April 2020

Daily Digest 4/3/2020 (Adam Schlesinger)

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Fri, 04/03/2020

Broadband and the next stimulus bill

Faster Internet Is on the Way

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is taking steps to boost Wi-Fi across the country. He proposed to make 1,200 megahertz of the 6 GHz mid-band spectrum available for unlicensed use. This will effectively increase Wi-Fi spectrum capacity by a factor of five, enabling more inter-operable 5G devices such as smart appliances not to mention faster speeds so Americans can do more things online.

Berkeley Schools Leave Every Child Behind (updated)

My family has been forced into a social experiment. One of our daughters is in second grade at a private religious school. Her twin sister, who has special needs, attends a public school. Can you guess which one went online immediately? It’s not mainly a problem of resources. The private school went online in two days with Zoom. I’m teaching all my law-school classes online. New York, the country’s biggest school system, is going online.

Don’t Get Bombed: How to Host Zoom Meetings, Hangouts, Houseparty and More (Wall Street Journal)

Submitted by benton on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 06:53

How Tech’s Lobbyists Are Using the Pandemic to Make Gains (New York Times)

Submitted by benton on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 06:52

Google taps vast trove of location data to aid global effort to combat coronavirus (Washington Post)

Submitted by benton on Fri, 04/03/2020 - 06:52

AT&T Pledges $5.5M to Feed Front-Line COVID-19 Fighters (Multichannel News)

Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 17:44

California Public Utilities Commission says Sprint/T-Mobile merger must stop. Carriers say the state has no authority. (Ars Technica)

Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 17:44

Why the internet didn't break

Between Jan 29 (shortly after COVID-19 appeared in the US) and March 26 there was a 105% spike in people active online at home between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm. So why hasn’t the internet ground to a halt? The answer lies in the lessons of Mother’s Day and freeway traffic jams.

FCC Announces Tentative Agenda for April 2020 Open Meeting

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the items below are tentatively on the agenda for the Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Thursday, April 23, 2020:

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