After some rough Q2 beats, Charter has found itself in legal hot water over its broadband subscriber losses. A class action lawsuit, filed August 14 on behalf of Charter shareholders, alleged the company understated the impact of the Affordable Connectivity Program’s demise.
The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the Federal Communications Commission after it decided that the agency lawfully levied fines against T-Mobile and Sprint when they failed to take measures protecting customer location information from being sold to third parties.
It’s welcome news that Big Tech is investing billions in AI infrastructure, but who’s really paying for the broadband networks that help make those AI investments profitable? That burden is increasingly falling on America’s aging Universal Service Fund, which since 1998 has supported broadband deployment in rural communities, low-income households, schools, libraries and hospitals. The fund is financed mostly by telephone subscriptions—many of them paid by seniors on fixed incomes.
Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) represents a fundamental shift in how we think about spectrum use. Traditionally, sensing and communications have been two separate functions. You had radar systems designed to detect and track objects, and you had communications systems designed to transmit data. They lived in different spectral lanes, were managed by different agencies, and developed along different paths. ISAC breaks that mold. In an ISAC world, sensing and communications co-exist in a single, harmonized system.
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