First hearing is scheduled for April 30.

Free State Foundation’s Seth Cooper says California and Massachusetts bills could violate the Fifth Amendment

BEAD bids are rolling in across Utah, Rhode Island, New York, Nebraska, and Alabama.

Agricultural connectivity requirements differ fundamentally from residential broadband needs

Officials say the first phase of the city’s network will install over 100,000 feet of new fiber optic cable.

Canada’s westernmost territory halts use of Elon Musk’s satellite service, ends presence on X, and pulls Tesla rebates in protest.

New Mexico, Hawaii report strong provider interest as more states move to prepare final proposals.

New report finds affordability mandate would cut less than 1% from top ISPs’ revenues.

New text lays out speed, eligibility, and reporting rules under the proposed California Affordable Home Internet Act.

‘With the N.Y. bill litigated, we just need to craft a bill more suited to Vermont,' Morrow said.

After Supreme Court upholds New York’s $15 Internet law, Tasha Boerner said she ‘looks forward to sharing her legislation soon.'

State set to receive nearly $2 billion from NTIA.

A group of 22 states – including Massachusetts and California – supported New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office.

States are exploring new approaches to maintain broadband affordability for low-income households.

Met with local officials to discuss relief efforts

The Institute for Local Self Reliance is hosting a forum – 'Consider Affordable Broadband State-By-State' – on Monday at 3:30 p.m. ET.

Massachusetts is advancing legislation to provide $15 monthly broadband service to low-income residents.

Broader GOP signals suggest major changes ahead for Biden-era connectivity programs.

N.Y. to enforce law mandating $15 and $20 Internet plans for low-income residents.

What if the FAA lost oversight of Delta and American Airlines? she asks.

States, cities, and private providers led the charge as federal broadband affordability efforts falter.

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to rescind President Joe Biden’s sweeping AI executive order.

Webinars will begin on Dec. 3, 2024.

Surge in network vandalism and theft prompt industry push for tougher laws protecting communications infrastructure.

Included is $25 million to help the City Of Huntington Park provide free Wi-Fi for all city residents.

Nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Placerville 'strikes gold' with $20 million broadband project.

Twenty-three states choose to regulate their own pole attachment processes.

Funds will come from the NTIA's State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program

CPUC also awarded $172 million to get fiber to 56,000 locations.

'I do not believe this is the best approach to protecting the public from real threats posed by the technology.'

The investment in the cooperative could be a game-changer for rural connectivity in the Golden State.

What was once largely a public-sector initiative is now attracting billions in private investment capital.

More than a third of the 700 communities served by municipal broadband do so with an open access network.

More than 17,000 additional CWA workers are stiking against AT&T Southeast.

Two federal efforts aimed at protecting children online have stalled as Congress went on a six-week recess without a vote.

On August 30, CPUC officials formally approved both a third and fourth round of FFA broadband funding.

The proposed law demands rigorous safeguards for AI systems that pose the highest risks.

California approved $237 million in grants; Ohio greenlit $94 million.

Pending approval, the money will go to 10 projects connecting 32,000 residents.

The partnership will expand fiber networks across five cities in four states.

California urges submissions for challenges.

The program's fourth round of funding will connect 170,000 locations.

It included recommendations to federal agencies, online platforms and parents.

The challenge phase will begin on July 16.

The state's challenge phase will last 30 days.

Nevada is the first state to receive Digital Equity State Capacity Grant funds.

The state had the highest average number of complaints to the FCC about internet per 100,000 broadband serviceable locations.

The bill requires social media platforms to cease using algorithms for children's online accounts.

CPUC received over 5,000 public comments in opposition to AT&T's plan to replace landlines with cellular service.

The city has an average download speed of 6.5 Gbps, claims the report.

Neglecting to map regions where both affordability and accessibility limit high-speed internet subscriptions could impair effectiveness.

State-by-state broadband pages for every U.S. state and territory.

Videos from all five panel discussions now available!

Examples of harms from AI already exist, such as Californians being wrongfully denied unemployment insurance during the pandemic.

Disinformation is a threat to democracy, especially in local elections, she said: 'True patriotism is a commitment to truth.'

Applicants for California's Last Mile Federal Funding Account can expect to receive feedback soon.

Broadband industry groups challenged the rules in court last week.

The state is 'poised to begin' awarding stalled grants.

'The challenges are not new… We haven't really progressed to the point where we have solutions,' infrastructure provider says

The $3.8-billion program's director said 107 grant applicants intend to connect to its infrastructure.

