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Last week Senator Herb Kohl wrote a letter to the FCC and the DOJ asking that they investigate the wireless industry and asking them “to take action to enhance competition in the market and to remove barriers to competition preventing the emergence of new competitors.” One of the issues that Senator Kohl is concerned about [...]

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Happy October from the Coalition for a Connected West! This has been an incredibly exciting and busy time for us as we completed our first major event, the “Securing Connections” symposium in Phoenix, Arizona. We’re also in the early planning stages of more events in states across the West where we’ll be discussing some of [...]

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By Brad Reed Network World NEW YORK – There has been a lot of speculation in recent weeks about whether global oil demand could soon outstrip global production capacity. During a panel discussion sponsored by the Internet Innovation Alliance today, several experts pondered whether something similar could soon happen with bandwidth. The panel, dubbed “The Cost of [...]

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Greetings from the Coalition for a Connected West! Thank you for visiting our website and joining our e-mail distribution list. This is the Coalition’s first e-newsletter. I hope you find the content helpful and informative. I am very excited about the work CCW is undertaking – educating consumers, policy makers and business leaders about communications and technology-related [...]

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Over the past two years, eighteen states across the country have passed and enacted statewide laws to encourage more competition in the cable television industry, or have had opinions issued by the state Attorney General affirming that new entrants in the cable market do not have to obtain separate agreements from each municipality in the [...]

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