[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Press invite, Dallas Broadband Summit, April 26-28

[Tom Johnson]

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From: Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:17 PM
Subject: Press invite, Dallas Broadband Summit, April 26-28
To: New Media Alumni <new-media-alumni at lists.jrn.columbia.edu>


A bit of shameless promotion:



The magazine I edit, Broadband Properties, is hosting its big annual meeting
in Dallas, April 26-28. The details and press registration are at
http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11WhyAttend.php.  Bloggers, tweeters and
analysts are of course welcome.



Broadband is what powers new media, and the magazine has been at the
forefront of pushing for as much bandwidth as possible, in as many places at
possible. We cover the technical details, but we’re really the “business
magazine” for network builders and developers of broadband services.  Our
“Gold Standard” is fiber to the home.



Our Broadband Summit meeting attracts about 1000 attendees and as always,
the speakers are first-rate. We’ll have current and former FCC commissioners
there, and people guiding Google’s gigabit-per-second build in Kansas City.
Top management from Chattanooga’s municipal system, already offering 1 Gbps,
and Lev Gonick from Cleveland's OneCommunity (planning 1 Gbps) will be
speaking as well.



There’s an entire day on economic development issues (it will be streamed),
chaired by DC attorney Jim Baller, who represents municipalities when
incumbent carriers try to block public broadband. He’s also an advisor to
Google. Among the speakers in those sessions are Blair Levin, author of the
National Broadband Plan, and Kevin Martin, former FCC chairman.



Graham Richards, former mayor of Ft. Wayne, is running sessions on
public-private partnerships.



There are sessions on the latest in telehealth (including the first studies
showing credible money savings), distance learning, telepresence and more.



There’s an entire conference-within-a-conference on rural telecom issues.



It has been noted that for the past few years the Broadband Summit is about
the only place you’ll find optimistic real estate moguls, too.



If you want to schedule interviews in advance, let me know – and sign up
ASAP.


If you have been reading the NYT's broadband coverage, you have been told
that rural broadband is a luxury the country can't afford and that none of
the projects pay back their cost. If you have been reading Businessweek, you
have been told that Verizon isn't making a profit, or even cash-flow
break-even on FiOS. Nuts. A fifth of the nation's households have already
been passed by telco fiber, and 82% have been passed by cable companies'
DOCSIS-ready fiber and coax. There's a whole new industry out there, ready
to deliver whole new media. Learn about it.



A sample of  some of the Summit's 100+ speakers:



*Kevin Martin* — *As FCC chairman, he paved the way for large-scale fiber to
the home deployment* <http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Martin-kevin11.php>

*Michael Render* — *For a decade, he’s been the leading research authority
on deploying fiber to the
home*<http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Render-michael11.php>

*Jim Baller* — *A major force in helping communities across the U.S. take
control of their broadband
destiny*<http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Baller-jim11.php>

*Joanne Hovis* — *Shows municipalities how to plan, design and benefit from
fiber optic networks* <http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Hovis-joanne11.php>

*Lev Gonick* — *Heads a project demonstrating how 1 Gbps broadband can
transform lives and
neighborhoods*<http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Gonick-lev11.php>

*Blair Levin* — *Led the country’s effort at the FCC to develop the National
Broadband Plan* <http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11speaker.php#l>

*Michael Curri* — *Documents the powerful impact of true broadband on local
economies* <http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Curri-michael11.php>

*Kelley Dunne* — *Dynamic new CEO of the leading organization aimed at
vanquishing the digital
divide*<http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Dunne-kelley11.php>



Steve Ross

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