“You can’t sugar coat it… Its absence will be felt here,” state official says

A proposed budget from the governor's office steps back from guaranteeing more money amid rising costs.

Broadband is a utility that's a little bit like plumbing – just sexier.

The team at California Department of Technology leads strategic planning and coordination of broadband deployments in the state.

Osborn is responsible for implementation of California broadband funding programs.

The proposal would represent a setback to the state's broadband ambitions.

More that needs to be done for rural Americans, the California-based providers argued.

California remains the nation's largest state by far. Yet Texas is mounting a very strong second, and with a growth rate is more than two-and-a-half times that of the Golden State.

Participants consider broadband internet an integral part of expanding telehealth accessibility.

At issue now is whether the FCC has left the door open for states to require them to contribute to state USF programs.

Idaho awarded $500,000 in grants to bolster community involvement in the state's BEAD implementation.

The bill to codify in state law the federal definition of digital discrimination advanced along partisan lines.

The event will feature key officials from industry, government and civil society.

AT&T issued statement on data breach which affected 73 million current and former customers.

CTC Technology and Energy's Joanne Hovis also said broadband truly is a non-partisan issue.

The application window for the Loan Loss Reserve Program will be open from Tuesday, March 12, through Tuesday, April 9.

Nearly 4,000 California residents have expressed that their landline connection frequently acts as their sole means of communication.

Department of Commerce continues to combat the export of U.S. semiconductors to adversarial nations

The lawmaker’s Silicon Valley seat will be open for the first time in decades.

33 State attorneys general sue Meta for allegedly capitalizing off of young users.

Palo Alto officials have been talking about building such a network since 1998.

Eligible Americans are not getting through the entire ACP application process, event hears.

Cartesian predictions follow closely with BEAD allocation announcements on Monday.

Texas is the highest awarded state, as 19 states set to receive more than $1 billion from BEAD.

State broadband officers are prepared to leverage BEAD money to connect all Americans to the internet.

Experts are concerned a patchwork of state laws would fail to address the problem of kids online safety.

Mississippi will receive $151 million from Treasury’s Capital Projects Fund.

We know little about how California and other states plan to distribute the money under the opaque arrangement.

Treasury announced funding awards through the Capital Projects Fund for broadband and community development projects.

County governments can coordinate with ISPs to connect their communities, panel hears.

Efforts in multiple states aim to address connectivity challenges for low-income residents.

States are considering measures ranging from age verification to a “duty of care.”

The FCC said that MV Realty used the PhoneBurner dialing platform, and ordered Twilio to disconnect the companies.

“The privacy landscape in the U.S. is likely to become more complicated before it gets any easier.”

New planning grants were awarded to twelve states and two tribal entities.

The combination of federal benefits is currently prohibited in the state of California.

Alabama, Colorado, New Mexico, New York, Kansas and Pennsylvania had broadband-related measures on the ballot.

Study says California and Texas will be the biggest BEAD winners, with grants of more than $3 billion each.

‘Consumers deserve to trust that public airwaves aren’t being leased without their knowledge to foreign governments.’

The Democratic legislator called on NTIA end the automatic disclosure of .US web domain users’ personal information.

The White House released a “comprehensive framework” for the regulation of digital assets.

The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom will limit the online collection of children’s data.

Participants voiced concerns over alleged abuses by big tech companies.

The FCC will test the location accuracy of wireless tests over two days in September.

‘These letters show that…carrier geolocation data practices are all over the map.’

What should state leaders be doing to procure a safer, healthier information environment?

National Telecommunications and Information Administration announces news on its ‘Internet for All’ web portal for three IIJA programs.

The NTIA awarded four grants worth $1.2 million.

Emerging state-level privacy bills have common threads with existing ones in California, Colorado and Virginia.

Kremlin-backed media network RT has been blocked by broadcasters and big technology companies.

Klobuchar was able to rally Democrats and Republicans to support her bill, but its future depends upon a shaky alliance.

The FCC chairwoman responded to a letter by members of Congress resisting calls to back down on net neutrality.

NY’s Brad Hoylman introduced legislation that would attempt to control how social media handles users’ speech.

The Federal Communication said the awards will help connect patients to critical health services during a new wave of Covid-19.

Both states join California as the only ones with comprehensive privacy laws, but experts say a federal bill should fill the regulatory void.

