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Thomas Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist, has been selected as keynote speaker at F2C: Freedom to Connect, a conference organized by David Isenberg every year in Washington DC. The aim of the conference is to connect beltway tech policy wonks with telecom practitioners and infrastructure builders across the United States and Europe.

Friedman will speak on “Green Innovation,” a topic that amplifies the major themes of F2C: Freedom to Connect. F2C is about building an open, abundant…

We’ve added another session to the agenda of the Freedom to Connect conference in Washington DC (March 30-31, 2009): “How to Get and Spend $7,200,000,000.00: What the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or 2009 Means for Netheads.” This session will cover how to qualify for the Act’s $2.5 billion from Agriculture and $4.7 billion from Commerce. Disbursement begins in May. Most monies must be disbursed within 18 months. Local governments qualify, as do non-profits, coops, and other entities. Large telcos…

There’s a very interesting conference taking place from March 3-5, 2009, Ecomm 2009, which will be held at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. Among the trends that Ecomm’s speakers will address are:

Telecom is becoming software The cash cows of telephony and SMS will dry up long term “Phones” are turning into general purpose computers A march is underway to change how spectrum is allocated and utilized Applications innovation is being democratized The media industry is converging with personal communications Search…

Freedom to Connect, the annual event organized by David Isenberg, will be held on March 30-31, 2009 in Washington, DC. I am partnering with David to make this event fun and informative. This year is a very important one because President-elect Barack Obama has made broadband — its cost, quality and availability — a major issue for his administration to tackle. Broadband is, in the eyes of the new administration, not just there for its own sake, but is the…

Join us on December 8, Monday, 1:30 pm Eastern Time, for a conference call on Broadband 2009: What’s Ahead with the fabulous Dave Burstein of DSL Prime.

Dave Burstein has been covering broadband for many years now, even before “it” was called broadband. He is very outspoken (which I truly appreciate) and he is extremely good at analyzing where we are today and where we’re going.

So, on this call, we will discuss:

What’s the agenda for the new FCC and who will likely…

The New America Foundation is hosting an event called the National Broadband Strategy Call to Action on Tuesday, 2 December 2008 from 10:00 to 11:30 am at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, SD-G50, First Street NE and C Street NE, Washington, DC.

Here is a description of the event:

In an unprecedented display of consensus, a broad and diverse array of groups concerned about America’s broadband future will release a Call to Action that provides President-elect Obama and the incoming Congress a…