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| Aug 30, 2025 | Colorado’s energy future starts with distributed solar (Opinion) | Community solar allows renters, condo owners and anyone without suitable rooftops to access renewable energy, spreading costs and benefits across entire communities. Distributed power plants coordinate community solar and battery systems to... |
| Mar 26, 2025 | The Erosion of Free Speech: A Dangerous Dance with Section 230 | In the digital age, the battle for free speech is fought not just in the streets but in the halls of power. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act stands as a bulwark against censorship, a shield for online platforms that allows them... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Even Traditional GOP Allies Are Urging The FCC To End Its Baseless Attack On CBS, 60 Minutes | Last October, Trump sued CBS claiming (falsely) that a 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris had been “deceitfully edited” to her benefit (they simply shortened some of her answers for brevity, as news outlets often do). As Mike explored, t... |
| Mar 10, 2025 | 'Where Most of the Value Is Generated': CVS Plans to Open 12 Mini-Stores Centered on Pharmacy, Healthcare The stores will be less than half the size of a traditional CVS. | In a new plan, CVS is cutting its traditional stores in half and sweeping out the skincare, pretzels, and stationery you would expect at a standard location.
The drugstore giant is preparing to open 12 new mini-stores in cities and towns ac... |
| Nov 9, 2024 | The Battle for Broadband: Community Networks vs. Corporate Giants | In the vast landscape of American broadband, a silent war rages. On one side, corporate giants like AT&T and Comcast wield their power, shaping laws and regulations to protect their monopolies. On the other, communities yearn for better... |
| Nov 7, 2024 | 16 U.S. States Still Ban Community-Owned Broadband Networks Because AT&T and Comcast Told Them To | For years we’ve noted how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’s resulted in a growing number of pissed off towns, cities,... |
| Oct 2, 2024 | New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S. | The Institute For Local Self Reliance (disclosure: I have done writing and research for them) has released an updated interactive map of every community-owned and operated broadband network in the U.S.
All told, there’s now 400 community-ow... |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Fiber for the Future: Tribal Broadband Bootcamps Incorporate Fiber In 2024 | By Cristal Mojica
On March 10th, the latest installment of the Tribal Broadband Bootcamp kicked off in Temecula, California, with attendees representing tribes throughout California, as well as community utilities networks from across the ... |
| Feb 8, 2024 | America Tires Of Big Telecom’s Shit, Driving Boom In Community-Owned Broadband Networks | For decades, frustrated towns and cities all over the country have responded to telecom market failure by building their own fiber broadband networks. Data routinely shows that not only do these networks provide faster, better, and cheaper ... |
| Sep 22, 2023 | The Enshittification Of Streaming Continues As Amazon Starts Charging Prime Video Customers Even More Money To Avoid Ads | Thanks to industry consolidation and saturated market growth, the streaming industry has started behaving much like the traditional cable giants they once disrupted. As with most industries suffering from “enshittification,” that generally ... |
| May 17, 2023 | 50 states of solar incentives: Arizona | In the Southwest, the state of Arizona shares the reputation as one of the top five sunniest states and has huge potential for its solar market. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) ranked the state fifth in the U.S. for solar dep... |
| Apr 4, 2023 | Google Fiber Returns From The Dead To Deliver Actual Broadband Competition To Iowa | Back in 2016, Alphabet executives made it pretty clear they had grown tired of trying to disrupt the U.S. broadband industry with Google Fiber. Executives were fired, hundreds of employees were laid off, and any real expansion in the projec... |
| Apr 3, 2023 | The 2023 Digital Equity Spark Community Advisors | Digital inequity uniquely impacts entire communities at a time, cutting them off from their ability to participate in many integral aspects of modern-day life. When many of us can access the internet at will via devices at home and on the g... |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Biden Administration Makes It Clear Broadband Consumer Protection Has Never Been Much Of A Priority | Earlier this month we noted how a successful, often homophobic smear campaign scuttled the nomination of popular reformer Gigi Sohn to the FCC. The GOP and telecom sector, as usual, worked in close collaboration to spread all manner of lies... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | TikToker shows people how to live off Dollar Tree groceries that cost $35 a week as Americans flock to dollar stores for cheaper food | Rebecca Chobat set up the TikTok account Dollar Tree Dinners to show people how to cook with groceries sold at the discount chain. Courtesy of Rebecca Chobat
