Fiber
Barriers to Last-Mile Fiber Include Affordability: Connected America Conference
Industry experts agreed that reaching each individual consumer is the key to a full-fiber future.
Fiber
Industry experts agreed that reaching each individual consumer is the key to a full-fiber future.
Commerce
The NTIA claims that Apple and Google take advantage of their app stores to put unfair limitations on their competitors.
Antitrust
Summit moderators will set the stage for timely discussions on content moderation, privacy and competition.
china
The new chair renamed three subcommittees, hinting at the GOP’s goals for the coming term.
CTA
While generally supportive of a federal privacy law, some experts warned it could harm competition.
china
Panelists argued that ethical concerns about digital privacy and AI are not unfounded, but rather unfairly targeted at certain countries.
Big Tech
The summit, live in Washington, will address Biden’s recent challenges to Big Tech: Section 230, privacy and competition.
Chips
Bill aims to strengthen American self-reliance in semiconductor chip production and international competition.
Big Tech
The bill is intended to prohibit product preferences on tech platforms, with some saying it could harm small companies dependent on those platforms.
china
The American Technology Leadership Act would establish a federal office to monitor U.S. tech competitiveness versus global players.
china
Blinken was touring the University of Maryland laboratories last week.
FTC
January 28, 2021—Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, said the administration of President Joe Biden needed to address competition and privacy in a speech concluding the State of the Net Conference on Wednesday. In the middle of stating that large U.S. corporations are growing at an unprecedented rat
Lifeline
While the bulk of the Accessible, Affordable Internet for All (AAIA) Act proposes to invest $100 billion to expand broadband access in unserved and underserved parts of the country, the legislation also looks to build an essential bridge across the digital divide that goes beyond new infrastructure.
Antitrust
December 9, 2020 — Facebook has used illegal monopoly power and an “unlawful scheme” to stifle competition, degrade personal privacy, and crush rivals, according to two separate antitrust lawsuits filed Wednesday by 46 state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission. In particular, the FTC
Antitrust
October 6, 2020 — As technological advances allow for more data to be generated on consumers, the public has become more attuned to the need for national data privacy legislation. Yet there is a countervailing trend: Data portability as possible antitrust remedy against dominant tech platforms. On M
COVID
Vint Cerf, who co-founded the TCP/IP protocols that underpin the internet, criticized the design of upcoming fifth generation networks in a recent op-ed. Cerf, widely known as a “father of the internet”, said that he feared 5G networks will erode consumer privacy because they are designed to give te