Rural
NCTA, an internet and television association, urged the Federal Communications Commission to choose census blocks as the smallest bidding unit for the upcoming $20 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund reverse auction that will provide broadband to most remote of locations, according to John Eggert
COVID
Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 12 Noon ET – “Infrastructure Investment in a Time of COVID-19: Turning to Governments, Angels or Capital Markets?” Follow upcoming Live Online events, see Broadband Breakfast Live Online Will Stream Every Wednesday at 12 Noon ET on ‘Broad
COVID
Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Tuesday asked Google for information about the company’s recently announced COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports. Google describes the project as an aggregated and anonymized form of providing insight into movement trends related to th
Wireless
April 8, 2020 – Syracuse, New York, has made significant strides in implementing small cells technology to poles, according to a webinar hosted by smart city-accelerator US Ignite on Monday. So-called “small cells” are the wireless transmitters and receivers that go on streetlights on poles in a cit
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April 7, 2020 – Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai identified telemedicine as the industry he is most excited about as a result of the upcoming availability of 1200 megahertz of unlicensed spectrum, according to a webinar with communications think tank New America on Monday. Pai referenced a T
COVID
President Trump established the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector on Saturday, according to the White House. The Executive Order is designed to assist the Federal Communications Commission address national security concerns
COVID
May 29, 2020 – Broadband Breakfast announced that its Broadband Breakfast Live Online webcast series will focus in June 2020 on “Digital Infrastructure Investment,” a Physical/Virtual Event taking place on August 10, 2020. Each of the four #BroadbandLive events in June — which will continue to take
COVID
BOCA RATON, Florida, April 6, 2020 – Walking along Massachusetts Ave in Washington, D.C. to an event in which I promised my editor I would sit far away from other attendees, I could not have foreseen how swiftly my life would change – along with the rest of the country. Within days I was ordered […]
COVID
School districts are scrambling to purchase as many Google Chromebooks and iPads, the tele-educational tools of choice, to deal with the sudden transition into remote schooling. However, larger, urban school districts are snatching up most of the supply, leaving rural districts even more shorthanded
COVID
BOCA RATON, Florida, April 6, 2020 – Remote learning for elementary-aged children is a tall order, and teachers are working harder than ever while parents essentially try to manage a one-roomed schoolhouse. While universities and colleges across the United States promptly responded to coronavirus co
COVID
Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday, April 8, 12 Noon ET – “Will the Coronavirus and COVID-19 Finally Bring Us Telehealth?” Follow upcoming Live Online events, see Broadband Breakfast Live Online Will Stream Every Wednesday at 12 Noon ET on ‘Broadband and the Coronavirus’ Our program now in
Big Tech
April 2, 2020 – Big technology companies have been closely scrutinized by legislators and the executive branch in Washington for at least two years now. But this “techlash” is largely forgotten in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Whether the future looks back on big tech as a savior or a vultur
FCC
April 2, 2020— A coalition of Democrats comprising House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., and key committee chairs Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., and Frank Pallone, D-N.J., on Wednesday announced plans to center a new stimulus package around infrastructure, and heav
FCC
April 2, 2020 – “It’s really unfortunate that it has taken a national emergency, a worldwide pandemic, for people to realize how many people don’t have access to broadband internet,” said Georgetown Law Distinguished Fellow Gigi Sohn on a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event Tuesday. When she testi
Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass., Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, on Thursday joined 31 of their colleagues in a letter to House and Senate leadership requesting funding for all K-12 students to have adequate home internet connectivity if their schools close
FCC
April 1, 2020 – Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced on Thursday an effort to open the 6 GigaHertz (GHz) band to unlicensed sharing of radiofrequency spectrum by Wi-Fi devices. The goal of the effort is to accommodate a dramatic increase in internet use. The proposed rules w