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| Jan 19, 2023 | Amazon is discontinuing its AmazonSmile charity program next month | Enlarge
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| Jan 10, 2023 | Five ways city leaders can support Black entrepreneurs’ efforts to ‘buy back the block’ | When it comes to commercial real estate ownership in majority-Black neighborhoods, Black business owners are often systemically excluded from the economic benefits such ownership can generate, while other investors amass control over profit... |
| Nov 18, 2022 | Whoops: Cable Giant Cable One Accidentally Sends Rival Email Saying Their Top Priority Is Killing Community-Funded Broadband | Telecom monopolies have spent decades trying to kill off public broadband efforts. Whether it’s outright lies about what municipal broadband will do or shitty protectionist laws specifically designed to undermine the will of voters, U.S. te... |
| Nov 16, 2022 | Here's how Amazon is squeezing selling partners ahead of a weaker-than-expected holiday season | Amazon is forecasting weaker-than-expected holiday sales. AP/Bebeto Matthews This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Oct 27, 2022 | Surprise: Big Telecom Ripped Off A Broadband Subsidy Program For Low Income Americans | Early in the pandemic, the FCC launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB program), which gives low income Americans a $50 discount off of their broadband bill. Under the program, the government gave money to ISPs, which then doled out d... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | Google Fiber Shows Signs Of Life, Promises 100 Gbps Service | Back in 2016, Alphabet executives made it pretty clear they had grown tired of trying to disrupt the U.S. broadband industry with Google Fiber. Executives were fired, hundreds of employees were laid off, and any real expansion in the projec... |
| Sep 19, 2022 | ‘Dozens’ Of Broadband Providers Ripped Off Low Income COVID Relief Program, FCC Says | During the COVID crisis, the FCC launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB program), which gives lower income Americans a $50 ($75 for those in tribal lands) discount off of their broadband bill. Under the program, the government gave m... |
| Aug 26, 2022 | 5G Wireless Nibbles Away At Cable Industry’s Broadband Dominance | Thanks to their dominance over broadband access in the U.S., cable companies had spent the last decade seeing significant broadband subscriber growth each and every quarter, since, well, there weren’t any other options. That ended during th... |
| Aug 8, 2022 | America’s Two Biggest Cable Broadband Monopolies Failed To Add Any New Customers Last Quarter | Roughly 83 million Americans currently live under a broadband monopoly. In most instances, their only choice is Comcast or Charter Communications, which sells service under the “Spectrum” brand. And in both cases, users pay significantly hi... |
| Jul 12, 2022 | Minnesota’s value-of-solar law helps protect consumers from rising natural gas prices, says group | Community solar built in Minnesota this year will earn 11.78 cents/kWh for the next 25 years – a rate set by state regulators under the state’s value-of-solar law.
“Assuming natural gas prices remain high,” the value that regulators set lat... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | In Tribal Nations, Broadband is More Than Just Internet. It’s a Pathway to a Better Life
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The Michelson 20MM Foundation is proud to launch the Digital Equity in Tribal Communities Project, a new multi-year effort to address digital inequity in indigenous communities. This project loo... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Tribal Broadband Bootcamp: Fostering Digital Sovereignty in Tribal Communities
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Tribal Broadband Bootcamps Bring Broadband Solutions to Indian Country... | The Michelson 20MM Foundation is proud to launch the Digital Equity in Tribal Communities Project, a new multi-year effort to address digital inequity in indigenous communities. This project looks to empower tribal nations with the knowledg... |
| May 5, 2022 | Квазигосударство Amazon | Amazon — титан коммерции, маркетинговая платформа, сеть доставки и логистики, платежная служба, издательство, платформа для фильмов и сериалов собственного производства, ведущий хостинг облачных серверов. Вроде все круто. Но не все.
