What has CUB Connects been up to?
Posted on February 25, 2011 by Andrea Crosby
Tags, Climate and Conservation, CUB in the News, Emerging Technologies, Legislative & Political, Telecommunications and CUB Connects
On January 25th, 2011 the CUBConnects project team presented to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) in Salem at the commission’s monthly public meeting. CUB’s Executive Director, Bob Jenks, opened the presentation with comments about the incredible number of telecom and internet plans available to Oregon consumers and the enormity of the project. Although the website accurately provides consumers with details and comparisons of plans, Bob pondered that maybe CUB wouldn’t have taken on the project if he had known how much it entailed. But, when all is said and done, everyone at CUB knows that the hard work paid off and CUBConnects.org is a great resource for fellow Oregonians.
Andrea Crosby, the project manager for CUBConnects, walked the Commissioners and the audience through the search tool and different informational pages on CUBConnects.org. Both Commissioner Savage and Commissioner Ackerman asked questions throughout the presentation and seemed thoroughly impressed by the product that is CUBConnects.org.
Brant Wolf, Director of the Oregon Telephone Association, contributed additional questions about the project that allowed Andrea to elaborate more on details behind the methodology used to collect the plan details and other aspects of the project.
The presentation served as the Beta-launch for CUBConnects.
On February 1st, 2011 the Oregonian published a detailed article about CUBConnects.org saying that the Website aims to demystify Oregon telecom pricing. In the article, Mike Rogoway nicely summarizes the website and the work that CUB put into making the project a reality.
On February 7, 2011, CUBConnects held a Launch Event at the State Capitol, in Salem. This event gave legislators and their staff a chance to hear more about the project and some of our goals moving forward. We hope to work with legislators to spread the word about CUBConnects.org throughout Oregon and reach out to all consumers in the state.
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