Setting the stage for local broadband - Times-Standard Online

A new chairman convened his first meeting of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, D.C., last week (July 2, 2009), and the Obama era of U.S. communications policy officially began.

Just a week later in Eureka, representatives of Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity and Del Norte counties will convene a governance group for regional broadband collaborations along with tribal jurisdictions of the Redwood Coast region of California. Are these two events related?
Could we be witnessing a “Eureka!” moment for U.S. broadband efforts?...