[1st-mile-nm] Flawed FCC Forbearance

[Marianne Granoff]

Edited for interest.  FYI.

>Inouye Introduces Bill to Correct Flawed FCC
>Forbearance Process, Senate
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>http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=249019
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>Qwest To Expand 20 Mbps Option, Steer Clear of IPTV
>Qwest Communications held a strategy update call (webcast
>here) this morning and revealed that it will expand its
>fiber-to-the-node initiative to boost the number of homes
>in its territory that are capable of buying higher speed
>broadband service.
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>http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/002813qwest_to_expand_20_mbps_option_steer_clear_of_iptv.php
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>Senators to Block FCC Funding if Martin Won't
>Delay Vote - Martin says he's going forward anyway,
>DSLreports
>FCC Chief Kevin Martin had a lot of questions to
>answer this week when he faced a Senate committee in a
>three hour hearing. Issues that were brought up
>included the FCC s failure to educate the public about
>the digital TV transition to which Martin responded
>that the FCC was doing a terrific job considering that
>it had received no funding from the Senate to assist
>with the education.
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>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Senators-to-Block-FCC-Funding-if-Martin-Wont-Delay-Vote-90242
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>Study: 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 was spam,
>CNET
>We're being inundated by spam. How could
>community-based approaches help?
>http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9831556-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20