The Chinese telecom manufacturer is looking at licensing its designs to another company amid cratering profits.

Over 400,000 locations across the U.S. will get broadband in this funding wave.

We cannot ignore broadband as a key factor in maintaining environmental, social and economic progress.

To work toward equal access, more affordable options must be created, including community-based solutions.

Facebook pauses photo-sharing app for kids, FCC announces $1.2B in first wave of ECF, ransomware attacks on the rise.

Broadband Breakfast revisits what some state legislatures did to narrow broadband gaps.

Leaked infra proposal has base 100 Mbps speeds, Apple’s phones getting 5G, Newsom signs broadband bill, FTC money recovery bill.

Huawei scoffs at FCC rip and replace, rural broadband bill moves in committee, franchise fees appeal, Calif. broadband bill integral.

Governments and health providers have an opportunity to carry the momentum of 2020 for telehealth’s future.

Amazon is entangled in local legal cases that could set off lawsuits for third-party products sold on its platform.

Ernesto Falcon of the EFF says expansion of fiber is the only way California keeps up with demand for broadband.

AT&T spins out WarnerMedia, California putting $7B in broadband, tribal lands get licences, and TPRC events virtual for now.

Vermont looks to expand broadband, California looks at passive infrastructure, AT&T gets DoT contract, and Cisco to buy Sedona.

A survey released earlier this month illustrates opportunities for remote work and care.

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

April 1, 2021 — A Congresswoman from Washington State, who introduced federal legislation that would be the first national consumer privacy law if adopted, says the federal government is being outpaced by some states that are implementing their own consumer privacy legislation. “There is a significa

March 24, 2021 – The University of Southern California and the California Emerging Technology Fund announced a partnership on Monday to determine internet access in California based on demographics and location. The two organizations hope to identify the impact a lack of broadband causes for those w

March 13, 2021 – Regulatory policies to accommodate 5G and other network infrastructure must be equitable to accommodate different service levels and providers, Donna Bethea Murphy, senior vice president of Inmarsat, said in February at the TPRC. When trying to set goals on building and deploying br

February 24, 2021 – A California judge has rejected an attempt by internet service providers to prevent the state from enforcing its net neutrality rules, paving the way for its enforcement. Judge John Mendez, in the Eastern District of California, issued the ruling Tuesday. The law provides Califor

February 9, 2021 – The Justice Department on Monday withdrew its lawsuit against California for proposing net neutrality laws in the wake of a 2017 vote by the Federal Communications Commission that repealed those rules. The move signals a shift in how the White House and the new FCC could approach

January 22, 2021—President Joe Biden designated Rebecca Slaughter as acting chair of the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday. Slaughter has served as an FTC Commissioner since May 2018. As a commissioner, Slaughter championed aggressive use of the FTC’s authorities to combat the abuse of consumers’

The new rules are aimed at finalizing broadband mapping rules for the agency.

January 4, 2021 – Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected Sunday as House speaker. Her victory means that after two years acting as President Donald Trump’s most outspoken antagonist, Pelosi will now be responsible for trying to shepherd through Congress as much of President-elect Joe Biden’s policy age

January 2, 2021 — When the Senate reconvenes on Sunday at 11:45 a.m., the body will gavel in for the first session of the 117th Congress. All bills not passed as of Friday, January 1, 2021 – the last day Congress was in session – will die. One of those bills is the Eliminating Abusive […]

January 2, 2021 – Expect issues of broadband and multifamily housing to gain renewed attention in 2021. Watch for some strange alliances and interesting policy turnarounds. The subject matter is complicated because of both policy challenges and infrastructure issues associated with the inside wiring

Apple agreed to pay $113 million to settle an investigation by 34 states and the District of Columbia over the company’s practice of slowing down the performance of older iPhones when their batteries degrade. The settlement may be a step towards more transparency in the company’s operations. Million

Voters in Chicago and Denver have shown overwhelming support for local broadband projects. Roughly 90 percent of voters in Chicago approved a referendum question that asked: “Should the city of Chicago act to ensure that all the city’s community areas have access to broadband Internet?” This could a

One question looming over the final vote-count is the 2020 Election: How will big tech fare during the next presidential administration?

