Happy anniversary, Alexander Graham Bell. What have we learned in 150 years?
Each communications revolution has built upon the last, creating its own economic logic and governance challenges
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New America Announces Its New Mission and Vision, Reveals New Logo and Website
Generating big ideas and bold solutions for a new America
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State AGs play antitrust cops
Recent examples show states can be effective in blocking big mergers, especially when they band together
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House Commerce Committee Democrats Press NTIA Administrator on BEAD Funding Updates & Stress Trump Executive Orders Do Not Supersede Federal Law
“NTIA should not risk tying up the BEAD Program in years of legal challenges and further delaying its already overdue implementation.”
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Why Use AI When You Can Just Google It?
While they do have some functional overlap, Google is not a perfect substitute for AI
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Amazon thinks SpaceX's data center plan is a bunch of hooey
Amazon views SpaceX's application as a "speculative placeholder" rather than a real plan
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Americans Didn’t Panic About the Telephone. We Didn’t Need To.
The telephone wrought great changes, but little panic
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New Mexico affordable broadband bill signed into law
Bill makes $10 million available to help low-income families afford broadband
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National Broadband Master Plan looks to create secure national network
NEO Network Development is proposing a National Broadband Master Plan that would establish an underground digital infrastructure alongside interstates, highways, and roads that are overseen by the U.S. Department of Transportation
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WISPA raises interference concerns about SpaceX's mega constellation
WISPA is asking the FCC to further assess the potential interference issues presented by SpaceX's plan to deploy orbital data centers underpinned by as many as 1 million low-Earth orbit satellites
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Cox Communications: Kansas' broadband laws create unfair right-of-way fees
Kansas law has not kept pace with advancements in broadband technology
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New Street Research: Fixed Wireless Access gross adds rose 24% in Q4 2025, slowdown ahead
Residential fixed wireless access gross adds are expected to plateau for major U.S. carriers, according to New Street Research
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AI is a Five Layer Cake
AI is not a clever app or a single model; it is essential infrastructure, like electricity and the internet
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How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater
AI-enabled dashboards, combined with prediction markets and fake imagery, are reshaping how war is observed
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GPS jamming: The invisible battle in the Middle East
GPS jamming is making ships near the Iranian coast appear to be on land
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Building pro-worker AI
AI has transformative potential to act as a force-multiplier for human skills and expertise by expanding worker capabilities
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MBI Launches Round 2 of Connected & Online Program
Goal of the program is to expand access to education, workforce training and telehealth by establishing public device lending programs and on-site device stations
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Information Superhighway to Nowhere
BEAD oversight
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AT&T Will Spend $250 Billion Over Five Years on Network
The investments will focus on high-speed fiber connections and expanding wireless and satellite coverage.
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