Universal Broadband

“While the US talks, other countries are acting. Both Finland and Spain have now decided to add ‘broadband’ to their universal [telephone] service requirements.

"By 2011, any Finn or Spaniard, no matter where they live, should be able to get a reliable 1Mbps connection at a reasonable price,” ars technical.com reports.

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It’s news to me: Who to trust?

“For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them,” Rasmussen reported today, 10-24-09.

The polling organization asked this question: “I’m going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which political party you trust more to handle that issue.” Responses were:

Healthcare
...D-40%; R-46%

Education
...D-38%; R-43%

Social Security
...D-37%; R-45%

Taxes
...D-35%; R-50%

Economy
...D-35%; R-49%

Abortion
...D-35%; R-47%

Immigration
...D-33%; R-40%

National Security
...D-31%; R-54%

Iraq
...D-31%; R-50%

Government Ethics
...D-29%; R-33%

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Miles moved from print journalism to corporate communications beginning at the bottom of the ladder with the predecessor of BellSouth Telecommunications, Southern Bell Telephone. There, he learned the business from the ground up, spending his first year in the company’s Commercial Operations. The belief was, and is, “If you don’t understand how the company works, you cannot speak convincingly for it.”

As a corporate communicator working with C-level management from the earliest days, Miles moved through BellSouth’s ranks and experienced regulatory, legislative and labor communications challenges. These were always accompanied by the necessity to properly position the company and its objectives before all stakeholders, especially the media.

His responsibilities grew from one state, to four, to the company’s nine-state southeast region. They encompassed all aspects of corporate communications: employee, marketing, stakeholder and crisis communications; media strategies and management; advertising; issues management; and the requirement to coordinate and integrate all of them.

Seeking new challenges, Miles used his telecom experience to expand into broader roles among technology manufacturing companies — GenRad and General DataComm — where he also assumed investor relations responsibilities. At the same time, he expanded his geographic scope to include Europe and portions of the Asia/Pacific region and South America.

Today, Miles works with giant NYSE technology companies and tiny startups as a managing partner of Acumen Strategic Communications, a company he created with a former PR agency colleague. Acumen operates from New York and Boston. www.AcumenStrategies.com

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