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President Biden's infrastructure plan could transform broadband in the U.S.
In 2021, the big show for broadband stimulus will come in the bill that emerges from President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan–the American Jobs Plan. Democratic and Republican lawmakers should be able to find plenty of common ground in the core parts of the bill. Members of both parties are hearing from their constituents about the shortcomings of broadband service now that remote working and schooling have become central parts of life. Other issues will have to be hashed out:
Op-Ed: 3 considerations for those hoping to bridge the digital divide and create an equal playing field for future workers (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 17:22Opinion | Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 01/26/2021 - 12:06Climate change, the digital divide, infectious disease, and unemployment are the top global risks (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/19/2021 - 06:33With Verizon-WeWork deal, 5G’s next destination is the great indoors (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 12/22/2020 - 14:184 ways to network in an all-remote world (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/17/2020 - 10:24Comcast’s 1.2 TB data cap seems like a ton of data—until you factor in remote work
Comcast will subject all its residential broadband customers to a 1.2 terabyte monthly data cap. The threshold that Comcast will start enforcing does, indeed, allow for a lot of online life before getting socked by surcharges of $10 for each extra 50 GB, up to $100 a month.
Remote work can’t change everything until we fix this $80 billion problem
Providing reliable, high-speed internet to remote parts of the U.S. has been a challenge for years. And the COVID-19 pandemic has created a renewed sense of urgency to solve it. Finally solving America’s digital divide will depend on either a technological innovation or governmental intervention.