May 2025

I speak to you this morning as the President’s Science and Technology Advisor, who has been given three interconnected tasks in pursuit of a Golden Age of Innovation: to maintain American technological leadership; to ensure all Americans enjoy the fruit of transformative advances in science and technology; and, a mission I believe we all share, to revitalize America’s scientific enterprise.... To empower America’s researchers to achieve groundbreaking discoveries and to reinvigorate our national science enterprise, we must scrutinize our existing approach and recommit ourselves to best prac

Consumer advocacy groups and rural wireless operators continue to voice their concerns about the tie-up between T-Mobile and UScellular. Recently, they added a new twist to their requests: They want the Federal Communications Commission to view UScellular’s separate spectrum deals as one big single transaction. T-Mobile struck a deal to acquire UScellular’s wireless assets and 4 million customers in May 2024, including its 600 MHz, 700 MHz, 2.5 GHz, AWS and PCS spectrum. A few months later, AT&T and Verizon agreed to buy some of UScellular’s spectrum for about $1 billion each.