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| Apr 25, 2022 | New York State Embraces Community Broadband | We’ve noted for a long time how data makes it clear that, contrary to claims by telecom monopolies, community broadband networks are hugely beneficial. They generally offer faster speeds at lower prices with better customer service than reg... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Amazon adds 5% “fuel and inflation” surcharge to seller fees for Prime shipping | Enlarge
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| Mar 28, 2022 | Distributed solar installed in 2021 nearly matches capacity of all new gas plants | Demand for electricity in the US is growing as more people power cars, appliances, and home heating with electricity rather than fossil fuels. But to be powered by clean energy, that electricity must be generated by renewable sources. Accor... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | No, U.S. Broadband Isn’t Miraculously Getting Cheaper | Hoping to pretend that the U.S. broadband industry is vibrant and competitive, every so often the broadband industry will issue a broad proclamation that U.S. broadband is secretly amazing and super affordable. Unfortunately data uniformly,... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | Community Solar: Interconnection bottlenecks and other barriers to growth | Achieving the US government’s ambitious climate goals will take an all-hands-on-deck approach. Several studies have looked at how much solar must be installed to meet the goal of 80% clean electricity by 2030, and the consensus is that at l... |
| Feb 24, 2022 | Where renewable energy policies are working | According to the Community Power Scorecard, released by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), four states lead the country in renewable energy policies: California, Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois.
The 2022 edition of the Comm... |
| Jan 31, 2022 | Where Do Grocery Prices Come From? | Grocery prices are going up, but how are they determined in the first place?getty |
| Dec 29, 2021 | House Republicans Don't Want Infrastructure Money Going Toward Broadband Competition | For years the broadband industry has successfully convinced the U.S. government to remain fixated exclusively on broadband coverage gaps, not the overall lack of broadband competition. That’s in part because they’ve known for decades that s... |
| Dec 29, 2021 | House Republicans Don't Want Infrastructure Money Going Toward Broadband Competition | For years the broadband industry has successfully convinced the U.S. government to remain fixated exclusively on broadband coverage gaps, not the overall lack of broadband competition. That's in part because they've known for decades that s... |
| Dec 27, 2021 | 3 Out Of 4 Americans Support Community Broadband, Yet 19 States Still Ban Or Hinder Such Networks | For years a growing number of US towns and cities have been forced into the broadband business thanks to US telecom market failure. Frustrated by high prices, lack of competition, spotty coverage, and terrible customer service, some 750 US ... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Dollar General is accused of putting workers’ safety at risk…again | Dollar General is growing at a rapid rate in the US. Elijah Nouvelage for The Washington Post via Getty Images
Dollar General is accused of repeatedly risking workers’ safety by the Department of Labor (DOL).
The discount chain was fined $U... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Italy fines Amazon $1.3 billion for abusing its market position | Italy’s competition authority announced that it had fined Amazon €1.129 billion, or roughly $1.3 billion at today’s exchange rate. According to the antitrust watchdog, Amazon has abused its dominant market position and pushed third-party se... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Итальянский антимонопольный регулятор оштрафовал Amazon на $1,3 млрд | Итальянский регулятор оштрафовал Amazon на €1,129 млрд, или $1,3 млрд за злоупотребление доминирующим положением на рынке логистических услуг. По словам антимонопольного ведомства, Amazon подталкивает продавцов использовать свой логистическ... |
| Dec 3, 2021 | Amazon Allegedly Exploits Small Businesses Through Hefty Fees! Third-Party Sellers Pay $34 per $100 Sale? | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 03 December 2021, 04:12 pm
Amazon is allegedly exploiting small businesses by requiring them to pay for third-party seller fees, which have continuously increased since 2014.
