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Cisco Government Affairs E-Update
Volume 2, Issue 3
15 January 2002
Brought to you by Cisco Government Affairs Online: http://www.cisco.com/gov
This Week@Cisco in Government Affairs
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TECHNET BROADBAND PRINCIPLES
Today, Cisco President and CEO John Chambers participated in
the release of TechNet’s Broadband Principles.
The principles were developed by TechNet with the input of TechNet
membership and driven by the TechNet Broadband Task Force, which consisted
of high-tech CEO’s and other senior representatives from TechNet member
companies.
The complete Principles can be viewed at the following places:
http://www.cisco.com/gov/networks/broadband_deploy.html
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/BBandfinaldoc.pdf
(Adobe File)
http://www.technet.org/news/newsreleases//2002-01-15.62.phtml
For the News@Cisco story, you can go to: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/
You can also watch Laura Ipsen, Cisco Vice President of Worldwide
Government Affairs talking about Broadband at: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/ts_011502.html
News stories from today:
San Francisco Chronicle - The federal government needs
to make expansion of high-speed, broadband Internet service a national
priority and should push for wiring most American homes and small businesses
by 2010, a group representing some of Silicon Valley's largest companies
will recommend today. Without
a concerted effort, the United States could see its position as a worldwide
leader in new technology erode as other countries move forward with
creating broadband networks, the TechNet public policy group will argue. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/15/BU166864.DTL
San Jose Mercury News - A group of Silicon Valley business
leaders today will call on the president and Congress to make high-speed
Internet access available to every U.S. home and business by 2010.
TechNet, the powerful valley-based lobbying group that includes
Cisco Systems chief John Chambers and Intel leader Craig Barrett, will
urge the technology industry and government policy-makers to make high-speed
access a top priority for the nation. Besides jump-starting the economy,
TechNet believes that greater availability of high-speed connections
is necessary to unleash a new wave of innovation and increased productivity.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/front/docs/broadband15.htm
Washington Post - Today, the technology industry
plans to launch a major lobbying effort to get the federal government
to set national targets for broadband rollout and adoption. Often competitors
in the marketplace, tech companies are united in their view that broadband
could be a catalyst not just for recovery of their own battered sector
but also for the next economic boom. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45676-2002Jan14.html
Wall Street Journal - Many of the nation's largest high-tech
companies are pushing the Bush administration to set a goal of getting
fast Internet connections to 100 million homes and businesses by 2010
and make the regulatory changes needed to get there. In a report set for release Tuesday, TechNet, a Silicon Valley association
of industry chief executives including Intel Corp.'s Craig Barrett and
Cisco Systems Inc.'s John Chambers, calls on the administration to make
broadband a national priority and change the way local, state and federal
authorities regulate the technology.
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1011051890722375760.htm
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CISCO GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS@2001
Cisco’s top policy focuses for 2001 are the areas of Education,
Broadband Deployment and eGovernment. To read or listen to our thoughts on these issues, please visit
our Government Affairs home page or our visit our
multimedia
section . http://www.cisco.com/gov/multimedia/index.html
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