Confirmed: FCC Wireless Coverage Maps Stink
FCC staff confirm what many already know: wireless coverage maps are inaccurate
Headlines
Benton provides the only free, reliable, and non-partisan daily digest that curates and distributes news related to universal broadband, while connecting communications, democracy, and public interest issues. Subscribe today and receive your first digest in the morning.
Subscribe today and receive your first digest in the morning.
- « Prev Day
-
Friday, December 6, 2019
-
-
T-Mobile, Sprint merger teed up for trial
A conclusion to the winding saga that is the T-Mobile/Sprint merger is inching closer, with an antitrust trial against several state attorneys general suing to block the deal slated to start Dec 9.
-
How Facebook’s new ad policy helps politicians who lie
Mark Zuckerberg has rigged the rules of Facebook political advertising, making him complicit in lies and voter manipulation
-
FCC’s T-Mobile-Sprint Sign-off Facing Challenge by Communications Workers of America
The FCC’s approval order violates the US Constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Communications Act of 1934, CWA alleged.
-
High-Speed Internet for All
High-speed internet service must be treated as the new electricity — a public utility that everyone deserves as a basic human right.
-
FTC Issues Opinion and Order Against Cambridge Analytica For Deceiving Consumers About the Collection of Facebook Data, Compliance with EU-US Privacy Shield
The FTC issued an Opinion finding that the data analytics and consulting company Cambridge Analytica, LLC engaged in deceptive practices to harvest personal information from tens of millions of Facebook users for voter profiling and targeting.
-
How Free Wi-Fi Kiosks Expose New York’s Digital Divide
LinkNYC was supposed to digitally unite the city, but the neighborhoods that need it the most have been left out.
-
FCC Chairman Pai Names Leaders of Precision Agriculture Task Force Working Groups
Chairman Ajit Pai announced the leadership of the four working groups that will support the work of the FCC’s new Task Force for Reviewing the Connectivity and Technology Needs of Precision Agriculture. The Task Force will hold its first meeting on Dec 9.
-
Phone records from AT&T and Verizon obtained in impeachment inquiry spark controversy
Phone logs subpoenaed from Verizon and AT&T put a spotlight on the powerful tools at lawmakers' disposal as they seek to investigate President Donald Trump in the impeachment inquiry.