Sentences with phrase «said access to broadband»

Garry Douglas, head of the North Country Chamber and Co-Chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council, said access to broadband across the region was identified six years ago as a key strategic priority for the local economy.

Not exact matches

«Ultimately the issue here is whether the FCC had the authority to call [broadband carriers] common carriers, and subject them to the regulations on discrimination and open access,» says Gary Resnick, chairman of the FCC's Intergovernmental Advisory Committee, and an attorney.

«To reduce the threshold of innovative entrepreneurship, the government provides appropriate financial subsidies for rent, broadband access and public software for new businesses,» said John Rhee, general manager of the Los Angeles office for UBTECH, a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shenzhen City that makes humanoid robots for the home.

«The focus of our legal appeal will be on the FCC's decision to reclassify broadband Internet access service as a public utility service,» Jon Banks, senior vice president of U.S. Telecom said in a statement.

The network, home to Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire, says the streaming platform will target the 10 million American households that pay for broadband Internet access, but not cable television.

An FCC report released this month said the number of Americans without access to both fixed and mobile broadband fell by more than half from 72.1 million in 2012 to 34.5 million in 2014.

Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron, however, said Pai has «never met a mega-merger he didn't like or a public safeguard he didn't try to undermine,» calling him «an inveterate opponent of net neutrality, expanded broadband access for low - income families, broadband privacy, prison - phone justice, media diversity and more.»

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will seek to ban cable companies from throttling access to certain kinds of broadband data and seeking payments to prioritize some content over others, he said Wednesday.

Google announced that the city would be the inaugural site for its «Fiber for Communities» program, which it says will be able to deliver Internet access more than 100 times faster than the home broadband connections provided by phone and cable companies across the country.

«While Nate McMurray was busy at his Grand Island Town Hall Campaign Headquarters currying favor with the Democrat establishment and figuring out how to sell the Cuomo / Pelosi agenda to NY - 27 voters, Chris Collins was spending his time delivering historic tax cuts for working families in his district, expanding access to broadband in rural communities, defending our Lake Ontario Shoreline and protecting our Second Amendment rights,» Piligra said.

Assemblymember Amy Paulin, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions said, «Expanding access to broadband has been a top priority of this administration since day one and I applaud the Governor's efforts in bringing this transformative program to fruition.

Glazebrook says the site in Plattsburgh evolved about three years ago from Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to create statewide broadband access.

«Access to rural broadband is crucial for Western New Yorkers,» said Congressman Collins.

Cuomo, who says the endorsement is a «big deal» to him, said in a speech at an energy manufacturing plant that, if re-elected, he'll invest up to $ 1 billion to provide greater access to broadband in New York.

A New Scotland lawyer has gone to court in an effort to halt the review of bids in a $ 500 million program created by the Cuomo administration to expand broadband access across the state, saying the guidelines that Empire State Development is using to award the competitive bids are «arbitrary and capricious.»

Rep. Elise Stefanik, the town's most high - profile resident, applauded the funds and said increasing access to broadband is a «key economic priority for our region.»

Cuomo, who says the endorsement is a «big deal» to him, said in a speech at an energy manufacturing plant that, if reelected, he'll invest up to $ 1 billion dollars to provide greater access to broadband in New York.

He said the district also must work to attract small businesses by expanding access to broadband internet through infrastructure investment and cut bureaucratic red tape that impedes economic growth.

For more high tech infrastructure, Miner says the city is hiring a consultant to study improving broadband internet access.

«I'll also hold the governor to his word to bring broadband internet access to all New Yorkers by 2018,» Jones said in a statement.

«If every small town in rural America and Native American reservations had access to affordable rapid broadband, tomorrow they would all immediately be in the national economy and they could change their own futures,» he said.

Tratos Ltd CEO Maurizio Bragagni, who has been campaigning for an intelligent approach to FTTH and a fairer deal for businesses and homes demanding faster broadband, said: «While we welcome Ofcom's admission that change is an imperative, we need to see the full extent of those changes and timings, and they have to include full and unimpeded access for fibre to the premises if Britain stands a chance of remaining competitive.

Obey says he understands the import that Obama and Duncan attach to RTT — but he also argues that he has sacrificed hundreds of millions he sought for broadband access, and he thinks Dems have to sacrifice pet reforms if that's what it takes to deliver new dollars.

Kirsty Williams said: «We want our teachers to have access to the best digital tools and resources and the best quality superfast broadband.

«We will continue working to upgrade our schools so that each of our students has access to high - speed broadband, 1:1 technology and computer science education, among the other essential resources that a 21st century education requires,» CPS spokesman Michael Passman said in a statement.

«It is increasingly understood that access to broadband is the critical success factor across our society, and we must do more to connect all of our communities,» said ICMA Executive Director Robert J. O'Neill, Jr. «Libraries play an essential role in helping local governments meet their greatest challenges by connecting their services to critical community priorities.»

«Our customers expect the ability to access and share content on the go at 4G speeds, so we've created a 4G tablet portfolio of 7 -, 9 - and 10 - inch tablets with their busy, highly mobile lives in mind,» said Jeremy Korst, vice president of mobile broadband and emerging devices, T - Mobile USA.

Sony said the US and European model will feature a modified console capable of adding broadband internet access and an add - on 20 to 30 gigabyte 3.5 - inch hard drive and keyboard, allowing users to in effect convert the console into a PC.

For all games and services incorporating orbit digital rights management technology, a permanent broadband internet connection and the creation of a Koch Media account might be necessary to play said games or access said services at any time.

With some small differences (say, access to reliable broadband Internet connections), this psychological process unfolds the same way in New York as it does in Topeka, Kansas.

Finally, even if the FCC can't stipulate what type of awesome broadband access we will receive, it is still planning to tell us what type of possibly - less - awesome broadband access we are actually getting, as Dave Vorhaus of BlogBand writes in announcing a third - party project to collect information on actual ISP performance (as opposed to what the advertising materials say when you sign up).

I say «almost» to reflect that Canada's literacy rates are nowhere near perfect [1], and that outside of metropolitan areas broadband access is only sometimes available [2] and ~ 20 % of Canadians don't (or can't) use whatever access is available [3].

Cox Communications on Tuesday said that its premium cable broadband customers will now have free access to a Wi - Fi hotspot network spanning 150,000 indoor and outdoor public areas in major cities across the country — most of which aren't even in Cox's cable franchise territories.

In - store cameras appear to be high on the list of items for which tenants want broadband access, Peddicord says, adding that landlords should listen and respond to ensure that their malls remain up - to - date.