Cable’s toughest broadband battles to center on the suburbs
With billions being poured into fiber builds, cable broadband players face the very real prospect of heightened subscriber competition in the coming years.
September 2021
For the fourth webinar in the series, join us for a discussion on how platform research to address mis/disinformation should be approached through a race-based lens, new platform research solutions and methods being pioneered and utilized by researchers of color, the unique challenges researches of color face, and how philanthropy can better support and empower Black and Brown tech platform researchers to carry out their work.
Speakers:
Safiya Umoja Noble, Co-Founder and Co-Director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
Federal Universal Service Support Mechanisms Quarterly Contribution Base for the Fourth Quarter 2021 (Universal Service Administration Company)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 09/02/2021 - 14:31FCC Extends Comment Period in Pole Attachment Proceeding to September 10 (Federal Communications Commission)
Submitted by grace@benton.org on Thu, 09/02/2021 - 12:57Half a million broadband and cable subscribers are without service in Hurricane Ida's path
Almost half a million cable, broadband, and voice subscribers are not being provided service in the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Ida according to the Federal Communications Commission. The number of those not able to access service is even greater given the more than a million without power. Louisiana has the vast majority of subscribers without either phone, TV or internet access, or a combination of those, at 468,674.
Reddit bans anti-vaccine community after protests over COVID-19 misinformation (USA Today)
Submitted by grace@benton.org on Thu, 09/02/2021 - 12:37FTC Bans SpyFone and CEO from Surveillance Business and Orders Company to Delete All Secretly Stolen Data (National Telecommunications and Information Administration)
Submitted by grace@benton.org on Thu, 09/02/2021 - 12:37Mission Critical Services Standards: Advancing Critical Communications Across Industries (Samsung)
Submitted by grace@benton.org on Thu, 09/02/2021 - 12:36
ILSR's Big List of American Rescue Plan Community Broadband Projects
With the first traunch of American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds going out to counties and cities in summer 2021, many local leaders have begun to propose projects and seek input from citizens about how they should be used.