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1/13/2009 - House Majority Whip James Clyburn at Broadband Breakfast Club on How the FCC's National Broadband Plan Will Affect Broadband Stimulus
With the release of the NoFAs for the National Broadband Plan, the current focus of the July 2009 Broadband Breakfast Club series is how the broadband stimulus dollars will be spent.
The July 14 event will address the formation of the National Broadband Plan by the Federal Communications Commission, currently underway, and how it will impact federal broadband stimulus spending.
Other speakers include:
- Paula Boyd, Regulatory Counsel from Microsoft
- Michael Calabrese, Vice President for the New America Foundation
- Barbara Esbin, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Communications and Competition Policy, Progress and Freedom Foundation
- Brett Glass, founder of Lariet.net, a wireless internet service provider based in Laramie, Wyoming. Other industry and government officials have been invited to participate.
The event will be moderated by Drew Clark, Editor and Executive Director of BroadbandCensus.com. Clark is a veteran telecom and technology journalist, and he founded BroadbandCensus.com in January 2008 as a means of providing the public with a free and objective resource of the wired and wireless local broadband carriers, grouped by ZIP code, by speed, by competition and by consumer satisfaction. |
