Blogs
Analysis
Weekly Digest
How Technology Is Influencing Your Vote
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Robbie’s Round-Up
Week of February 15-19, 2016
Weekly Digest
Love is in the Air: President Obama Proposes (a Budget) and a Sentimental Anniversary
You’re reading the Benton Foundation’s Weekly Round-up, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked) telecommunications stories of the week. The round-up is delivered via e-mail each Friday; to get your own copy, subscribe at www.benton.org/user/register
Robbie’s Round-Up
Week of February 8-12, 2016
Analysis
Bringing Broadband to Digital Deserts
For nearly 35 years, the Benton Foundation has promoted policy solutions to make sure all Americans have equitable and affordable access to information infrastructure and to information and knowledge essential to community and individual development.
Benton Editorial
Happy 20th Anniversary, Telecommunications Act
A Day to Recommit to Universal Broadband Access
I love anniversaries. They give us a chance to review where we’ve been – and recommit to our goals. Today is one of those days.
Weekly Digest
Updates on Broadband Subsidies, and a New Safe Harbor Deal
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Robbie’s Round-Up
Week of February 1-5, 2016
Data Caps and Vulnerable Populations
Today, most Internet service providers (ISPs) have implemented some form of a data cap.(1) These caps limit the amount of access a consumer has to data before they are charged surplus fees or cut off from the network. Although there is little clarity as to why such caps are necessary, their unintended consequences could be disastrous for vulnerable populations.
Op-ed
The Scariest Cable Merger Nobody In Washington Is Talking About
When Comcast tried to merge with Time Warner Cable last year, reaction was swift and negative. Not many people liked the idea of America’s largest and least loved cable company getting any bigger; the deal collapsed after hundreds of thousands of Americans spoke out and federal regulators signaled that they would not let it go forward.
Analysis
Sisyphus, We’re Still Waiting
A year and a half ago, this blog discussed the “Sisyphean Task” imposed upon the Federal Communications Commission to engage in a never-ending review of its broadcast ownership rules.
Weekly Digest
There’s No Debating It: Broadband’s Shaky Progress; Cruz’s Title II Misinformation; and Freeing the Set-Top Box
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Robbie’s Round-Up
Week of January 25-29, 2016