Comments submitted to the FCC on July 15, 2010, by the Media Action Grassroots Network regarding expansion of the Lifeline and Link-Up programs, which are designed to make telecommunications services accessible to low-income and underserved communities.
Comments submitted to the FCC on July 15, 2010, by the Center for Media Justice, Consumers Union, the Media Access Project, and the New America Foundation urging the FCC to reclassify broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service so that it will have the authority to enact the National Broadband Plan.
Reply comments submitted April 26, 2010, by MAG-Net and partners to the FCC, countering industry’s argument that Net Neutrality and wider broadband adoption are mutually exclusive.
Comments to the Federal Communications Commission on Network Neutrality rulemaking in support of policies that take into account the structure of the Internet and its impact on the ability of people to communicate and engage in economic, social, and political activities, and recognize that communities benefit from an Internet that is open and nondiscriminatory. Submitted Read more
Comments submitted by the New America Foundation, with input from the Center for Media Justice and dozens of other grassroots partners, on the Broadband Initiatives Program of the Rural Utilities Service (part of the Department of Agriculture), and the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (Department of Commerce).
A tool for media activists from “MAG-Net’s Campaign for Connected Communities That Count!!”
Rural broadband principles from the Center for Rural Strategies, a member of the Media Action Grassroots Network.
A bilingual English/Spanish overview from Philadelphia media justice organization Media Mobilizing Project.
The FCC commissioned a study of broadband adoption in low-income communities to help inform their understanding of barriers to broadband adoption and to shape the National Broadband Plan, due to Congress on March 17, 2010, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In this video, the presenters, Dharma Dailey and Amelia Bryne, discuss the contexts Read more
An anti-net neutrality letter from beltway civil rights groups.