The McCain-Lautenberg Community Broadband Act

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 [Brewed Fresh Daily] Pete Sessions, former SBC employee whose wife works at the company and who maintains direct ownership of large Bell stock and option holdings, introduced a brief and terribly broad bill that eliminates essentially all forms of municipal ownership and outsourcing of broadband…

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[80211b.weblogger.com] Wi-Fi Networking News: They were an early advocate of 802.11a and 5 GHz, of point to multipoint broadband wireless, of HomeRF (yes, the business didn’t fly, but it had great ideas behind it), and was an early entrant into enterprise-wide Wi-Fi AP management through a centralized Layer 3 software application. (They were against 802.11b for quite a while, fighting patent battles and other tactics until buying Agere’s 802.11b product line.)

[Zmetro.com] Our View From Madison: www.Zmetro.com: Sessions's pro-incumbent bill with a pro-community networking bill: Pete Sessions, former SBC employee whose wife works at the company and who maintains direct ownership of large Bell stock and option holdings, introduced a brief and terribly broad bill that eliminates essentially all forms of municipal ownership and outsourcing of broadband. The bill he wrote is broad enough to shut down future airport Wi-Fi and other projects beloved by private forms.

 [Webyo.net] weByo.[net] | Actus et ressources pour weBmaster | tutoriaux ...: Dell, Intel, Texas Instruments, and others want more broadband to sell more gear to consumers: They've increasingly gotten involved in the ongoing debate over whether incumbent monopolies and duopolies deserve right of first refusal for broadband deployment in their service areas over municipalities because of incumbents' investments, municipalities' tax-free and bond-raising abilities, and the role of government in competing with private enterprise.

[Wschoolinfosystem.org] Our View From Madison: www.Zmetro.com: Sessions's pro-incumbent bill with a pro-community networking bill: Pete Sessions, former SBC employee whose wife works at the company and who maintains direct ownership of large Bell stock and option holdings, introduced a brief and terribly broad bill that eliminates essentially all forms of municipal ownership and outsourcing of broadband. The bill he wrote is broad enough to shut down future airport Wi-Fi and other projects beloved by private forms.

[Techliberation.com] The Technology Liberation Front: Media guru Ben Compaine has posted an important new essay on his site entitled: “Peercasting as the New Western Frontier.” Ben argues that the Internet and new media are creating the equivalent of a new Western frontier for the expansion of ideas and creativity.

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Posted at June 27, 2005 12:51 PM