Project 2025's Plan for the NTIA
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
July 2024
Meta Has Run Hundreds of Ads for Cocaine, Opioids and Other Drugs (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 07/31/2024 - 06:19Meta Reaches $1.4 Billion Settlement With Texas Over Privacy Violations (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 07/31/2024 - 06:19The U.S. Wanted to Knock Down Huawei. It’s Only Getting Stronger. (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 07/31/2024 - 06:18Analysis
Analysis
Updated Lifeline Minimum Service Standards and Indexed Budget Amount
The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) announced updated minimum service standards for Lifeline-supported services as required by the 2016 Lifeline Order. The 2016 Lifeline Order established minimum service standards for certain Lifeline-supported services and established annual increases in those standards either in the FCC’s rules or pursuant to calculations set out in the Order and the FCC’s rules. Accordingly, the Bureau announced the newly calculated minimum service standard for fixed broadband data usage allowance, which is the same as the curren
Microsoft Cloud strength drives fourth quarter results (Microsoft)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 07/30/2024 - 17:38
Demonstrating compliance with the Buy America requirement
A framework for Build America, Buy America (BABA) self-certification and compliance in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program:
CWA: Broadband workers' safety and wages have gone down
We hear a lot of talk from the broadband industry about how there’s a labor shortage. But there’s not so much a labor shortage as there is “a shortage of good jobs,” according to Ceilidh Gao, senior research associate at Communication Workers of America (CWA). Wages “have gone down in recent decades” and the jobs are “less safe than they used to be,” she said.
Industry struggles to define ‘middle mile’ even though it’s critical to BEAD
Middle-mile may have become more important than ever in terms of fiber networks because all the last-mile networks that will be built for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program need to connect to something. But honing-in on a precise definition of middle-mile is a challenge even for industry insiders. Joe Pellegrini, president and COO with Great Plains Communications, said, “It’s an end-to-end system with real estate, points of presence….