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Let’s keep answering the calls for rural broadband (Reader Forum)

  In the push to deploy ever-faster broadband across America, no one should be left behind. The need for faster broadband is particularly acute in rural America, where the speeds are slower, and state-of-the-art facilities are not deployed as quickly as rural Americans need. During the...

Building back better through spectrum allocation (Reader Forum)

  Losing contact in modern society — physically, digitally — is a new kind of scary. We’ve seen this before: five years ago, Hurricane Sandy’s floodwaters and winds downed communications networks for one of every four people on the Eastern Seaboard. During the recovery, the...

Highlights from the TC3 Summit 2017

The TC3 Summit, hosted by by the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley, is one of the more interesting industry events we cover each year, and the 10th anniversary show, held in November at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., was no exception....

Telecom Tweets of the Week: FCC on a roll(back)

Ajit Pai's Federal Communications Commission is hitting its stride in regulatory rollbacks. On the agenda of this week's meeting: axing a 40-year-old rule on media ownership that prevented a single company from owning multiple types of media outlets in a single market; targeting illegal...