My Aunt Mary Treacy has been following telecommunications and information policy for many years. She is very involved with TIPR (Telecommunications Information Policy Roundtable) and more recently with the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information. Over the weekend she sent me information from a resource that was new to me – The Center for Public Integrity.

The Center for Public Integrity follows telecommunications issues, among other things.  and they have a mission to “an effort to find out more about which companies are providing high-speed Internet access throughout the United States so that citizens have a better understanding of their service options.”

If you visit the site you can type in your zip code to check out the media providers (including broadband) in your area. (Are you in a metro area? Want a wake up call? Type in the zip of your cabin or country cousins and see the difference.)

They also track the top Telecommunications, Media and Technology Companies.