Broadband Strategy Week is an an independent production of David Weinberger and is released to the public domain under CC0. Broadband Strategy Week is made possible by the financial support of Supernova.
Interview: Phil Bellaria, Director of Scenario Planning, FCC's Omnibus Broadband Initiative. Recorded January 15, 2009. Public domain / CC0.
Interview: Peter Bowen, Applications Director, FCC's Omnibus Broadband Initiative. Recorded December 11, 2009. Public domain / CC0.
The FCC Broadband Strategy initiative asked the Berkman Center to do a report on where the U.S. stands in broadband penetration, price, and speed. Yochai Benkler talks about the report he chaired.
Brett Glass runs a Wireless ISP (WISP) in Laramie, Wyoming that spreads across some wide open spaces. To compete, he argues, he needs the government to regulate the right aspects and to keep its hands off everything else.
Interview: Steven Rosenberg, Infrastructure Manager, FCC's Omnibus Broadband Initiative. Recorded November 20, 2009. Public domain / CC0.
Interview: Nick Sinai, Energy and Environment Director, FCC's Omnibus Broadband Initiative. Recorded November 13, 2009. Public domain / CC0.
Paul Brigner, Executive Director of Internet and Technology for Policy at Verizon, says what he would tell the Broadband Strategy Initiative: Build on this country's current success providing access to the Internet.
Esme Vos is the founder of www.MuniWireless.com. Here she talks about the benefits of competition among access providers, and the virtues of structurally separating the provisioning of access and the selling of content and services
Interview: Brian David, Adoption and Usage Director, Federal Communications Commission National Broadband Task Force. Recorded October 16, 2009. This episode made possible by the financial support of Supernova. Public domain / CC0.
Author and activist Cory Doctorow argues that the Internet is too central to our lives to be taken away for three accusations of copyright infringement. Along the way he proposes that turnabout is fair play, and thus Universal (for example) ought to have its access to the Net taken away if it issues three false accusations of infringement.