Broadband
Biden’s Lethargic Spectrum Strategy
As the pace of technological innovation accelerates, the economic and geopolitical costs of regulatory dawdling increase. Unfortunately, President Joe Biden seems content to dawdle—at the expense of American technological dominance...
Sorry Comcast: Democratic Senators Propose to Ban Broadband Data Caps
Two Democratic senators this week introduced legislation to ban what they call predatory data caps on broadband usage. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) are the...
Broadband Booms as Pay-TV Subscriptions Plummet
The nation’s major pay-TV providers may have lost nearly two million subscribers in the first quarter of this year, but at the same time, they added about one million broadband...
White House: Broadband Providers Agree to Keep Costs Low for Lower-Income Americans
The White House on Monday announced that it has secured commitments from twenty major Internet providers, including Comcast, Verizon, Charter/Spectrum, and AT&T, to “lower high-speed internet costs for millions of...
Fewer Than Half of American Homes Have ‘True Broadband’
The continued effort to bring broadband to rural areas of the country has been in the news recently. Last year’s bipartisan infrastructure bill allocated $65 billion to “help ensure that...
Nearly 3 Million Broadband Subscribers Added In 2021
The nation’s leading cable and other pay-TV operators have been steadily losing subscribers for the last few years, in a phenomenon known as cord-cutting. However, at the same time the...