A Year One Update on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Investing in Broadband Deployment
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
November 2022
What is Mastodon? What to know about the decentralized site some see as a Twitter alternative (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/16/2022 - 06:32Twitter layoffs slash content moderation staff as new CEO Elon Musk looks to outsource (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/16/2022 - 06:31Senate Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cantwell Wants Children’s Online Privacy Bills Passed During Lame Duck (Senate Commerce Committee)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/16/2022 - 06:31Apple’s satellite emergency service launches in the US and Canada (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/16/2022 - 06:30Analysis
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Broadband Data Task Force Announces Access to the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric for Other Entities and Releases Methodology Manual
The Federal Communications Commission's s Broadband Data Task Force (Task Force), Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB), and Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA) announced that parties may now begin the process of obtaining a license to the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric for purposes of preparing and submitting challenges through the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection (BDC). To access the Fabric data, each entity must register in the Commission Registration System (CORES), log into the BDC system, and execute a limited end-user license agreement for the Fabric.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Turns One: A Progress Report on Internet For All
The Internet For All initiative is moving with speed to deliver on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s goal. We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished in the first year, which includes:
Elon Musk's other unfinished project
There’s one bit of the future that Elon Musk has built and isn’t interested in using: A potential power that researchers have identified in his Starlink satellite system. For the past two years, Todd Humphreys, an Army-funded researcher at the University of Texas in Austin, and a team of researchers reverse-engineered signals sent from thousands of Starlink internet satellites in low Earth orbit to ground-based receivers, finding that the constellation could form a precise navigation sy
NDIA Adds Community Perspectives on FCC Digital Discrimination Process
The Federal Communications Commission is engaging the public in a few ways in its effort to learn about different perspectives on digital discrimination. Beginning with the Notice of Inquiry (NOI), the FCC asked for input on how to implement the digital discrimination section of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). In May, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) submitted comments on our perspective of how the FCC should implement rules to prevent and eliminate digital discrimination.