Securing Minnesota's Future with Digital Equity Capacity Funds
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
January 2025
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Chairman Cruz Leads Senate Commerce GOP in Effort to Stop Biden FCC from Subsidizing Kids’ Unsupervised Internet Access
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX) led 13 Senate Commerce Republicans in introducing a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that would nullify a partisan FCC order. As adopted, the Biden administration’s Wi-Fi Hotspot Order expanded the Universal Service Fund (USF) to subsidize Wi-Fi hotspots for off-campus use by schoolchildren. This partisan order, strongly opposed by then-Commissioner Brendan Carr and Commissioner Nathan
Innovation Fund NOFO 3 Overview
This third Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will invest in software solutions for industry verticals and integration automation to further drive Open Radio access Network (Open RAN) adoption. It is comprised of two specific research focus areas:
Are we past peak social media? (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 01/27/2025 - 15:33Turnpike toll upgrades could shrink Pennsylvania’s broadband deserts
A nearly-finished project to upgrade Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls could end up boosting broadband access across the state.
Podcast | Federal Communications Commissioner O'Rielly on Future of TMT Regulation: Votes and Verdicts (Bloomberg)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 01/27/2025 - 12:50The case for consent in the AI data gold rush (Brookings)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 01/27/2025 - 11:11
The great BEAD monitoring challenge
Over the next 12 to 18 months, the vast majority of the $40 billion or in broadband deployment funding that U.S. Congress enacted in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will have been allocated to specific internet service providers (ISPs) for specific projects. Unless something goes wrong, all the roughly 6 million to 7 million BSLs targeted by the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program will be included in some BEAD project. But the hardest part of the work will still lie ahead.
Internet Service Providers React to $15 Rates in New York
AT&T announced that it will withdraw its 5G home Internet product in New York rather than comply with the law that requires it to offer broadband rates as low as $15. The law went into effect recently when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal for the New York law approved by the New York legislature in 2018.