Expert Opinion
Patrice Williams: Reimagining the Future of Work With Digital Plus Human Efforts
‘Digital workers can help in the end-to-end automation of business processes by mimicking human behavior.’
Infrastructure
NTIA’s Effort to Dispense Broadband Funds to Municipalities Is Not Without Obstacles
The NTIA’s notice of funding opportunity stops short of explicitly endorsing municipal broadband as the preferred model.
Innovation
House and Senate Tackle Semiconductor Chip Shortages and Seek to Boost U.S. Production
How COVID and supply chain woes are driving $52 billion in incentives for domestic production of semiconductor chips.
Fiber
Economic Opportunity for Broadband with Rural Electric Co-ops
Co-ops have the chance to support education, healthcare and work-from-home coming out of the coronavirus pandemic.
Expert Opinion
Mike O’Rielly: Don’t Repeat Past Mistakes, or How to Wisely Spend Federal Broadband Money
Universal broadband has not been achieved, in part, because previous grant funding has often been misspent.
Free Speech
Former GOP Congressman and UK MP Highlight Dangers of Disinformation and Urge Regulation
Will Hurd and Member of Parliament Damien Collins say disinformation on social media platforms a worry in midterm elections.
Infrastructure
CES 2022: To Merge Physical and Digital Infrastructure, Leaders Need Community Input
A California mayor said her city is thriving by prioritizing community needs in technology and infrastructure projects.
Broadband's Impact
Julio Fuentes: Access Delayed Was Access Denied to the Poorest Americans
Big Telecom companies caused months and months of delays in the rollout of the Emergency Broadband Benefit.
Funding
Another $700 Million for 26 States Through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund
Over 400,000 locations across the U.S. will get broadband in this funding wave.
Education
Technology Problems Can Be Solved if Policy-Makers Listen to One Another, Says Colorado’s Phil Weiser
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser urges a version of the Golden Rule: ‘What would someone else say?’
Funding
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the Senate’s $65 Billion Broadband Infrastructure Bill
Muninetworks’ Sean Gonsalves cracks open and investigates the infrastructure bill.
Exclusive
Exclusive Drew Clark Column: Treasury Regulations Stir Battle Over Broadband Speeds
Sticking with the current FCC minimum, the proposed rule still leans into Biden administration talk of symmetrical speeds.
Exclusive
Exclusive Drew Clark Column: Libraries’ Role as Physical and Social Infrastructure
Libraries are a crucial “third space” between work and home and connective tissue in a democratic and egalitarian society.
Funding
Exclusive Drew Clark Column on Broadband Infrastructure Legislation
Now is the time in Congress for all good (and bad) broadband bills to be introduced.
Nationwide Dig Once Act, Funding for Tribal Broadband, LEO Library with StarLink, WISPA Call to Action
Rep. Anna Eshoo reintroduces her ‘dig once’ legislation, Vice President touts Tribal funding, plus a new LEO library.
Expert Opinion
Shabbir Bagasrawala: A Clarion Call for Supply Chain Diversity in Our Telecom Networks
Limited competition is provided by the existing trio of vendors. This worsens the supply chain problem for operators.
