August 2022

Nearly $3.6 billion has been spent on political and issue ads so far this year, record ad spending for the 2022 midterms (Axios)

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Daily Digest 8/2/2022

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Today's top broadband news

Gadget graveyard: We found the hidden death dates on popular devices (Washington Post)

Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 06:26

Your gadgets die quickly by design. It doesn’t have to be that way. (Washington Post)

Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 06:25

Vast New Study Shows a Key to Reducing Poverty: More Friendships Between Rich and Poor (New York Times)

Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 06:25

T-Mobile boosts its first-responder service, but why?

Even though AT&T is running the table on the first-responder market in the US because it won the contract to build the FirstNet network, that doesn’t mean that the other two big carriers don’t still desire to serve first responders.

Telecom groups aren’t happy about the new net neutrality bill (Fierce)

Submitted by grace@benton.org on Mon, 08/01/2022 - 16:02

Nokia inks 5-year deal with AST SpaceMobile to provide radio technology enabling direct-to-cell phone connectivity from space (Fierce)

Submitted by grace@benton.org on Mon, 08/01/2022 - 16:02

CETF Announces Susan Walters Is Joining National Telecommunications and Information Administration

The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) announced the departure of Senior Vice President Susan Walters to become the US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Regional Director of Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) with responsibility for the States of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Hawaii. Susan Walters was a founding team leader when CETF began operations in 2006.

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