sector.
InternetNews December 6, 2004 Roy Mark	Supreme Court to Hear Broadband Access Case Justices will review the 9th Circuit decision that overturned the FCC on cable modem providers sharing their fiber optic lines with ISPs.
InternetNews December 3, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Foes Unite: Google, Telcos Join Broadband Push A broad coalition of often-adversarial companies and industry groups band together to call for action from the new administration and Congress.
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Roy Mark	Deep Tax Breaks Offered For Broadband Access The rollout of national broadband picked up some speed from two lawmakers seeking tax incentives for service providers.
InternetNews May 25, 2007 Roy Mark	New Coalition Touts National Broadband Policy National legislation is needed to ensure widespread, affordable broadband group tells lawmakers.
InternetNews July 8, 2005 Enid Burns	High-Speed Internet Subscribers Revved in 2004 High-speed Internet subscriptions increased to 37.9 million in 2004.
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Roy Mark	Bush Talks Broadband President promises that the U.S. will do a better job at rolling out high-speed Internet connections.
InternetNews May 25, 2006 Roy Mark	Fresh Start For Net Neutrality? Both the House and Senate will take up legislation today on the increasingly contentious issue of just what is - or is not - network neutrality.
InternetNews June 20, 2006 Roy Mark	Dems Rip Net Neutrality Compromise U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, the leading Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, today blasted Republican compromise language on network neutrality.
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Roy Mark	Court Refuses to Review FCC Modem Rule Ninth Circuit upholds decision saying cable broadband is subject to common carrier rules.
InternetNews August 21, 2009	Feds Want to Know How to Define 'Broadband' As it presses ahead with its work developing a national broadband strategy, the Federal Communications Commission has issued a public notice asking for input on what, exactly, broadband should mean.
InternetNews November 10, 2004 Roy Mark	Congress Praises FCC VoIP Ruling Both sides of the Voice over IP divide weighed in on yesterday's Federal Communications Commission ruling that stipulates the interstate nature of VoIP services.