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Vint Cerf, known as one of the fathers of the Internet, has come out in support of municipal broadband networks. He says:

Municipal broadband networks could help boost the availability of high-speed Internet access and even help to ensure Net neutrality in the U.S., said Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google. . . . Cerf spoke at a lunch in Seattle, a city that is investigating the possibility of building its own broadband network.

Read more here: http://www.itworld.com/Net/2613/vint-cerf-supports-municipal-broadband-080512/

AT&T says its 3G data network could reach download speeds of 20 Mbps by 2009, according to a report from AppleInsider Wednesday.

The report quoted Ralph de la Vega, AT&T Wireless President and CEO, telling attendees at a Morgan Stanley communications conference that AT&T engineers already have a HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) 3G network running in their labs, at speeds of 7.2 megabits per second (which is about double of AT&T’s wireless network capability today). The report adds that “AT&T…