internet access
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Boeing Wins FCC Approval for Satellite Internet Despite SpaceX’s Best Attempts
SpaceX’s Starlink will eventually have more competition in the satellite broadband business — and rural Americans will have more providers to choose from. The FCC on Wednesday gave Boeing the go-ahead to launch its own satellites, which SpaceX complained would cause interference with its network.
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Top EU Court Tells Cell Providers Breaking Net Neutrality Rules to Go Screw Themselves
The European Union’s top court has flipped the bird to German mobile network operators Telekom Deutschland and Vodafone, ruling in two separate judgements that their practice of exempting certain services from data caps violated the bloc’s net neutrality rules.
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The Guy Who Literally Coined ‘Net Neutrality’ Now Works for Biden
The reign of telecoms shills meddling in internet regulations seems to be coming to a close, at least for now. The New York Times reports that Joe Biden has chosen Tim Wu, who’s credited with defining foundational concepts like net neutrality, to serve on the National Economic Council in a new role as a special…
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Telemedicine Is Not Enough
It’s 2020, and millions of Americans”now bound to their homes”still don’t have reliable internet access. In a pandemic, that’s a public health crisis.