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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (21284)	5/8/2007 12:11:57 PM
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Baller Herbst List: 5-8-07 NATIONAL BROADBAND STRATEGY "One of the top priorities of the Mercury News editorial board this year is to convince our leaders to create a national strategy to get affordable, high-speed Internet access to everyone in the U.S. — what the tech folks call 'universal broadband.'" mercextra.com AT&T says U-Verse rollout could cost $1.4 billion more than anticipated . . . online.wsj.com news.com.com ... "This is a sizable increase (41%) in capex for a project that was designed to minimize cost. It is indicative that the decision AT&T made to substitute advanced technology to deliver an incremental solution in favor of laying fiber isn’t going as planned. The price of mediocrity just went up." telecom.seekingalpha.com A national broadband policy “rant” isp-planet.com BROADBAND Lafayette's Fiber to the Home project could be the largest in the United States . . . theadvertiser.com ... Lafayette focuses on "future-proof" system 2theadvocate.com "Digital inclusion isn’t headline news. It’s not one of the issues on which elections are fought, like health, education, employment or crime. But what has emerged from the conference is the recognition that digital inclusion does have an impact on those issues, and that giving people the confidence and skills to make digital choices and take digital oppor- tunities has a wider political, social and economic consequences." egovmonitor.com "[A] chorus of authoritative voices is offering new proposals for specific speed goals. How those target speeds should be calculated, how- ever, is one more tough question to ponder. In January, Vermont's governor proposed a plan to ensure all Vermonters at least 3 Mb/s of sym- metric bandwidth by 2010 and at least 20 Mb/s symmetrically by 2013. In March, the Fiber- to-the-Home Council called on Congress to ensure 100 Mb/s of symmetric broadband to most Americans by 2010 and to all Amer- icans by 2015. And a bill introduced in the Minnesota state legislature the same month called for the availability of 1 Gb/s of sym- metric bandwidth to all Minnesotans by 2015. How did they arrive at these numbers, and whose methodology makes sense?" telephonyonline.com Coverage of local government panel at NCTA conference multichannel.com WIRELESS “'[T]he nationwide buzz around municipal WiFi is all wrong…Where WiFi actually does ignite life-altering change is on the govern- ment side.' . . . Hard to put it better.... [T]he sexy part (public access and digital divide) is only the tip of the iceberg: two other legs of the tripod must be services to municipal- ities (meter reading, mobile workers, public safety, etc.) and services to business (re- placement T-1 and the like). This is a pretty fabulous overview, and a must read for anyone not yet up to speed on why these networks go far beyond residential Wi-Fi access." (from Glenn Fleischman) wifinetnews.com Madison, WI's Mad City Broadband changes ownership madison.com "Two Good Spectrum Proceedings Die Quietly, but Copps and Adelstein Keep the Faith for the Future" publicknowledge.org "The 700 MHz auction as the next front in the cable/telco war" (from Harold Feld) wetmachine.com Overestimating Google's influence in the 700 MHz auction, and elsewhere (ditto) wetmachine.com VIDEO "Press 'Asleep At The Wheel' On Astroturf -- Allowing baby bells a greased track for franchise reform.... [O]p-ed pages run pieces by astroturf or co-opted groups while news coverage seldom questions why various non-profits have come forward to support a corporate position." ------ If you would like to join or leave our list, please send an e-mail to info@baller.com. ------ THE BALLER HERBST LAW GROUP A Professional Corporation www.baller.com ------