Connect Humanity Announces New Impact Fund With Support From Microsoft To Tackle Appalachia’s Digital Divide

Landlords, broadband contractors, and housing sector groups may have their arguments considered in a supplement submitted Monday.

The Clayton Act says Malone’s serving simultaneously on the boards of Charter and Warner Bros. Discovery is a no-no

Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh is on record as saying net neutrality is unlawful.

The state awarded $204 million for expanding broadband infrastructure.

The company added 354,000 fixed wireless subscribers in the most recent quarter, leaving the company with 3.4 million such customers overall

What connects the sprawling metro area of Taiwan with its Atlanta counterpart is a shared commitment to Smart City initiatives.

A federal appellate court has sided with President Joe Biden and social media companies in a lawsuit brought by face-mask critic Justin Hart, who alleged his First Amendment rights were violated when
he was suspended from Facebook and X.

The Federal Communications Commission will vote on whether to restore net neutrality during its open meeting April 25, which it said would bring back a national standard for broadband reliability, security and consumer protection. The proposal, from chair Jessica Rosenworcel, would ensure that broadband services are treated as an essential resource deserving of FCC oversight under Title II authority. Three commissioners (a majority) have already indicated their support for the measure.

Company points out that proposed ban would run afoul of the First Amendment.

Cable One's Sparklight and Altice's Cebridge will default on RDOF commitments in Louisiana. Those locations are 'now eligible for other funding programs' and the 'carriers will be subject to penalties,' said the FCC.

Most Utahns probably agree that government should stick to essential government services and stay out of enterprises that are better performed by the private sector.

Yet, across the country and right here in Utah, more and more governments are building government-owned internet networks, despite numerous private-sector providers being available.

The number of government-owned networks is increasing by the day, and taxpayers, not users, are often footing the bill.

Government-owned broadband networks cost millions of dollars and divert essential funding away from services that really matter to the public — services such as police and fire, roads, water and sewer.

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2024 – The Federal Communications Commission fined AT&T and AMG Technology Investment Group on Monday for communicating about bidding strategies during the Connect America Fund Phase II auction.

The companies had appealed their penalties when the agency first signaled them in 2019, but the FCC was not convinced. AT&T will have to pay $75,000 while AMG is on the hook for $100,000.

The Senate is poised to pass the bill the House advanced over the weekend. President Biden is set to sign it. From there, TikTok says the battle will move to the courts.

Data centers are expected to grow to 6% of American energy consumption by 2026

AI has been surpassing human performance benchmarks for years. But its rapid rise has highlighted its areas of weakness: Trustworthiness, ethics, and producing unbiased and non-discriminatory content. As a result, the world has become more nervous.

The bill, now advancing to the Senate, represents the most serious threat yet to the video app used by half of Americans.

NTIA has now given 48 states the green light to start their required BEAD challenge process to refine the list of locations that will be eligible for BEAD funding. The starting point for the states is the FCC’s National Broadband Map, based on its Broadband Data Collection (BDC), with the state-run challenge process providing stakeholders the opportunity to make updates and corrections.

The FCC fleshed out the details of its broadband data collection in 2020-early 2021. When the FCC adopted its BDC rules, no one anticipated that so much money would ultimately be riding on what it means for broadband to be “available.” The landmark Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which decreed that the FCC’s National Broadband Map would be the basis for allocating $42.5 billion in BEAD funding among the states and territories, didn’t become law until late 2021.

As I’ve explained in FCC comments, the current system is stacked against parties seeking to challenge areas that are reported in the BDC as served. Even though NTIA is giving states more flexibility to develop their own ground-truth that varies from the FCC map, it still is hard to mount a successful challenge. The burden is on the challenger to present evidence that something doesn’t exist.

The federal Affordable Connectivity Program is winding down as its funding ends, and it may leave millions of Americans unsure how they'll pay their internet bills next month.

Advocates for better Internet access are breathing a sigh of relief in New York as the State Assembly nixed a budget bill amendment that would have undermined the state’s municipal broadband grant program.

Photo-filled look at the many days of prep and three days of immersive programming that went into creating Tribal Broadband Bootcamp 11 at RantanenTown Ranch.