House Majority Whip James Clyburn to Speak at July 14 Broadband Breakfast Club
WASHINGTON, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., will speak at the Broadband Breakfast Club on Tuesday, July 14, 2009, hosted by BroadbandCensus.com. The event will take place at Clyde’s of Gallery Place, beginning at 8 a.m.
Clyburn, a former chair of the House Democratic Caucus, will be speaking on the Federal Communication Commission’s national broadband strategy, and its role in the $7.2 billion federal broadband stimulus.
Registration for the event is at http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com, and the cost to register is $45.00.
With the release of the regulations governing federal spending, the current focus of the current Broadband Breakfast Club series is how the broadband stimulus dollars will be spent.
This week BroadbandCensus.com is also sponsoring two webinars — on Wednesday, July 15, and Thursday, July 16, on the rules released by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Rural Utilities Service.
The July 14 breakfast event will address the formation of the National Broadband Plan by the Federal Communications Commission, currently underway, and how it will impact federal broadband stimulus spending.
Other confirmed speakers include:
- Paula Boyd, Regulatory Counsel from Microsoft.
- Michael Calabrese, Vice President for the New America Foundation.
- Barbara Esbin, Senior Fellow, Progress and Freedom Foundation.
- Brett Glass, founder of Lariet.net, a wireless internet service provider based in Laramie, Wyoming.
The event will be moderated by Drew Clark, Editor and Executive Director of BroadbandCensus.com. Clark founded BroadbandCensus.com in January 2008 as a means of providing the public with a free and objective resource of the wired and wireless local broadband carriers, grouped by ZIP code, by speed, by competition and by consumer satisfaction.
For individuals outside of Washington, archived webcasts of the Broadband Breakfast Club are now available on TV Mainstream.
The first of two BroadbandCensus.com webinars will take place the following day, on Wednesday, July 15, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET. It will discuss broadband data and broadband mapping.
Registration for the webinar is available at a special low price of $35.00, including a one month subscription to BroadbandCensus.com Weekly Report (a $190.00/month value!). Register online at http://broadbanddatawebinar.eventbrite.com.
The second webinar, on Thursday, July 16, from 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET, will discuss the NTIA and RUS rules for the Broadband Initiative Program and the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. Register online at http://btopwebinar.eventbrite.com.
More information: http://broadbandcensus.com
SOURCE BroadbandCensus.com