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Wired: T-Mobile Swallows Sprint, Leaving 3 US Cellphone Giants

T-Mobile completed its acquisition of Sprint Wednesday, officially reducing the number of major mobile carriers in the US from four to three. To win approval of the deal, T-Mobile promised regulators not to raise prices and to expand rural coverage by building a 5G wireless network covering 97 percent of the US population within…

Posted on April 1, 2020April 3, 2020 by Kip Roderick

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Fox News: Pandemic telecommuting proves difficult – or impossible – for millions in ‘digital divide’

Working from home is the new normal for millions of Americans – but for millions more, it hasn't been so easy. When Cliff Johnson, a college professor living in rural Mississippi, pries open his laptop every morning, he holds his breath and hopes for the best. "The Internet already had been janky before we started…

Posted on March 31, 2020April 4, 2020 by Gigi Sohn

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Time: The Achievement Gap is ‘More Glaring Than Ever’ for Students Dealing with School Closures

When New York City closed schools to combat the coronavirus outbreak and ordered remote learning for its more than 1 million students, English teacher Stephanie Paz wasn’t worried about how she would virtually teach her ninth-graders to take notes in the margins of their books or how they would discuss each other’s essays without…

Posted on March 26, 2020April 3, 2020 by Kip Roderick

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Bloomberg Quint: In the ‘Year of 5G,’ Many Americans Still Struggle to Get Online Read more at:

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- This spring the U.S. government was planning to focus on its strategy for rolling out fifth-generation wireless networks, bringing faster internet connections to power movie downloads, telemedicine, self-driving cars, and more. Officials want to see 5G, now available in only some cities, ramped up quickly and to…

Posted on March 26, 2020April 4, 2020 by Gigi Sohn

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Vice Motherboard: Libraries Want to Turn Bookmobiles into Free WiFi Trucks During Coronavirus Lockdown

As millions of Americans hunker down to slow the spread of coronavirus, the lack of affordable broadband access has become a far more pressing problem. The FCC’s 2019 Broadband Deployment Report states that 21.3 million Americans lack access to any broadband whatsoever, be it cable, DSL, fiber, or wireless. Recent studies suggest…

Posted on March 24, 2020March 24, 2020 by Kip Roderick

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Bloomberg: 5G Won’t Help Rural Americans Shelter in Place

While the U.S. government and telecommunications industry have been engrossed in the race to 5G, much of the country is still in a slow crawl to regular home internet service. It’s a mistake with economic consequences, and unfortunately the coronavirus pandemic could provide the harshest evidence of that. Americans all around the…

Posted on March 23, 2020March 24, 2020 by Kip Roderick

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CNBC: Why the coronavirus pandemic may fast-forward 5G adoption in the US

n March 2020 everything that could be moved online already has, from elementary schools to college classes, from entire company workforces to shareholder meetings. Whole cities have emptied under the coronavirus threat as businesses tell employees to work from home, students are sent indoors to learn online and every type of entertainment—…

Posted on March 20, 2020March 21, 2020 by Gigi Sohn

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USA Today: Working or learning from home: Telecoms give boost in bandwidth to keep us online.

As Americans hunker down at home while schools and offices shutter in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, many of them will lack something besides human companionship: sufficient bandwidth for full-time telework or remote learning. In some cases, the problem is a data cap that once seemed painless but…

Posted on March 16, 2020March 17, 2020 by Kip Roderick

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CNBC: Government leans on tech and telecom firms to help students forced to stay home.

The federal government wants technology companies’ aid in helping students continue their education, as more are asked to do so from home amid the coronavirus outbreak, putting unprecedented pressure on America’s network. Representatives from companies including Amazon, Google, IBM and Cisco met at the White House on Wednesday with officials who asked the firms…

Posted on March 14, 2020March 17, 2020 by Kip Roderick

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Vice Motherboard: Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon Should Suspend Data Caps Because of Coronavirus

For years, US broadband providers have taken advantage of a lack of US competition by imposing arbitrary and expensive broadband usage caps and "overage fees." With the country facing a massive surge in videoconferencing and home learning thanks to the coronavirus epidemic, experts say it’s time for broadband providers to suspend these…

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