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March 2021

Moffett: Stimulus Could Help Maintain Broadband Boom

Cable operators, bracing for a slowdown after the robust broadband growth during the height of the pandemic may be in for a surprise. Federal money from the American Rescue Plan could help maintain, and in some cases spur, high-speed data additions in both urban and rural markets, according to MoffettNathanson principal and senior analyst Craig Moffett. Cable operators added more than 4 million broadband customers in 2020, the sector’s biggest growth spurt in a decade and one that occurred as penetration levels were in the 80% range.

Sponsor 

Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment

Media Bureau

Federal Communications Commission

Date 
Wed, 03/24/2021 - 10:00 to 12:30

The roundtable will feature Minority, Women, and Small Business (MWS) Tech Entrepreneurship Support Organizations that facilitate entrepreneurship in their local cities. Within certain cities, these organizations have become “tech anchor institutions” for conversations, funding, and policies regarding the building of local, inclusive tech ecosystems, and the development of both diverse tech founders and worker pipelines.


Sponsor 

Free State Foundation

Date 
Tue, 03/23/2021 - 11:00 to 12:00

Free State Foundation's Thirteenth Annual Telecom Policy Conference


Sponsor 

New America

Date 
Wed, 03/24/2021 - 14:00 to 15:00

Emerging technologies and applications are providing new opportunities for secure, privacy-protecting data sharing in both the public and private sector. As the federal government develops a plan intended to advance innovation in data and analytics, approaches like secure multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, synthetic data, and differential privacy offer capabilities for managing input, analytical, and output privacy and promote data accessibility and use.


Britain’s telecom regulator paves way for UK’s rapid upgrade to fibre broadband

Britain’s telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has paved the way for a massive investment in full-fibre broadband networks by the industry in a move that is also likely to result in higher prices to fund the upgrade. BT will more than quadruple the size of its full-fibre network to 20 million homes by the end of the decade after Ofcom unveiled a long-term plan designed to stimulate a rapid upgrade to the nation’s broadband infrastructure.

Senate Commerce Broadband Hearing Hits on Speed, Mapping, Access

Expanding affordable broadband access is a rare issue with bipartisan support on the Hill. During the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Federal efforts to expand broadband access, senators from both parties joined together to express concerns over expanding access, ensuring accurate broadband connectivity maps, and figuring out how best to spend federal broadband funding.

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