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WASHINGTON — Today, Free Press released Down Payment on Our Digital Future: Stimulus Policies for the 21st-Century Economy, a comprehensive set of proposals that would deploy a forward-looking national broadband infrastructure.

WASHINGTON — Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that Internet giant Google intends to abandon Net Neutrality and create a fast lane for its own content.

WASHINGTON — In his weekly address on Saturday, President-elect Barack Obama vowed to “renew our information superhighway” as part of a massive plan to invest in public infrastructure and stimulate America’s failing economy.

LOS ANGELES — On Dec. 6, hundreds of Los Angeles residents from all walks of life will discuss the future of the Internet at a town hall meeting sponsored by InternetforEveryone.org — a broad-based initiative to connect every American to a fast, open and affordable Internet.

WASHINGTON — Today, the Federal Communications Commission released the agenda for its Dec. 18 meeting. It includes a Report & Order to reform the rules of cable carriage complaints and help resolve basic process issues for independent and minority programmers who have been denied carriage.

WASHINGTON — Today, Free Press released 2009 Media & Tech Priorities: A Public Interest Agenda, a comprehensive look at the key media and telecommunications policies President-elect Barack Obama and Congress should implement next year.

WASHINGTON — This week, advertisements sponsored by Free Press appeared in the classified sections of the Washington Post, Washington Times, Politico and The Hill seeking a new leader of the Federal Communications Commission.

WASHINGTON — According to news reports, wireless industry trade association CTIA has dropped its legal challenge to the open access conditions imposed on a portion of the 700 MHz spectrum by the Federal Communications Commission.

WASHINGTON — InternetforEveryone.org — a public-private sector initiative to connect every American to a fast, open and affordable Internet — will hold its first town hall meeting on Dec. 6 in Los Angeles.

WASHINGTON — Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve the unlicensed use of “white spaces” — empty airwaves between television channels — to provide high-speed Internet access nationwide.