April 2022

T-Mobile's first-quarter 2022 earnings report strong broadband subscriber growth

T-Mobile reported its results for first-quarter 2022, showing strong broadband subscriber growth. The company reported 348,000 postpaid net account additions for the quarter, as well as 1.3 million postpaid net customer additions. In addition, T-Mobile saw 589,000 postpaid phone net customer additions and 338,000 high-speed internet net customer additions. Approximately 45 percent of postpaid customers are using a 5G phone on T-Mobile's network. The company's 5G network covers 95 percent of Americans.

FCC Commissioner Starks Announces Staff Changes

Federal Communications Commissioner Geoffrey Starks announced several changes to his team. William Davenport, Starks’s Chief of Staff and Senior Legal Advisor, will be leaving the FCC at the end of April 2022. Austin Bonner, Starks’s legal advisor for media and consumer protection issues, will serve as Acting Chief of Staff. Commissioner Starks said, “For over three years, Bill has led my office’s efforts to improve the equity, security, and sustainability of our nation’s communications sector.

Hypothetical Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment Program funding for states using current Form 477 data

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) gives the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) a specific allocation formula for distributing the $42.45 billion in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program. Importantly, even the allocation of funds to states has to wait until after the Federal Communications Commission is done with their new maps. After all, the formula is based on the number of unserved locations and we don’t trust the existing data on unserved locations.

Open Markets Details How US Government Can Block Musk Takeover of Twitter

Twitter's board agreed to sell the corporation to Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX. The Open Markets Institute believes the deal poses a number of immediate and direct threats to American democracy and free speech.