Telecom & Technology

New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country

OTI — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:23:00 -0500

As digital communications and the Internet become increasingly pervasive, Native Americans continue to lack access to this digital revolution. Native Americans are among the last citizens to gain access to the Internet, with access to broadband often unavailable or overly expensive in Native communities. Beyond that challenge, there is a fundamental lack of qualitative or quantitative empirical research on Native American Internet use, adoption, and access, stifling the Native voice in broadband and media policy.

New Media, Technology & Internet Use in Indian Country

Kirsten Gilbert — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0500

A New America Event
11/19/2009 - 9:00am

On November 19, 2009, Native Public Media and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative will release New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses, one of the most extensive studies of on the ground technology use, access, and adoption in Native American lands. Demonstrating the great need to include Native Americans in the discourse around the National Broadband Plan, the report combines both a survey of Native American technology

Small Cable, Online Video Companies Warn of Anticompetition in Comcast, NBC Merger | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:35:00 -0500

That's when all worst things happen," said Tim Wu, a professor at the Columbia University School of Law who is writing a book that chronicles the history of ...

Comments of the New America Foundation - NBP Public Notice #13

OTI — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:45:00 -0500

New America Foundation Announces Its First Knight Media Policy Fellow

adminn — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:05:00 -0500

The New America Foundation today announced that Tom Glaisyer will be its first Knight Media Policy Fellow, focusing on national media policy changes and related developments under a new grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Reply Comments on Broadband Consumer Information

Wireless Future — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:27:00 -0500

In the present Notice of Inquiry, the Commission seeks comment on the clarity, accuracy and thoroughness of information available to consumers when they choose a communications service provider; choose a service plan; manage the use of their service plan; and decide to switch providers or plans. The Notice of Inquiry properly expands on past investigations, raising questions about not just billing practices but also sales practices more broadly, including point-of- sale disclosures that drive consumer purchase decisions.

PISC Reply Comments on Competitive Market Conditions in Mobile Wireles

Wireless Future — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:13:00 -0500

The Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Free Press, Media Access Project, the New America Foundation, and Public Knowledge (together, the "Public Interest Commenters") respectfully submit this reply to initial comments filed in the above-captioned docket1 in response to the Commission's Notice of Inquiry (the "Notice"). The majority of those initial comments confirmed the Public Interest Commenters' conclusion that the mobile wireless ecosystem, including the commercial mobile services market itself and a range of upstream and

Consumer Groups Seek Clarity from FCC on Open Internet Rulemaking

Erin Drankoski — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:42:00 -0500

Washington, D.C. -- Today, four consumer and public interest groups sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission seeking clarity regarding Net Neutrality. In the letter, the groups express strong concern with a statement made last week by a senior commission official that the FCC would allow the speeding up or slowing down of applications like video or voice as part of "reasonable network management" -- a sentiment that appears to prejudge the outcome before the FCC completes its rulemaking process.

The Hidden Harms of Application Bias

OTI — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:07:00 -0500

Application bias, the practice by network operators of placing applications into tiers of low and high priority and enforcing this prioritization through mechanisms in the middle of the network, poses hidden harms for the Internet that substantially outweigh its uncertain benefits. Application bias degrades low priority applications, decreases overall network performance, and locks the Internet into typical usage patterns of 2009, frustrating both consumer choice and Internet innovation. At the same time, the biggest hurdle to offering more powerful services on the Internet is not conge

Consumer Groups Seek Clarity from FCC on Open Internet Rulemaking

OTI — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:25:00 -0500

Chairman Julius Genachowski
Federal Communications Commission
445 Twelfth Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554

November 9, 2009

Dear Chairman Genachowski,