Why We Still Need Net Neutrality
Broadband Internet Access Service Without Net Neutrality
Broadband Internet Access Service Without Net Neutrality
A few striking findings related to tech policy.
In 2015, 85.8 percent of MN residences had 25 Mbps/3Mbps or greater connections, but only 68 percent of rural residences had that access. After the state and federal government, foundations, and providers, including rural cooperatives, began directing resources toward the disparity, by April 2019, 92.7 percent of households in MN had access to broadband.
In urban neighborhoods, where Internet service and health care can be hard to access, a novel pilot project uses local barbershops and salons as wireless hubs and hypertension screening centers.
The fight to reinstate network neutrality rules could return to federal court, if public-interest advocates, consumer groups, and tech companies including Mozilla get their way [as well as the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society].
Public auction of the C-Band of spectrum
The shared phone was a space of spontaneous connection for the entire household.
AT&T launches its new next-generation wireless network, but breadth of 5G coverage in the US still lags South Korea and China.
Appearing on C-SPAN's Communicators this weekend
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