Which company organized the meeting?

Representatives from some of the world’s leading broadband service providers and equipment manufacturers met in San Diego, California, last week. They talked about the future of broadband and the Internet Protocols that govern it. Broadband is a high data rate connection to the Internet. A group called Broadband Forum organized the meeting. It was the group’s fourth meeting this year. The Broadband Forum has almost two hundred members from around the world. They work to develop broadband network standards across the industry.

This week, the United States Census Bureau released its official count of the nation’s population. It said the population, as of April first, was three hundred eight million, seven hundred forty-five thousand, five hundred thirty-eight. The population increased 9.7% in ten years. This was the nation’s lowest growth rate since the 1930s. Experts say this was a result of falling birth rates among some groups and fewer immigrants because of the recession.