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European Union Reaches Agreement to Improve Internet User Rights – Verizon Wireless doubles early termination fee

The consumer rights section is particularly interesting, as it would give Europeans the right to switch telecoms operators within 1 day and the right to transparent and comparable price information.

Bresnan Backroom Deal Threatens Jobs, Investment in Rural Montana

Montana’s rural telecommunications providers employ 1,000 Montanans and invest $70 million every year in building and expanding broadband networks to serve their business and residential consumers, as well as schools, health care providers, emergency responders, Tribal institutions and other key entities.

Rural Broadband: Let’s Talk About Cost

When the federal government brought electricity to rural America, it worried more about cost to farm families than construction. There’s a lesson here for broadband.

Critics say Schweitzer-endorsed Internet plan won’t extend services in Montana

Critics said the Bresnan plan claims to fill gaps on high-speed Internet service, but in reality just duplicates long-distance fiber-optic lines that already exist. It does not increase critical "last-mile" high-speed lines to homes and businesses, they said.

Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years

Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time.

Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own

ISPs may not act for years on local complaints about slow Internet—but when a town rolls out its own solution, it’s amazing how fast the incumbents can deploy fiber, cut prices, and run to the legislature.

How to Network – Live & In Person

Ever walk into a room full of strangers (and potential business contacts) – and not know what to say or do? Here’s how to handle the situation.

First "White Space" Network Launched

Wireless technology that’s been touted as the best hope for providing high-speed Internet access to rural communities is about to get its first true test.

Applause For Finland: First Country To Make Broadband Access A Legal Right

Starting July 2010, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection as an intermediate step, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. By the end of 2015, the legal right will be extended to an impressive 100 Mb broadband connection for everyone.

OECD research faulty U.S. rates for mobile use not really higher

He raises an issue that MTA long has been concerned with: international rankings of U.S. broadband usage by the OECD. Such rankings have been “faulty,” Spiwak points out.