Daily Digest 12/21/2021 (News from FCC)

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Table of Contents

Legislation

President Biden’s big bill is dead. What tech provisions might live on?  |  Read below  |  Emily Birnbaum  |  Politico

News From the FCC

FCC Commits Nearly $603 Million in Additional Emergency Connectivity Funding  |  Read below  |  Press Release  |  Federal Communications Commission
Chairwoman Rosenworcel’s Response to Members of Congress Regarding the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction  |  Read below  |  FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel  |  Letter  |  Federal Communications Commission
FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel Responds to Broadband Mapping Timeline Request  |  Read below  |  FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel  |  Letter  |  Federal Communications Commission

Broadband Infrastructure

USDA gives rural broadband a $119 million boost  |  Read below  |  Diana Goovaerts  |  Fierce
LightBox Announces the Completion of Its Enhanced Nationwide Smart Location Fabric  |  Read below  |  Press Release  |  LightBox
LTD Broadband CEO Expects FCC to Release the Company’s Rural Digital Opportunity Funding  |  Read below  |  Joan Engebretson  |  telecompetitor
The 'full fiber' versus 'tech neutral' debate heats up in the US  |  Read below  |  Nicole Ferraro  |  Broadband World News

Satellites

Starlink Expands, but Third-Quarter 2021 Performance Flattens in Some Areas  |  Read below  |  Isla McKetta  |  Analysis  |  Ookla

State/Local

New federal broadband program expands access for Texans. But it comes at a cost  |  Read below  |  Eric Neugeboren  |  Forth Worth Star-Telegram
Rural communities left out of broadband boom in Wisconsin  |  Read below  |  Nina Sparano  |  WGBA
Lead The Way on Broadband in Maine: Become A County Connector!  |  Read below  |  Press Release  |  AARP
Gainesville Earmarks Rescue Plan Funds for Citywide Municipal Network  |  Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Santa Clara County supervisors to consider creating internet provider to bridge digital divide  |  San Francisco Chronicle
Amarillo Targets Low-Income Households for American Rescue Plan-Funded Fixed Wireless  |  Read below  |  Joan Engebretson  |  telecompetitor
Increased Telehealth Utilization Supports Rural Health in Michigan  |  mHealth Intelligence

Education

No More Guessing: $4.51 Billion is Needed Yearly for Homework Gap  |  Read below  |  John Harrington  |  Analysis  |  Funds For Learning

Social Media

How to save our social media by treating it like a city  |  Read below  |  Sahar Massachi  |  Op-Ed  |  MIT Technology Review

Accessibility 

For Users With Disabilities, Paid Apps Lag Behind Free Ones in Accessibility  |  Wall Street Journal

Security

Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the US Telecom and Services Sector Backs Google/Facebook Links to Asia  |  Bloomberg
The ‘most serious’ security breach ever is unfolding right now. Here’s what you need to know.  |  Washington Post
The Year Hackers Went Wild and Changed Everything  |  Wall Street Journal

Emergency Communications

ACA Connects Opposes Mandated Disaster Reporting  |  Multichannel News

Lobbying

A New Chapter for the Interactive Advertising Bureau  |  Read below  |  Emily Birnbaum  |  Politico

Company News

Oracle to Buy Medical-Records Company Cerner for $28 Billion in Cloud Push  |  Wall Street Journal
Boost Mobile starts selling Cox prepaid internet at retail stores  |  Fierce
Meta shareholders call for oversight audit  |  Axios
Jack Dorsey Stirs Uproar by Dismissing Web3 as a Venture Capitalists’ Plaything  |  Bloomberg

Policymakers

Six months with Chair Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission  |  Read below  |  Ashley Gold  |  Axios
Only Two Senators Own Crypto Assets. Both Are Shaping the Industry’s Rules.  |  Wall Street Journal
Is it possible to swear off the tech giants and still function in the Capitol? Rep Ken Buck is trying to find out.  |  Politico

Stories From Abroad

Buying Influence: How China Manipulates Facebook and Twitter  |  New York Times
Despite EU court rulings, Facebook says US is safe to receive Europeans’ data  |  Politico
US and Britain Help Ukraine Prepare for Potential Russian Cyberassault  |  New York Times
Today's Top Stories

Legislation

President Biden’s big bill is dead. What tech provisions might live on?

