Since 2010, the Benton Foundation and the New America Foundation have partnered to highlight telecommunications debates from countries outside the U.S.
Stories from Abroad
Ontario premier says he’s ‘ripping up’ $100 million contract with Musk’s Starlink in response to US tariffs
The leader of Canada’s most populous province of Ontario said he’s ripping up a contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink internet services in response to U.S.

Who Owns the Internet?
A recent article published by the Russian Foreign Affairs Council (RFAC) claimed that some of organizations that engage in Internet governance have a clear U.S. bias.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) responded, saying the claims are false. This all sounds like worldwide politics in action, but it raises a good question—who owns the Internet? There is no easy answer to that question.
Google won't add fact checks despite new EU law
Google has told the European Union it will not add fact checks to search results and YouTube videos or use them in ranking o

European Commission welcomes the integration of the revised Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online into the Digital Services Act
The European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services welcome the integration of the revised ‘Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online +' into the framework of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which encourages voluntary codes of conduct to tackle risks online.
Australian government promises $1.9 billion to complete full-fiber NBN
The Australian government has topped up the national broadband network (NBN) project with an extra 3 billion Australian dollars (US$1.85 billion), promising to make the network all-fiber by the end of the decade.
The state of broadband around the globe: what you need to know
Pretty much everybody at this point knows the U.S. is trying to close its digital divide with the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. But what about the rest of the world?
Rural internet deserts in England and Wales to finally get fast broadband
The last corners of England and Wales yet to be covered by a £5 billion push to widen fast broadband could finally get access to rapid downloads, streaming and video calls after the government announced £289 million in new taxpayer-funded contracts enabling coverage. The new contracts to lay full-fibre connections in areas not reached by private investment would apply in north Wales, including Anglesey, south-west Wales, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Devon, Somerset, Essex and the north-east of England, the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) announced.

Elon Musk’s Political Influence Wears Down Global Resistance to Starlink
The global wall of resistance to Elon Musk’s satellite business is crumbling. Even before Musk spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help Donald Trump retake the US presidency, SpaceX’s Starlink was picking off swaths of the world country by country.
Canada's Narrowing Digital Divide
More than 80% of Canadians have access to fixed broadband networks, but for rural Canadians that figure drops to just 60%. Yet, this gap between who has broadband access and who doesn't is closing in rural areas at a rate nearly three times faster than in urban areas.

Closing the gap: A call for more inclusive language technologies
A growing body of work has identified a digital language divide: the disparity between languages in terms of digital content availability, accessibility, and technological support.