September 2024

This document was created to support applicants in applying for the State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program: Native Entities (2024). The Notice of Funding Opportunity establishes a competitive process to make both State Digital Equity Planning Grant Program funds and State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program funds available to Native Entities to carry out digital equity and inclusion activities consistent with the Digital Equity Act. Proposed projects should address barriers to digital equity and promote:

Long-time observers of AT&T and Verizon may be wondering how low they can go on headcount. In mid-September, Verizon made the telecom news with a securities filing that warned around 4,800 jobs would be cut by March next year at a severance cost of about $1.8 billion. Without any hiring to offset those cuts, this would leave it with fewer than 100,000 employees for the first time this millennium.

With the “fiber wars” underway, cable’s got some catching up to do to ensure it’s not left in the dust with network deployments. Air Wireless, a newly formed company made up of former Comcast, Liberty Global and Vodafone execs, claims it has the solution with its proprietary wireless DOCSIS platform. The technology is “more or less” like fixed wireless access, said Air Wireless CRO Alex Salamon, as it uses radio frequencies to send internet signals.