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Speed Matters Economist Ken Peres Discusses Broadband Adoption and Availability

Last week, BroadbandTV.com hosted a panel of broadband experts for a show entitled "Spurring Broadband Adoption and Use." The program included an interview of FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and a panel that included CWA's own economist, Dr. Kenneth Peres.

Speed Matters Economist Ken Peres Discusses Broadband Adoption and Availability

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CWA Files Comments with the FCC on Preserving an Open Internet

This week, The Communications Workers of America filed formal comments with the FCC in response to the latest request for information on preserving an open Internet. CWA believes that a strong consensus has emerged in support of a middle-ground approach to protect an open Internet that ensures free expression, while at the same time preserves adequate incentives to promote job-creating investment and innovation in broadband networks, applications, and content.

CWA Files Comments with the FCC on Preserving an Open Internet

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Demand for high speed Internet is growing across the world

In the UK, BT launched a 'Race to Infinity," designed to gauge public demand for high-speed fiber broadband by mapping local support across regional exchanges. BT plans to provide access to the five highest demand areas by 2012 and continue to deploy fiber after 2012 in communities with significant demand on the 'hot spot' map.

Demand for high speed Internet is growing across the world

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Social Networks play key role in broadband adoption

The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference concluded on October 3, 2010 with a series of panels addressing broadband adoption and the challenges of universality. The theme of the conference: the need for a new policy framework that sees broadband acceptance as integral to the path towards universal adoption.

Social Networks play key role in broadband adoption