<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Ross</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com">editorsteve@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:17 PM<br>Subject: Press invite, Dallas Broadband Summit, April 26-28<br>To: New Media Alumni <<a href="mailto:new-media-alumni@lists.jrn.columbia.edu">new-media-alumni@lists.jrn.columbia.edu</a>><br>
<br><br><p class="MsoNormal">A bit of shameless promotion:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The magazine I edit, Broadband Properties, is hosting its
big annual meeting in Dallas, April 26-28. The details and press registration
are at <a href="http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11WhyAttend.php" target="_blank">http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11WhyAttend.php</a>. Bloggers, tweeters and analysts are of course
welcome.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Broadband is what powers new media, and the magazine has
been at the forefront of pushing for as much bandwidth as possible, in as many
places at possible. We cover the technical details, but we’re really the
“business magazine” for network builders and developers of broadband
services. Our “Gold Standard” is fiber
to the home. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our Broadband Summit meeting attracts about 1000 attendees
and as always, the speakers are first-rate. We’ll have current and former FCC
commissioners there, and people guiding Google’s gigabit-per-second build in
Kansas City. Top management from Chattanooga’s municipal system, already
offering 1 Gbps, and Lev Gonick from Cleveland's OneCommunity (planning 1 Gbps) will be speaking as well.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There’s an entire day on economic development issues (it will be streamed),
chaired by DC attorney Jim Baller, who represents municipalities when incumbent
carriers try to block public broadband. He’s also an advisor to Google. Among
the speakers in those sessions are Blair Levin, author of the National
Broadband Plan, and Kevin Martin, former FCC chairman.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Graham Richards, former mayor of Ft. Wayne, is running
sessions on public-private partnerships.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are sessions on the latest in telehealth (including
the first studies showing credible money savings), distance learning,
telepresence and more.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There’s an entire conference-within-a-conference on rural
telecom issues. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It has been noted that for the past few years the Broadband
Summit is about the only place you’ll find optimistic real estate moguls, too.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you want to schedule interviews in advance, let me know –
and sign up ASAP.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">If you have been reading the NYT's broadband coverage, you have been told that rural broadband is a luxury the country can't afford and that none of the projects pay back their cost. If you have been reading Businessweek, you have been told that Verizon isn't making a profit, or even cash-flow break-even on FiOS. Nuts. A fifth of the nation's households have already been passed by telco fiber, and 82% have been passed by cable companies' DOCSIS-ready fiber and coax. There's a whole new industry out there, ready to deliver whole new media. Learn about it. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A sample of some of the Summit's 100+ speakers:</p>
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<p><span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Kevin Martin</span></b></span><span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">—<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Martin-kevin11.php" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 204)">As FCC
chairman, he paved the way for large-scale fiber to the home deployment</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p><span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Michael Render</span></b></span><span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">—<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Render-michael11.php" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 204)">For a
decade, he’s been the leading research authority on deploying fiber to the home</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p><span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Jim Baller</span></b></span><span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">—<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Baller-jim11.php" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 204)">A
major force in helping communities across the U.S. take control of their
broadband destiny</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p><span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Joanne Hovis</span></b></span><span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">—<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Hovis-joanne11.php" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 204)">Shows
municipalities how to plan, design and benefit from fiber optic networks</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Lev Gonick</span></b><span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">—<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Gonick-lev11.php" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 204)">Heads
a project demonstrating how 1 Gbps broadband can transform lives and
neighborhoods</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Blair Levin</span></b><span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">—<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11speaker.php#l" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 204)">Led the country’s
effort at the FCC to develop the National Broadband Plan</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Michael Curri</span></b><span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">—<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Curri-michael11.php" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 204)">Documents
the powerful impact of true broadband on local economies</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Kelley Dunne</span></b><span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">—<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.bbpmag.com/2011s/11bio/Dunne-kelley11.php" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 204)">Dynamic
new CEO of the leading organization aimed at vanquishing the digital divide</span></i></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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