Oct 21, 2020 | Blog Entry, By Ryan Johnston, NCC News, News
Recently, AT&T announced that it would begin to phase out its Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) internet service across the nation. The decision will leave an unknown number of current DSL subscribers without a fixed or terrestrial broadband alternative. The Federal...
Oct 21, 2020 | Blog Entry, By Ryan Johnston, News
By Ryan Johnston, Policy Counsel Ensuring that every resident and municipal government is able to benefit from digital access also means that new stockpiles of data are being collected on each user. Too often, it is the decades-old server at city hall that collects...
Oct 21, 2020 | Blog Entry, News
By John Breyault Vice President of Public Policy, Telecommunications and Fraud at the National Consumers League in Washington, D.C. In Flint, Michigan, the failures of the municipal government to safeguard the safety of the water network did not only put tens of...
Oct 21, 2020 | Blog Entry, News
By Amie Stepanovich, Executive Director, Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Privacy is hard. A person may spend more than half of their day staring at a computer or smart device screen, wandering through an endless maze of social media,...
Oct 21, 2020 | Blog Entry, By NCC Staff, COVID-19, News, Spotlight City
Provo, Utah What are some of the major concerns that residents have about broadband access or connectivity? Dixon Holmes: One of the concerns that we have, especially now in this era of COVID, is they may have the access, but do they have the other tools? Broadband...
Oct 20, 2020 | Blog Entry, By Brittany-Rae Gregory, NCC News, News, Press Releases
View a pdf of this press release here. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brittany-Rae Gregory brittany-rae@nextcenturycities.org Next Century Cities Responds to California Governor Newsom’s Executive Order on the Digital Divide Washington D.C. (October 12,...
Oct 20, 2020 | Blog Entry, By NCC Staff, COVID-19, NCC News, News
As part of the Moving Underserved Communities Forward event series, ALLvanza, the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC), and OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates invited policy experts to discuss closing the digital divide, particularly in...
Oct 15, 2020 | Blog Entry, By NCC Staff, News, State Policy
On August 14, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-73-20, which instructs California agencies to employ specific measures to bridge the existing digital divide among residents. Weeks later, on September 18th, the California Public Utilities...
Oct 9, 2020 | Blog Entry, By NCC Staff, News
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has recently accelerated the rate at which it makes spectrum available. Whether it be spectrum allocated for use in 5G applications, for unlicensed use, or to provide wireless internet service providers with...
Oct 9, 2020 | Blog Entry, By NCC Staff, News
On October 1, 2020, Next Century Cities, as part of the Schools, Hospitals, and Libraries Broadband (SHLB) coalition met with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) staff to discuss reclassifying anchor institutions in broadband mapping data sets. SHLB members raised...
Oct 7, 2020 | Blog Entry, News
By Alejandro Roark Alejandro Roark is the Executive Director of the Hispanic Technology and Telecommunications Partnership (HTTP). He has written the following reflection in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, which takes place from September 15, 2020 to October...
Oct 7, 2020 | Blog Entry, By NCC Staff, News
We sat down with Megan Martin, the Marketing Coordinator for Merit Network to discuss Michigan’s broadband landscape and the role that the Michigan Moonshot Project plays in helping to educate and advocate for resident connectivity. NCC: How was Michigan Moonshot...