Emily Birnbaum  |  Politico

Sen Joe Manchin (D-WV) stunned the White House and sent many in Washington (DC) scrambling by crushing Democrats’ chances of passing the House version of President Joe Biden’s massive social spending bill, the Build Back Better (BBB) Act. Now Senate Democrats are scheming about what elements might survive if they can assemble a more Manchin-friendly bill, including a number of tech provisions. The House-passed bill included $1.15 billion for broadband internet, a pot of money meant to supplement the $65 billion in broadband spending included in the bipartisan infrastructure law signed by Biden in November 2021. The BBB’s proposals included $300 million for bolstering remote-learning subsidies and a $280 million pilot program on urban broadband affordability. Manchin has not stated a clear position on these provisions. Democrats urgently hope to upgrade the country’s 911 system for the digital age. This money in the BBB — a fraction of the billions lawmakers originally proposed — would enable emergency call centers to receive text messages, video and photos, not just phone calls. Manchin has not weighed in on this proposal, either. Democrats are also “hopeful” they can still use a pared-down legislative package to provide $500 million for creating an Federal Trade Commission data privacy bureau. The bill called for splitting an influx of antitrust funding ($1 billion) evenly between the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission.

News From the FCC

FCC Commits Nearly $603 Million in Additional Emergency Connectivity Funding

Press Release  |  Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission announced that it is committing $602,985,895.13 in its latest wave of Emergency Connectivity Fund program support, which will connect over 1.4 million students in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. These additional commitments bring the current total commitments to over $3.8 billion, supporting students, school staff, and library patrons in all 50 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. The funding can be used to support off-campus learning, such as nightly homework and virtual learning, as schools and libraries continue to respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This announcement marks the sixth wave of commitments and includes over $367 million in commitments from Window 1 applications and nearly $236 million in commitments from Window 2 applications. This round of commitments will support 1,651 schools, 85 libraries, and 14 consortia, which are approved to receive nearly 1.2 million connected devices and over 790,000 broadband connections. Total commitments to date are supporting over 9,000 schools, 760 libraries, and 100 consortia for nearly 8.3 million connected devices and over 4.4 million broadband connections.

Chairwoman Rosenworcel’s Response to Members of Congress Regarding the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel  |  Letter  |  Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel responded to a September 27 letter from Reps Roger Williams (R-TX), Ed Case (D-HI), and David Trone (D-MD) concerning the review process for long-form applications in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction. Rosenworcel's response highlighted the steps the FCC has taken to "clean up the program before funding was made available to successful bidders" following the issue of some "questionable locations" chosen in the initial funding decisions. "First, following the filing of long-form applications at the start of this year, each applicant was subjected to a careful technical, financial, and legal review," said the letter. "Second, in light of the preliminary commitments made for areas that should never have been eligible for support, the FCC staff sent 197 letters to bidders seeking to remove these areas from funding. As a result of this effort, more than 5,000 census blocks were removed from the program to prevent wasteful spending...Third, every bidder that won a preliminary commitment in the auction was required to secure status as an eligible telecommunications carrier in the state where they intend to receive support...With these clean up measures now underway, FCC staff have been processing all remaining applications as quickly as possible." Rosenworcel concludes her response by stating, "Now that many of the early efforts to resolve outstanding issues with waste, fraud, and abuse are complete, additional funding decisions will be announced shortly, and we are releasing public notices authorizing funds on a rolling basis."

FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel Responds to Broadband Mapping Timeline Request

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel  |  Letter  |  Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel responded to a September 30 letter from Rep Victoria Spartz (R-IN) requesting a timeline for the "completion of broadband maps" by the agency. "The FCC has made significant progress," said Rosenworcel in her response. "As I have said before, the best time to undertake this effort was five years ago, but the second best time is right now–and we are proceeding with speed in order to avoid any further delay." Rosenworcel provided updates on a number of agency requirements included in the Broadband DATA Act. This includes IT development progress for the Broadband Data Collection system; a contract award for the development of the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric; collaboration with the public to address "remaining legal and policy issues" associated with the processes required by the Broadband DATA Act; and meetings with stakeholders about the FCC's data collection process. Rosenworcel also highlights the FCC's nationwide 4G mobile coverage map, which is available to the public.

The FCC issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) on June 1, which, among other things, specified that the chosen vendor would be required to deliver an initial production version of the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric within 120 days of the award. Responses to the RFP were due on July 1. However, the FCC received a pre-award protest filed with the Government Accountability Office following the RFP response deadline, which the agency worked to quickly resolve by issuing a revised RFP to all offerors on August 13. Revised proposals were due August 26 and the FCC expeditiously reviewed these highly technical and detailed responses in a manner consistent with government solicitation practices. Following this review, the FCC awarded the contract for the Fabric development on November 9 to CostQuest Associates. Since that time, one of the unsuccessful bidders filed a post-award protest with GAO. Under this process, FCC efforts to proceed with the Fabric have been stayed while the GAO has 100 days to issue a decision on the protest.

Infrastructure

USDA gives rural broadband a $119 million boost

Diana Goovaerts  |  Fierce

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) dished out more funding for rural broadband, awarding more than $119 million in loans and grants for projects in 19 states. The money was distributed as part of a $5.2 billion investment the USDA made to boost rural infrastructure projects. The figure included $48.6 million in Community Connect grants for broadband deployments and $71.1 million in loans for telecom infrastructure rollouts. Sierra Telephone Company secured the largest of the telecom loans, bagging $40.2 million for work in California. The second largest ($17.2 million) went to The Ponderosa Telephone Company, again for a project in California. Loans were also handed out for work in New Mexico and Indiana. Grants were doled out to companies for projects spanning 17 states. Bay Springs Telephone Company received $3 million for a build in Mississippi, as did Pioneer Telephone Company for work in Oregon. Funding in the same amount was handed to iGo Technology for a deployment in Virginia; Scott County Telephone Cooperative for work in Virginia and Tennessee; and the Public Utility District 1 Lewis County for a project in the state of Washington.

The USDA’s Community Connect grant program is designed to facilitate broadband deployments in areas served with speeds of 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream or less. Funding recipients must deliver speeds of at least 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up.

LightBox Announces the Completion of Its Enhanced Nationwide Smart Location Fabric

Press Release  |  LightBox

LightBox, a leading information and technology platform for the commercial real estate and location-based analytics industry, announced the release of a newly enhanced nationwide location fabric. "The problem that state and federal agencies are trying to solve is location data accuracy for broadband mapping, said Bill Price, vice president of government solutions. "The new offering, SmartFabric, solves that problem." SmartFabric gets its name from a technologically innovative design that integrates each of LightBox’s core parcel, building footprint, address file, and geocoding with points of interest, cell phone location, and tax assessor details in a proprietary and flexible modeled fabric. The LightBox data acquisition team achieved tremendous gains in its coverage and depth of rural areas, tribal lands, and US territories. “Notably, these are some of the areas where the digital divide in the country is at its widest,” said Zach Wade, vice president of data science. The broadband serviceability modeling represents another large step forward for the broadband industry. LightBox has now combined its prior use of approximately two billion Wi-Fi access points with billions of real-time cell phone GPS observations. The result provides even greater precision to tie building footprints to ISP data, particularly in tribal regions, and improved classification of building types as commercial or residential where municipal assessor coverage does not exist.

