We Must Let Our Minds Be Bold
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
October 2018
Analysis
Analysis
NCTA CEO Michael Powell: 5G is 25% Technology, 75% Marketing (Multichannel News)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 13:26Charter’s nationwide price hike could cost you another $91 a year (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 13:26AT&T’s fix for the broadband mapping problem? Get everyone’s address
AT&T is proposing a potential solution to our broadband mapping problem: Get everyone’s address.
See how passionate your congressional district is about net neutrality (Quartz)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 12:23Kathryn Montgomery & Jeff Chester: 20 years of children’s online privacy success provides blueprint for comprehensive policy (Hill, The)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 12:19Op-ed: Why Privacy Regulations Don’t Always Do What They’re Meant To (Harvard Business Review)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 12:16
Affordable Communication Is Under Attack
The support structures that assist low-income families cannot work unless those in need have functional means of communication. Doctors monitoring children with fragile health, employers who can offer an extra shift to a struggling worker, nutrition support programs like SNAP which must confirm income eligibility — all these must be able to communicate with a low-income person, often within limited timeframes. Our collective and individual economic well-being is dependent on communications tools.
FCC Eliminates Paper Filing for Broadcast Station Contracts
The Federal Communications Commission eliminated the nearly 80-year-old requirement that broadcasters routinely file paper copies of station contracts and certain other documents. Broadcasters have the option of either uploading these documents directly to their online public inspection file or maintaining an up-to-date list in of these documents in their online file and providing copies of the documents to requesting parties within seven days. Thus, the routine paper filing requirement is redundant and unnecessary.