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Today’s blog provides a short summary of the FCC’s new Order that reinstates Title II authority and net neutrality. It’s a monster order of 434 pages and 2,921 comments. Following are my key takeaways from the Order: A large part of the Order reinstates nearly the same Title II rules back that were vacated by…
The White House has updated rules for infrastructure permitting to promote speed and protect environment.
Full subsidies previously offered by the government for broadband have ended but appeals for renewed funding to Congress only grown louder.
INTERNATIONAL DARK SKY ASSOCIATION vs. FCC AND SPACEX On December 29, 2022, the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) sued the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over its decision to approve SpaceX’s application for up to 30,000 more low-orbit satellites, in addition to the 12,000 already approved and in process of filling our…
There is a long-running legal case that could have dire consequences on broadband households. The case started in 2018 when a group of major record labels sued Cox Communications over its policies related to copyrights. The labels accused Cox of refusing to disconnect customers who repeatedly broke copyright rules by downloading music without paying for…
Despite political party affiliations, Americans are far more likely to say social media has a negative rather than positive impact on the country, while the majority also believes social-media
companies hold too much influence in politics and censorship, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center.
It's been a long Winter, but the antitrust trial of the century (thus far) returns. The judge continues to keep it too secret, which is why you haven't heard about it. But there's now an audio line.
FALMOUTH – Expanded high speed internet through Xfinity is rolling out for Falmouth as part of what is to eventually be a Cape-wide initiative. It’s part of a 3-year, $960 million dollar inve…
In this latest episode of the podcast, Chris and Derek from Hardy Telecommunications discuss the cooperative's journey since 1953, expanding from phone to broadband services, vital for rural areas. They share the challenges of being a small provider, the impact of federal funding, and emphasize the importance of partnerships and ongoing support for rural broadband access.
The Washington Post recently published an article with a series of graphs that shows the impact of the pandemic on a number of economic indicators that range from unemployment, wages, air travel, grocery prices, home prices, and consumer sentiment. The article got me thinking about the impact of the pandemic on the broadband industry –…
SANDWICH – The Cape Cod Commission and the Town of Sandwich have released a draft of the town’s municipal digital equity plan for public comment. To access the draft, click here. Here’s the f…
It's never been clearer that the VC founder's whole outlook on life revolves around how great it is to be rich and how shameful it is to be anything else.
The U.S. will reinstate Obama-era regulations for internet service providers that promise fast, reliable and fair internet speeds for all consumers. What happened when those rules were taken away?
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As another BEAD challenge process unfolds, I'm beginning to digest it from my home state of Texas. At this point, nearly every state has had its Volume I Initial Proposal approved by the NTIA.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed plans for an $11 billion investment in Indiana data centres.
This is an excerpt of our fling that details how the independent wired ISPs were forced out of business via regulatory capture of the FCC and the original Net Neutrality proceedings. Moreover, the filing detailed the different ways the companies have manipulated the actual accounting of lines in service and how the data and presentation is deceptive, but was used to make public policies. The chart above shows that starting with the opening of the wired state telecommunications public utility networks to small and large competitors based on the Telecom Act of 1996, by 2000, (according to the US Census), there were 9,335 ISPs, and other sources claimed that these companies handled the majority of the internet and world wide web subscribers. NOTE: These companies were wired ISPs that used the existing utility networks; they were not the wireless ISPs, WISPs, who have traditionally serviced more rural areas due to the fact that most wireless service has issues with buildings. The Internet service is NOT the physical wires. The ISPs of the 1990’s started offering‘dial-up’ where the customer connects over their home or business line, or used DSL, the faster copper-based service. But, they were also blocked from using the upgraded fiber lines and the FCC closed the right of these companies from using even DSL.
A new proposal would bar entities that are "national security concerns" from receiving wireless equipment authorizations from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
TikTok employees traveling to the U.S. have been stopped by border agents and asked about their access to sensitive American data and their potential affiliation with the Chinese Communist Party, According to a recent report by Forbes.
And by "world," I mean media optimization stack as we transition from a bifurcated linear/digital process to a holistic cross-platform one.
It’s been a while since I took a look at the worldwide Internet. The statistics cited below come from Datareportal. The world population in January 2024 was 8.08 billion, up 74 million from a year earlier, a growth rate of 0.9%. There were 5.61 billion unique mobile subscribers in January, up 138 million (2.5%) over…
"Wireless carriers have a duty to keep our geolocation information private and secure," FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel stated Monday.
FCC Restores Net Neutrality In a split vote last week, the FCC voted to reclassify broadband service as a T
Are you prepared to watch a competitor bring fiber optic infrastructure into your service area?
While Comcast, DirecTV and Dish have been withered by attrition in recent years, Charter had largely been spared ... until now
Ever feel like Instagram or TikTok algorithms know you a bit too well? The backlash against automated curation is building, and new algorithm-free platforms are springing up.
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