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| Dec 1, 2021 | Report claims Amazon collects over a third of seller revenue, bringing in $121B in 2021 | A new study claims that Amazon makes far more from fees on its Marketplace platform than even the cash cow known as AWS. The report says that Amazon’s fees for participating effectively on its store have grown to the point where sellers now... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Amazon’s strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving | Amazon has always presented its Marketplace, where outside businesses sell products through Amazon’s platform, as one of its biggest success stories: mutually beneficial to Amazon, sellers, and customers alike. But a new report says those b... |
| Nov 18, 2021 | Landfills could host more than 60 GW of solar, RMI says | The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) released a report, The Future of Landfills Is Bright, that offers a guide to considering the value of solar power installed on landfills. The report indicates that more than 63 GW of solar power plant capa... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Report: US ISPs Aren't Transparent About Prices And Speeds, And Regulators Generally Don't Care | By now we’ve well established that regional monopolization, limited competition, and the (state and federal) corruption that enables both (aka regulatory capture) are why US broadband is spotty, expensive, and slow. With neither competent r... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Report: US ISPs Aren't Transparent About Prices And Speeds, And Regulators Generally Don't Care | By now we've well established that regional monopolization, limited competition, and the (state and federal) corruption that enables both (aka regulatory capture) are why US broadband is spotty, expensive, and slow. With neither competent r... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | Miami should set the pace nationally for diversifying access to capital | Facebook
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| Oct 29, 2021 | Tired Of Federal Apathy, Oakland Moves To Ban Anticompetitive Broadband Landlord Deals | We’ve noted for years how corruption and apathy have resulted in the U.S. broadband sector being heavily monopolized, resulting in 83 million Americans having the choice of just one ISP. Tens of millions more Americans only have the choice ... |
| Oct 29, 2021 | Tired Of Federal Apathy, Oakland Moves To Ban Anticompetitive Broadband Landlord Deals | We've noted for years how corruption and apathy have resulted in the U.S. broadband sector being heavily monopolized, resulting in 83 million Americans having the choice of just one ISP. Tens of millions more Americans only have the choice ... |
| Oct 23, 2021 | A Dollar General store was robbed 4 times in 3 months, and critics say it shows how discount chains put their staff at risk | Critics say dollar stores have been hotbeds for crime in the US. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images
A Dollar General in Indianapolis was robbed four times in three months.
Critics say this is representative of a larger... |
| Sep 21, 2021 | Online Platform Helps Towns in the Northeast Gauge Community Interest in Publicly-Owned Fiber Broadband | SertexConnect from Sertex Broadband Solutions is a new tool for municipal leaders preparing to deploy FTTX networks. Broadband access is an essential utility. SertexConnect helps communities get the information they need to start on their p... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Statement of Chair Lina M. Khan, Commissioner Rohit Chopra, and Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on the Withdrawal of the Vertical Merger Guidelines | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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| Jul 28, 2021 | ISPs Abuse FCC Covid Broadband Discount Program, Showing It's A Band Aid On A Much Bigger Problem | |
| Jul 26, 2021 | It’s Time To Expand Internet Access With Fixed Wireless Broadband At Gigabit Speeds | Kevin Ross is Founder and CEO of WeLink. He is a pioneer in wireless broadband and is focused on revolutionizing its future. |
| Jul 19, 2021 | Report Finds Big Telecom Spends $320,000 on Lobbying Every Day | A new study argues crappy U.S. broadband is an active policy choice—and a direct result of pathetically weak U.S. lobbying and corporate finance laws.
Over the last few years big internet service providers have killed net neutrality, elimin... |
| Jul 9, 2021 | White House Executive Order Poised to Restore Net Neutrality | The White House this week unveiled a new executive order that will rein in anticompetitive behavior across numerous industries, including a mandate to restore telecom oversight stripped away during the Trump era. According to a fact sheet c... |
| Jul 6, 2021 | Even Elon Musk Makes It Clear Starlink Could Have Limited Impact, May Not Be Financially Viable | When even Elon Musk is reining in expectations and speaking carefully about one of his products, you know you probably shouldn't get too excited. |
| Jul 6, 2021 | Even Elon Musk Makes It Clear Starlink Could Have Limited Impact, May Not Be Financially Viable | When even Elon Musk is reining in expectations and speaking carefully about one of his products, you know you probably shouldn’t get too excited. |
| Jun 30, 2021 | ‘Food apartheid’ remains a hurdle for millions of Americans, but it severely harms the elderly | Lack of access to fresh food is no accident – it’s a multi-faceted issue that hinges on power.
