#universal-service-fund — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #universal-service-fund, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/191220/ Namibia Invests US$2.3 Million To Enhance Rural Connectivity #CommunicationsRegulatoryAuthorityOfNamibia(CRAN) #Connectivity #MobileTelecommunicationsCompanyNamibia #Namibia #News&Reports #TelecomNamibia #UniversalServiceFund(USF)
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Republicans Are Trying To Make Government Efforts To Help Poor People Afford Broadband Illegal
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Republicans Are Trying To Make Government Efforts To Help Poor People Afford Broadband Illegal
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Republicans Are Trying To Make Government Efforts To Help Poor People Afford Broadband Illegal
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Republicans Are Trying To Make Government Efforts To Help Poor People Afford Broadband Illegal
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Republicans Are Trying To Make Government Efforts To Help Poor People Afford Broadband Illegal
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Weekly output: Mark Vena podcast, Verizon customer service, AI fair use, Comcast ditches data caps, Aurora’s autonomous trucks, age verification for porn sites, Universal Service Fund, Trump tariffs
The first half of this year is almost in the books, which means I’m thinking of a few longer pieces that I’d meant to have seen published and paid for by now but instead have yet to start writing.
Patreon readers got an extra post from me this week: a recap of how Uber rides in Mexico City helped me realize how much trouble cheap Chinese EVs are going to cause for Tesla.
6/23/2025: Ep 112 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Apple WWDC 25, Apple Intelligence, OpenAI device, Trump phone, Mark Vena
I suggested that this podcast cover the exercise in commercialized cult worship that is Trump Mobile. Two days after we recorded the show, that site’s description of the T1 phone that it plans to sell changed from “proudly made right here in the USA” to “brought to life right here in the USA.”
6/24/2025: Verizon Touts Upgraded Customer Service Push: Will It Make a Difference?, PCMag
Put me down as a skeptic of the difference that customer service can make in broadband: I can’t remember when I last called either my wireless carrier or my Internet provider for help.
6/24/2025: Judge: It’s Fair Use to Train AI on Books You Bought, But Not Ones You Pirated, PCMag
I found this case interesting for two reasons: It did not involve any claims of AI plagiarism and it allowed for a distinction between training AI models on purchased content and training it on pirated material. That last point should have Silicon Valley nervious, since so many large firms–hi, Meta–could not resist taking that copyright-infringing shortcut.
6/26/2025: Comcast’s New Plans Dump the Data Caps, PCMag
This is a post I have wanted to be able to write for years. I guess seeing enough subscribers flee for unlimited-data offerings of fiber and fixed-wireless services had a persuasive effect on Comcast’s management that my own posts denouncing this exercise in abuse of market power did not.
6/27/2025: Aurora hits a self-driving trucking milestone, Fast Company
One of my editors suggested that Aurora launching commercial deliveries via its self-driving trucks meant it was time to revisit the company I’d profiled for Fast Co. last summer. Conveniently enough, Aurora’s president Ossa Fisher was one of the speakers at Web Summit Vancouver, allowing me to interview her IRL during that conference.
6/27/2025: Sorry, Pornhub Fans: Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law, PCMag
I had this case on my list of opinions to look for on the Supreme Court’s site Friday morning, with an idea that my lede would have to reference Avenue Q’s “The Internet Is For Porn” regardless of the outcome. I’m surprised nobody else seems to have gone with that. After publication, my editor added statements about the decision from a few interested parties.
6/27/2025: That ‘Universal Service Charge’ on Your Phone Bill Isn’t Going Away, PCMag
As I was working on a post about the Texas case, I saw this opinion pop up and realized that I should write about that as well. In the hours that passed, my inbox accumulated comments from a variety of groups–including telecom trade associations that in other scenarios want the government to butt out–applauding this decision.
6/28/2025: For Electronics Makers in Latin America, the Roller-Coaster Ride Is Worse Than Just Paying a High Tariff, PCMag
I started writing this piece from my hotel in Mexico City hours before my departure and then needed another week to check with NielsenIQ to see if they had any stats about the effects of tariffs on the country and then find time to finish and file the thing.
#ageVerification #AITraining #Anthropic #Aurora #autonomousTrucks #autonomousVehicles #Comcast #ComcastDataCaps #copyright #dataCaps #ElectronicsHomeMexico #FirstAmendment #LLMs #MarkVena #podcast #SupremeCourt #tariffs #UniversalServiceFund #USF #VerizonCustomerService #VerizonSupport #Vz #Xfinity
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Weekly output: Mark Vena podcast, Verizon customer service, AI fair use, Comcast ditches data caps, Aurora’s autonomous trucks, age verification for porn sites, Universal Service Fund, Trump tariffs
The first half of this year is almost in the books, which means I’m thinking of a few longer pieces that I’d meant to have seen published and paid for by now but instead have yet to start writing.
