Platinum Sponsors
Venus Telephone Corporation
Silver Sponsors
Lackawaxen Telecommunications Services
North Penn Telephone Company
South Canaan Telephone Company
Thomas Long Niesen & Kennard
Bronze Sponsors
Adtran
Celerity Integrated Services, Inc.
ICORE, Inc.
Ironton Telephone Company
John Staurulakis, Inc.
The North-Easern PA Telephone Company
Power & Tel
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“Instead of focusing on the great strides that America has made in broadband deployment this report emphasizes subscribership. Collecting granular data, including subscribership numbers, is important. But subscribership data does not equate to the ‘availability’ of broadband. In many instances, the report confuses the facts by substituting the terms ‘deployment’ and ‘subscribership’ as if they were synonymous and interchangeable.”
“It makes no sense that, after the National Broadband Plan concluded that 95 percent of Americans have access to wireline broadband, the FCC majority now suggests broadband deployment is not reasonable and timely. The report’s conclusion is hard to understand, given America’s extraordinary progress in deploying broadband. Fueled by hundreds of billions of dollars in private investment. Of course we still have work to do to ensure that broadband reaches the remaining five percent of American households. Verizon has and will continue to support comprehensive reform of the universal service program and other policies to help achieve that important goal. But we hope that the FCC’s finding is not used as a justification to roll back the bi-partisan, pro-investment policies that have brought broadband to 290 million Americans.”
The respective responses of FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell and Verizon’s senior vice president of federal regulatory affairs Kathleen Grillo to the FCC’s most recent Section 706 broadband report.
To read more from the 7/23/10 Friday Report click here.
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2010 Meeting Dates
PTA Technical Showcase & Conference
September 15-16, 2010
Penn Stater Conference Center
State College, PA
2010 Small Company Meeting Dates
Penn Stater Conference Center
State College, PA
6/10/10
8/19/10
11/4/10
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