August 1, 2017
Mind the Gaps: Bridging the Digital Divide in Education and Patching Holes in Universal Service
Alongside a skills gap that plagues large swaths of the American workforce, our country faces a serious homework gap. Even though 70 percent of American teachers assign [...]
July 31, 2017
Opting in: App-Enabled Public Safety Network Depends on a Unified and Interoperable Platform
The first half of this year has seen several key developments in the U.S. government’s efforts to establish a nationwide, broadband-enabled public safety network, and we look [...]
ACT in Financial Times – Upstream Players in the Internet of Things Seek to Double Dip
On Friday, the Financial Times published a letter from ACT president Morgan Reed on the escalating debate over standards essential patents and the internet of things (IoT) [...]
Myth Busters: What Critics Don’t Want You to Know About TV White Spaces
We recently wrote about the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and other critics’ opposition to using television white spaces (TVWS) as one of the ways to close [...]
Cutting Through the Static: Television White Space Opportunities for Rural Agriculture
In his testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecom, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai reiterated the vital need to close America’s digital [...]
FirstNet is Developing An Applications Ecosystem With Public Safety
By FirstNet Director of Applications Mark Golaszweski The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) was created to equip America’s first responders with state-of-the-art communications tools, enabled by the [...]