LTD Broadband CEO Expects FCC to Release the Company’s Rural Digital Opportunity Funding

Joan Engebretson  |  telecompetitor

Not long after the Federal Communications Commission announced that LTD Broadband was the largest winning bidder in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, critics began questioning the company’s ability to meet rural broadband deployment commitments at the level of funding tentatively won. “We’re building fiber networks today and we know experientially what it costs us,” said LTD Broadband CEO Corey Hauer. Broadband construction costs, deployment times and competition are different in rural areas than in metro areas, Hauer noted. Construction teams generally don’t have to worry about things like gas lines, water lines or buried electric lines. “The lower cost structure sort of makes up for the lack of density,” he said. At stake is $1.3 billion in funding that LTD Broadband was tentatively awarded to bring fiber broadband, primarily at gigabit speeds, to parts of 15 states. The FCC has not yet approved LTD Broadband’s long-form RDOF application, a requirement before funding can be released to the company, but that’s not unusual in the case of the largest winners. The ten largest winners in the auction account for three-quarters of the $9.2 billion tentatively awarded and most of those winners also have not yet had their long-form applications approved.

The 'full fiber' versus 'tech neutral' debate heats up in the US

Nicole Ferraro  |  Broadband World News

The US federal government's $65 billion broadband program is the country's single-largest commitment to achieving universal Internet access nationwide, and a funding deluge that people across the industry never expect to see again. With that in mind, technology and policy stakeholders are eager to get it right. "We will never be in a position to have this much funding available to get fiber to every American," said Gary Bolton, president of the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA). Bolton has further discussed FBA's plans to take their advocacy for a full-fiber future to the states as they begin drawing up their broadband plans. The idea of fiber as the only technology suitable for closing the digital divide is a contentious one on Capitol Hill, where lobbyists from the cable, wireless and satellite industries have successfully pressured DC lawmakers to keep the infrastructure legislation "tech neutral." Some broadband policy advocates have weighed in supportively as well. Dr. Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Center for Technology Policy, says that the US should not spend all of its broadband funding on fiber. "Building broadband is expensive," said Turner Lee. "It's going to require a mix of private equity, private sector partnerships, government support, as well as nonprofits and cooperatives to come to the table together to figure out what solution works best for the communities that they serve."

Satellites

Starlink Expands, but Third-Quarter 2021 Performance Flattens in Some Areas

Isla McKetta  |  Analysis  |  Ookla

Satellite internet is making headlines across the globe as Starlink continues to launch service in new countries and Viasat plans to acquire Inmarsat. Speedtest by Ookla is here to check in on our ongoing series on satellite internet performance around the globe with fresh data from Q3 2021 to see if Starlink’s performance is holding up and how satellite internet compares to fixed broadband. In the United States, Starlink, which uses low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, was the only satellite internet provider with a median latency anywhere near that seen on fixed broadband in Q3 2021 with 44 milliseconds (ms) and 15 ms, respectively. Viasat and HughesNet, which both utilize higher “geosynchronous” orbits, had median latencies of 629 ms and 744 ms. Starlink performance also varies at the county level in the US; while there was about a 100 Mbps range in performance between the county with the fastest median download speed and the county with the slowest median download speed, even the lower-end speeds are well above the Federal Communications Commission’s Baseline performance tier of at least a 25 Mbps download speed. Ookla further examines Starlink's performance in twelve other countries around the world, adding Australia and Belgium this quarter.

[Isla McKetta is Head of Content at Ookla.]

State/Local

New federal broadband program expands access for Texans. But it comes at a cost

Eric Neugeboren  |  Forth Worth Star-Telegram

The Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program will expire at the end of 2021. Next year, the program will be rebranded as the Affordable Connectivity Program and made available to more households — any household with an income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines will be eligible. But this will come at a cost, as the monthly discounts will be $30 instead of $50. Broadband experts and legislators have heralded the program as a monumental step in making high-speed internet more affordable, but recipients of the EBB Program in Texas are more split on the change. While some say the continued discounts will continue to allow them to get high-speed internet access, others are worried about the lower discounts. Jennifer Harris is the state program director for Connected Nation Texas, a nonprofit focusing on increasing broadband access and affordability. Harris said the biggest challenge that the EBB Program has faced — and will likely continue to the new program — is “letting eligible households know that the program exists.”

