Michigan Is on the Road to Closing the Digital Divide by 2030
Friday, August 9, 2024
August 2024
LinkedIn Invites Brands To Sponsor User-Generated Newsletters (MediaPost)
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Submitted by benton on Fri, 08/09/2024 - 06:30CNN’s Media Chronicler Strikes Out on His Own (New York Times)
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Weekly Digest
Weekly Digest
Fact Sheets on the Impact of the Universal Service Fund
The Universal Service Fund is a $8 billion decades-old mechanism created by Congress in 1996 to support vital communications investments where the marketplace falls short: connecting schools and libraries to high-speed internet; helping rural hospitals adopt telemedicine; ensuring low-income households have basic communications services; and investing in broadband in communities that need it most. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the current administration of the Universal Service Fund is unconstitutional. Why is the Universal Service Fund so important?
Broadband Prices 2024
Consumers and policymakers always care about broadband prices. The issue is of particular interest to policymakers now that the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) has ended and as states try to figure out what the “affordability” requirements of the BEAD grants mean and how to implement them. Such analysis should begin with an understanding of current prices and how they have changed. This analysis uses three sources to consider the cost of broadband to consumers: the Federal Communications Commission’s Urban Rate Survey (URS), the U.S.