Conexon Connect submits its 4Q 2025 Compliance Report associated with the gap in meeting its December 31, 2024, Rural Digital Opportunity Fund 40 percent interim milestone obligation for Study Area Code 349048 (Illinois).
Conexon Connect submits its 4Q 2025 Compliance Report associated with the gap in meeting its December 31, 2024, Rural Digital Opportunity Fund 40 percent interim milestone obligation for Study Area Code 279057. The Company hereby reports that it has deployed an additional 21 locations in Louisiana since the Company’s 3Q 2025 Quarterly Compliance Report filed with the Universal Service Administrative Company on September 23, 2025.
South Central Connect, a subsidiary of South Central Arkansas Electric Cooperative, is receiving Rural Digital Opportunity Fund funding to deploy 1 Gbps/500 Mbps service to 48 Census Block Groups in Arkansas. South Central Connect hereby notifies the Federal Communications Commission of its decision to default on 13 of its 48 RDOF CBGs in Arkansas.
Meta Platforms has agreed to acquire AI startup Manus, a Singapore-based company with Chinese founders that conducts deep research and performs other tasks for paying users. Meta is closing the deal at more than $2 billion. Manus was seeking a fresh round of fundraising with a valuation of $2 billion when Meta approached the startup. Manus’s co-founder and chief executive, Xiao Hong, who often goes by the nickname “Red,” will report to Javier Olivan, chief operating officer of Meta.
Is digital literacy that comes from using a smartphone the same as digital literacy from using a computer? It’s a great question, because the majority of Internet users in the world only have broadband access through a smartphone. In developing nations, 90 percent of broadband users only have access to a smartphone. In the U.S., 16 percent of adults only use a smartphone to reach the Internet. There are skills needed to master using a computer that can’t be learned from using a smartphone.
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