Rural communities left out of broadband boom in Wisconsin

Nina Sparano  |  WGBA

At a time when Americans can work and learn remotely from just about anywhere, internet access isn't a luxury it's a necessity. However, a large part of rural Wisconsin has been left behind. According to a report from Forward Analytics, hundreds of thousands of people in Wisconsin do not have access to high-speed internet at all. The report shows 25 percent of Wisconsin's rural population lack access to high-speed internet. That's more than 430,000 people and many more struggle with the weak connection they do have. Private Internet providers are spending millions of dollars on laying fiber-optic lines across thousands of miles across northeast Wisconsin.  "Broadband is the most legally addictive product a company can sell," says Drew Peterson, senior VP of corporate affairs for TDS. Yet rural Wisconsin and Native American Reservations are being left behind in digital deserts. "The economics are challenging. There are fewer people in those areas. It costs the same to build a fiber-optic route mile, whether you have 100,000 customers or 10 and so that's one of the challenges that I think local municipal areas that are smaller, face," Peterson says. Private companies like TDS Telecom are working on finding solutions to rural internet deserts but it's going to be a long road.

Lead The Way on Broadband in Maine: Become A County Connector!

Press Release  |  AARP

Too many Mainers, especially those not living in Portland, Bangor and other cities, are routinely told that a broadband internet connection is just not possible. Or, it’ll cost tens of thousands to simply run a line to where they need it. A modern, fast, internet connection has become a requirement in today’s connected world. Sadly, Maine ranks 44th out of all US states in connectivity. If our students, businesses, and health services are going to thrive, that needs to change. AARP has partnered with the Maine Broadband Coalition to begin building teams of local leaders as part of a County Connector program and finally establish a grassroots network to help build…the network! We have a huge opportunity in front of us with once-in-a-generation funding from the federal government, political agreement and motivation, and communities ready to roll up their sleeves and begin expanding access to the broadband infrastructure all Mainers deserve. We’re looking for folks looking to be on the ground floor of the broadband revolution here in Maine. Join our County Connector group and start learning what you can do to help usher in Maine’s connected future.

Amarillo Targets Low-Income Households for American Rescue Plan-Funded Fixed Wireless

Joan Engebretson  |  telecompetitor

The City of Amarillo (TX) plans to use American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to build a fixed wireless network targeting low-income households. “We will lead with that technology; it doesn’t mean we won’t have to change moving down the road [or] where we can’t do line-of-sight,” said Rich Gagnon, the city's managing director and chief information officer. A particular concern in Amarillo was the large number of refugees – 12,000 – who have settled in the city, many of whom do not have broadband available to them. The project aims to make service available to all schools in the Amarillo independent school district and to about 10,000 students. The city already has piloted a fixed wireless network that uses an access point mounted on top of a seven-story police building. Coverage is at least three miles and speeds exceed 100 Mbps symmetrically, Gagnon said. The technology is operating in the unlicensed 5 GHz band but can also operate in the 6 GHz band. The city will own the network but plans to enlist one or more private companies to operate the network and act as the service provider. Plans include offering service at no charge initially for households with students who qualify for the school lunch program. The free service is made possible by the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, which will transition into the Affordable Connectivity Program.

Education

No More Guessing: $4.51 Billion is Needed Yearly for Homework Gap

John Harrington  |  Analysis  |  Funds For Learning

The Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) has provided a much-needed infusion of laptop computers and Wi-Fi hotspots to keep K-12 students and library patrons connected to the Internet. Up until this point, we have all been estimating what was needed to help our communities stay connected. The time for guessing is over. Based on ECF funding request data from 2021, Funds for Learning found that $4.51 billion is needed annually to provide secure devices with internet connections to families who otherwise lack adequate connectivity. Armed with real-world information, the ground has been laid for better laws and regulations. By providing support for securely connected devices, Congress can quickly and effectively impact homes in every zip code. Investing $4.51 billion per year into a program that will help connect our students, school staff and library patrons should be a simple decision for all members of Congress. This is particularly true because the FCC has proven that it can effectively launch and maintain such a program. Keeping our communities securely connected is an on-going challenge. Fortunately, the ECF program has given us the data and now we know the answer to our question: $4.51 billion per year is needed. [Nov 10]

