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The Road to Ubiquitous Broadband: BCoE Brief on Community Broadband Networks
August, 2017
BCoE Brief on Community Broadband Networks
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BROADBAND THE GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING
The gift that is broadband just keeps on giving. Nearly 20 years after publication of the original DOCSIS® specification, broadband is demonstrating an astonishing capacity for transforming the way people (and increasingly their machines) communicate, learn, condust commerce and advance the human condition. The seeds planted in the 1990s by pioneeing inventors and entrepreneurs have grown to produce a towering tree whose branches extend across our civilization, touching vital area including transportation, energy safety and more. ... Read More
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"...there's been an approximate 10% growth in number of Internet users over 2015..."
October, 2016
The ITU/UN issued its 2016 annual "State of Broadband" report in mid-September and it shows that the poorer the country, the more it lurches slowly forward, toward ganining universal broadband availability. ITU says 3.9 billion people will still be offline a the end of this year, but ITU also notes that there's been an approximate 10% growth in the number of Internet users over 2015, to 3.5B.
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July 2016 Newsletter
July, 2016
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I am of two minds on broadband as we pass the mid-point of 2016. On the one hand, I am greatly pleased with the federal courts upholding the view that broadband is a needed utility. But on the other hand,I was somewhat disappointed in the finding of a recent study showing that 2.2 billion people around the world, who live in urban area, lack adequate broadband service.
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Research "Mapping the Urban Unconnected"
July, 2016
This report presents the findings of research conducted by Maravedis on behalf of the Wireless Broadband Alliance regarding the state of the urbanunconnected population in 18 large cities as well as each of their related international regions.
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Let's Collaborate to Connect Americans with Broadband
America has had a good start on linking its citizens to affordable, adequate broadband networks, but more needs to be done. BCoE Executive Director Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini has reached out to the broadband leading industry cable television for support in his quest to achieve universal service for broadband.
Let's Collaborate to Connect Americans with Broadband
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May BCoE Newsletter
May, 2016
Welcome to our second newsletter and thanks to all who took the time to read and comment on our April issue. A lot is going on involving broadband globally, and here is a brief glimpse of some key elements from our perspective
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BCoE April Newsletter
April, 2016
It feels like just yesterday when I was pioneering cable modem technology at LANcity. Who would have thought back then – 25 years ago – that more than 2 billion would now be deployed around the world. The technology has progressed and costs have gone down but the need for ever increasing communication speeds continues unabated. Applications and services are becoming more bandwidth intensive and I foresee this trend continuing far into the future.
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FCC 2016 Broadband Progress Report
Wireless broadband usage skyrocketing, but 10% of
Americans still lack access to fixed broadband
Once again the FCC has issued its annual report on the progress of making broadband available to all Americans and once again it has found the deployment of fixed broadband wanting, particularly in rural and tribal areas. But there has been some progress, the Commission said, at least in urban areas.
That is the overview found in the 85-page document issued at the end of January 2016... Read More
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FCC 2016 Broadband Progress Report
March, 2016
Once again the FCC has issued its annual report on the progress of making broadband available to all Americans and once again it has found the deployment of fixed broadband wanting, particularly in rural and tribal areas. But there has been some progress, the Commission said, at least in urban areas.
That is the overview found in the 85-page document issued at the end of January 2016.
