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Today's top broadband news
US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla orders every ISP in the US to block three pirate streaming services (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 05/03/2022 - 17:33AT&T tries pushing customers to new wireless plans with price hikes on old ones (Vox)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 05/03/2022 - 17:32Broadband Financials: A Practical Primer
With the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program the federal government has made a historic investment of $42.5 billion into broadband infrastructure. This is an unprecedented amount of funding to universalize broadband in the United States – but without proper guidance, it could easily be wasted. This primer provides an introduction to broadband financials and some key questions broadband officials should consider incorporating into their evaluation process.
Oakland, California’s New CIO to Tackle Digital Divide
Oakland (CA)’s new chief information officer Tony Batalla said he would work to reduce internet access gaps in the city and support digital literacy efforts. Oakland is home to a major port, adjacent to the University of California, Berkeley, and near Silicon Valley, but along with those economic advantages are some neighborhoods in the city beset by crime and poverty. Batalla, who started May 2, sees internet access and technology helping address the needs of those communities.