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, when asked if he had changed his position on the issue of Chevron deference said he had never, to his knowledge, taken a position on the Supreme Court decision. Pai was speaking at a Technology Policy Institute event on Thursday, the day after Tho

A recent AT&T statement announced that the company will be phasing out DSL services, which provide internet access over cable technology from the 1990s to over 653,000 AT&T customers. The statement released by the company read, “We’re beginning to phase out outdated services like DSL and new orders

October 16, 2020 — With or without federal action on broadband, California politicians have been active in taking steps to use broadband to drive distance learning and telehealth, and seeking to do more to close the state’s digital divide. For example, a mid-August order by California Governor Gavin

October 15, 2020 — Millions of Americans remain unconnected today, even as broadband connectivity remains vital to countless aspects of our daily lives, including health, work, and education. At a “fireside chat” hosted by ALLvanza, a Latino advancement group, panelists asserted that tackling the di

Starry Home Internet announced a partnership with Microsoft on Tuesday aimed at accelerating the availability of its low-cost program Starry Connect in public housing communities across the country. The program will kick off this month in Los Angeles, California, and it promises to bring Starry Conn

The top official of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday provided an update on the agency’s approach to 5G deployment at the America’s Spectrum Management conference. Since 2018, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said, the agency has worked to free up spectrum in all bands. Three recent auctions free

September 24, 2020 — Many states have taken action to speed the deployment of broadband to unserved and underserved regions by developing statewide broadband programs that typically include funding commitments, legislative initiatives, and provide access to other inventive resources. “States play a

President Donald Trump on Saturday approved a deal between TikTok and ByteDance, its software developer, and Oracle on Saturday. As a result, the administration pushed off the ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores that it had announced on Friday. As a result, the effective date of the ban was

September 16, 2020—President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Nathan A. Simington to replace Federal Communications Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, whose confirmation appeared certain until Trump unexpectedly pulled his re-nomination. Simington is the representative to the government advisory commit

August 30, 2020 — In a neighborhood outside of Silicon Valley, amongst what native Scott Vanderlip described as “a community full of tech geeks,” residents struggled to access reliable, affordable internet, despite being able to see the headquarter buildings of some of the largest tech companies fro

Americans are skeptical that technological growth is an issue that will positively impact national policy, James Pethokoukis wrote in an American Enterprise Institute blog post on Tuesday. He argued that neither right-leaning nor left-leaning politicians and constituents are willing to embrace the r

August 11, 2020 — Telemedicine is crucial for treating patients during the coronavirus pandemics, but carries limitations, agreed participants in two Route Fifty webinars on Tuesday. Dr. Judd Hollander, associate dean of strategic health initiatives at Thomas Jefferson University, said that there ar

August 11, 2020 — As America prioritizes closing the digital divide, critical last-mile digital infrastructure ownership models are expanding and differentiating to serve the unserved. Different towns across America are in different situations in terms of the availability of existing digital infrast

The White House announced Monday, in a notice sent to the Senate, that it was withdrawing the nomination of Mike O’Rielly to Federal Communications Commission for a third term. The notice did not provide reasoning for the action, WKZO reported. The incidence was widely unexpected, coming after O’Rie

The Transatlantic High Level Working Group on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, published a report on Monday urging democracies to adopt a flexible regulatory framework to curb online hate speech and manipulated disinformation. The group c

June 12, 2020 — Left unchecked, a recent court decision on Section 230 might lead to the internet suffering what a 2008 ruling called “death by ten thousand duck-bites,” according to TechFreedom Senior Fellow Berin Szóka. “Unless the Supreme Court reverses this decision, schools, libraries, and the

June 11, 2020 — Interoperability is a practical safeguard against big tech oligopolies, said participants in a Lincoln Network forum Wednesday.      Participants argued that besides sweeping government intervention, the best way to break up large, too-powerful social media companies like Facebook is

Investments of up to $450 million will help to bring high-speed fiber connectivity to millions across the country, said fiber company SiFi Networks. The company announced Tuesday that it had recently secured the funding and will use it to expand infrastructure and hire specialists in several new cit

May 8, 2020 – Eric Yuan came up with the idea for Zoom as a student while taking 10-hour train rides to visit his girlfriend in China. In 2011 he left Cisco Webex to found Zoom in San Jose, California, with the mission “to make video communications frictionless.” Zoom earned a billion-dollar valuati

May 1, 2020— A spokesman for Federal Communication Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Thursday highlighting the agency’s grant of hundreds of million of dollars for telemedicine projects on a Thursday webinar hosted by Next Century Cities. “The commission has been insanely busy,” said the spokesman, Ev