Patreon readers got an extra post from me this week: a recap of how Uber rides in Mexico City helped me realize how much trouble cheap Chinese EVs are going to cause for Tesla.
6/23/2025: Ep 112 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Apple WWDC 25, Apple Intelligence, OpenAI device, Trump phone, Mark Vena
I suggested that this podcast cover the exercise in commercialized cult worship that is Trump Mobile. Two days after we recorded the show, that site’s description of the T1 phone that it plans to sell changed from “proudly made right here in the USA” to “brought to life right here in the USA.”
6/24/2025: Verizon Touts Upgraded Customer Service Push: Will It Make a Difference?, PCMag
Put me down as a skeptic of the difference that customer service can make in broadband: I can’t remember when I last called either my wireless carrier or my Internet provider for help.
6/24/2025: Judge: It’s Fair Use to Train AI on Books You Bought, But Not Ones You Pirated, PCMag
I found this case interesting for two reasons: It did not involve any claims of AI plagiarism and it allowed for a distinction between training AI models on purchased content and training it on pirated material. That last point should have Silicon Valley nervious, since so many large firms–hi, Meta–could not resist taking that copyright-infringing shortcut.
6/26/2025: Comcast’s New Plans Dump the Data Caps, PCMag
This is a post I have wanted to be able to write for years. I guess seeing enough subscribers flee for unlimited-data offerings of fiber and fixed-wireless services had a persuasive effect on Comcast’s management that my own posts denouncing this exercise in abuse of market power did not.
6/27/2025: Aurora hits a self-driving trucking milestone, Fast Company
One of my editors suggested that Aurora launching commercial deliveries via its self-driving trucks meant it was time to revisit the company I’d profiled for Fast Co. last summer. Conveniently enough, Aurora’s president Ossa Fisher was one of the speakers at Web Summit Vancouver, allowing me to interview her IRL during that conference.
6/27/2025: Sorry, Pornhub Fans: Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law, PCMag
I had this case on my list of opinions to look for on the Supreme Court’s site Friday morning, with an idea that my lede would have to reference Avenue Q’s “The Internet Is For Porn” regardless of the outcome. I’m surprised nobody else seems to have gone with that. After publication, my editor added statements about the decision from a few interested parties.
6/27/2025: That ‘Universal Service Charge’ on Your Phone Bill Isn’t Going Away, PCMag
As I was working on a post about the Texas case, I saw this opinion pop up and realized that I should write about that as well. In the hours that passed, my inbox accumulated comments from a variety of groups–including telecom trade associations that in other scenarios want the government to butt out–applauding this decision.
6/28/2025: For Electronics Makers in Latin America, the Roller-Coaster Ride Is Worse Than Just Paying a High Tariff, PCMag
I started writing this piece from my hotel in Mexico City hours before my departure and then needed another week to check with NielsenIQ to see if they had any stats about the effects of tariffs on the country and then find time to finish and file the thing.
#ageVerification #AITraining #Anthropic #Aurora #autonomousTrucks #autonomousVehicles #Comcast #ComcastDataCaps #copyright #dataCaps #ElectronicsHomeMexico #FirstAmendment #LLMs #MarkVena #podcast #SupremeCourt #tariffs #UniversalServiceFund #USF #VerizonCustomerService #VerizonSupport #Vz #Xfinity
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Weekly output: Mark Vena podcast, Verizon customer service, AI fair use, Comcast ditches data caps, Aurora’s autonomous trucks, age verification for porn sites, Universal Service Fund, Trump tariffs
The first half of this year is almost in the books, which means I’m thinking of a few longer pieces that I’d meant to have seen published and paid for by now but instead have yet to start writing.
Patreon readers got an extra post from me this week: a recap of how Uber rides in Mexico City helped me realize how much trouble cheap Chinese EVs are going to cause for Tesla.
6/23/2025: Ep 112 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Apple WWDC 25, Apple Intelligence, OpenAI device, Trump phone, Mark Vena
I suggested that this podcast cover the exercise in commercialized cult worship that is Trump Mobile. Two days after we recorded the show, that site’s description of the T1 phone that it plans to sell changed from “proudly made right here in the USA” to “brought to life right here in the USA.”
6/24/2025: Verizon Touts Upgraded Customer Service Push: Will It Make a Difference?, PCMag
Put me down as a skeptic of the difference that customer service can make in broadband: I can’t remember when I last called either my wireless carrier or my Internet provider for help.
