'There are just an incredible amount of even management positions that would be well-suited to develop through an apprentice program.'
White House officials urged schools and other local institutions to engage in text-message and social media campaigns for the ACP.
Microsoft and CWA plan to host a traveling series of events promoting the ACP subsidy.
The number of states restricting municipal broadband networks has dropped during the pandemic.
January 4, 2021 – Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected Sunday as House speaker. Her victory means that after two years […]
October 6, 2020 — The National Digital Inclusion Alliance and the Communications Workers of America put AT&T under the microscope […]
The Justice Department will reportedly suggest rolling back protections on social media companies, CNET reported. The move follows President Donald Trump’s […]
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2019 — The Justice Department’s recently announced settlement on the T-Mobile/Sprint merger has drawn widespread criticism, even […]
The Federal Communications Commission’s recent auction of the 24 GigaHertz (GHz) spectrum has been criticized by both the National Oceanic […]
NEW YORK, October 13, 2015 - The battle between Verizon Communications and the Communications Workers of America escalated on Tuesday, as the union announced a new...
WASHINGTON June 29, 2011-The Economic Policy Institute gathered leading industry experts for a panel on Tuesday to debate the impending merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. At...
WASHINGTON May 18, 2011 - Broadband Breakfast gathered former Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice officials along with leading industry experts to explore how the...
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2011 - The bipartisan technology policy group TechNet gathered government officials and leading broadband scholars Tuesday to present the first set of academic...
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2010 - Groups advocating minority rights have sent a letter to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission expressing their dismay that Puerto...
WASHINGTON, November 18, 2009 - The opening speaker of a summit focused on improving broadband penetration to minority and low-income areas of the country, and criticized...
WASHINGTON – September 29, 2009 – From the beginning, BroadbandCensus.com has aimed at providing academics, consumers, government officials and industry with the high-quality data needed about...
WASHINGTON, August 26, 2009 – The Federal Communication Commission’s August 26 workshop on high-speed internet’s impact on job training extolled the virtues of broadband for the...
WASHINGTON, July 23, 2009 - Broadband investment, deployment and adoption in the United States will bring significant benefits to the economy, and facilitate business growth and...
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2009 – The final session of the NTIA/RUS public forums on implementing broadband stimulus legislation focused on the role that broadband deployment can...
WASHINGTON, February 9, 2009 - In a guest op-ed in Ars Technica, the founder and executive director of BroadbandCensus.com cautions that the broadband infrastructure investments planned...
WASHINGTON, January 9, 2009 - Communications Workers of America proposes government programs to stimulate broadband investment to create jobs and jumpstart the economy.
WASHINGTON, January 8, 2009 – President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday that “expanding broadband lines across America” was a key component of the economic plan that he...
WASHINGTON, December 5 - BroadbandCensus.com was founded January 2008 after the experience of trying to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain some very basic...
WASHINGTON, December 2 – A total of 55 companies and non-profit organizations, including major corporate entities such as AT&T, Cisco Systems, Google, Intel and Verizon Communications,...
WASHINGTON, October 24 - Broadband-enabled improvements to health care could save $197 billion over 25 years, but only if carriers had the incentives and freedom to...
WASHINGTON, September 26 - State and federal government programs to develop maps of broadband service availability at a granular level must overcome objections by carriers to...
WASHINGTON, September 16 - Senators on the Commerce Committee on Tuesday promoted the benefits of high-speed internet access and called for the passage of measures designed...
August 29 – As with other states seeking to promote the availability of high-speed internet access in a broadband-centered world, New Mexico is struggling just to...
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...
WASHINGTON, July 31 – Although broadband is largely available in low-income communities in the United States, many of the poor do not see a reason to...
July 22 – A senior AT&T lobbyist said that his company would alter the way that it advertises its high-speed internet tiers, and hinted that the...
WASHINGTON, July 17 - Communications Workers of America this past week teamed up with a group of telecommunications companies, cable operators and non-profit groups to push...
June 24 - Communications Workers of America has claimed credit for the Federal Communications Commission's recent order requiring broadband companies to provide the FCC with more...
June 20 – The community of persons with disabilities has been rallying behind a measure, introduced in Congress on Thursday, that would require companies that make...
