WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to online schooling during the outbreak of...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Broadband Breakfast announced the launch of Broadband Breakfast Live Online, a three-part FREE webcast series focusing on how broadband can address...
Lariat.net, a wireless internet service provider in Laramie, Wyoming, announced that it will offer free internet service to telehealth providers helping those with the novel coronavirus....
WASHINGTON, March 9, 2020 – As the United States deals with spreading cases of the novel coronavirus, some major universities are turning to online courses in...
WASHINGTON, March 7, 2020 – At a February 27 hearing, representatives of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee took testimony on the need for reliable emergency...
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2020 – As cases of the novel coronavirus expand in the United States, Americans are struggling to address changes that have, or are...
Twitter Site Integrity Head Yoel Roth told Ari Shapiro of NPR in an interview that Twitter will flag “misleading” or “harmful” content with blue exclamation marks....
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2020 – House Energy and Commerce subcommittee chairman Mike Doyle, D-Penn., Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr all took...
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2020 – Panelists at the INCOMPAS policy summit Tuesday looked back with fondness on the Federal Communication Commission’s National Broadband Plan that was...
Apple consented to a settlement of $500 million for not disclosing “that iOS artificially limited processor speeds as phone batteries aged,” reports Adi Robertson for The...
Telecommuting and telemedicine are beginning to be discussed as potential remedies to the damage being done by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. A New York Times op-ed...
WASHINGTON, February 25, 2020 – Public broadcast experts and Federal Communications Commissioner Michael O’Rielly discussed the special role public broadcasting can play in expanding broadband and...
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Communications and Technology Subcommittee member Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., introduced the Reinforcing and Evaluating Service Integrity, Local...
A report published by tech.co on Wednesday ranks and categorizes the countries with the highest internet censorship. Among the reports most salient findings: Turkmenistan, North Korea,...
“The future of our economy is dependent upon how we treat our most vulnerable communities, including those most susceptible to job displacement/job disruption,” Federal Communications Commissioner...
Panelists at the Silicon Flatirons conference on Monday clashed over the extent to which the internet deserves the veneration that it currently enjoys in society. The...
Pro-tech advocates changed more minds than their anti-tech counterparts at a Silicon Flatirons debate on Sunday. Pro-tech and anti-tech advocates engaged in an Oxford-style debate at...
WASHINGTON, February 10, 2020 – Advocates for technology accessibility for the disabled communities boasted of new technologies like Xfinity X1 Eye Control devices and augmented reality...
WASHINGTON, February 5, 2020 – The chancellor of a key land-grant university system on Wednesday proposed a way to modernize these universities through a system of...
One of the few moments of bipartisan cheering during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night was when he mentioned rural broadband. “I...
U.S. infrastructure hasn’t been able to keep up with the country’s demand to connect, according to a new report surveying the past decade and future 10...
President Trump signed an executive order Friday to limit the importing of counterfeit goods from abroad over e-commerce networks, like Amazon, Shopify, and WalMart.com. In a...
The chairs of three House committees on Wednesday released a framework for a five-year, $760 billion investment in infrastructure that would address some of the country’s...
The Federal Communications Commission’s rural telehealth order of August 2019 was criticized by the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition in a Wednesday webinar. The FCC’s...
WASHINGTON, January 30, 2020 –Advocates for digital inclusion on Wednesday encouraged Congress to pass the Digital Equity Act and fund state and local efforts to close...
WASHINGTON, January 23, 2020 – The digital divide is a real division in the country, affects more than just rural areas and keeps Americans from crucial...
What makes one community flourish while another one struggles? Lack of jobs and essential amenities are often cited as reasons why people move on from rural...
Most attempts to close the digital divide through smart city digital inclusion fall short of their overpromising corporate rhetoric, argues Burcu Baykurt for the Benton Institute for Broadband...
WASHINGTON, January 9, 2020 – The lack of broadband access remains a significant obstacle for farmers seeking to use digital technology to grow their agricultural operations,...
House Energy Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., sent a letter Monday to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that his office reached a settlement with T-Mobile, resolving the state’s antitrust claims against the proposed merger of mobile...
Comcast announced Wednesday that it would begin broadband marketing plans reaching speeds up to 100 gigabits per second to businesses, Post and Courrier reports. The company...
New Hampshire state legislature is in the works of forming a bill authorizing multi-town districts for the purpose of establishing a broadband system, Government Technology reports....
WASHINGTON, November 6, 2019 – High-speed internet access is essential for improving pedagogical approaches and broadband equity, and that means access to devices both at school...
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, November 1, 2019 – High-speed broadband has the potential to be the “great equalizer,” said Federal Communications Commissioner Geoffrey Starks at a regional Broadband...
WASHINGTON, November 1, 2019 – Strategies that include and support historically underserved groups are necessary to address America’s digital divide, broadband experts said at Thursday’s Multicultural...
WASHINGTON, October 24, 2019 – US Telecom on Thursday praised legislators and a regulator who have promoted their framework for ensuring that high-speed broadband remains a...
ARLINGTON, Virginia, October 17, 2019 – Federal Communication Commissioner Geoffrey Starks summarized his keynote message to the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition’s #AnchorNets2019 with a simple scoreboard:...
ARLINGTON, Virginia, October 17, 2019 – Federal Communication Commissioner Brendan Carr highlighted his work at the agency on promoting telehealth, enhancing more flexible use of radio...
WASHINGTON, October 10, 2019 – The tech world is buzzing about the alleged “negative latency” that the search engine giant hopes to achieve with its new...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2020 – Although countless universities and school districts are shutting their doors to students and turning to...