Social Media

How to save our social media by treating it like a city

Sahar Massachi  |  Op-Ed  |  MIT Technology Review

Being on social media can feel a bit like living in a new kind of city. My job used to be to protect the city. I was a member of the Facebook Civic Integrity team. My coworkers and I researched and fixed integrity problems—abuses of the platform to spread hoaxes, hate speech, harassment, calls to violence, and so on. Over time, we became experts, thanks to all the people, hours, and data thrown at the problem. As in any community of experts, we all had at least slightly different ways of looking at the problem. For my part, I started to think like an urban planner. The city needs to be designed correctly from the beginning. It needs neighborhoods that are built so that people, societies, and democracies can thrive. This is a different approach, one that is emerging in companies across the social media landscape: integrity design. Integrity workers like me try to defend a system from attackers who have found and learned to abuse bugs or loopholes in its rules or design. Our job is to systematically stop the online harms that users inflict on each other. We don’t (often) get into the muck of trying to make decisions about any specific post or person. Instead, we think about incentives, information ecosystems, and systems in general. Social media companies need to prioritize integrity design over content moderation, and the public needs to hold them accountable about whether they do so.

[Sahar Massachi is the cofounder and executive director of the Integrity Institute, and a former civic integrity engineer at Facebook.]

Lobbying

A New Chapter for the Interactive Advertising Bureau

Emily Birnbaum  |  Politico

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a massive trade group that represents companies on all sides of the digital ads ecosystem, is about to get a whole lot more involved in tech policy discussions on Capitol Hill. IAB has tapped Lartease Tiffith, an Amazon public policy executive and former aide to Vice President Kamala Harris, to lead its policy shop. And Tiffith plans to make the group’s presence known. IAB has faced serious disagreements among its roughly 700 members, who include both the big tech platforms — such as Google, Meta and Amazon — as well as smaller publishers and brands that feel exploited by those companies’ control over the digital ads ecosystem. IAB too often advocates on behalf of the biggest tech companies. Tiffith believes it will be his job to find consensus among IAB’s diverse membership. His top priorities include lobbying for federal privacy legislation that preempts state laws and against digital services taxes. “The digital advertising ecosystem is one that our country relies on,” Tiffith said. He added that he is “absolutely” in touch with the vice president and her close aides, and said he intends to advocate particularly on behalf of the small- and medium-sized businesses that benefit from digital ads. “I do think there will be some opportunities to be more vocal about what we do and don’t do,” Tiffith said. “We want to make sure people know where IAB stands.”

Policymakers

Six months with Chair Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission

Ashley Gold  |  Axios

Lina Khan's first six months leading the Federal Trade Commission has shown she's either shaken up a sleepy bureaucracy or pushed long-standing norms too far, depending on who you ask. As President Biden's first year ends, many are watching Khan's FTC to see whether it really can fundamentally change how the US regulates big companies and how tech should treat consumers. Entering the role, the 32-year-old, known for her scholarship in antitrust and competition policy, targeted what she sees as monopolistic behavior in Big Tech and beyond. Under Khan, the agency re-filed its case accusing Facebook of buying up competitors to maintain dominance. So far, Khan's tenure has seen more table-setting for future actions than major high-profile antitrust cases. Those who want to see Big Tech taken to task hope to see Khan bring major cases that would spin off prior acquisitions and block proposed mergers. "We are really feeling a sense of urgency and are hopeful [Khan] will be doing as much as possible as quickly as possible because of the potential threat of a hostile Republican Congress," said Alex Harman, competition policy advocate at Public Citizen. In a regulatory filing this month, the FTC detailed its future plans that include consideration of developing rules around penalties for firms that abuse user data, protecting users from surveillance-based business harm and ensuring algorithmic decision-making isn't discriminatory.

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