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Gigi Sohn is a Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Benton Senior Fellow & Public Advocate. She is the host of the "Tech on the Rocks Podcast." Gigi sits on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Gigi is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable and democratic communications networks. For thirty years, Gigi has worked across the country to defend and preserve the fundamental competition and innovation policies that have made broadband Internet access more ubiquitous, competitive, affordable, open and protective of user privacy. Most recently,…

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Washington Post: The Technology 202: Kamala Harris will lead the Biden Administration’s push to bring every American online

President Biden announced the Vice Presiden Harris would take the lead on the issue during his first address to a slimmed-down joint session of Congress, where he touted his proposal to create new jobs through investment in expanding Internet access. Biden said his Americans Jobs Plan, which includes $100 billion for…
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Ars Technica: AT&T/Verizon workers’ union urges states to regulate ISPs as utilities

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union is lobbying state governments to regulate Internet service providers as utilities. The CWA, which represents more than 150,000 workers at AT&T and over 30,000 at Verizon, announced on Monday a "multi-state effort to pass state legislation that would establish public utility commission oversight of broadband in public safety, network…
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Gigi Sohn Statement at Communications Workers of America Press Briefing on “Why States Must Regulate Broadband”

Good afternoon, everybody.  Thank you to CWA for inviting me to speak today. I wholeheartedly support CWA’s initiative to restore states’ authority over broadband and Voice over IP services. States have always had a vital role to play in overseeing our communications networks and ensuring that those networks are operated…
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Vox Recode: Biden’s plan to fix America’s broken internet, briefly explained

President Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan infrastructure proposal used a broader definition of infrastructure than most people tend to associate with the word. It took on everything from roads, pipes, and electricity to climate change, union jobs, and inequality. It also provided $100 billion to America’s digital infrastructure, with a lofty…
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Bloomberg Law: Municipal Broadband War Reignited in Biden’s Infrastructure Push

President Joe Biden wants to make it easier for cities to build and operate their own broadband networks, in competition with companies like Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., to expand internet access as part of his sweeping infrastructure proposal. Biden’s push to override state restrictions on municipal networks renews a partisan fight…
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Ars Technica: Cable lobby says it hates Biden plan to expand broadband and lower prices

President Biden's plan to expand broadband access and lower prices is, predictably, facing bitter opposition from cable companies that want to maintain the status quo. NCTA–The Internet & Television Association, which represents Comcast, Charter, Cox, and other cable companies, argued that Biden's plan is "a serious wrong turn." NCTA is particularly mad…
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Sohn Lauds President Biden’s “Big Bet on Broadband”

Today, President Biden unveiled The American Jobs Plan, a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that includes $100 billion to “bring affordable, reliable, high speed broadband to every American.” Among other things, the President’s plan to “[r]evitalize America’s digital infrastructure” would build “future proof” broadband infrastructure to 100 percent of the country, lift state…
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