Court ruling reverses an earlier panel decision on USF constitutionality
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that the mechanism by which the Universal Service Fund is funded and administered is unconstitutional, which imperils the existence of the program that supports...
The federal CHIPS for America program has released info about a new funding round of up to $1.6 billion, focused on bolstering advanced semiconductor packaging manufacturing in the United States.
The funding will be focused in five related research and development areas: Equipment, tools, processes...
The only way out of this mess is with technology, an old Labour prime minister told a new Labour prime minister in London today (June 9) – four days after a new UK government won power in a landslide election victory, and got a...
The purchase would have led to 'significant impediments to competition and consumer harm,' said Portugal’s competition authority
Following a draft decision thwarting Vodafone Portugal’s proposed acquisition of Cabonitel, including Nowo Communications, the country’s competition authority Autoridade da Concorrencia (AdC) this week officially prohibited the deal...
Apple will also withhold iPhone Mirroring and SharePlay Screen Sharing in the EU this year
Due to regulatory concerns relating to the European Parliament’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple has said it will withhold the release of generative AI (gen AI) tools like its Apple Intelligence feature across...
The changes would expand access by changing up the aggregate interference model used to determine sharing
Changes are coming to the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service band at 3.5 GHz, with proposed tweaks to the aggregate interference model that is used to determine spectrum access...
The new Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) sets a common regulatory and legal framework for the development and application of AI in the European Union (EU). It was proposed by the European Commission (EC) in April 2021 and passed in the European Parliament last...
EchoStar, which merged with Dish, wants a national spectrum screen of 25%
Every other year, the Federal Communications Commission asks for input on the state of competition in the domestic communications market, to help inform a report to Congress. This year, EchoStar—now the parent company...
There have been 'great strides' in closing the digital divide, NTIA says, but wide variations in who is connected remain
The numbers of United States internet users increased by about 13 million between 2021 to 2023, according to new numbers from the National Telecommunications and...
Paris is the smartest (capital) city in Europe, apparently. So says smart cities new research by Swedish real-estate tech firm ProptechOS, which has evaluated 23 European capitals on a number of tech-related scores, garnered from OECD ratings for civic ‘smartness’, and found the French...
Whatever happened to the concept of ‘smart cities’? We used to write about them all the time, but the whole discipline seems to have splintered in recent years into a myriad of public and private urban smart-infrastructure sub-sectors, mostly covering the creeping modernisation of...
Americans received more than 16 billion political calls in Q1 2024
Over the first three months of 2024, Americans received more than 16 billion political robocalls. The unwanted calls, which ranged from AI deepfake election disinformation campaigns to financially motivated scams and more traditional nuisance...
C-CIST classification identifies an international robocalling group dubbed 'Royal Tiger' as a consumer threat
For the first time, the Federal Communications Commission is designating a persistent international calling fraudster ring as a threat to consumers, in an action meant to help telcos target its scam...
'We are in the midst of a global battle over the future of wireless networks,' said Commerce Assistant Secretary Alan Davidson
WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. global competitiveness, the ongoing lack of spectrum auction authority for the Federal Communications Commission and how telecom carriers will continue to support...
The FCC now estimates that $4.98 billion is needed to fund rip-and-replace efforts
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week asked for more funding to support communications providers' "rip-and-replace" projects for Huawei and ZTE equipment, which has been banned by Congress for use in U.S....
The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft are stealing copyrighted articles without permission and without payment
Eight daily newspapers, including The New York Daily News and The Chicago Tribune, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the pair are “purloining millions of the Publishers’ copyrighted articles without...
FCC fines the three major carriers $200 million
The Federal Communications Commission has levied fines of $200 million against the three national operators, saying that AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon illegally provided access to customers' location information without end-users' consent or sufficient safeguards.
AT&T faces...
The impacts on monetizing 5G network slicing remain to be seen
The Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to reinstate Obama-era Title II telecommunications regulation of broadband services, also known as net neutrality rules.
"Broadband is now an essential service. Essential services—the ones we...
The order has dealt a blow to U.S. semiconductor firms Intel and AMD
According to reports from The Wall Street Journal, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have told Chinese telecom operators that they must remove foreign chips from their networks by 2027.
The GSMA’s Mobile...
As 2024 progresses, the momentum behind mmWave fixed wireless access (FWA) technology shows no signs of slowing down. 2023 witnessed several milestones proving mmWave's potential to deliver faster data speeds, lower latency, and higher bandwidth compared to other wireless technologies. With expanded global deployments...
'All the greenfield is gone': Federal government wants a 12-18 month push with industry, academia to develop cutting-edge sharing tech
The Department of Defense and NTIA are spearheading a dynamic spectrum-sharing framework "moonshot" with industry and academia to develop and test cutting-edge dynamic spectrum-sharing approaches...
Draft rules decline to broadly classify network slicing technology
The draft net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission will vote on later this month, don't take a position on whether network slicing technology would fundamentally and inherently be regulated by those rules.
The draft...
Vote will take place on April 25
The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote—again—on net neutrality regulations.
The reinstatement of the Title II regulation of broadband internet access service is expected to pass, with Democrats in control of the fully-seated FCC. The vote will...
Apple is not 'making its own products better,' says Attorney General Merrick Garland, but 'other products worse'
The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of monopolizing the smartphone market. The...
