How should the United States protect consumers, promote competition, expand access, safeguard privacy, and manage public resources in an age when the Internet is our most important communications system?
Digital Beat
Public Interest Voices for the Digital Age
Read unique perspectives on communications policy debates written by Benton Institute staff and guest contributors.
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Broadband networks that run to schools or libraries or health-care facilities are not built to carry only scholastic or literary or medical information
Analysis
March 9, 2020 -
Broadband competition matters
Analysis
March 6, 2020 -
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Analysis
March 2, 2020 -
First Congressional hearing on digital inclusion
Weekly Digest
January 31, 2020 -
Home broadband adoption rates aren’t increasing
Speech
January 29, 2020 -
Cost is the primary reason that people do not subscribe to broadband
Analysis
January 23, 2020 -
From digital divide to internet inequality.
Weekly Digest
December 20, 2019 -
Electric cooperatives energize rural economies by closing the digital divide
Analysis
December 9, 2019 -
Joining forces to connect community
Analysis
November 20, 2019