This Austin blues family is one of 20M households benefitting from #ACP. Join the fight for affordable internet with NDIA's ACP advocacy toolkit. buff.ly/3OWlR9V

You can’t have the strongest economy in the world with second-rate infrastructure. That’s why we’re investing in America’s roads, bridges, ports, airports, clean water, high-speed Internet, and so much more.

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Activists: "FCC can't afford to waste a single second" on #NetNeutrality. The rules have been gone for over 5 years. Other than ATT giving people free HBO for a hot sec, where are the "disastrous" effects?

We recently announced nearly $50M to expand middle-mile Internet infrastructure in NH, TN, VA, and WY. By investing, we're reducing the cost of connecting unserved and underserved areas by expanding on existing fiber networks in communities. ntia.gov/press-release/…

Google’s domain name was registered on this day in 1997.

"This report should serve as a call to action for the Biden administration and the states to ensure BEAD dollars are not funneled to duplicative and wasteful purposes, and instead are used to solve the nation’s connectivity challenges once and for all." nexttv.com/news/republica…

Latest in The Hill⁩: #Antitrust’s goal is to enhance consumer welfare, not tech exceptionalism. If Google’s rhetoric somehow prevails, then it’s time for Congress to provide some guidance on applying the consumer welfare standard in the #digital age. thehill.com/opinion/techno…

A lack of familiarity with the #AffordableConnectivityProgram is a major barrier to the program’s adoption, according to a survey by Connected Nation. More than one third of low-income respondents had not heard of the #ACP: bit.ly/3PmrvTg #FCC #digitaldivide #broadband

Interview: How Georgia is Getting Broadband to the Most Unserved of its Unserved Areas telecompetitor.com/interview-how-… #unserved #georgia

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, 40% of CA’s PK–12 households lacked reliable access to high-speed internet and a connected device. After a year of efforts to connect students for remote learning, that shortfall decreased to 29% by spring 2021: bit.ly/46fSgzj #FCC

👏In its first year, Computers 2 Kids gave out a hundred computers. This year, with help from large corporations like Loreal, that number is 36 thousand. bit.ly/3Pl1Nyt #digitaldivide #broadband #digitalequity #HomeworkGap #FCC #education #children #nonprofits Computers2Kids

🧵Two of President Obama's solicitor generals say FCC would be wasting its time reinstating Title II "#NetNeutrality" They note SCOTUS major questions doctrine preventing agencies from imposing regulations not authorized by Congress. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-p…

In 1998, Google was a “promising new site.”

RESEARCH PEEK OF THE WEEK: The percentage of households that would lose access to the internet—should Congress allow the #AffordableConnectivityProgram to expire—is greater in Red states than in Blue (39% versus 34%, respectively). bit.ly/45Z2VyC #digitaldivide #ACP #FCC

At #SubCommTech rural broadband hearing Rep. Bob Latta and Rep. Doris Matsui announce they're joining Senator Ben Ray Luján and John Thune's working group on USF. That's good: BEAD should finish rural divides, so USF's hulking High-Cost fund will be obsolete. Information Technology and Innovation Foundation itif.org/publications/2…

“Nothing in Title II ... or in any other statute gives the [FCC] the clear and unambiguous authority to classify broadband as a Title II telecommunications service subject to common carrier regulation, and the [FCC] cannot reasonably conclude otherwise." nexttv.com/news/obama-leg…

Letting #AffordableConnectivityProgram funding dry up would abruptly cut millions of low-income families off from the connectivity they now rely on to work, go to school, see their doctor...78% of Americans support continued funding for the #ACP bit.ly/465xfI3 #FCC #tech

🥹19 YEARS. It’s been 1⃣9⃣ years since the Internet Innovation Alliance was launched on Sept 23, 2004. But this bittersweet post is to announce that tomorrow’s anniversary will be IIA’s last; the coalition is shutting its digital doors. Read one last post: bit.ly/3Lum3fV

The Internet Innovation Alliance's 19th anniversary will be our last. The coalition is shutting its digital doors, because #universalbroadband is finally within sight. But even though IIA is going offline, it is our hope that we will always stay connected.