KY, LA, and Some Tribal Areas Lead Early Uptake of Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
The Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program is in its tenth week. This post examines how its benefits are distributed across…
Broadband
High-speed data connections, or broadband, are critical to the economy. Our work on broadband covers a wide range of topics, including the digital divide, wireline and wireless provision, spectrum, net neutrality, competition, and more.
Where are E-Rate dollars going? Introducing E-Rate Intelligence
WASHINGTON (June 3, 2021) The FCC’s E-Rate program can provide up to about 4 billion dollars each year to help…
New Study by TPI Senior Fellow John Horrigan Examines How Newly Connected Low Income Households Perceive and Use Broadband
In his latest paper, TPI Senior Fellow John Horrigan examines the role access to in-home broadband connectivity plays in shaping…
Access and Impacts: Exploring how internet access at home and online training shape people’s online behavior and perspectives about their lives
Internet access for Americans has taken on new urgency since the pandemic. Prior to it, many people without a home…
Shane Greenstein on Innovation, the Internet Age, and the Future (Two Think Minimum)
Two Think Minimum · Shane Greenstein on Innovation, the Internet Age, and the Future Scott Wallsten: Hi, and welcome back…
Does Competition Between Cable and Fiber Increase Adoption?
U.S. broadband policy has long emphasized the importance of facilities-based competition—competition among providers who use their own infrastructure rather than…
Net Neutrality, Veterans, and Telehealth: The Beginning of a Regulatory Morass?
California’s net neutrality law, which a federal district court upheld in February, is already wading into the regulatory morass that brought…
Surprise! The FCC Has Been Collecting Broadband Price Data for Years
It is conventional wisdom that the FCC is ignorant of broadband prices. In 2020, for example, the New America Foundation…
You’ve Been Served: Defining Broadband as 100/100 is not 💯
The pandemic has caused the U.S. to take seriously the question of how to make sure all residents have broadband…
Thomas Hazlett on Spectrum Policy
Two Think Minimum · Thomas Hazlett on Spectrum Policy Today, we are delighted to have Professor Tom Hazlett. Tom was…