Sen Deb Fischer (R-NE), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, reintroduced her Precision Ag Package—three pieces of legislation that will help America’s producers harness the full potential of precision agriculture.
Rep Kat Cammack (R-FL) introduced the App Store Freedom Act, which seeks to promote competition and protect consumers and developers in the mobile app marketplace by prohibiting certain anticompetitive practices by dominant app store operators. The bill supports interoperability and consumer choice by requiring large app store operators (100 million+ U.S. users) to allow users to set third-party apps or app stores as default; install apps or app stores outside of the dominant platform; and remove or hide pre-installed apps.
The digital transformation of the auto industry has hit a speed bump: Slower-than-expected electric vehicle adoption has delayed the rollout of intelligent, software-defined vehicles. Automakers are forecasting billions of dollars in recurring revenue from software and services that improve over time through constant updates. Automakers dream of being more like Apple, with an elegant operating system like iOS that enables the same digital experience across all their vehicles.
Public Knowledge joined 16 other public interest, consumer rights, and library groups in a letter urging Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson to protect consumers in the digital marketplace by establishing clear ground rules for digital ownership and sales of goods.
T-Mobile just upped the ante on 5G upload speeds, announcing that it set a new uplink speed record of 550 Mbps using 5G Advanced technology. Why is it significant? According to T-Mobile President of Technology, Ulf Ewaldsson, “uplink is the next big thing.” Others tend to agree, as the industry is increasingly putting more focus on uplink after years of concentrating on the downlink.
When Abraham Camez set up shop at the Hoopa Valley Community to sell his signature smoked BBQ, he noticed something that stuck with him. “A lot of people around here make incredible food or handmade goods,” he said. “But many of them weren’t making sales simply because they didn’t accept credit cards.” That everyday observation planted the seed for a brand-new community program—that’s now helping local vendors modernize their small businesses, accept digital payments, and grow their customer base.
You’ve probably heard of smart cities, where a lot of public infrastructure, such as traffic lights, is connected to the internet. But have you heard of smart towns? A few small broadband providers have banded together in a Smart Town Alliance to bring a form of community Wi-Fi to their rural communities, and they’re hoping to create a trend where many small broadband providers join their initiative.
A couple of years have passed since ISPreview last examined how much money UK broadband internet service providers were charging consumers for their gigabit broadband (1Gbps) tiers, so we’ve decided to take another look to see how things have changed between 2022, 2023, and 2025. But it might surprise some readers to learn that prices have broadly continued to fall. Overall, the story is similar to 2023 in that many more ISPs reduced their prices than increased them in 2025, while a few others maintained the same pricing they had before. Only a smaller number increased their prices.
I’ve regularly heard that U.S. broadband prices are a lot higher than European prices. I found a way to check this when I ran across this article from ISPreview that has a long list of gigabit broadband prices across the UK. The article includes the listed prices for 41 British internet service providers for 2022, 2023, and the current 2025 prices. The prices in the article include the value-added tax, which is administered the same as a sales tax.
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