For patients to participate in telehealth encounters, they have to use a number of proprietary, health system-specific portals and platforms. That can be challenging for many older adults and minority groups. Effective virtual care depends on digital fluency, meaning they need to be able to engage in all aspects of digital technologies, from accessing the internet to navigating telehealth applications and performing basic troubleshooting.
T-Mobile informed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it is buying additional 600 MHz spectrum from Channel 51 License and LB License for a total cost of $3.5 billion. About $1.9 billion will be paid to 51 License, and about $1.6 billion will be paid to LB License. The licenses range from 10 MHz to 30 MHz per market and cover over 108 million points-of-presence, or about one-third of the US population. The licenses are already being used by T-Mobile through exclusive leasing arrangements with the sellers.
Supporters of Federal Communications Commission nominee Gigi Sohn [Senior Fellow and Public Advocate at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society] are dismissing a call by advocacy group ALLvanza for President Joe Biden to drop Sohn’s nomination in favor of a Hispanic candidate.
Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Alan Davidson announced that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has added $1 billion from President Biden’s Infrastructure investment and Jobs Act to the current Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program funding period, which closes September 1, 2022. NTIA already received more than 300 applications during the application window for over $5 billion in funding requests.
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