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On the Hopi Reservation’s more than 1.5 million acres of desert landscape in northeast Arizona, most residents live in villages atop arid mesas.Below ground, there’s a network of copper wires that provides telephone and internet service. Hopi Telecommunications in 2004 bought the company that had installed them, but has been struggling ever since to upgrade the network to broadband speeds.Hopi Telecommunications serves both the Hopi reservation and parts of the surrounding Navajo Nation. To broaden access, the company…

Just how fast do you need your home internet to be? More importantly, how much are you willing to fork over to Google each month to turn your home into a miniature data center? According to Google, the answer is an eye-gouging $250 a month plus fees for blistering 20-Gig speeds on a WiFi 7-enabled, plus-sized router.'Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police' | AI UnlockedThe Mountain View tech giant proclaimed it was finally rolling out its fabled 20-Gig Google Fiber subscription Tuesday, which inevitably comes with that…

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesCharter shares plunged more than 8% on Tuesday after its CFO Jessica Fischer said the company could lose broadband subscribers in the fourth quarter.Charter competitor Comcast's stock also slipped more than 3% in midday trading."I can certainly see that it's likely that we could end up with negative internet net adds inside of Q4," Fischer said at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference. The company saw subscribers drop in October due in part to the effects of its dispute…

House GOP members and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) leaders attacked the Biden administration’s broadband policy at Thursday’s FCC oversight hearing.   After two years without a fifth commissioner, FCC Democrats have started the process to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules. The 3-2 vote reinstated the policy that brings internet service providers under the jurisdiction of the FCC as telecommunications carriers. The FCC repealed net neutrality in 2017 under the Trump administration.  “The…

Image Source : JIO Jio Air Fiber service reaches 41 cities Reliance Jio, one of the biggest telecom network providers in the country, has announced the new ‘Jio Air Fiber’ during its AGM meeting this year. The company announced the launch of the new technology on Ganesh Chaturthi (19 September). and as the name suggests, this service from Jio will provide the users the…

When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed in late 2021, it included $42.5 billion for broadband internet access as part of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. The program aims to ensure that broadband access is available throughout the country. This effort differs from previous federal broadband programs because it promised to allocate the funding to individual states and allow them to figure out the best way to distribute it.Nearly two years later, the federal government informed the…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is keeping a close eye on internet providers to make sure they provide Americans with equal access to broadband services regardless of customers' "income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion or national origin." Two years after the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law became official, the FCC has adopted (PDF) a final set of relevant rules to enforce.The Commission will have the power to investigate possible instances of "digital discrimination" under the new rules and could…

David Fincher’s latest, The Killer, stars Michael Fassbender and is now streaming on Netflix.Image: NetflixA new report suggests that Verizon customers may soon be able to snag a subscription combining the ad-tier Max and Netflix options for just $10. That’s a significant discount; as separate subscriptions, the ad-tier costs for those services run $9.99 per month and $6.99 per month, respectively.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksThis comes from the Wall Street Journal, which…

A satellite in geostationary orbit ran into some trouble when the device meant to position its solar arrays towards the Sun malfunctioned, preventing it from being fully charged. As a result, the internet satellite will not be able to fulfill its primary goal of providing continuous connectivity to Alaska. Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their ViewThe Arcturus satellite, built by California-based company Astranis, launched in April onboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and was…

U.S. President Joe Biden has pledged to spend $42 billion to bring high-speed broadband to every U.S. household over the next seven years. Speaking at the White House on Monday, Biden said his administration is making a “historic investment to connect everyone in America to affordable high-speed internet by 2030.” The funding has been made possible by the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program as part of the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that came into force two years ago. Speaking at…