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Executive Summary Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are rapidly becoming part of the fabric of everyday American life. From customer service to image generation to manufacturing, AI systems are everywhere. Alongside their transformative potential for good, AI systems also pose risks of harm. These risks include inaccurate or false outputs; unlawful discriminatory algorithmic decision making; destruction of jobs and the dignity of work; and compromised privacy, safety, and security. Given their influence and ubiquity, these systems must be subject to security and operational mechanisms that mitigate risk and warrant stakeholder trust that they will not cause harm.
Click headline to view the data chart that leads the text below. This is taken directly from the original Verizon PA plan, which was dated December 1994, which is 30 years ago. It was literally called “Opportunity Pennsylvania”, sometimes referred to as Chapter 30. Bell Atlantic PA now Verizon Communications, claimed it would modernize the critical telecom infrastructure by upgrading the state telecommunications public utility by replacing the aging copper wires with fiber optic.wires and this construction process would be 100% completed by 2015 for urban, suburban, and rural areas equally, with a speed of 45 Mbps in both directions. Like all Verizon states, the state changed the laws to be able to charge customers for these upgrades that did not happen — multiple times. Why Tell this Story? Let’s present some excerpts from the original Telecommunication Public Utility Commission documents.
I heard a chilling story recently. AT&T apparently notified a bunch of employees in Los Angeles that their jobs are being eliminated and that they need to report to other cities like Dallas or lose their job. Many of these employees were relocated to Los Angeles in the last five or six years, and the…
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced plans to introduce a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would expand customer choice in apartments, condos, public housing, and other multi-tenant buildings. The NPRM will cover two new areas of regulation. The first is that tenants will be able to opt out of bulk billing arrangements where landlords build broadband…
News Network expansion work in the Houston area is now on full throttle thanks to recent investments from Comcast. By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Comcast, the largest ISP in the Houston area, has invested more than $265 million into network expansion efforts that will reach more than 100,000 homes and businesses by the year's end. Construction…
In this podcast episode, Christopher speaks with Brian Snider, founder of Lit Communities, discussing his extensive experience in the broadband industry and the importance of community-driven broadband initiatives. They emphasize the need for innovative business models to bridge the digital divide and highlight the significance of education and workforce development in shaping the industry's future.
WASHINGTON– Today the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) launched a new mapping tool, the NTIA Permitting and Environmental Information Application, to help grant recipients and others deploying infrastructure identify permit requirements and avoid potential environmental impacts when connecting a particular location to high-speed Internet service.
There is a lot of broadband legislation introduced every year in State legislatures, and most States only pass a few of the dozens of bills proposed each session. Every once in a while, a particularly egregious or curious bill gets introduced. The Blandin Foundation broadband blog recently posted the text of proposed legislation in Minnesota…
A research paper quietly released by Apple describes an AI model called MM1 that can answer questions and analyze images. It’s the biggest sign yet that Apple is developing generative AI capabilities.
If providers opt to provide ACP benefits in May they may need to absorb some unexpected costs themselves.
Many customers are canceling their cable subscriptions in favor of online streaming services. As the number of cable subscribers drops, so does the available funding for PEG stations.
Most Democratic senators support Affordable Connectivity Program extension, plus 'Rip and Replace' funding.
New Street Research analysts used survey and other data to calculate the effect of the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP): the loss of $4 billion in market value and $1.1 billion in revenues.
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The North Star of communications policy should be to make services faster, better, and cheaper for all. Yet, next year, about 50 million Americans could find that their access to the core communications service of our time—broadband—has become slower, worse, and more expensive, with many even likely to be disconnected. That shift would constitute the […]
Language added to a New York State budget bill is threatening to undermine a municipal broadband grant program established by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office earlier this year. Buried near the bottom of the Assembly budget proposal is a Trojan horse legislative sources say is being pushed by lobbyists representing Charter Spectrum, the regional cable monopoly and 2nd largest cable company in the U.S. that was nearly kicked out of New York by state officials in 2018 for atrocious service.
The Birth Of Community Broadband Glasgow, Kentucky, was the first municipal network to deliver broadband to everyone in the community. This town of 14,000 people took a leap of faith in the 1990s and invested in new infrastructure for the future.
Today POLITICO published a sweeping, transatlantic look inside the global efforts to regulate AI, from reporters Mark Scott, Gian Volpicelli, Mohar Chatterjee, Vincent Manancourt, Clothilde Goujard and Brendan Bordelon. Below is an excerpt of the story, readable in its entirety here, focusing on the competing, sometimes fraught efforts to set a global standard for AI regulation that played out in Japan last year, just ahead of the Bletchley AI policy conference in the United Kingdom.
As we work to close the digital divide, we must define the Internet as a public utility. The AB 1714 bill proposed defining “public utility”.
Operators will seed their markets with new, speedier DOCSIS 4.0 modems and gateways ahead of network-side upgrades, Vantiva CTO Charles Cheevers says. Wi-Fi 7 is a perfect match for D4.0, so what role will Wi-Fi 8 play?
An FCC filing hints at an agreement between Globalstar and Walmart to test XCOM RAN equipment in Walmart distribution facilities in Brooksville, Florida; and Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
Despite roadblocks thrown up against public broadband, municipalities will still be allowed to apply for BEAD grants Whether or not they'll win any money&nb | Public broadband networks are allowed to throw their hats into the BEAD money ring. But do they actually have a shot at winning?
A federal judge has dismissed claims that Google violated an Illinois biometric privacy law by allegedly amassing a database of faceprints.
Deloitte's 2024 Media Trends report found Americans pay $61/month for streaming video, and that 36% think the cost is too high.
Please Sir! May I have Another? READ THE REPORT: The IRREGULATORS Call for Audits and Investigations of the Cable, Broadband, Internet, Phone & Wireless Service Prices, the Underlying Revenues, Expenses, Profits, as Well as the Controlling Factors — the Cross-Subsidies and Regulatory Capture. This cable triple play bill, modified, is from our new short report, summarized herein, outlining the excess charges, made up fees and hyper inflated rates we now pay in America — the word ‘affordability’ does not exist. With the ACP program winding down, it is time for some reality about how we ended up with prices that are multiples of what is charged overseas — should be front and center.
Yahoo Finance reports… Intrepid Fiber Networks is excited to announce the latest expansion of its open access fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Intrepid Fiber will bring secure, reliable, fiber broadband connectivity to over 54,000 households and businesses, setting a new standard for Internet services in the region.
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