Daily Digest 4/23/2021 (Federal Broadband Support)
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Fri, 04/23/2021
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Show Us the Money: Federal Broadband Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Show Us the Money: Federal Broadband Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A number of readers have reached out to us at Benton asking for help figuring out where to find all the pools of broadband support appropriated by Congress over the past year. So we've decided to create this placeholder for all the funding we've seen in the CARES Act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, and the American Rescue Plan.
Comcast offers tantalizing hint of a future with upload speeds above 35Mbps
Comcast offered the latest hint of a future in which its cable customers won't be limited to 35Mbps upload speeds. Announcing a recent lab test, Comcast said its research team "deliver[ed] upstream and downstream throughputs of greater than 4Gbps" and that "future optimization" will allow "even greater capacity." This was "the first-ever live lab test" of a Broadcom "system-on-chip (SOC) device that will pave the way for Comcast to deliver multigigabit upload and down
The FirstNet Authority Board will convene an open public meeting of the Board and Board Committees.