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.
A $10 Billion Broadband Black Hole?
Scott Wallsten
Don’t Build Networks to Nowhere: Staying on Track in Broadband Funding
Sarah Oh Lam
How to Fix the Universal Service Fund
Scott Wallsten and Gregory L. Rosston
The Universal Service Fund (USF) spends about $8 billion a year on…
How to Leverage Alternative Data Sources To Refine Broadband Availability Maps
Scott Wallsten
A recent story in the Texas Tribune discussed how Texas’s broadband map…
Do broadband subsidies for schools improve students’ performance? Evidence from Florida.
Jakub Tecza, Scott Wallsten and Yoojin Lee
Studies exploring the relationship between technology in the classroom and students’ outcomes…
Comments Filed with The National Telecommunications and Information Administration on the matter of “Development of a National Spectrum Strategy”
Sarah Oh Lam, Thomas M. Lenard, Gregory L. Rosston and Scott Wallsten
The FCC Has Too Much Power—and We All Pay
Thomas M. Lenard
Spectrum Economics Primer
Sarah Oh Lam
TPI Senior Fellow Sarah Oh Lam just finished recording a series of video…
ACP Enrollment figures (Updated 4/20/2023)
Scott Wallsten
FCC Map Update Includes Big Changes in Hawaii and Illinois Availability Estimates, Modestly Affects Estimate of BEAD Funding Distribution
Scott Wallsten and Nathaniel Lovin
The FCC recently pushed out a small update to its new mapping…
