The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) seeks nominations for a position on the Board of Directors of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) representing commercial mobile radio service providers (position formerly held by Matt B. Gerst). All nominations must be filed with the Office of the Secretary by November 8, 2021.
The Wireline Competition Bureau announced that it will expand the school years that will be acceptable for eligibility determination purposes for the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program. As a result of this change, households that can demonstrate participation in the free and reduced price school lunch program or school breakfast program for the 2021-2022 school year will now be eligible for the benefit.
A new paper -- “USForward” -- highlights the need for Universal Service Fund contribution reform, analyzes options for doing so, and provides recommendations on how best to reform this essential support mechanism. Carol Mattey of Mattey Consulting, who authored the report, will also be joining the briefing.
Participants include:
A bimonthly series of live conversations between ALA President Patty Wong and library practitioners who are keeping their communities connected with high-speed broadband, technology and digital skills training.
A Pentagon program that delegated management of a huge swath of the Internet to a Florida company in January 2021 — just minutes before President Trump left office — has ended as mysteriously as it began, with the Defense Department retaking control of 175 million IP addresses. At its peak, the company, Global Resource Systems, controlled almost 6 percent of a section of the Internet called IPv4.
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