On December 13, 2005, the Community Broadband Coalition (CBC) sent a letter to the one hundred member of the U.S. Senate, urging them to become cosponsors of S. 1294, the Community Broadband Act of 2005, a bill that would both block states from prohibiting the creation of municipal broadband networks and prevent cities from discriminating against private providers of broadband service.
You can read a copy of the letter that CBC sent to the senators by clicking here.
an interview with Jim Baller
Jim Baller, telecom attorney, Baller Herbst Law Group
Broadband Wireless Access World spoke today with
Jim Baller, a Senior Principal of the
Baller Herbst Law Group and a leading spokesperson for the community broadband movement, about that letter and about the current state of that movement and of legislation dealing with this means of expanding access to essential broadband services.
You can listen to that interview with Jim Baller, in its entirety, by clicking
here.
for more information
For more information about the community broadband movement, click
here.
who signed this letter to the U.S. Senators
Here's a list of the groups that sent the letter supporting S. 1294, the Community Broadband Act of 2005, to the one hundred U.S. Senators:
AARP
ACUTA--The Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education
Alcatel
American Association of Law Libraries
American Council on Education
American Library Association
American Public Power Association
Association of Research Libraries
EarthLink Corp.
eBay, Inc.
EDUCAUSE
Fiber to the Home Council
FirstMile.US
Free Press
Future of Music Coalition
Information Technology Association of America
Intel Corp.
Internet2
League of California Cities
Media Access Project
National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
National League of Cities
Native Networking Policy Center
One Economy Corporation
PointOne Inc.
Pronto Networks
Pulver.com
Public Technology Institute
Skype Communications S.A.
TeleCommUnity
Tropos Networks
The United States Conference of Mayors
Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA)
The Voice on the Net (VON) Coalition
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