NTIA Offers No Extension on Broadband Map Challenges, TikTok’s Transparency, FCC Workforce Report
Friday’s cutoff applied to availability challenges, but it was already too late for location challenges.
Former Reporter Em McPhie studied communication design and writing at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a managing editor for the student newspaper.
Friday’s cutoff applied to availability challenges, but it was already too late for location challenges.
Privacy
“The privacy landscape in the U.S. is likely to become more complicated before it gets any easier.”
Antitrust
Rep. Ken Buck said tech companies’ practices are anticompetitive and threaten innovation, free speech and national security.
broadband mapping
The challenge process is important because mapping is a “zero-sum game,” panelists said.
Biden’s call for federal privacy legislation aims to address an increasingly splintered state privacy landscape.
china
The CHIPS and Science Act, while a good step, should not preclude developing a secure supply chain with other countries.
The announcements closely echo tech platforms’ response to the U.S. Capitol riots.
Broadband Mapping & Data
Panelists compared the FCC’s process to flying a plane while it’s being built.
The Emergency Connectivity Fund has now committed $6.5 billion to help schools and libraries.
Legislators from both sides of the aisle are calling for increased regulation of Big Tech.
Fiber
The cost of remote fiber deployment can be a deterrent, necessitating creative community solutions.
AT&T’s new Gigapower joint venture will build fiber outside the company’s current footprint.
Digital Inclusion
Without efforts to drive adoption, federal investment in connectivity will fall short, agreed Brookings panelists.
Fiber
G.hn technology can utilize existing telephone wiring and coaxial cabling to deliver fiber-like speeds.
New planning grants were awarded to twelve states and two tribal entities.
12 Days of Broadband
The Supreme Court is preparing to hear two cases related to content moderation and platform liability.