Many thanks to Council Member Gale A. Brewer for gaining approval of this important commission. NYCw looks forward to participating as a independent voice on broadband issues in NYC.
http://muniwireless.com/municipal/watch/955
The New York City Council has moved one step closer to bringing more competition into the market for high-speed Internet access to city residents and businesses. [...]

SBC fired the first shot. But Bell South has basically confirmed it was more then a misquote. Phone companies think they can control the Internet and select the content their paying customers get to see. “his company should be allowed to charge a rival voice-over-Internet firm so that its service can operate with the same [...]

The second FCC Consumer Advisory Committee meeting included panels on Telecommunications Competition and Consumers, and Media Ownership and Consumer Interest; passed recommendations on Access to Video Relay Service Networks and Public Interest Obligations and the Digital Television; and included briefings on Public Participation via New Information and Communication Technologies.
NYCwireless is being represented on the [...]

NYCwireless, along with a number of other public interest organizations, is part of the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee. If you are interested in following the work that we do, the meetings are open to the public and are also broadcast online.
The Benton Foundation, an organization that NYCwireless works with on the Committee, is posting [...]

A bill just introduced in Congress would take away the right of cities and towns across the country to provide citizens with universal, low-cost Internet access.
Giant cable and telephone companies don’t want any competition–which might actually force them to offer lower prices, higher speeds and service to rural and urban areas.
U.S. Rep. Pete [...]

As reported via MuniWireless, Maine has become the first state to explicitly allow municipalities to create broadband networks. This is a great development for the growth of free choice and locally driven broadband network creation. This is a very progressive stance, and one that is exactly opposite of the restrictive policies of number of other [...]

FCC Consumer Advisory Committee
Released: March 8, 2005
Members of Consumer Advisory Committee Named; Announcement of Date and Agenda of First Meeting and Future 2005 Meeting Dates
By this Public Notice, the Federal Communications Commission (”Commission”) announces the appointment of members to its Consumer Advisory Committee (”Committee”). The Commission further announces the date and agenda of the [...]

[ June 16, 2005; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] NYC Council Member and Chair of New York City Council’s Committee on Technology in Government, Gale A. Brewer will talk about NYC Broadband initiatives at the next Internet Society of New York (ISOC-NY) meeting

When
Thursday June 16, 2005 (3rd Thursday of the month)
7-9 pm

Where
New York University
5th floor conference room
Pless Hall
82 [...]