The Educational Broadband Service and Why it Matters for Schoolchildren and Unserved Communities
Monday, December 3, 2018
December 2018
Editorial: A new FCC proposal on spam texts empowers companies instead of consumers (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 12/03/2018 - 06:34
Op-ed
Op-ed
What the government is doing on internet access
The federal government's efforts to provide ubiquitous internet access have had varying levels of success. The Federal Communications Commission says that more than 24 million Americans still lack fixed service that meets the FCC's broadband speed benchmark (25 Mbps download/3 Mbps upload). About 14 million rural Americans lack mobile LTE broadband.
The new digital divides
A look at four emerging forms of digital inequality: privacy, education, screen time and news. As ubiquitous as broadband connectivity may seem for those who live in cities or suburbs with comfortable incomes, here's the reality: