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Tuesday, March 12, 2019
March 2019
Daily Digest 3/12/2019
Submitted by benton on Tue, 03/12/2019 - 10:42Witnesses
Mr. John Legere
Chief Executive Officer, T-Mobile
Mr. Marcelo Claure
Executive Chairman, Sprint
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Daily Digest 3/12/2019 (The Budget)
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Top Universities Join to Push ‘Public Interest Technology’ (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 03/12/2019 - 06:57David Brooks: Suddenly technology has a centralizing effect (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 03/12/2019 - 06:56Op-ed: Why propaganda is more dangerous in the digital age (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 03/12/2019 - 06:54T-Mobile promises to support low-income Lifeline program 'indefinitely' if merger approved
In its continued effort to gain approval for its merger with Sprint, T-Mobile has pledged to keep supporting Sprint's low-income Assurance Wireless brand "indefinitely." Assurance along with Sprint's other prepaid brands, Boost Mobile and Virgin Wireless, and T-Mobile's Metro are popular with lower-income and cost-conscious Americans for their cheaper alternatives to traditional plans than the main four wireless networks. "The digital divide is real and we want to help eliminate it," T-Mobile president Mike Sievert said.
30 years on, what’s next #ForTheWeb?
Today, 30 years on from my original proposal for an information management system, half the world is online. It’s a moment to celebrate how far we’ve come, but also an opportunity to reflect on how far we have yet to go.To tackle any problem, we must clearly outline and understand it. I broadly see three sources of dysfunction affecting today’s web: