[Advisors] FW: FCC votes to end telephone subsidies, shift to broadband - Computerworld

michael gurstein gurstein at gmail.com
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:28:11 -0800


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Isn't it time we heard from Ottawa on some equivalent developments to
provide Broadband access to the currently underserved and those unable =
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access BB because of cost or other factors?

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To: 'Michael Gurstein'; O'Donnell, Susan; Brian Beaton
Subject: FCC votes to end telephone subsidies, shift to broadband -
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William McIver, Jr., Ph.D.      =20

Senior Research Officer, People-Centred Technologies Group, NRC-IIT

Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick

database systems * location-based services * user-centered design


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<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> FCC votes to end
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<p class=3Dp1><font size=3D1 color=3Dblack face=3DPalatino><span =
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Research Officer, People-Centred Technologies Group, =
NRC-IIT</span></font></p>

<p class=3Dp1><font size=3D1 color=3Dblack face=3DPalatino><span =
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of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick</span></font></p>

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