FCC: Broadband Market is on the Cusp of Generational Change
Friday, January 6, 2023
January 2023
Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Senator for More Than Two Decades, Won’t Run in 2024 (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/06/2023 - 07:01Mark Jamison on Broadband in 2023 (American Enterprise Institute)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/06/2023 - 07:00WhatsApp adds feature to bypass internet censors in repressive regimes (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/06/2023 - 06:59Microsoft, Activision back off aggressive claim in FTC case (Axios)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/06/2023 - 06:58Weekly Digest
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Internet providers warn against EU plans to make Big Tech cover telcos costs (Euro-IX)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/05/2023 - 17:43More phones will connect to satellites this year. Here’s what it means for you. (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/05/2023 - 16:38WhatsApp just made it harder to censor citizens with Internet shutdowns (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 01/05/2023 - 16:37
An $8 Billion Phone Subsidy for Poor Is Targeted by Conservative Group
The $8.6 billion Universal Service Fund, a linchpin of US communications funding since the late 1990s, helps more than 8 million people afford phone and internet service. The conservative advocacy group Consumers’ Research filed lawsuits in three US courts saying the program should be invalidated because its funding is set by regulators, rather than by Congress, which has taxing authority. There’s a high chance one of the courts will strike down the program in 2023, shifting the battle to the Supreme Court, where justices skeptical of US regulatory agencies could hand the challengers a win.