I'd take Allison Kirkby (CEO/BT) more seriously in her complaints that the regulatory environment of the UK (contrasted with Scandinavia) has led to a lack of world-class broadband infrastructure if I hadn't had for ten years world class broadband delivered via a community broadband project (one of many in rural England).
Its not the regulatory environment that's the problem its BT's quasi monopoly position & its hatred of its customers that is the problem!
In the Crenshaw District of South Central LA, Destination Crenshaw is transforming the neighborhood into an "open air museum" embedded within a “Digital Equity Zone”
It involves "pocket parks," murals, free community WiFi, and a proposed open-access fiber network
My story at link below on how DC is empowering neighborhood residents with strategic investments rather than displacing them through gentrification
#Internet#Broadband#Wellbeing: "Internet access and use is consistently associated with positive wellbeing, a new study of data from 168 countries by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) suggests.
In many parts of the world, including the EU and UK, concerns about online harms have prompted new laws.
The OII says some of its findings are "consistent" with reported links between social media use and depressive symptoms among young women.
But it concludes the overall benefits of being online show regulators contemplating tougher laws should rely on data and not be "guided by anecdote."
"I anticipate that this work will be in some ways seen in contrast to the kind of the current social conversation surrounding tech," said professor Andrew Przybylski, of Oxford University, who led the research.
"If we’re going to make the online world safe for young people, we can’t just go in guns blazing with strong beliefs and a one size fits all solution - we really need to make sure that we’re sensitive to having our minds changed by data," he said."
The Affordable Connectivity Program was a landmark piece of U.S. government legislation passed in 2021 that aimed to make it easier for people to afford an internet connection in their homes. Today it all comes to an end, leaving an estimated 23 million households — roughly one in six — at risk of losing broadband access, widening the digital divide.
Despite pleas from the Biden administration and several advocacy groups to save the program, it has now officially lapsed. So what’s next? @WIRED has more.
#FCC reinstates #NetNeutrality policy after #Trump era cancellation. By following the law Congress wrote for modern internet-access service, FCC is reestablishing its federal oversight of the #telecommunications service that connects everyone.
#Broadband providers will need to stop playing favorites or #throttling links to websites they has no commercial deals with. Measure now likely to be challenged in court by corporate #telecom & cable communications giants.
The FCC has voted to restore net neutrality rules, which were previously rescinded under former president Donald Trump.
The vote reinstates protections established in 2015 that treat broadband as a utility, like water or electricity, and means all internet traffic must be treated equally. Here's more on what it means for you, from @CNN
"Lobby groups representing cable, telecom, and mobile Internet service providers sued the #FCC in several US appeals courts last week. Industry groups also filed a petition with the FCC on Friday asking for a stay of the rules, claiming the regulations shouldn't take effect while litigation is pending because the industry is likely to prevail in court."
"If the industry loses at the appeals-court level again, lobby groups would seek review at the Supreme Court. Their hopes depend partly on Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who argued in a 2017 dissent as a circuit court judge that the "net neutrality rule is unlawful and must be vacated" because "Congress did not clearly authorize the FCC to issue the net neutrality rule."
Ah, finally, back to normal throughput (On Fiber, and could get better performance, but don't pay for higher service... Don't have any need for it) #broadband
Starting today, major ISPs will have to publish "nutrition labels" with basic information about their broadband offerings.
It's taken almost eight years to enforce, but the FCC hopes the move will "allow consumers to more easily comparison shop between plans and avoid any hidden fees," reports @theverge