The BroadbandNow database company released its fifth report tracking home internet speeds. The data comes from the 200 most populous cities in the country, as well as hundreds of rural communities. The key findings indicate that rural areas are being hit the hardest by the impact of the coronavirus

In an online speech Friday by Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai before the Interamerican Development Bank and The International Institute Of Communications Online Workshop, Pai encapsulated his thoughts on ”Regulation in Times of Pandemics: Lessons for the Future.” Below is an edited version

April 10, 2020 – Participants in a Brookings Institution meeting on Zoom expressed interest in an off-hand comment FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel made about deploying Wi-Fi-enabled buses to provide hot-spots for rural students. Nicol Turner Lee, a fellow at Brookings’ Center for Technology Inn

April 1, 2020 –States have put privacy legislation on a back burner during the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, even the well-known California Consumer Privacy Act may be superseded by a new referendum, the California Privacy Rights Act, to be placed on the state’s ballot in November. Passed

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2020—The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunication and Information Administration is moving forward with various forms of broadband mapping, agency officials said on a Wednesday webinar. Even without having federal funding to do a comprehensive national broadband map, as

The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau on Tuesday granted U.S. Cellular, a wireless telecommunications network, to use additional spectrum to help meet increased customer demand for mobile broadband during the coronavirus pandemic. The order will allow the company

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 telecom for first responders through measures like the RESILIENT Networks Act and the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act. Santa Ro

The House of Representatives passed a revised version of the Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability (DATA) act on Tuesday to the applause of many broadband advocacy groups. If signed into law, the DATA act would establish more rigorous rules for the Federal Communication Commis

According to a Forbes article by Alan Ohnsman, U.S. safety investigators are calling for greater regulation of Teslas following the release of several investigative reports detailing several Tesla crashes due to the cars faulty autopilot mode. In March 2018 in Mountain View, California, Walter Huang

WASHINGTON, January 29, 2020 – Federal privacy legislation is necessary to ensure standardization of legal treatment, technology experts said Tuesday at the 2020 State of the Net conference. On a panel on “Privacy and Preemption” at the annual tech policy gathering, speakers acknowledged the role of

WASHINGTON, December 13, 2019 – The industry group that is hammering out technical standards governing an anti-robocall framework announced Thursday that that the STIR/SHAKEN framework will launch on Monday, December 16, 2019. The launch of STIR/SHAKEN calling verification service won’t be final wor

WASHINGTON, September 17, 2019 – Congress on Tuesday put a spotlight on federal antitrust investigators scrutinizing Google and Facebook, as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee honed in on whether the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission were wasting efforts by investigating the

The CBRS Alliance announced on Monday that the Federal Communications Commission has approved commercial deployment in the 3.5 GHz CBRS Band. Known as the “Innovation Band,” it is valued at $15.6 billion and opens the door to a huge market opportunity for operators, enterprises, industrial players,

Nearly 100 percent of internet modems, routers, and other equipment sold to residential broadband subscribers in 2018 met the energy-efficiency standards of the Voluntary Agreement for Ongoing Improvement to the Energy Efficiency of Small Network Equipment, according to a new report from auditor D+R

WASHINGTON, August 5, 2019 — President Donald Trump on Monday morning attempted to strike a tone of unity by denouncing the white, anti-Hispanic man who “shot and murdered 20 people, and injured 26 others, including precious little children.” In speaking about the two significant mass shootings over

The Founder of Broadband Census and Breakfast Breakfast, and the former executive director of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois – one of the State Broadband Initiatives that actually created the National Broadband Map – comments on a growing controversy.

California businesses and legislators are pushing to change the California Consumer Privacy Act, San Francisco Chronicle reports. Dirk Lorenz, owner of Fremont Flowers, said that the law will affect not only big tech firms, but small businesses as well. “It’s going to cost a good deal of money,” he

WASHINGTON, July 15, 2019 – An industry-focused panel of observers of privacy issues argued that a federal approach the topic needs to preempt state-based data protection. At the Monday event hosted by CompTia, these officials went so far as to suggest that federal privacy rules would be more protec

At Wednesday’s Federal Communications Commission meeting, the agency voted to preempt part of a San Francisco ordinance that promotes broadband competition in apartment buildings and other multi-tenant structures. Ars Technica summarized how FCC Chairman Ajit Pai‘s plan partially overturns San Franc

