Digital Equity Advocates Rally to Restore Funds, Sustain Their Work
Jessica Dine on how a coherent national digital skills strategy would be essential to facilitating U.S. implementation of AI at scale.
Internet Access & Adoption
Why Broadband Adoption Matters and the Programs That Make It Happen
We recap our event on why the Digital Equity Act is integral to achieving the benefits of making America a fully digitally-connected nation.
7/15 Joint FCC Comments Supporting Sharing Lower 37 GHz Spectrum Using an Automated Coordination Database
OTI and Public Knowledge submitted comments in response to the FCC’s Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the lower 37 GHz band.
The Coming Arguments Over Spectrum
OTI on why auctioning certain spectrum could disrupt the administration’s broadband expansion goals.
Three Joint Petitions to Deny Requests from the Big Three to Carve Up and Acquire U.S. Cellular’s Spectrum Holdings
OTI joined other public interest organizations to petition the Federal Communications Commission.
BEAD Bets Big on CBRS and 6 GHz Bands, So Why Is Congress Gutting Them?
Jessica Dine and Nat Purser (PK) on the potential ripple effects of our government’s increasingly inconsistent approach to broadband policy.
Senate GOP Budget Bill Has Little-Noticed Provision That Could Hurt Your Wi-Fi
Michael Calabrese on how the Senate Commerce Committee’s version of the budget reconciliation bill could hurt Wi-Fi.
OTI Welcomes SCOTUS Ruling Upholding the Constitutionality of the Universal Service Fund
OTI’s response to this morning’s SCOTUS decision, which reverses a July 2024 Fifth Circuit ruling and upholds key aspects of the USF.
Comments Opposing Airspan Network’s Request for a Waiver to Emit Harmful Interference across CBRS
OTI and PK filed an opposition to a move that would cause harmful interference across CBRS.
Thanks to New Guidance, We’re Pouring Billions into a Broadband Program That’s Doomed to Fail
Jessica Dine on how new BEAD guidance will undo years of progress toward the goal of closing the digital divide.