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Will Aereo Expand the Potential of Spectrum? Atlanta Will Find Out

Last Tuesday, Aereo founder and chief executive officer  Chaitanya “Chet” Kanojia told Bloomberg West host Emily Chang that Aereo is the beginning of broadcast television being available everywhere and that Aereo’s techn...
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Obama Administration, FCC Can Move Country Forward With Right Spectrum Policies

Expanding high-speed broadband adoption is now a universally accepted national policy goal. It’s hard to believe, therefore, that certain parties seek to impose regulations on the FCC’s upcoming spectrum auction that would ...
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Economy
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America Has an Adequate Supply of STEM Workers, We Just Won’t Hire Them

Even with the educational gap between minority and white students, it is not clear that this gap has led to an insufficient supply of workers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.  This is one o...
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Congress Gears Up to Extend Lifeline to Include Broadband

Tuesday, members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation that would require subsidies from the Federal Communications Commission’s Lifeline program be used in efforts to increase broadband adoption among l...
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Cyber Security’s Dangerous Quid Pro Quo

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act tomorrow less than two days after an apparent act of terrorism besieged the city of Boston at the end of the famed Bost...
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Economy
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From Kennedy to Obama: Fifty Years of Failed Economic History

Black Americans have made headway in terms of education, income, and employment, there is still more work to be done in order to close the gap on these primary economic variables with American whites.
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It’s Time To Revisit the Meaning of Competition in the Age of Broadband

Google, Inc., and the City of Austin, Texas announced that Google will be bringing Gigabit Internet service to Texas’ capital city by mid 2014.
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Energy
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American Incomes, Energy Consumption Falls, But Prices Increase

The energy market must have forgotten the basic rules of supply and demand as Americans see their incomes fall while prices rise in the face of falling consumption.  According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the...
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Telecom
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What Do We Mean By the “Open Internet”?

The phrase “open Internet” gets tossed around a lot and there are various meanings of the phrase.  One’s definition depends on the framework used to understand and interpret the Internet.  From the definitions i...
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Telecom
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Consumers Win, Broadband Performance Strong Across Cable, DSL, FioS

Although the residential broadband adoption rate for black Americans (56%) is significantly below those reported for whites (67%), annual increases in adoption rates have been significant for the black American population.
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Telecom
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In the Midst of Mayan Gloom and Doom, the Internet Eco-system is Alive and Well

Listening to the naysayers talk about how poor the broadband access picture here in the U.S. is compared with the brighter picture in South Korea and Japan is just as bad as the interpretations of some Mesoamerican calendar.  ...
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Energy
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The Nuclear Power Industry Needs STEM Employees

With demand for electricity forecasted to increase 22% by 2035, the demand for workers in the nuclear energy field is also expected to increase, according to a report by the Nuclear Energy Institute.
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Technology
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Consumers Are Driving the Transition to IP. When Will the FCC Catch Up?

It’s hard to see where allowing the trials to occur would have any negative impact on consumers especially where consumers have already made to decision to go IP and legacy equipment is not being used.
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National
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Is Universal Service an Effective Policy for Increasing Broadband Adoption?

Broadband adoption is decelerating and it appears that government intervention tactics designed to increase the number of subscribers to high-speed Internet access is not having its desired effect. In November 2012, the researc...
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Economy
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The March Madness of Monetary Policy

As basketball fans gear up for March Madness, the blood sport of fiscal politics promises no less excitement over the next few weeks. Not only is there a government shutdown deadline on the horizon for March 27th, but the U.S. ...
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