Looking at the state of Indiana as an example, racial discrimination and years of divestment have contributed to worsening food access conditions... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Recent Antitrust Push Is Weirdly Narrow, Pretends Telecom And Banking Don't Exist | As you’ve probably noticed, there’s a big new “antitrust” push afoot in DC. As you may have also noticed, many of these proposals don’t actually do a whole lot to reform US antitrust or monopoly problems in any broad way. Scholars for decad... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Recent Antitrust Push Is Weirdly Narrow, Pretends Telecom And Banking Don't Exist | As you've probably noticed, there's a big new "antitrust" push afoot in DC. As you may have also noticed, many of these proposals don't actually do a whole lot to reform US antitrust or monopoly problems in any broad way. Scholars... |
| Jun 15, 2021 | Lina Khan will be chair of the Federal Trade Commission | The Senate has voted to appoint Lina Khan, an antitrust law expert and a major critic of Big Tech’s power, to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The vote was 68 in favor and 28 opposed, which represents a stunning level of bipartisanship i... |
| Jun 14, 2021 | Big Telecom Blocks Attempt to Bring $15 Broadband To Covid Victims | A Judge has sided with the broadband industry and barred New York State from offering discounted broadband to those struggling during the COVID crisis.
The order by US District Judge Denis Hurley imposes an immediate injunction on New York ... |
| May 28, 2021 | Starlink Reviews Show The Limitations Of Musk's Broadband Play | So we’ve already noted several times that while Elon Musk’s Starlink internet broadband service will be a great thing for folks certainly out of the range of existing broadband options, it’s not going to be the massive disruption many peopl... |
| May 28, 2021 | Starlink Reviews Show The Limitations Of Musk's Broadband Play | So we've already noted several times that while Elon Musk's Starlink internet broadband service will be a great thing for folks certainly out of the range of existing broadband options, it's not going to be the massive disruption many peopl... |
| May 19, 2021 | Elon Musk Makes It Clear Starlink Won't Have The Capacity To Disrupt U.S. Broadband | SpaceX says the company has received more than 500,000 pre-orders for the company’s growing low-orbit satellite broadband service. The company opened up pre-orders back in February, and says it currently has about 10,000 users around the wo... |
| May 19, 2021 | Elon Musk Makes It Clear Starlink Won't Have The Capacity To Disrupt U.S. Broadband | SpaceX says the company has received more than 500,000 pre-orders for the company's growing low-orbit satellite broadband service. The company opened up pre-orders back in February, and says it currently has about 10,000 users around the wo... |
| May 14, 2021 | Microsoft Data Shows That The FCC's Broadband Maps Are Fantasy | We've noted for a very long time that despite a lot of lip service about broadband, the U.S. government still doesn't have a very good idea of where broadband is or isn't available. There's a long line of reasons for this, including politic... |
| May 14, 2021 | Microsoft Data Shows That The FCC's Broadband Maps Are Fantasy | We’ve noted for a very long time that despite a lot of lip service about broadband, the U.S. government still doesn’t have a very good idea of where broadband is or isn’t available. There’s a long line of reasons for this, including politic... |
| May 12, 2021 | Study Finds US Broadband Gaps Three Times Worse Than The FCC Claims | As one of his last acts as Trump’s FCC boss, former agency Chairman Ajit Pai released a rosy report claiming that America was making great strides in bridging the “digital divide.” According to the report (pdf), 14.5 million Americans now l... |
| May 12, 2021 | Study Finds US Broadband Gaps Three Times Worse Than The FCC Claims | As one of his last acts as Trump's FCC boss, former agency Chairman Ajit Pai released a rosy report claiming that America was making great strides in bridging the "digital divide." According to the report (pdf), 14.5 million Ameri... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | Working from home can mean surprise energy bills. Green power can help. | Many people working from home during the pandemic have gotten a rude surprise: higher energy bills. But improvements in technology and a last-minute tax credit extension is making it easier for homeowners to save by retrofitting their house... