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February 2020

Public Knowledge in Comments to FCC: High Speed Broadband Benchmark is Far Too Low

Public Knowledge filed comments and reply comments urging the Federal Communications Commission to increase its current broadband benchmark speed to at least 100 Mbps downstream based on evidence that American consumers already are using those speeds and many consumers are adopting even higher speeds. Since those comments were filed, more information has been released from the FCC and other third-party sources that support increasing the FCC's broadband benchmark speed from 25/3 Mbps.

Broadband Operator Profile: Tennessee WISP Progressive Broadband Has Ambitious Plans, Including Fiber-to-the-Home

Rural Solutions, which does business as Progressive Broadband, is a wireless Internet service provider (WISP) with ambitious goals. The company, based in rural Tennessee, has big plans for Cumberland county and beyond, including deploying fiber-to-the-home. The company also has made infrastructure choices that are more forward-looking than those that some WISPs initially make, explained Progress Broadband President David Williams.

Docket Announced for Establishing a 5G Fund for Rural America

The Federal Communications Commission's Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force, in coordination with the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau and the Office of Economics and Analytics, opens GN Docket No. 20-32, captioned “Establishing a 5G Fund for Rural America.” On December 4, 2019, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his intention to create a 5G Fund, which would make available up to $9 billion in universal service support to deploy advanced 5G mobile wireless service in rural America. All filings related to the 5G Fund should be submitted in GN Docket No. 20-32.

What the Iowa Caucus Means for Getting Iowa Online

At rallies and town halls across Iowa, health care, climate change, and education were the top concerns, no matter which candidate was on stage. That’s in line with Gallup polling, which shows infrastructure as thirteenth behind more common concerns like health care, education and economic policy. But the simple question of internet access sits in the background of many of those issues.

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Fri, 02/07/2020 - 15:00 to 23:00

Advances in technology are transforming how people across the globe engage with democracy. Opportunities for engagement and participation are expanding, but recent events highlight new threats to the integrity of democratic elections in a networked era.

As we enter the 2020 primary season, join journalists, political scientists, technologists, voting rights advocates, election law scholars, and regulators to explore these pressing issues.

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