Its telephones are getting smarter, thanks to a venture between the provincial authorities, the Beijing Telecommunications Administration and Britain's GPT Payphones Systems.
Note: This piece is cross-posted from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
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The funds, from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) or the Department of Agriculture, are aimed at providing service to underserved communities in rural areas.
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All told, the response matches that of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which wrote a letter to the Librarian of Congress in support of extending the exemption last year.
The White House's position detailed in this response builds on some critical thinking done by the President's chief advisory Agency on these matters: the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
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Back in September, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) hosted an IPv6 workshop at which I challenged industry stakeholders to develop a tool to aid businesses and focus attention on the importance of deploying IPv6 within their companies.
Already, the Obama Administration in conjunction with the Federal Communications Commission has proposed to free up 500 MHz of spectrum for commercial use over the next 10 years, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the government entity charged with overseeing federal spectrum usage, has identified 115 MHz to make available over the next five years.
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At issue, administration officials say, was some telecommunications stock and some property in Greece that Tenet failed to report on his initial financial disclosure statement when he joined the Clinton Administration.
To put it bluntly, the Bush Administration has been a disaster when it comes to telecommunications deregulation.
He hasn't rolled back economic reforms of the Fidel Ramos administration that preceded him, such as deregulation and liberalization of the banking, shipping, telecommunications and power sectors.
The Obama Administration would support a range of approaches to addressing this issue, including narrow legislative fixes in the telecommunications space that make it clear: neither criminal law nor technological locks should prevent consumers from switching carriers when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation.
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