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Wall Street Stock Jocks Are Worried About A Modest Uptick In Broadband Competition | For decades, America's entrenched broadband monopolies have had it pretty good. Despite a brief blip there during the Wheeler FCC years, they've been hugely successful in gutting most of the meaningful regulatory oversight of natural monopo... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Wall Street Stock Jocks Are Worried About A Modest Uptick In Broadband Competition | For decades, America’s entrenched broadband monopolies have had it pretty good. Despite a brief blip there during the Wheeler FCC years, they’ve been hugely successful in gutting most of the meaningful regulatory oversight of natural monopo... |
| Apr 5, 2021 | US Press Continues To Pretend The 'Digital Divide' Just Mysteriously Appeared One Day | So if you've read Techdirt for any amount of time, you should be pretty well clued in to the fact that US telecom is a heavily monopolized, feebly regulated mess. Regional cable giants like Comcast and Charter absolutely dominate the market... |
| Apr 5, 2021 | US Press Continues To Pretend The 'Digital Divide' Just Mysteriously Appeared One Day | So if you’ve read Techdirt for any amount of time, you should be pretty well clued in to the fact that US telecom is a heavily monopolized, feebly regulated mess. Regional cable giants like Comcast and Charter absolutely dominate the market... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | FCC Wants To Hear Your Thoughts On Crappy US Broadband | One consistent point of pride for the Trump FCC, like many Trump agencies, was its active disdain for real world data. It didn't matter how much data showed that US broadband was expensive and spotty due to monopolization (and there's a lot... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | FCC Wants To Hear Your Thoughts On Crappy US Broadband | One consistent point of pride for the Trump FCC, like many Trump agencies, was its active disdain for real world data. It didn’t matter how much data showed that US broadband was expensive and spotty due to monopolization (and there’s a lot... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Comcast Forced To Back Off Broadband Cap Expansion... Until Next Year | Last November, Comcast quietly announced that the company would be expanding its bullshit broadband caps into the Northeast, one of the last Comcast territories where the restrictions hadn't been imposed yet. Of course Comcast was utterly t... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Comcast Forced To Back Off Broadband Cap Expansion… Until Next Year | Last November, Comcast quietly announced that the company would be expanding its bullshit broadband caps into the Northeast, one of the last Comcast territories where the restrictions hadn’t been imposed yet. Of course Comcast was utterly t... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | New Bill Tries To Ban Community Broadband. During A Pandemic. | Having covered telecom for twenty years, I’ve found there’s a good shortcut to determining if somebody’s really serious about fixing US broadband issues: can they admit that (1) monopolies exist, and (2) that this results in a lack of compe... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | New Bill Tries To Ban Community Broadband. During A Pandemic. | Having covered telecom for twenty years, I've found there's a good shortcut to determining if somebody's really serious about fixing US broadband issues: can they admit that (1) monopolies exist, and (2) that this results in a lack of compe... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Annoyance Builds At Elon Musk Getting A Billion In Subsidies For Starlink Broadband | So we’ve noted a few times how Elon Musk’s Starlink is going to be a great thing for folks stuck out of reach of traditional broadband options. Though with a $600 first month price tag ($100 monthly bill and $500 hardware charge) it’s not s... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Annoyance Builds At Elon Musk Getting A Billion In Subsidies For Starlink Broadband | So we've noted a few times how Elon Musk's Starlink is going to be a great thing for folks stuck out of reach of traditional broadband options. Though with a $600 first month price tag ($100 monthly bill and $500 hardware charge) it's not s... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | A Few Reminders Before The Tired Net Neutrality Debate Is Rekindled | Bad news for folks "worn out" by the longstanding debate over net neutrality: it's about to be rekindled in a major way. But for those who are a bit too easily annoyed by having to revisit this well tread path, it's worth remember... