User talk:Elliso56


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Welcome from mentor
Hi, Elliso56. I'm Qwyrxian, and I signed up to be the mentor for your group for Dr. Obar's class. If you have any questions, you can post them here or on my talk page. Let me know when your group starts working on the project; personally, I'd recommend starting to gather your information on a Sandbox page--that way, you can get it all in one place, even if it isn't organized or formatted yet. You have a different challenge than many of the other groups, because your subject already has a very extensive but not very well written article (I think, I only glanced at it). I'm not quite sure what your assignment is in a case like this; I'll check in with the coordinating ambassador. In any event, please contact me if you have any questions. Qwyrxian (talk) 11:19, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Blair Levin
Blair Levin, an American lawyer and telecommunications analyst, formerly worked with the Federal Communications Commission. Levin was selected to coordinate development of the new National Broadband Plan. He worked on the plan from 2009-2010. Levin said that said the plan's logical course will be one that "unleashes forces that quicken that cycle or removes forces that slow down that cycle." Levin was speaking to telecom executives and lobbyists at a meeting of the Udwin Breakfast Group in Washington, D.C. At broadband policy workshops in August, several Tier 1 carriers, including T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, argued for more licensed spectrum to keep pace with customers' bandwidth demands, especially for mobile broadband. When asked whether the FCC would be working with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the White House to find ways of more efficiently using or reallocating spectrum used by federal agencies, Levin said that there was a distinct possibility that could happen. The FCC had been charged by Congress to present a national broadband plan by February. Levin said the plan will not be "self-executing," and that Congress and state and local governments likely will have to get involved to execute it. He brought to light his involvement with the Obama transition team and he offered a first-time public comment on how the broadband plan is developing. At the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council’s (MMTC) Broadband and Social Justice Summit in January, said that six words suffice when speaking on how to complete the transition to the digital age “Abandon yesterday’s logic; quickly and passionately”. According to an FCC statement, Levin headed to a job over at the Aspen Institute think tank.