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Exploring Digital Equity Fact Sheets
Ry Marcattilio-McCracken
April 26, 2022
ILSR's Exploring Digital Equity Fact Sheet Series unpacks the issues, challenges, and opportunities of bringing broadband access to everyone. READ MORE
New York State Budget Bill Sets Table for Municipal Broadband
Sean Gonsalves
April 14, 2022
The recently enacted budget bill includes “the largest ever investment in New York's 21st century infrastructure (that) will leverage public and private investments to connect New Yorkers." READ MORE
Stock Buybacks Remind Us That Monopoly ISPs Work for Shareholders, Not Subscribers
Ry Marcattilio-McCracken
April 7, 2022
Business has been unmistakably good for Comcast recently, having added 1.3 million new broadband subscribers in 2021 alone. But that wasn’t the only cause for its increased earnings. READ MORE
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Statement: Biden Administration Celebrates Telecom Companies Undermining His Agenda
Jess Del Fiacco
May 9, 2022
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (May 9, 2022) – The Biden Administration is poised to celebrate the nation's largest telecommunications monopolies today even as these companies do the bare minimum for digital equity while undermining his administration's broadband agenda. Christopher Mitchell, Director of the C READ MORE
Exploring Digital Equity Fact Sheets
Ry Marcattilio-McCracken
April 26, 2022
Expanding Internet access to everyone who wants it isn’t an infrastructure problem alone. Achieving equity for everyone in a community is a many-sided endeavor, and requires engaging and activating an array of stakeholders. Created with support from AARP and help from th READ MORE
On NY Local News: State Dedicates $1 Billion to Broadband Projects
Jess Del Fiacco
April 20, 2022
In the News: Sean Gonsalves April 16, 2022 Media Outlet: WGRZ News The initiatives created in this budget allow New York to make significant progress on a national level, according to Sean Gonsalves from the Institute for Local Self Reliance. "From a community broadband READ MORE
New York State Budget Bill Sets Table for Municipal Broadband
Sean Gonsalves
April 14, 2022
Although we were initially concerned that certain language in New York’s proposed state budget would lock out municipal broadband projects from being able to capitalize on the federal funding bonanza contained in the American Rescue Plan Act and forthcoming money in the Inf READ MORE
Stock Buybacks Remind Us That Monopoly ISPs Work for Shareholders, Not Subscribers
Ry Marcattilio-McCracken
April 7, 2022
Comcast announced at the end of January that it will be expanding its stock repurchasing program to $10 billion for 2022. It’s a reminder that local governments need to be wary about the huge cable and telephone monopolies stopping by t READ MORE