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | A Few Reminders Before The Tired Net Neutrality Debate Is Rekindled | Bad news for folks “worn out” by the longstanding debate over net neutrality: it’s about to be rekindled in a major way. But for those who are a bit too easily annoyed by having to revisit this well tread path, it’s worth remembering that t... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | That's A Wrap: Techdirt Greenhouse, Broadband In The Covid Era | Over the last few months a wide variety of activists, experts, engineers, and academics provided their insights into broadband access (or a lack thereof) in the COVID era. We'd like to thank all of the participants for their insights during... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | That's A Wrap: Techdirt Greenhouse, Broadband In The Covid Era | Over the last few months a wide variety of activists, experts, engineers, and academics provided their insights into broadband access (or a lack thereof) in the COVID era. We’d like to thank all of the participants for their insights during... |
| Dec 15, 2020 | Space X Gets $886 Million From FCC To Put Very Small Dent In U.S. Broadband Gaps | For a country that likes to talk about “being number one” a lot, that’s sure not reflected in the United States’ broadband networks, or the broadband maps we use to determine which areas lack adequate broadband or competition (resulting in ... |
| Dec 15, 2020 | Space X Gets $886 Million From FCC To Put Very Small Dent In U.S. Broadband Gaps | For a country that likes to talk about "being number one" a lot, that's sure not reflected in the United States' broadband networks, or the broadband maps we use to determine which areas lack adequate broadband or competition (res... |
| Dec 3, 2020 | U.S. Broadband Speeds Jumped 90% in 2020. But No, It Had Nothing To Do With Killing Net Neutrality. | Last last week, a report out of the UK topped the trending news items at Hacker News. The report found that U.S. broadband speeds -- historically the poster child for mediocrity -- jumped roughly 90% during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The impro... |
| Dec 3, 2020 | U.S. Broadband Speeds Jumped 90% in 2020. But No, It Had Nothing To Do With Killing Net Neutrality. | Last last week, a report out of the UK topped the trending news items at Hacker News. The report found that U.S. broadband speeds — historically the poster child for mediocrity — jumped roughly 90% during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The improve... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | Comcast Increases Prices And Bogus Fees In The Middle Of A Pandemic | Last week, we noted how Comcast had expanded its bullshit broadband usage caps during a pandemic, insisting that the confusing, technically-unnecessary restrictions were being deployed in an alleged act of fairness. Of course as we noted, t... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | Comcast Increases Prices And Bogus Fees In The Middle Of A Pandemic | Last week, we noted how Comcast had expanded its bullshit broadband usage caps during a pandemic, insisting that the confusing, technically-unnecessary restrictions were being deployed in an alleged act of fairness. Of course as we noted, t... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Comcast Expands Costly and Pointless Broadband Caps During a Pandemic | Comcast has decided that the middle of an economic and health crisis is the perfect time to impose costly and unnecessary new restrictions on the company’s broadband subscribers. The nation’s biggest cable company quietly announced this wee... |
| Nov 10, 2020 | Support Your Local Farms for the Holidays! | Ready or Not, Holidays are Here!
The weather has turned, Halloween is behind us and it is time to start looking forward to the holiday season. No matter how you celebrate this winter, the centerpiece of the holidays is food. With many trave... |
| Nov 9, 2020 | We Do Not Have the Internet We Deserve | Nothing that currently exists can compete with fiber. Nothing replicates the future growth fiber networks will deliver, simply because nothing that moves data has the inherent capacity of a fiber wire. It isn’t even close by any technical m... |
| Nov 5, 2020 | Cares Act Broadband Funding Came With Unrealistic Deadlines, Ruining Good Intentions | As our current Techdirt Greenhouse panel is exploring, COVID-19 has shone a very bright light on the importance of widely available, affordable broadband. Nearly 42 million Americans lack access to any broadband whatsoever–double FCC estima... |
