The Federal Communications Commission will soon issue a report to Congress on the options for the troubled Universal Service Fund (USF). When it issued a Notice of Inquiry in December 2021, the FCC asked for input because the cost to consumers who support the USF has been increasing.
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
I regularly run across articles that ask which major internet service provider (ISP) is the fastest. Most of these articles get their speed data from Ookla, which publishes comparative median broadband speeds for mobile and landline ISPs each quarter, like in this report for the second quarter of 2022. Americans love a horse race – we like to rank things, and articles that rank ISPs grab readers. But we have to take articles based upon the Ookla rankings with a grain of salt.
Jared Mauch, the Michigan man who built a fiber-to-the-home Internet provider because he couldn't get good broadband service from AT&T or Comcast, is expanding with the help of $2.6 million in government money. In January 2021, Mauch was providing service to about 30 rural homes including his own with his internet service provider (ISP), Washtenaw Fiber Properties LLC.
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