Publications

Building on previous work examining broadband availability across different geographies by population, this report examines broadband availability by job location. As in Broadband Availability, Beyond the Rural/Urban Divide, this report divides the United States into five categories based on degree of urbanization. Rather than examining broadband and general population levels, however, this report assesses the impact of broadband availability in the workplace. Virtually all jobs have access to very basic broadband speeds.

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This web page provides links and information regarding public meetings of the NTIA privacy multistakeholder process concerning mobile applications transparency.  More information regarding the NTIA multistakeholder process is available here: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/other-publication/2013/privacy-multistakeholder-process-mobile-application-transparency

Meeting Documents

The NIST-NTIA presentation slides from the 11/06/2013 Innovative Spectrum Sharing Technology Day are attached.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker appointed Barry Boniface to serve on the Board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet). The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 created FirstNet as an independent entity within NTIA, and charged it with establishing a nationwide public safety broadband network.

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Department of Commerce; National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Barry Boniface
Private equity investor and telecommunications executive

Innovative Spectrum Sharing Technology Day

Co-hosted by

U.S. Commerce Department’s
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and
the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Tuesday, November 5, 2013
10:00 am to 3:00 pm EST

Pursuant to Section 6001(d)(4) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA or Recovery Act) (Public Law No. 111-5), NTIA provides this Quarterly Report on the status of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. This Report focuses on the Program’s activities from April 1 to June 30, 2013.