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F2C: Freedom to Connect Presents Models for Stimulus Funding
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SILVER SPRING, MD, March 4 / MARKET WIRE/ --
New networks that are models for projects
the broadband stimulus package could fund will be front and center at F2C:
Freedom to Connect, here on March 30 & 31. The American Reinvestment and
Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA) sets out $7.2 billion for building networks
that increase end-user choice and serve under-served areas. F2C: Freedom to
Connect, March 30 & 31, features builders of municipal networks in
Lafayette, LA, Glasgow, KY, northeast Ohio and rural Vermont.
Now in its fifth year, F2C: Freedom to Connect has established itself as
the premier venue for tomorrow's technology policy news, featuring speakers
such as Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach, who co-led the Obama FCC
transition, long before they rose to national prominence. This year,
featured speakers include San Francisco CIO Chris Vein, Seattle CTO William
Schrier, FCC Chief Technologist Jon Peha, and Municipal network visionary
Billy Ray of Glasgow KY. David S. Isenberg, the producer of F2C and founder
of Isen.com, calls Billy Ray, "The father of U.S. municipal networking."
Other speakers at F2C include Lev Gonick, the founder of OneCommunity, a
public-private partnership to build high-speed networks across Northeast
Ohio; Terry Huval, the director of the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) project in
Lafayette, LA; and Massachusetts Telecom Commissioner Sharon Gillett.
It features European thinking on advanced networks from, e.g., Herman
Wagter of Amsterdam's Citynet fiber-to-the-home project, and Benoit Felten
of Yankee Group Europe. It features provocative policy observations from
Commissioner Timothy Denton of Canada's telecom regulator (CRTC).
Former senior AT&T executive Tom Evslin observes, "F2C: Freedom to Connect
is the absolutely unbuttoned-down deep thought conference of
telecommunications. You'll find movers and shakers here (some ducked down
in hiding); you'll find thinkers; and you'll find those who have been and
those who will be the guiding forces in telecommunications."
If fiber, municipal broadband policy, and internet infrastructure, are
stimuli for you, don't miss F2C: Freedom to Connect. Whether you're coming
to find stimulus funding, customers, best practices, or to have a voice as
policy is set, you can register for $595 now (or $795 at the door) at
http://freedom-to-connect.net.
Contact:
David S. Isenbergisen@isen.com
203-661-4798
Conference Producerhttp://www.freedom-to-connect.net
Copyright ? 2009 Marketwire
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