Blair Levin, Executive Director of the FCC’s Omnibus Broadband initiative, will join hosts Jim Baller and Marty Stern to discuss the latest thinking on repurposing broadcast spectrum for wireless broadband as part of the National broadband Plan, and how the idea has evolved since it was raised in late 2009, including the recently proposed “Mobile Future Auction.”
Category: Broadband TV Policy Series
A National Town Hall on the Broadband Stimulus Program
Separate Notices of Funds Availability (NOFA) and programmatic rules have just been released for the second and final round of funding under the Broadband Stimulus with several Billions of dollars in funding available in this last round. Applications for this second round are due in just over a month, on March 15, and this interactive live workshop will provide a first look at what’s changed from the first round and what applicants need to know in putting together successful broadband grant and loan applications.