New approaches must leapfrog the slow pace of extending fiber to the home and high costs of 5G and satellite.
CBRS presents an alternative where fiber installation is difficult.
Organizations applaud infrastructure bill, Airbnb gives renters view into internet speeds, op-ed to support education during Delta wave.
Libraries can do for telehealth what they did for broadband: Provide low-income folks with access to digital and healthcare literacy.
April 7, 2021 – The German Marshall Fund is calling for broadband to be considered part of the civic infrastructure […]
Over the past year, COVID-19 has upended lives and livelihoods and revealed the troubling breadth and scope of the digital […]
March 18, 2021 – The Federal Communications Commission is working hard to implement new broadband mapping tools as quickly as […]
March 2, 2021 – Lit Communities on Monday announced the finalization of an investment with Stephens Capital Partners LLC and […]
February 17, 2021 – FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on Wednesday announced the creation of a task force focused on […]
January 29, 2021—The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to completely reimagine day-to-day processes and employee management. The shift to […]
The Federal Trade Commission’s two Democrats laid out a plan to increase the institution’s data security and privacy enforcement in […]
In a blog post, the Federal Communications Commission General Counsel Thomas Johnson on Wednesday outlined why he felt that agency […]
July 8, 2020 – The United States is leading in the deployment of 5G, claimed Verizon Communications CEO Hans Vestberg […]
July 1, 2020 — The time is right for smaller companies to seize market share amid the coronavirus, said New […]
June 18, 2020 — The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting shift to primarily-online learning have placed students’ privacy in jeopardy, […]
Downloads of police scanner apps and secure messaging apps have increased in response to concerns about a lack of privacy […]
June 4, 2020 — Victor M. Rios, associate dean at the University of California Santa Barbara, has filed a class […]
June 2, 2020 — Internet access in the United States is sorely lacking, and the solution lies in local broadband, […]
During this pandemic, broadband networks across the world have been put to the ultimate stress test, expected to support an […]
May 29, 2020 — Believe it or not, even the midst of a pandemic, the sports industry is still producing […]
While millions are working from home and attending several online meetings every week on platforms like Zoom, many have reported […]
May 27, 2020 — What’s the role of a library in a time of crisis? Truthfully, I had no idea. […]
May 22, 2020 — Experts on the issue of data portability are unsure where to draw the line regarding the […]
A report from BroadbandNow finds that people from states with municipal broadband restrictions pay more for their internet than those […]
May 13, 2020 — “Among the 10 largest countries in world, the U.S. is the only nation that reported no […]
Ookla Speedtest, a broadband data aggregator, released a dashboard showing the changes in broadband speeds in every country across the […]
May 8, 2020 – Eric Yuan came up with the idea for Zoom as a student while taking 10-hour train […]
April 23, 2020— Congress is “unwilling and unable, but mostly unwilling” to attempt remote voting, said Daniel Schuman, the policy […]
April 20, 2020— When a Zoom user had his question read out during the “Ask Eric Anything” webinar on Wednesday, […]
April 19, 2020 – With many Americans working from home and struggling to stay motivated and focused, lawyers from the […]
April 19, 2020— The Federal Trade Commission will take into account “good faith” when exercising prosecutorial discretion for investigating Zoom, […]
April 10, 2020 – Participants in a Brookings Institution meeting on Zoom expressed interest in an off-hand comment FCC Commissioner […]
April 9, 2020 – Local broadband speeds may be impaired by upload speed, says analyst at a webinar hosted by […]
Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass., Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, on Thursday joined 31 of […]
March 26, 2020 – Broadband access is both an affordability and availability issue, and it is one that undeniably affects […]
March 26, 2020 – Washington groups focusing on broadband and technology policy are beginning to adapt to the all-livestream format […]
The Senate on Wednesday night officially passed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act—including funding for telehealth. […]
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2020 – In term of impact on broadband connectivity, “Covid-19 doesn’t even compare to the Superbowl or […]
March 24, 2020 – In another “Social Distance Social” held over Zoom on Tuesday, Future Tense Editor Torie Bosch interviewed Arizona State […]
March 23, 2020 – Speaking in an online forum on Monday, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, expressed frustration with what he […]