Following a string of data breaches that touched tens of millions of consumers, and revelations of user data exploitation by popular social media platforms, there’s a broad national consensus: It’s time for internet users to have guarantees about privacy and data protection. Legislation is long over

Income is the most significant factor contributing to low broadband adoption rates, according to an analysis (PDF) released this month by the California Public Utilities Commission. Only about half of households in census tracts with a median annual income level of less than $20,000 have in-home bro

BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: California, and many other states, have muscled their way onto the national broadband stage. They’ve done this through legislation that would either require net neutrality protections that the Federal Communications Commission removed in December 2017, or use state purch

WASHINGTON, December 11, 2018 – This is how bad it’s gotten for Google in Washington: The company is taking out ads on the back of the conservative National Review while, and the same time, the story suggests gaslighting the company. The ad picks a conservative-friendly theme: “Now you can search ‘j

BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: There’s no question that California courts controversy, in technology and telecommunications as well as many other spaces. However, putting aside the drama over net neutrality, this bill removing restrictions on the public option will aid rural broadband. In particular,

BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: California is merely the largest of the large number of states that have attempted to take a “federalist” approach to the “interstate commerce” of network neutrality. This sets up the first of many political flashpoints over the issue. Feds launch lawyers at California n

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2018 – The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is raising the danger of the “splinternet” syndrome, as top tech companies prioritize international standards over American ones, warned experts at a June 28 event of the Federalist Society. Officials from Google, Mic

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2017 — Despite myriad public events and a soundbyte-friendly title of “Infrastructure Week,” last week the White House was light on infrastructure and nearly empty of plans to build out 21st century digital infrastructure of fiber or wireless broadband. “There’s not going to be

BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: A new report from the Haas Institute raises the question that’s been lurking behind the important-to-significant fiber rollouts over the past decade by Verizon, Google and AT&T: Are these providers cherry-picking their neighborhoods? This report drills deeply into AT&T’s

BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: By taking this action, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has likely avoided the fate of a bill that would require the agency to add conduit to infrastructure projects. See Steve Blum’s perspective below, and on the link. || Caltrans buries dig once c

LEXINGTON, Kentucky, September 21, 2015 – The lieutenant governor of Kentucky, a bevy of state officials and their private sector counterparts here celebrated the finalization of the deal to build a $324 million broadband infrastructure project. The project, KentuckyWired, is a public-private partn

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March 17, 2013 – How a music festival connects to their audience is paramount to having a successful event. In recent years, several festivals – including the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival – have turned to aggressive viral campaigns to keep people talking about a festival before and after the mus

WASHINGTON, January 24, 2013 – Broadband is about more than internet connection speeds, but now is everywhere, and affecting the way that consumers interacting with constantly-connected devices, according to a guide released by the Internet Innovation Alliance. The IIA guide highlights the usage of

WASHINGTON, August 23, 2010 – The state of California last week officially launched its Telehealth Network [http://www.caltelehealth.org], which is funded by $30 million in federal, state and private money.

WASHINGTON August 9, 2010 – T-Mobile is being sued in California for putting limits on their unlimited data plan. The firm advertises the plan as having an unlimited amount of web and email but in actuality puts limits on its users. The main plaintiff states that T-Mobile sent him the following

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2010 – Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties want $43 million from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration fund for high-speed internet.

STANFORD, Calif., May 25, 2010 — The digital television transition and the emergence of broadband networks have opened up intriguing new kinds of distribution channels for programming, but at a media ownership workshop held in Stanford late last week it was unclear how any of this affects the qualit

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2010 – The Commerce Department has announced nine broadband investments totaling more than $114 million in grants, in more than a dozen states. The announcement marks the final grant awards from the first round of BTOP applications.

The Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan seeks to promote telemedicine, but the national health care bill recently-passed by Congress fails to include support for it. However, last week Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) signed SB 675, a health insurance bill that mandates covera

WASHINGTON, March 1, 2010 – The Commerce Department last week announced a $7.25 million investment to boost economic opportunities in some low-income communities in California.

PHILADELPHIA, Penn., February 3, 2010 – Investment in broadband infrastructure, most believe, is essential to our nation’s future economic health. In an information economy, the race is to the swift: those who can quickly access more, better information will innovate, communicate, and transact at a

WASHINGTON, January 26, 2010 – The Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service is doling out $310 million in broadband stimulus funds, department Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Monday. The monies will be spread throughout 14 projects seeking to bring speedy Internet connections to rural commu

WASHINGTON, January 15, 2010 – Researchers looking at California to determine whether broadband boosts local economic development found it’s tough to determine since broadband providers tend to target areas of expected high economic growth.

