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Levin, Settles Square Off On Broadband Funding Debate | Broadbandbreakfast.Com

February 7, 2011

... Blair Levin, author of the National Broadband Plan, and Craig Settles, a leading industry analyst, debated at the New America Foundation on Monday the best way to deploy broadband to unserved and underserved areas. ...

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Dictator-Proofing the Internet | Newsweek

February 6, 2011

... “In Egypt we were totally reactive. But we need to be preemptive, to provide tools to people before they go dark,” says Dan Meredith, a 28-year-old software developer and self-described “technivist” (technology activist) who works for a group called the Open Technology Initiative, which is run by the New America Foundation, a left-leaning public-policy institute in Washington, D.C. ...

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Community Wireless: Your Next Hot Hookup? | TIME Magazine

February 3, 2011

All of the speakers at Tuesday's hearing were advocates brought together by the New America Foundation, a think tank committed, amongst other things, to closing the digital divide. ...

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Debate the National Broadband Plan with Gigaom & New America | GigaOm

February 1, 2011

... For those who want to see the debate go further, please join me in Washington D.C. on Monday, Feb. 7 to watch Levin and Settles discuss how we can get to better broadband in person at the New America Foundation. The two will participate on a panel ...

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Comcast Era at NBC Begins | Marketplace

January 27, 2011


Sascha Meinrath is director of the New America Foundation's open technology initiative. He says Comcast could make it difficult for subscribers to, say, ...

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Google-Backed 'Super Wi-Fi' Plan Gets FCC Approval | InformationWeek

January 27, 2011

... title when Eric Schmidt steps aside in April), spoke at length on the value of white spaces during an event at the New America Foundation in May, 2008. ...

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Please, Just Tell Me When I'm Nearing My Limit | The New York Times

January 22, 2011

Groups including Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports), the Consumer Federation of America and the New America Foundation are urging the F.C.C. to go further, by requiring wireless carriers to get a customer’s permission to continue service when use limits have been reached. ...

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FCC's Open Access Provision Wouldn't Prevent LTE iPhone | Computerworld

January 12, 2011

... to be certified as complying with FCC's technical rules," said Michael Calabrese, director of the wireless future project at the New America Foundation. ...

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MetroPCS Accused of Blocking Certain Net Content | CNET

January 12, 2011

... Media Access Project, New America Foundation Open Technology Institute, and Presente.org accuse the wireless carrier of playing fast and loose with Net ...

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Open Access Provision Wouldn't Prevent LTE iPhone | Network World

January 12, 2011

... "Apple is neither a [spectrum] licensee nor an ISP; it's not regulated by the FCC except to the extent that its devices, like all devices that radiate, need to be certified as complying with FCC's technical rules," said Michael Calabrese, director of the wireless future project at the New America Foundation. ...

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