6/24/2025: Judge: It’s Fair Use to Train AI on Books You Bought, But Not Ones You Pirated, PCMag
I found this case interesting for two reasons: It did not involve any claims of AI plagiarism and it allowed for a distinction between training AI models on purchased content and training it on pirated material. That last point should have Silicon Valley nervious, since so many large firms–hi, Meta–could not resist taking that copyright-infringing shortcut.
6/26/2025: Comcast’s New Plans Dump the Data Caps, PCMag
This is a post I have wanted to be able to write for years. I guess seeing enough subscribers flee for unlimited-data offerings of fiber and fixed-wireless services had a persuasive effect on Comcast’s management that my own posts denouncing this exercise in abuse of market power did not.
6/27/2025: Aurora hits a self-driving trucking milestone, Fast Company
One of my editors suggested that Aurora launching commercial deliveries via its self-driving trucks meant it was time to revisit the company I’d profiled for Fast Co. last summer. Conveniently enough, Aurora’s president Ossa Fisher was one of the speakers at Web Summit Vancouver, allowing me to interview her IRL during that conference.
6/27/2025: Sorry, Pornhub Fans: Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law, PCMag
I had this case on my list of opinions to look for on the Supreme Court’s site Friday morning, with an idea that my lede would have to reference Avenue Q’s “The Internet Is For Porn” regardless of the outcome. I’m surprised nobody else seems to have gone with that. After publication, my editor added statements about the decision from a few interested parties.
6/27/2025: That ‘Universal Service Charge’ on Your Phone Bill Isn’t Going Away, PCMag
As I was working on a post about the Texas case, I saw this opinion pop up and realized that I should write about that as well. In the hours that passed, my inbox accumulated comments from a variety of groups–including telecom trade associations that in other scenarios want the government to butt out–applauding this decision.
6/28/2025: For Electronics Makers in Latin America, the Roller-Coaster Ride Is Worse Than Just Paying a High Tariff, PCMag
I started writing this piece from my hotel in Mexico City hours before my departure and then needed another week to check with NielsenIQ to see if they had any stats about the effects of tariffs on the country and then find time to finish and file the thing.
#ageVerification #AITraining #Anthropic #Aurora #autonomousTrucks #autonomousVehicles #Comcast #ComcastDataCaps #copyright #dataCaps #ElectronicsHomeMexico #FirstAmendment #LLMs #MarkVena #podcast #SupremeCourt #tariffs #UniversalServiceFund #USF #VerizonCustomerService #VerizonSupport #Vz #Xfinity
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Route Fifty: Battle to save major internet subsidy reaches Supreme Court. “The U.S. Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to strike down a popular program that helps get underserved communities online as they worried about the effects of such a decision. Justices heard oral arguments regarding the future of the Universal Service Fund, known as USF and administered by the Federal […]
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#5thCircuit court upends #FCC #UniversalServiceFund, ruling it an illegal #tax
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#5thCircuit court upends #FCC #UniversalServiceFund, ruling it an illegal #tax
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#5thCircuit court upends #FCC #UniversalServiceFund, ruling it an illegal #tax
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#5thCircuit court upends #FCC #UniversalServiceFund, ruling it an illegal #tax
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#5thCircuit court upends #FCC #UniversalServiceFund, ruling it an illegal #tax
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ISPs ask FCC for tax on Big Tech to fund broadband networks and discounts - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson)
Internet servic... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2030318 #universalservicefund #bigtech #policy
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ISPs ask FCC for tax on Big Tech to fund broadband networks and discounts - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson)
Internet servic... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2030318 #universalservicefund #bigtech #policy
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ISPs ask FCC for tax on Big Tech to fund broadband networks and discounts - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson)
Internet servic... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2030318 #universalservicefund #bigtech #policy
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ISPs ask FCC for tax on Big Tech to fund broadband networks and discounts - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson)
Internet servic... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2030318 #universalservicefund #bigtech #policy
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ISPs ask FCC for tax on Big Tech to fund broadband networks and discounts - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson)
Internet servic... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2030318 #universalservicefund #bigtech #policy
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FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | BernardaSv)
The Federal Commun... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2015506 #federalcommunicationscommission #universalservicefund #policy
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FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | BernardaSv)
The Federal Commun... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2015506 #federalcommunicationscommission #universalservicefund #policy
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FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | BernardaSv)
The Federal Commun... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2015506 #federalcommunicationscommission #universalservicefund #policy
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FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | BernardaSv)
The Federal Commun... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2015506 #federalcommunicationscommission #universalservicefund #policy
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FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | BernardaSv)
The Federal Commun... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2015506 #federalcommunicationscommission #universalservicefund #policy
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Ajit Pai wants to cap spending on broadband for poor people and rural areas - Enlarge / FCC members (L-R) Brendan Carr, Michael O'Rielly, and Chairman Ajit Pai participate in a ... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1483273 #universalservicefund #policy #fcc