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Consumer Groups Seek To Block Former Flo TV Spectrum Sale | The San Diego Union Tribune

March 11, 2011

Media Access joined Free Press, Public Knowledge, Consumers Union and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative in filing a petition to stop the sale. AT&T didn't comment. But a spokeswoman pointed to the company's application with the ...

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Canadians Paying Through the Nose for Top Internet Honours | Canoe

March 9, 2011

The New America foundation compared prices in 10 industrialized countries last spring and found Internet users in Canada, Finland and the US pay $2.68, $2.79 and $2.90 per megabyte respectively. Other countries surveyed including Denmark, ...

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Sean McLaughlin Explains Open Internet Issues on KMUD News | KMUD - Redwood, Calif.

March 7, 2011

Sean McLaughlin explains open Internet issues with Terri Klemetson on KMUD News (3/1 8am addition).

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How a Blogger Helped U.S. Tell a Story | The News and Observer (N.C.)

February 26, 2011

She researched and wrote the 57-page report for the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group in Washington, DC Morgan's report is impressive in its scope. She sought to gauge the number of news providers in the Triangle and tallied more ...

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Broadband Rising on Native Agenda | Current.org

February 23, 2011

... Telecom industry business models and the FCC’s regulatory framework have “completely failed to fill the gaps in Native America,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative, an expert in community wireless networks who has worked closely with NPM. ...

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Internet: Weapon of Rule and Revolt | The Epoch Times

February 22, 2011

... “The Internet can be a huge multiforce multiplier for information flow, communications, and gathering people for protesting. On the other hand, the Internet can provide unprecedented, long-term documentation and surveillance,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of Open Technology Initiative, New America Foundation, at the forum. ...

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Building the Technology Stack for Internet Freedom | GigaOm

February 17, 2011

... Dan Meredith, a technologist at New America, broke it down for me, and said the hope is to deliver communications in areas where Internet access is scarce, but also among populations unable to use communications because of government interference. ...

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Social Media Sparked, Accelerated Egypt's Revolutionary Fire | Wired

February 11, 2011

... social media didn't cause the Egyptian revolution,” said Sascha Meinrath, the Director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative. ...

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Live Transmission | Pitchfork

February 7, 2011

... "Ten years ago, five years ago, the NAB claimed that if you put an LPFM station three clicks on the dial or closer, it would cause the entire world to explode," says Hannah Sassaman, a longtime organizer with Prometheus and now a senior field analyst with the Open Technology Initiative, a project of the New America Foundation think tank. ...

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Calabrese: Spectrum is Sexy | Fast Net News

February 7, 2011

"In Washington, spectrum is sexy" comments Mike Calabrese of the New America Foundation. "It got the centerfold of the National Broadband Plan. Spectrum has the money, thanks to proposed auctions, and every budget hawk is swooping down." ...

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