I celebrated Eid Al Adha this year on Lagos Island, or Isale Eko as it’s commonly known. I was overstimulated by the loud music, the smell of raw ram meat, and the constant attention of family members and well-wishers coming to greet me due to my hyper visibility, making me stick out like a sore thumb. I popped in my AirPods to block out the noise and played Wordle on my phone.
Next to me was a young 10-year-old girl, who was watching me play the game over my shoulder with an increscent level of curiosity. I could tell she wanted to play, but was apprehensive to ask if she could join my game, probably assuming that I was an unfriendly foreigner. I quickly explained the game to her, tactfully explaining what the green, yellow, and grey blocks meant, and to my surprise, she guessed the word on the first try. This was a word I was stuck on. Impressed by her aptitude and intelligence, I quickly congratulated her.
The young girl asked if she could play again, but I explained to her that Wordle is a daily game, and they release a new game every day. I absentmindedly said, “You can ask your mum to play on her phone tomorrow, it’s called Wordle”. She replied back saying “My mum doesn’t have an iPhone”. I understood her to mean a smartphone and a wave of horror and shame came over me, firstly, how could I just assume that her mum has a smartphone, and secondly, why did I also assume that her mum would let her use it to play Wordle, then sadness flooded me as I awkwardly thought back to my second iPhone that I left at home. My privilege was blinding me.
FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez visited Fleming-Neon, Kentucky, Wednesday, June 18 to take part in a public event on the First Amendment and the five freedoms it guarantees: press, speech, religion, the right to assemble, and the right to petition the government. The East Kentucky visit was the third destination on Commissioner Gomez’s listening tour, which also included stops in Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, California.
The best way to stop this cycle of invasive tracking techniques and patchwork fixes is to ban online behavioral advertising. This would end the practice of targeting ads based on your online activity, removing the primary incentive for companies to track and share your personal data. We need strong federal privacy laws to ensure that you, not Meta, control what information you share online.
Sarah Morris was in the thick of BEAD in the Department of Commerce in 2024. Serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary makes her a great source to talk about the June 6 BEAD guidance, what it means, and how states can still proceed with a program that was designed to be a fiber-first, futureproof solution for rural America. She was asked to testify before the House Energy and Commerce on March 6th, when she was peppered with questions about why BEAD ‘had not connected a single home’ and how to proceed.
I spoke with Sarah Morris for broadband.io on the day the NTIA dropped FAQs to clarify the new guidance and the new direction the BEAD program would take.
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect the fact that Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn backed off her own proposal late on Monday. Senate Republicans are aiming to soften a proposed 10-year moratorium on state-level artificial intelligence laws that has received pushback from congressmembers on both sides of the aisle. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers. The plan would benefit AT&T, which is based in Cruz's home state, along with Verizon and T-Mobile.
We’ve had a quiet policy change in the country over the last year where satellite broadband is starting to be considered to be broadband by the federal government. Any rural household that subscribes to and loves Starlink would wonder why this is news, but from a policy perspective, it is a big deal. I’ve been…
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On Tuesday, July 1, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and National Digital Inclusion Alliance will present the next Building For Digital Equity event - Wired For Freedom: Digital Access and the American Dream. It will run from 3:00 - 4:15 ET.
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the FCC has the authority to operate and fund the Universal Service Fund. The case that prompted the Supreme Court Decision was FCC v. Consumers’ Research. Consumers’ Research is a nonprofit activist group that originally filed cases in multiple courts alleging that the method used to fund the…
A ban on state AI regulation got stripped from Trump's giant tax bill, due to a combination of Democratic Senators, populist Republicans, and left populist tech and MAGA activists.
T-Mobile recently announced a cellular speed test where the company was able to achieve an upload speed of 550 Mbps on a live cellular link. The test was clearly done in ideal conditions in order to achieve the fast speed, but T-Mobile acknowledges that upload speeds are increasingly important to customers. Fierce Network quoted T-Mobile…
Artificial intelligence feels like it’s everywhere these days, and the wireless networks connecting our devices will soon be no exception.
Telecom wonks are determining how AI should be built into sprawling cellular networks to better transmit phone calls and allocate resources for the hundreds of data-hungry apps that people use each day.
Every decade or so, a new generation of wireless technology arrives for our phones, marked in the transitions from 2G to 3G and so on. We’re on 5G now, which brought the fastest speeds people have seen to date, starting in 2019. That means it’s time to prepare for 6G in the next five years. That’s the era when many people believe AI will play a significant role in juggling and allocating the resources powering devices and AI-related tools.
We're about to see a perfect storm of rushed decisions from states and providers who don't have all the information they need. The likely outcome? Worse quality internet at higher prices for consumers.
The SHLB Coalition advocates for policies and programs that enable anchor institutions to obtain and promote open, secure, high-quality broadband services to support connectivity and opportunity for all.
Many have speculated about the impact of the recent decision of the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) to administer the landmark $42 billion BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment) program on a technology-neutral basis. While some were quick to assume NTIA’s new “lowest cost wins” approach would doom fiber applicants, that’s not the case.
I recently posted a blog setting forth a roadmap for how states should evaluate whether satellite applicants would qualify as “Priority Broadband Projects” under the new BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice. I firmly believe that satellite shouldn’t be classified as Priority Broadband. Period. End of story. In this post, I’ll address how fixed wireless applicants, particularly those using unlicensed spectrum, should be evaluated in the “Benefit of the Bargain” round.
Fiber applicants shouldn’t give up on BEAD. There’s a path forward.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Today, the Healey-Driscoll administration and Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s (MassTech) Massachusetts Broadband Institute celebrated the delivery of high-speed internet to Bay Meadow Apartments in Springfield.
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