NCTA President McSlarrow to Step Down Early Next Year
WASHINGTON, November 22, 2010 – Kyle McSlarrow, president & CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, has announced he plans to leave his position in the spring. He has been...
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Obama Follows Up State Of The Union Speech with Silicon Valley Powwow
SAN FRANCISCO, February 17, 2011 — President Obama checked in with the U.S.’ titans of tech on Thursday in a brief swing through Silicon Valley before heading north to Oregon to visit Intel. Obama’s...
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USPTO Names Teresa Stanek Rea As Deputy Director
Teresa Stanek Rea is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's New Deputy Director WASHINGTON, February 18, 2010 — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Thursday appointed biotech and pharma lawyer Teresa...
View ArticleComcast Announces Retirement of Joe Waz
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2011 – Comcast announced the retirement Wednesday of its long-time senior vice president of external affairs and public policy counsel, Joe Waz. The departure comes as the company...
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TechFreedom Aims To Fill Privacy Niche
WASHINGTON, April 14, 2011 – In a town where there are as many opinions as there are issues, TechFreedom, a new think tank, aims to provide a non-partisan approach to privacy issues from a free market,...
View ArticleMinow and Genachowski Discuss Spectrum and the Internet
WASHINGTON May 10, 2011 -To commemorate the 50th anniversary of former Federal Communications Commission Chairman, Newton Minow’s famous speech in which he called television a “vast wasteland,” the...
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Baker to Leave FCC to Lobby for NBCUniversal
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2011 – FCC Commissioner, Meredith Baker, announced Wednesday that she will resign her post on June 3, after which she will begin her tenure as a lobbyist for NBCUniversal. Baker’s...
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Pallante Appointed Permanent Head of Copyright Office
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2011 – Librarian of Congress James Billington made permanent the appointment of Maria Pallante to the top post at the U.S. Copyright Office, where she has served as Acting Register...
View ArticleFCC Announces Shakeups in Division Posts
WASHINGTON, June 8, 2011 –The Federal Communications Commission announced a flurry of new hiring in some of the agency’s top spots this week with new blood due to take over three of the Commission’s...
View ArticleFormer RIAA Lawyer Verrilli Confirmed as Solicitor General
WASHINGTON June 8, 2011 – The Senate Committee on the Judiciary confirmed Donald Verrilli, Jr. as Solicitor General on Monday. Before being nominated for the post Verrilli worked as one of Viacom’s...
View ArticleRemembering the ‘i’ in Broadband: A Memorium
By Stephen Bone October 5, 2012 – It has been fourteen years now, so the “i” has simply become a trademark, almost a cliché of itself, something to be parodied. Consequently, many have forgotten that...
View ArticleFCC Wireless Telecom Bureau Chief to Keynote ‘Data Caps, the Spectrum Crunch...
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 – The broadband policy news and events service BroadbandBreakfast.com will hold its February 2013 Broadband Breakfast Club event: “Data Caps for Wireless...
View ArticleProfiles of Prospective Candidates to be FCC Chairman: Mignon Clyburn and Tom...
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2013 – This week BroadbandBreakfast.com will begin a series profiling many of the top prospective candidates that might be selected to serve as chairman of the Federal...
View ArticleProfiles of Prospective Candidates to be FCC Chairman: Karen Kornbluh and...
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2013 – This week BroadbandBreakfast.com continues its series of profiles of many of the top prospective candidates that might be selected to serve as chairman of the Federal...
View ArticleProfiles of Prospective Candidates to be FCC Chairman: Larry Strickling and...
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2013 – This week BroadbandBreakfast.com continues its series of profiles of many of the top prospective candidates that might be selected to serve as chairman of the Federal...
View ArticleTom Wheeler Surging; Profiles of Other Prospective Candidates to be FCC...
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2013 – Tom Wheeler, one of the most-frequently mentioned names to take the chairmanship of the Federal Communications Commission, remains perhaps the leading contender for the...
View ArticleFCC Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn Announces New Staff
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2013 – Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn announced the addition of several new staff members. Clyburn appointed P. Michelle Ellison as her Chief of...
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‘On the Internet, No One Knows You’re a Child’: The Short Life of Aaron...
PARK CITY, Utah, January 23, 2014 – On the internet, no one knows you’re a child. That, at least, was the message I took from watching the film about the life of Aaron Swartz. The film, “The Internet’s...
View ArticlePresident Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Jessica Rosenworcel to Federal...
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 – Ending months of speculation, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, back to her previous role as a Federal Communications...
View ArticleWith Senators and Representatives Targeting Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg Likely...
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2018 – The odds that Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will make an appearance on Capitol Hill to explain his company’s actions regarding the misuse of millions of...
View ArticleAs Johnson Takes Oath At RUS, Purdue Remains ‘Hopeful’ On Infrastructure Plan...
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2018 -- Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Monday said he is "always hopeful" that progress will be made on President Trump's $1.5 billion infrastructure plan, even as Congress...
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Francella Ochillo is New Chief at Next Century Cities, Vermont Broadband...
Next Century Cities on Tuesday announced that it had named Francella Ochillo as the non-profit organization’s new executive director. Ochillo, currently the Vice President of Policy and General Counsel...
View ArticleAmie Stepanovich at Silicon Flatirons, Amazon Stores Voice Recordings, and...
Silicon Flatirons announced Amie Stepanovich as the new executive director of the technology policy think tank based at the University of Colorado Law School. A noted cybersecurity and privacy law and...
View ArticleFCC Spends $524 Million for Rural Area as House Subcommittee Highlights...
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday announced more than $524 million in funding over the next decade to expand broadband access to 205,520 unserved rural homes and businesses in 23 states....
View ArticleDigital Literacy Legend and Rural Telecommunications Congress Board Member...
Gene Crick, a longtime broadband evangelist, died of a heart attack at home in Bastrop, Texas, on August 15. Gene spent more than four decades advocating for broadband in the United States and around...
View ArticleAmerica’s Communications Association Connects Select Grant Spellmeyer as New CEO
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2022 – America’s Communications Association Connects announced Tuesday the selection of Grant Spellmeyer as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Spellmeyer will succeed Matt...
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