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From September 22 to 24, the New America Foundations Open Technology Initiative hosted Beyond Broadband Access: Data Based Information Policy for a New Administration. An experts workshop, Beyond Broadband Access created an opportunity for small group of highly skilled experts from around the world to seek breakthrough insights which can be applied to current policy challenges.

... 21st-century economies,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, at a recent FCC hearing. ... and more »

Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation, a “tech tank inside a think that that provide support for open ...

Washington, DC -- "Policy-making has continued under a self-imposed veil of ignorance," challenged Sascha Meinrath, Director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative at today's Federal Communications Commission workshop on Broadband Consumer Context.  When we address the question "'What is the consumer context in the United States today?' The quick answer is that nobody knows."

Service providers in the U.S. are intentionally keeping consumers in the dark about their broadband options, said Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation and a speaker at today's FCC workshop titled Broadband Consumer Context. ... Orignial Article

... promised during the Obama campaign will never see the light of day,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of New America Foundation's Wireless Future Program. ... and more »

Last Thursday, Sascha Meinrath, Director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative presented on the FCC  Broadband Workshop on Technology and Wireless. The lone public interest voice on a panel dominated corporate representative, Mr. Meinrath argued:

Washington, DC—Today, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative released a report comparing bandwidth caps for high-speed Internet—including cable modem, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) or fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP), and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks-in the United States and Japan.  As the report documents, a large discrepancy exists between the two countries, suggesting that U.S. policy makers should investigate market conditions in Japan to determine why their network capacity supports far more per-customer throughput than U.S. broadband networks.

New America Foundation research director Sascha Meinrath said the government also is encouraging a continuing dialogue — the NTIA has said it wants to hold ...