The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau authorized $84,456,870 in Connect USVI Fund Stage 2 support for the winning proposals from Broadband VI to provide voice and broadband services for the 10-year period with speeds up to 1 Gigabit per second.
Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program enrolled over 2.3 million households in all 50 states, Washington (DC), Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and American Samoa. Additionally, at the agency’s direction, the Universal Service Administrative Company debuted a new data dashboard for advocates, members of Congress, and the general public to track the progress of the Emerge
On May 10, the Treasury Department released the interim final rule for the American Rescue Plan Act's (ARPA) Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, clarifying how state and local governments can use the funds for broadband deployment. The interim designation allows Treasury to get the rule in place quickly while seeking final comments. Much of the news coverage about ARPA has focused on the amount of spending, but the language in the rule denotes a shift in the federal stance on broadband expansion.
FBI Director Christopher Wray just compared recent ransomware attacks to the Colonial Pipeline and JBS Foods, America’s largest oil pipeline and meat processor respectively and the upheaval to gas and meat prices, to 9/11 terrorism. This falls in the wake of the SolarWinds attack, which came dangerously close to disrupting the US Treasury, one of the most sophisticated hacks to date. These attacks
As Washington debates broadband and connectivity policy, join USTelecom for a conversation on the key infrastructure issues before Congress and hear from broadband providers and technology leaders about strategies to best increase access and affordability to all in America.
“Fiberside” Chat
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Join Silvana Effio (Journalist), Paloma Perez (FCC), and Alejandro Roark (HTTP) for a bilingual conversation about the Emergency Broadband Benefit. Learn more about the program and the outreach resources available for community advocates as a part of the "EBB Para Mi" public awareness campaign and get your questions answered.
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