FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore

Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

Satellite's solar panel glitch disrupts Alaskan broadband plans

Arcturus, the inaugural satellite from Astranis, was intended to deliver internet connectivity to Alaska.

Here's how much each state will get in the $42.5 billion broadband infrastructure plan | CNN Business

Internet users love fiber service—too bad you probably can’t get it

Fiber beats cable and everything else in ACSI customer satisfaction scores.

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

Jared Mauch gets $2.6 million from gov't to expand fiber ISP in rural Michigan.

Hackaday Links: June 26, 2022

Head for the hills!! We’re all doomed! At least that’s the impression you might get from the headlines about the monster Earth-facing sunspot this week. While any sunspot that doubles i…

Senate Commerce Votes To Approve Sohn, Bedoya To Guide Broadband Policy for Consumers

Today, Senate Commerce voted to approve Gigi Sohn as a Commissioner at the FCC and Alvaro Bedoya as a Commissioner for the FTC, marking a win for consumers!

15 Years Late, The FCC Cracks Down On Broadband Apartment Monopolies

A major trick dominant broadband providers use to limit competition is exclusive broadband arrangements with landlords. Often an ISP will strike an exclusive deal with the owner of a building, apartment complex, or development that effectively...

FCC To Take A Closer Look At Racial Discrimination In Broadband Deployment

The regional monopolization of U.S. broadband comes with all manner of nasty side effects. The lack of competition at the heart of the country's monopoly and duopoly problem contributed to high prices, comically bad customer service, slow speeds...

New FCC Broadband 'Nutrition Label' Will More Clearly Inform You You're Being Ripped Off

For years we've noted how broadband providers impose all manner of bullshit fees on your bill to drive up the cost of service post sale. They've also historically had a hard time being transparent about what kind of broadband connection...

New Washington Law Requires Home Sellers Disclose Lack Of Broadband Access

For decades the U.S. newswires have been peppered with stories where somebody bought a house after being told by their ISP it had broadband access, only to realize the ISP didn't actually serve that address. Generally, the homeowner then realizes...

FCC Politely Tells ISPs To Stop Abusing Covid Broadband Relief Program To Rip Off Poor People

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 gives money to...

Tech newsletter: Broadband 'nutrition labels'

In this week's tech newsletter we look at how the FCC will soon consider broadband 'nutrition labels' at an upcoming meeting.

Is 2022 the year FWA actually starts to threaten cable? | Light Reading

'Verizon and T-Mobile will add 1.8 million wireless home broadband customers in 2022,' predicted LightShed Partners. They said that's close to the total wired broadband customers Comcast, Charter and Altice might gain in 2022.

FCC Revisits Transparency 'Nutrition Label' For Broadband

For years we've noted how broadband providers impose all manner of bullshit fees on your bill to drive up the cost of service post sale. They've also historically had a hard time being transparent about what kind of broadband connection...

Shitty U.S. Broadband Maps Are A Feature, Not A Bug

We've noted a few times now how the U.S. is preparing to spend $42 billion to shore up broadband access, despite not actually knowing where broadband is or isn't available. It's part of a multi-decade effort to fix mediocre broadband...

Telecom Monopolies Are Exploiting Crappy U.S. Broadband Maps To Block Community Broadband Grant Requests

We've noted repeatedly that despite a lot of breathless rhetoric about America's "quest to bridge the digital divide," U.S. government leaders still don't actually know where broadband is or isn't available. Shoddy...

Every State Has a Chance to Deliver a “Fiber for All” Broadband Future: 2021 in Review

This year’s passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)—also known as the bipartisan infrastructure package—delivered on a goal EFF has sought for years. It finally creates a way for people to remedy a serious problem: a severe...