September 2025
This hearing will focus on the following bills:
The new AI policy rulebook
Artificial intelligence is transforming how governments function, make deals and compete on a global scale. AI policy is at the center of lawmakers' conversations, from Washington to Brussels and Beijing, and the decisions being made in the U.S. reverberate around the world. Federal agencies are debating not just how to regulate AI, but how to use it. State lawmakers and officials, meanwhile, aren't waiting on the feds to make their own decisions.
Daily Digest 9/12/2025 (Achieving Affordability)
Send date
Fri, 09/12/2025
Today's top broadband news
How States Are Tackling Broadband Affordability
This week, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society released "Achieving Affordability: State Strategies for Getting Everyone Online," an examination of how states are working to make high-speed internet more affordable for their residents. With the release, Benton Research Director Dr. Caroline Stratton hosted a discussion on how broadband affordability, availability, and adoption relate to each other and present current and future opportunities to improve universal access.
Microsoft avoids EU fine after competition probe (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 09/12/2025 - 06:22Russians lose internet access as Ukrainian drones hit close to home (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 09/12/2025 - 06:22
Weekly Digest
Weekly Digest
How States Are Tackling Broadband Affordability
Friday, September 12, 2025
Canada Finally Orders Open-Access
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ordered, in August 2024, that all broadband providers in the country open their networks to competitors on a wholesale open-access network. The original unbundling order applied to broadband provided on both cable TV and fiber networks. The original ordered that open-access be implemented by February 2025. Similar to what happens in the U.S., various aspects of the rule were appealed at the CRTC.