COVID
Broadband Breakfast Interview: Waves Wants to Connect Entrepreneurs with Each Other
A resurgent pandemic is giving a company that remotely connects entrepreneurs with each other increasing popularity.
Born in China and adopted to American Fork, Utah, former reporter Derek Shumway graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's in political science and a minor in international strategy.
COVID
A resurgent pandemic is giving a company that remotely connects entrepreneurs with each other increasing popularity.
Privacy
Ajit Ghuman said Americans generally would pay more for full privacy — including on smartphone purchases.
Education
AMERICAN FORK, Utah, May 13, 2021 – Facebook’s involvement in Utah technology education has grown since it broke ground in 2018 on its data center in Eagle Mountain, a growing community on outskirts of the “Silicon Slopes” community here. “STEM curriculum and hands-on educational opportunities are
Health
PatientPartner, which helps surgery patients connect with each other, is seeing rapid growth during the pandemic.
Antitrust
Co-author of “The Amazon Jungle” says Section 230 has allowed Big Tech to get away with far too much.
Infrastructure
Digital liaisons who speak multiple languages can help guide multilingual communities for the digital future.
Broadband's Impact
Experts advise mentorship and encouragement to get more women in the industry.
Infrastructure
Michigan Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist said telecoms should be right there alongside new road builds and improvements.
EBB
The agency is expected to vote on policies for the new connectivity fund by mid-May, chairwoman says.
EBB
Utah Republican Rep. John Curtis speaks about broadband rollout, education and bills more than a year into the pandemic.
Infrastructure
April 12, 2021 – Senator Josh Hawley, R-MO, shared with Axios a new proposal that would bar corporate giants from acquisitions and strengthen century-old antitrust laws. “This country and this government shouldn’t be run by a few mega-corporations,” Hawley told Axios. The Republican Party “has got t
Big Tech
April 8, 2021 — There needs to be a digital regulatory commission created to ensure big tech cannot run wild with consumer data, said Robin Gaster, a George Washington University public policy scholar. Gaster, who’s also president of Incumetrics, a data and program evaluation consultancy, published
E-Rate
April 7, 2021 – Libraries should monitor their broadband speeds and ensure they are getting quality connections, according to library consultants. Carson Block from Carson Block Consulting and Stephanie Stenberg of the Internet2 Community Anchor program told a virtual conference hosted by the Americ
Infrastructure
April 7, 2021 – The German Marshall Fund is calling for broadband to be considered part of the civic infrastructure to draw more public and private partnerships and funding to connect more citizens. Equity issues in communications policy have only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic, and redefi
Infrastructure
April 6, 2021 – In a webinar last week hosted by the Schools, Health, and Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB), panelists discussed opportunities schools and libraries have to better serve their communities with the recent $7 billion provided through the American Rescue Plan, a $1.98 trillion corona
CETF
April 5, 2021 – A new survey released late last month suggests Californians are adopting more devices as smartphone-only connections in the state continue to drop. The California Emerging Technology Fund, a non-profit foundation focused on digital equity in the state, and the University of Southern