Save ACP And Then Some

Date: 14 Nov 2023 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

With the $14.2 billion Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) on track to run out of funds by spring/early summer 2024, finally there is a request from the White House to extend funding for the program that over 21 million households now rely on to help pay for high-speed Internet service.… Read More

U.S. News & World Report Finds Nearly 2 in 5 Internet Subscribers Compromise Personal Expenses to Afford Internet

Date: 17 Oct 2023 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

With the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) poised to run out of funding in early Q2 next year, and no funding source lined up to keep the program alive, a recent U.S. News & World Report survey underscores the significance of the program in the face of rising prices from the nation’s major Internet Service Providers (ISPs).… Read More

Municipal Broadband Restrictions Interfere with State BEAD Plans

Date: 14 Sep 2023 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

One major barrier to providing universal access to fast, reliable and affordable Internet service–long recognized by ILSR, telecom experts, and a growing number of ordinary citizens–are the monopoly-friendly preemption laws that either outright ban or erect insurmountable barriers to municipal broadband.… Read More

Why the Antitrust Revolution is Likely To Last

Date: 7 Sep 2023 | posted in: agriculture, Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Stacy Mitchell explains why this pivotal moment in antitrust can last beyond its current leaders at our enforcement agencies. Her piece is part of a series of two dozen essays on the state of the U.S. revolution in antitrust, published by The Journal of Antitrust Enforcement.… Read More

Amazon’s Tight Grip on Cloud Computing Poses Multiple Threats. ILSR Urges FTC Action.

Date: 29 Jun 2023 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, ILSR warned that control over cloud computing, the backbone of the modern economy, is dangerously concentrated. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which controls more than 40 percent of global cloud infrastructure, has exploited its position to lock-in customers, shut out rivals, and reap unfair advantages in its other non-cloud business lines. ILSR urges the FTC to use its authorities to open the market to needed competition.… Read More

On the Capitol Forum Podcast: Food Deserts, Rising Prices, and Antitrust

Date: 27 Jun 2023 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Inflation in the grocery sector is a cover story for monopoly power, Stacy Mitchell explains on the Capitol Forum podcast. The real cost of groceries can be traced to Walmart’s predatory tactics and failed antitrust enforcement. … Read More

New Video: Coalition of Community Broadband Advocates Prevail in Louisiana

Date: 27 Jun 2023 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In July of 2022, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and several state lawmakers visited Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana to announce the community had secured a $4 million grant to build a fiber-to-the-home network in one of the most poorly connected parts of the state.… Read More

Massachusetts Broadband Coalition Is Formed With Focus on Public Private Partnerships

Date: 13 Apr 2023 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Representing 26 towns across Massachusetts, from Cape Cod to Chelsea, an informal group of mostly town officials have formed the Massachusetts Broadband Coalition in search of a way out of a broken monopoly broadband market to ensure that everyone in their individual communities has access to high-speed Internet.… Read More

In ProMarket: Today’s Tax Code Fuels Corporate Power. It Wasn’t Always This Way

Date: 12 Apr 2023 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Our tax system used to serve as a check on corporate power. Now it fuels market concentration and undermines the ability of small businesses to compete, Susan Holmberg and Niko Lusiani explain in ProMarket. … Read More

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