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FCC investigating CenturyLink internet outage, 911 failures
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U.S. officials and at least one state said Friday that they have started investigations into a nationwide CenturyLink internet outage that has disrupted 911 service in Colorado and elsewhere. In Greeley, the Weld County Regional Communication Center on Friday said 911 calls were being dropped, but callers should keep trying and emergency dispatchers would try…
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Congress must rein in FCC, establish ‘bright-line rules’ to preserve net freedom
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Innovations such as electricity, passenger cars and air travel have provided all of us with a better quality of life and millions of jobs. The same is true for the Internet – unquestionably the most impactful innovation of the last 25 years. However, while a solid legal structure of consumer protections was built around these…
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Sen. Kerry Donovan solicits governor’s help on net neutrality, rural broadband
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State Sen. Kerry Donovan, D-Vail, is calling in Gov. John Hickenlooper’s help on two projects dead to Democrats and internet users, especially in rural Colorado. Donovan’s office shared a letter she the governor Thursday. She said that when Republicans members of the Federal Communications Commission repealed the Obama administration rule that all websites and traffic…
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Major rural broadband bill clears the Colorado Senate, heads to House
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A bill that could put up to a hundred million dollars into financing rural broadband cleared the Colorado Senate Thursday morning with changes its sponsors say will speed up the process. Senate Bill 2 would take dollars from a fund that currently pays for landlines and shifts that over five years to pay for internet…
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Sen. Kevin Lundberg throws cold water on broadband expectations
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A broadband bill being fast-tracked this week through the General Assembly led a candidate for state treasurer to opine that Colorado’s expectations about broadband may not be realistic. During Thursday morning’s Senate debate on House Bill 1116, Republican Sen. Kevin Lundberg of Berthoud said the bill raises concerns between what most rural Coloradans want from…
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Lawmakers rush on rural broadband waiver bill but it may be for naught
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The second bill to whip through the Colorado General Assembly – on rural broadband – cleared the House Wednesday and is headed to the Senate. But the effort by lawmakers to get the bill to the governor post-haste may not produce the desired results. House Bill 1116 would task the state’s rural broadband deployment board…
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GOP primary challenger Roger Edwards rips Mike Coffman’s position on ‘progressive, left-wing’ net neutrality
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Roger Edwards, the Highlands Ranch Republican challenging five-term U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in a primary, tore into the incumbent’s position on net neutrality in an email to supporters Monday, calling it “not conservative” and contrary to President Donald Trump’s plan to cut regulations. “Net neutrality is a progressive left-wing cause. Mainly supported by those who…
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Colorado to seek federal funds for rural broadband
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The Joint Budget Committee is looking for a way to provide a big boost to Colorado’s investment in rural broadband, and a bill to do just that cleared the House Finance Committee Monday. House Bill 1116 would allow the state to go after $250 million from the federal “Connect America” broadband grant program, although the state…
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Democratic AG candidate Phil Weiser talks net neutrality in a nutshell — and in law review articles
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Phil Weiser knows net neutrality. The Democratic candidate for attorney general and former University of Colorado Law School dean is an expert on the topic – the term was first introduced, after all, at the Boulder policy center he founded, the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship, and the FCC chairman who implemented the…
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Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette plans to co-sponsor bill to restore net neutrality
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat from Denver, plans to co-sponsor a bill next month to reverse last week’s administrative decision that eliminated net neutrality. Net neutrality was a rule requiring internet service providers to treat all internet data the same. In other words, Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and other internet service providers could…
