[Hidden-tech] Broadband Internet and Small Business is Western Mass

[Sheldon Snodgrass]

Hi Hidden Techies,

 

You have likely heard about the Governor's 25 million dollar plan to connect
all the unserved communities in Western Massachusetts by 2010. Here's your
chance to attend an important related event (more info is available here:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/=western_mass). 
  
WHAT: A Broadband Forum for Western Massachusetts 
WHEN: Saturday March 1, 2008 
TIME: 8:30 am to 3:00pm (the public can come and go throughout the day) 
WHERE: Clarion Hotel, Northampton, MA 
RSVP: The event is free and open to the public, but organizers ask that you
RSVP at their website. 
SPEAKERS: Sen John Kerry, FCC Commissioners Adelstein and McDowell,
Lieutenant Governor Tim Murry, and others. 
  
A public investment of this sort, must be accompanied by strong public
interest protections to assure competition and openness on the Internet. Any
company who benefits from these public funds ought to commit to creating a
balanced playing field. We need to ensure that no company can block or slow
down Internet content based on who's sending it. It is the principle that
has guided the Internet since its birth. 
  
At a hearing this past week in Boston, Comcast paid people to fill up the
room so that the public couldn't get in the door and make their voices heard
(
<http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/25/comcast-blocking-first-the-i
nternet-now-the-public>
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/25/comcast-blocking-first-the-in
ternet-now-the-public ). Your policy makers need to hear from you this
Saturday

 

J. Sheldon Snodgrass, MBA

http://www.steadysales.com

More Sales. More Money. Less Worry

 

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