$3 billion for the Net
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Some $3 billion in grants to expand Net service have been approved the US House Energy and Commerce Committee.
“The program, part of a proposed $6 billion broadband package, calls for the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration to make up to $2.85 billion in grants to companies that will build out broadband and wireless networks,” says Online Media Daily, going on:
“The bill specifies that grant recipients must adhere to the Federal Communications Commission’s 2005 broadband policy statement, which set out net neutrality principles. In that statement, the FCC said that consumers are entitled to access all lawful content, to run applications of their choice, and to connect legal devices that don’t harm the network.
“The FCC takes the position that those principles are binding on Internet service providers. Last year, the agency sanctioned Comcast for violating the policy statement by slowing peer-to-peer traffic.”
Included is$650 million which’ll, “go toward ubiquitous broadband and helping unclog the backlog in DTV-to-analog converter box coupons,” says Broadcasting and Cable.
Both are “high on the Obama agenda because the DTV transition deadline is only three and a half weeks away, “unless Congress winds up pushing it back as the new administration requested,” it says.
Online Media Daily – House Committee Signs Off On Broadband Expansion, January 23, 2009
Broadcasting and Cable – House committee approves recovery package, grants for rollout of wireless and wired broadband, January 23, 2009
pushing it back - Digital TV transition delay, January 23, 2009
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