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    <title>Speedmatters Blog</title>
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    <description>The latest posts from Speedmatters</description>
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    <dc:creator>speedmatters@cwa-union.org</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights>Copyright 2013</dc:rights>
    <dc:date>2013-06-18T20:52:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Neighborhood schools in the slow lane</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ford Foundation President Luis A. Ubiñas's op-ed in The New York Times highlighted the digital divide in our schools. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Education and Training, Universality, Civil Rights, Digital Divide, Inner-City, Schools, Youth</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-18T20:52:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>President calls for more wireless spectrum</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As the Obama administration calls for more wireless spectrum, a new White House report details shortfalls in broadband access. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Economic Growth &amp; Quality Jobs, Rural Communities, High Speed, Universality, Broadband Data, Digital Divide, Discrimination, Federal Legislation, Inner-City, Libraries, Mobile, Research Reports, Schools, Spectrum, Wireless</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-16T17:47:36+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Cable prices rise to nearly twice inflation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As they have for almost 20 years, cable prices rose much faster than inflation. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Protections and Good Jobs, FCC, Television</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-14T20:14:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Senate schedules Wheeler hearing</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When FCC nominee Tom Wheeler comes before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee next week, critical questions await. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Economic Growth &amp; Quality Jobs, Open Internet, FCC, Federal Legislation, Mobile, Wireless</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-14T16:38:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>U.S. tablet ownership doubles to 33 percent</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[According to a recent Pew report, one-third of American adults have a tablet computer. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Broadband Data, Entertainment and Gaming, Manufacturing, Mobile, Smartphones</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-11T17:45:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Obama: Let there be broadband</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[President Obama announced the ConnectED program to "... to bring high-speed Internet connections to 99 percent of America’s students." ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Education and Training, Rural Communities, High Speed, Universality, Civil Rights, Digital Divide, FCC, Federal Legislation, Schools, Youth</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-08T02:19:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Time to bring high-speed broadband into our schools</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Schools need high-speed Internet, “because in the world we live in broadband capacity is not a luxury."]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Education and Training, High Speed, Universality, Digital Divide, FCC, Federal Legislation, Schools, Youth</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-07T20:52:59+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>U.S. broadband certified second-rate, unless you’re a Comcast VP</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[DSL Reports' Karl Bode said that Comcast's claims about U.S. broadband are, well, not true. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>High Speed, Universality, Broadband Data, Digital Divide, Verizon/Cable Deal</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-07T20:00:13+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Will data traffic really grow 1200 percent by 2018?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[According to Ericsson’s Mobility Report, mobile data traffic will grow twelve-fold by 2018 and video will grow 60 percent a year. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Economic Growth &amp; Quality Jobs, Broadband Data, Manufacturing, Smartphones</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-07T19:14:39+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Lifeline lives up to its name</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jessica González of the National Hispanic Media Coalition writes that for millions of people the Lifeline telephone subsidy is indeed a lifeline. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Rural Communities, Senior Citizens, Universality, Civil Rights, FCC, Senior Citizens</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-07T18:38:22+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Doctors slow to adopt electronic records</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Despite a major federal push toward electronic medical records, few doctors have wholly adopted them. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Health Care, High Speed, Consumer Protections and Good Jobs, Federal Legislation, Medicine, Research Reports</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-07T16:27:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>When High Tech means low tax</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpeedMattersBlog/~3/PyNJGovPl2w/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Senate committee found Apple was avoiding billions in taxes by shifting profits offshore, but Apple is more the rule than the exception. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Federal Legislation, International Competition, Manufacturing</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-04T16:18:40+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Online education’s digital class system</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A California charter school found that many low-income students couldn't pursue online courses because they had no home Internet access. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>California, Education and Training, Universality, Civil Rights, Digital Divide, Discrimination, Inner-City, Schools, Youth</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-06-04T13:37:07+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Protecting online free speech in the workplace</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's the National Labor Relations Board that protects your right to free speech at work, including speech online. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Civil Rights, Collective Bargaining, Discrimination, Labor, Unions</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-30T20:14:44+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Busing the digital divide</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Retired educator Estella Pyfrom sunk her life savings into a computer-outfitted bus that bridges the South Florida digital divide. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Florida, Education and Training, Universality, Civil Rights, Digital Divide, Discrimination, Inner-City, Private-Public Partnership, Schools, Youth</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-29T18:54:11+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>FCC: Broadband adoption still shows gaps, slow speeds</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpeedMattersBlog/~3/WD9iuc00NgM/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The latest FCC U.S. Internet access study still finds large areas of the country with slow speeds. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Economic Growth &amp; Quality Jobs, Rural Communities, High Speed, Universality, Digital Divide, FCC, Wireless</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-25T00:02:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>FCC Technology Transitions Policy Task Force Seeks Comment on Potential Trials</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The FCC Technology Policy Task Force is seeking comment on the major communications transitions under consideration. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>High Speed, Consumer Protections and Good Jobs, Civil Rights, Digital Divide, FCC, Federal Legislation, Mobile, Spectrum, Wireless</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-24T18:26:19+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>FCC Acting Chair Clyburn Adds to the Connect America Fund</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn became the first female to hold that office, and announced additional moneys for the Connect America Fund. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Economic Growth &amp; Quality Jobs, Rural Communities, High Speed, Universality, Civil Rights, Digital Divide, Discrimination, FCC</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-23T18:35:59+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Sprint raises its offer for Clearwire</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sprint raised its per-share bid for Clearwire, topping the last offer by DISH network.  ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Economic Growth &amp; Quality Jobs, Consumer Protections and Good Jobs, Mobile, Wireless</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-21T18:25:11+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>MetroPCS ends lawsuit against net neutrality</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MetroPCS, now owned by T-Mobile, dropped out of the lawsuit challenging the FCC's open Internet rules. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Open Internet, Consumer Protections and Good Jobs, FCC, Mobile, Wireless</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-21T18:14:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>NY regulators delay Verizon request to end landline guarantee</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The NY Public Service Commission delayed Verizon's sweeping request to substitute wireless for landlines throughout the state. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>New York, Public Safety, Rural Communities, Universality, Consumer Protections and Good Jobs, Broadband Data, Discrimination, Mobile, State Policies, Unions, Wireless</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-20T17:01:49+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Rural-urban broadband divide persists</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The National Telecommunications and Information Administration's new Broadband Briefs reports show gains and shortcomings in U.S. broadband. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Economic Growth &amp; Quality Jobs, Rural Communities, High Speed, Universality, Broadband Data, Digital Divide, Discrimination, Research Reports</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-17T15:09:15+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Senate committee examines the state of video</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Senate Communications Subcommittee held hearings on The State of Video. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Consumer Protections and Good Jobs, Federal Legislation, Television</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-16T02:22:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>More home networks, more streaming video</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most households with broadband have home networks, and more and more of those are used to stream video. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>High Speed, Broadband Data, Entertainment and Gaming, Research Reports, Television</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-15T14:35:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>FCC opens proceedings on IP networks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The FCC is seeking public comment on testing three major communications transitions. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>High Speed, Universality, Consumer Protections and Good Jobs, Digital Divide, FCC, Federal Legislation, Mobile</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-14T20:10:25+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Truth About  Lifeline</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[David Honig, Co-founder and President of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, tells the truth about the federal Lifeline program. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Health Care, Enabling People With Disabilities, Rural Communities, Senior Citizens, Universality, Digital Divide, Discrimination, FCC, Federal Legislation, Senior Citizens</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-05-14T19:21:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>NYC official lambastes Verizon on lagging FiOS build-out</title>
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