How NTIA Can Use Historic Investments to Ensure Universal Broadband
Monday, February 7, 2022
February 2022
Analysis
Analysis
Digital inclusion community practitioners, advocates, academics, Internet service providers, and policymakers to discussing:
- local, state, and federal policies and policy innovations impacting digital equity,
- sources of financial and programmatic support of digital inclusion programs,
- and digital inclusion best practices from across the country.
A Roadmap for Affordable Broadband: Lessons from the Emergency Broadband Benefit
The phase-out of the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program (EBB) and the transition to the new Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) represents an opportunity to take stock of the EBB program’s impact, and adjust key parameters to enhance the impact of the ACP.
Ubiquity Investing $100 Million in 2 Texas Open Access Networks (telecompetitor)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 02/06/2022 - 10:49WOW! Begins Greenfield Strategy with $60 Million Fiber Investment in Florida (telecompetitor)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 02/06/2022 - 10:48American Spy Agencies Are Struggling in the Age of Data (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 02/06/2022 - 10:47Verizon’s phone contracts are all three years now (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 02/06/2022 - 10:47House lawmakers urge President Biden to bolster the NTIA and nominate a Chief Technolgoy Officer
Rep Doris Matsui (D-CA), along with seven colleagues, sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to support the development and execution of the Biden Administration’s spectrum policy by bolstering the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and quickly nominating a Chief Technology Officer (CTO). “To ensure agencies have the requisite resources to fulfill their mandates and to maintain US leadership in next-generation communications networks, it is imperative that the Federal government have a unified approach to spectrum policy,” said the letter.
Windstream, Charter score $183 Million in ARPA funding to build broadband in Georgia
Windstream unveiled plans to deploy fiber to more than 80,000 locations across the state of Georgia over the coming years after it was awarded $171 million to complete a number of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) grant projects. The operator’s Kinetic division is set to partner with 18 different counties in the state to execute the builds. In addition to the funding it won, Windstream said it plans to pump $133 million of its own cash into the projects. Work is set to begin this year and be fully completed by the end of 2026.