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FCC Decision Could Help Vermont

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:31:07 -0700

Growing Up Digital: Kids, Commercialism & New Media Culture

Mary Alice Crim — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:17:55 -0700

Start: 09/26/2008 - 19:11

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

A one-day conference for teachers, parents, librarians, media educators, media makers, and media literacy activists. More information is available here.

Burlington Cable to Keep al-Jazeera

Stevie Converse — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:49:12 -0700

Digital Dreams

Holiday Shapiro — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:59:45 -0700

If Broadband Is the New Interstate Highway ... Why Are We Settling for Two-Lane Blacktop?

Holiday Shapiro — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:21:28 -0700

Who Decides What You Can Watch on Your Television?

Stevie Converse — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:43:41 -0700

Broadcast spectrum is quite limited, allowing only a few channels to send signals over the air to antennas. The Federal Communications Commission decides who gets licenses to use the airwaves. Cable and satellite dishes offer more channel capacity, but the owner must still choose which channels to offer. They pick what they think their customers want to watch.

DOJ Requires Verizon Wireless to Sell Assets

Stevie Converse — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:56:29 -0700

Verizon Wireless must sell assets in six markets in Vermont, New York and Washington state to complete its $757 million acquisition of Rural Cellular Corp., the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Vermont Struggles to Get Fully Wired

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:17:23 -0700

Residents of Vermont got excited last year when the state’s governor announced that there would be cell phone service and wireless Internet available to everyone in the state by 2010.

Burlington Debates Dropping Al Jazeera

Stevie Converse — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:10:19 -0700

The municipally-owned telecommunications company launched two years ago by Vermont’s largest city – Burlington, also known as the “People’s Republic” – is struggling with a divisive dispute over whether to continue airing Al Jazeera English, the 24-hour news and public affairs channel headquartered in Qatar.

Vt. Telecom Chooses Towers Over Cables for Statewide Broadband

Stevie Converse — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:30:33 -0700

Six weeks after it denied funding to a high-profile initiative to extend fiber-optic Internet cables to 23 towns, the Vermont Telecommunications Authority (VTA) said this week that it will be using its $40 million of state bonds in a very different way -- to build hundreds of towers providing cell-phone and wireless Internet service.

Verizon to New England: Bye-Bye

Stevie Converse — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:51:00 -0700

It looks like the Verizon selloff of its Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont landline business to FairPoint Communications is a done deal. All three states have given their approval, with conditions.

An Urgent Call: Give Us Broadband, Vermont Towns Say

Migrated Content — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:35:30 -0700

Vermont voters sent a clear message to the world of high-speed Internet Tuesday: We want in.

Voters in at least 19 towns approved nonbinding resolutions to join in a regional effort to bring high-speed Internet via fiber-optic to their homes during town meetings held early this week and over the weekend.

Vermont Backs FairPoint-Verizon Phone Deal

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:48:25 -0800

The Vermont Public Service Board on Friday approved a $2.35 billion deal for FairPoint Communications to take over the Internet and landline telephone network of Verizon.

Vermont Radio Station's Fate Hangs in the Airwaves

Stevie Converse — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:43:13 -0800

The town's only local radio station, WBTN, may be sold or silenced after the board of trustees at Southern Vermont College decided last week they could no longer afford to underwrite the station's los

Sharing lessons from Stop the Sale in Northern New England

Stevie Converse — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:20:05 -0800

Last weekend the "Building a Movement for Worker Justice" conference in Vermont brought together hundreds of workers, students, health care providers, educators, and other activists for a series of wo

Search Broadens in Rural Options for Broadband

Stevie Converse — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:56:48 -0800

The dial-up Internet connection is not an endangered species in Jericho or Underhill. Nor does it face imminent extinction in Westford, Cambridge, Fairfax or St. Albans.

Rural Towns Bundling a Blueprint for Broadband

Stevie Converse — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:28:02 -0800

Using Burlington Telecom's municipal broadband network as a model, 22 rural Vermont towns are poised to pool their resources and launch a fiber-optic project that could go online by the end of 2009.

FCC Ruling on Verizon-FairPoint Deal Fails to Protect Interests of Consumers

Stevie Converse — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:06:39 -0800

The decision by the Federal Communications Commission to approve the sale of Verizon Communications telephone access lines to FairPoint Communications ahead of the final determinations by regulators i

FCC Grants Fairpoint Control of Verizon's Northern New England Operations

Stevie Converse — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:03:10 -0800

[With thanks to Benton.org for this summary.]

Vermont Reaches Tentative Agreement in Telephone Company Deal

Stevie Converse — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:41:24 -0800

The state of Vermont reached a tentative settlement Tuesday on North Carolina-based FairPoint Communications' proposed $2.7 billion purchase of Verizon Communications' land lines in northern New Engla