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January 2024

Sponsor 

American Enterprise Institute

Date 
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 14:00 to 15:30

Global alignment on spectrum policy is crucial for US leadership in telecommunications. However, the Biden administration’s approach at the yearly World Radiocommunication Conference suggests that its leadership position may be fading while other superpowers attempt to carve out their own rules of the game on telecommunications policy.

A panel discussion addressing the decisions from this treaty-level conference that shape policy directions across the US government and affect American tech leadership.


Sponsor 

NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association

Date 
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 14:00

Digital inclusion is top of mind with states having submitted their Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) initial proposals last month, but community-based broadband providers have deployed digital inclusion strategies long before such efforts were anticipated to respond to regulatory standards.


BEAD Affordability Plans

A look at each state’s response to the National Technology and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program Notice of Funding Opportunity’s (NOFO) Requirement 20 on Middle-Class Affordability and Requirement 16 for a Low-Cost Broadband Service Option.  This list also provides background information on the degree of participation in BEAD by municipal, tribal, and other government-owned networks (GONs) in each state. Thirteen states have affordability strate

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