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Blog // Connected Texas

04/03/12

FCC Calls on Education Tech Leaders to Move Learning Forward Using Digital Tools

By CTX Staff

From Ted Gotsch, Senior Editor, Telecommunications Reports   On Thursday, March 29, 2012, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Education Secretary Arne Duncan kicked off the first meeting of the newly-assembled Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission by charging its members to push forward with assembling a plan to move towards the use to digital textbooks so that the U.S. can create a workforce for the future that can compete globally for the jobs of tomorrow. Speaking to top executives with telecom, technology, and education companies who make up the LEAD Commission, both Chairman Genachowski and Secretary Duncan...

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02/17/12

Connected Texas Releases USF Mobility Fund Eligibility Maps & Analysis

By CTX Staff

Ensuring ubiquitous availability of next-generation mobile broadband networks is critical to economic development and growth. Recognizing this importance, the Federal Communications Commission later this year will distribute $300 million in subsidies to support the construction of high-speed mobile broadband networks in areas that do not currently have mobile broadband access. Today, Connected Texas is releasing an analysis of the FCC’s preliminary list of areas in Texas that are eligible for the FCC’s Mobility Fund. On February 10, 2012, the FCC released a list of areas in Texas census blocks that it had determined do not currently have...

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