House Majority Whip James Clyburn to Speak at July 14 Broadband Breakfast Club

WASHINGTON, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- House Majority Whip James
Clyburn, D-S.C., will speak at the Broadband Breakfast Club on Tuesday, July
14, 2009, hosted by BroadbandCensus.com. The event will take place at Clyde's
of Gallery Place, beginning at 8 a.m.

Clyburn, a former chair of the House Democratic Caucus, will be speaking on
the Federal Communication Commission's national broadband strategy, and its
role in the $7.2 billion federal broadband stimulus.

Registration for the event is at http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com, and
the cost to register is $45.00.

With the release of the regulations governing federal spending, the current
focus of the current Broadband Breakfast Club series is how the broadband
stimulus dollars will be spent.

This week BroadbandCensus.com is also sponsoring two webinars -- on Wednesday,
July 15, and Thursday, July 16, on the rules released by the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Rural Utilities
Service.

The July 14 breakfast event will address the formation of the National
Broadband Plan by the Federal Communications Commission, currently underway,
and how it will impact federal broadband stimulus spending.

Other confirmed speakers include:
-- Paula Boyd, Regulatory Counsel from Microsoft.
-- Michael Calabrese, Vice President for the New America Foundation.
-- Barbara Esbin, Senior Fellow, Progress and Freedom Foundation.

-- Brett Glass, founder of Lariet.net, a wireless internet service
provider
based in Laramie, Wyoming.

The event will be moderated by Drew Clark, Editor and Executive Director of
BroadbandCensus.com. Clark founded BroadbandCensus.com in January 2008 as a
means of providing the public with a free and objective resource of the wired
and wireless local broadband carriers, grouped by ZIP code, by speed, by
competition and by consumer satisfaction.

For individuals outside of Washington, archived webcasts of the Broadband
Breakfast Club are now available on TV Mainstream.

The first of two BroadbandCensus.com webinars will take place the following
day, on Wednesday, July 15, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET. It will discuss
broadband data and broadband mapping.

Registration for the webinar is available at a special low price of $35.00,
including a one month subscription to BroadbandCensus.com Weekly Report (a
$190.00/month value!). Register online at
http://broadbanddatawebinar.eventbrite.com.

The second webinar, on Thursday, July 16, from 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET, will
discuss the NTIA and RUS rules for the Broadband Initiative Program and the
Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. Register online at
http://btopwebinar.eventbrite.com.

More information: http://broadbandcensus.com

SOURCE BroadbandCensus.com

Drew Clarke of BroadbandCensus.com, +1-202-580-8196