November 2021
The free laptop program built into President Biden's reconciliation plan
The bipartisan infrastructure bill contains billions to expand high-speed broadband across the country, aiming to close the digital divide over the next 10 years. But the Biden administration’s $65 billion down payment on broadband can only help connect families who can afford a computer. So President Biden’s latest version of the Build Back Better program goes further, allocating new funds to bring federally funded desktops, laptops, and tablets to low-income Americans.
Shira Ovide: The Strange Saga of Huawei (New York Times)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 11/03/2021 - 10:24Why Facebook Is More Worried About Europe's Impending Online Regulations Than the US (Politico)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 11/03/2021 - 10:22Microsoft’s Own Metaverse Is Coming, and It Will Have PowerPoint (Bloomberg)
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021
T-Mobile reports third-quarter earnings
T-Mobile's third-quarter profits slipped as higher costs and a lull in new customer additions following a headline-grabbing hack sapped its bottom line. The company said it added 673,000 phone subscribers in the closely watched market for postpaid wireless service during Q3 2021. The tally lagged behind AT&T, which reported a net gain of 928,000 such subscribers over the same span.
Revved-Up FCC 3.45-GHz Spectrum Auction Gets In Gear
With little movement in the top markets and increases of only tens of millions of dollars per round in the rest of the country, the Federal Communications Commission is looking to get bidders in the 3.45-GHz midband spectrum auction off the sidelines and move toward the finish line. By round 85, the auction had raised $21,426,504,290 in gross bids. That is about 50 percent higher than the reserve price the FCC set of $14.775 billion to make sure the auction covers the price of relocating federal users of the 100 MHz of the band the Department of Defense agreed to share.