January 13, 2010 – Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, speaking Wednesday at the South Los Angeles WorkSource Center, announced the funding of a number of recovery projects, including $7.5 million to the city of Los Angeles for broadband. The grant will be used to expand Los Angeles’ computer access netw

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WASHINGTON, November 19, 2009 – The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates announced new leadership, which was elected at the group’s annual meeting from November 15 to 18 in Chicago. Mary Healey of Connecticut was elected president of the organization

WASHINGTON, November 13, 2009 – Access charges are well above the actual costs to connect telephone calls, despite the efforts made by the Federal Communications Commission, said Andy Regitsky of Regitsky and Associates, in a webinar presentation on “Access Charges and Network costs – A Guide to FCC

WASHINGTON, October 12, 2009 – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration last week awarded the first four broadband data and mapping grants to organizations that are not Connected Nation.

WASHINGTON, August 12, 2009 – With just two days away from the deadline to apply for federal funds to cultivate broadband projects across the nation, telecommunications experts offered their advice on the future of the grants process.

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2009 – ZeroDivide, an investor in community enterprises leveraging technology to help underserved communities, is looking for non-profit partners to apply for broadband monies that are part of the national economic stimulus plan.

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 11, 2009 – States looking for answers to many questions on how to implement the broadband stimulus program should look to California, said a group of experts Monday during a panel at the Tech Policy Summit on the “state of the state.”

WASHINGTON, April 5, 2009 – Proper oversight of the $7.2 billion Broadband Technology Opportunities Program can only take place if key terms are defined properly, a panel of agency officials and policy experts told a congressional committee on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2009 – Making broadband applications more relevant in underserved and unserved communities could be a better use of stimulus funds than building infrastructure, a group of state and local regulatory officials Friday at a cable industry show here.

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2009 – The role of states in the communications landscape were discussed in a Wednesday panel of state public utility commissioners at the Cable Show here.

WASHINGTON, March 24, 2009 – At the final day of a six-day public forum about the federal government’s $7.2 billion broadband stimulus funding on Tuesday morning, the discussion made a sharp turn toward a focus on oversight and post-award compliance.

WASHINGTON, March 16, 2009 – As the Obama administration on Monday begins poring over the nitty-gritty details about how they will be spending $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funds, individual states are grappling to find their own best strategies to tap the funds.

WASHINGTON, February 15, 2009 – State regulatory commissioners are split on how strongly to express longstanding grievances with Federal Communications Commission processes. A resolution on reform of FCC management and practices dominated the agenda as the National Association of Regulatory Utility

WASHINGTON, January 2, 2009 – Congress and the incoming administration of President Obama should include broadband-related investment in the pending legislation designed to promote economic stimulus, and the federal government needs to begin with better data about broadband availability, said Massac

November 11 – State telecommunications officials concerned about the universal deployment and use of high-speed internet services joined together at a San Jose conference on Thursday to compare notes, plot strategy and encourage programs and activities that will lead to better broadband.

SAN JOSE, November 6 – It was Kevin Martin’s day to suck up praise from Silicon Valley. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission – for about two more months – came to the Wireless Communications Association’s annual conference here on Thursday to be feted by many Googlers, including company co-founder

WASHINGTON, November 3 – Drew Clark, Editor and Executive Director of BroadbandCensus.com, will speak in Silicon Valley on Thursday, November 6, at the summit on broadband data sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

WASHINGTON, September 26 – A national broadband infrastructure fund should include the involvement of state regulators and focus not only on the extension of broadband service into unserved areas, but also on the adoption rate of broadband service by consumers, according to California Public Utiliti

WASHINGTON, September 8, 2008 – Many of the nation’s foremost broadband policy-makers and experts will analyze and discuss best practices for improving the collection and sharing of public data about high-speed internet access at the Broadband Census for America Conference in Washington, D.C., on Fr

August 15 – The Communications Workers of America’s Speed Matters blog this week published its state-by-state report on download speeds in the United States. According to the report, the median download speed for the nation was 2.3 Megabits per second, and the report provides state-by-state totals.

WASHINGTON, July 10 – The lack of a cohesive national broadband policy in the United States is hampering the nation’s ability to deploy high-speed broadband, attorney James Baller said Thursday at the Alliance for Community Media conference here.