When landline service goes away, consumers and businesses face tough choices
Landline phone service is going away, faster than many people realize
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Friday, October 2, 2026
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Consumers' Research: High-Cost Program is the Principal Reason the Highest USF Contribution Factor
Consumers’ Research urges the FCC to discontinue High‐Cost spending on redundant infrastructure
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Pope Leo: the Church needs artists
Especially in “the age of search engines,” the Church stands in need of artists,” who can aid pastors in making the Gospel “accessible and understandable,” Pope Leo told artists
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Spectrum Completes Rural Fiber Broadband Expansion in Somerset County (MD)
More than 1,300 rural homes and small businesses connected through ongoing multi-year rural construction initiative
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President Trump, Big AI go all-in together
President Trump and the AI industry have co-signed one of the biggest economic and technological wagers of all time.
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Wikimedia's CEO on the AI traffic armageddon
Wikipedia is a crucial source of information for AI models, but those same models increasingly allow people to get Wikipedia-derived information without ever visiting the site
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A New Name, a New Platform, and a Voluntary Industry Accord on What You Used to Call AI
The Administration's most public-facing AI moves to date
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