You can listen to Free PRess’ Craig Aaron and yr hmbl obdnt on this weekly wrap up at Uprisingradio.org. We talk about the 700 MHz auction (what else), postal rates, the save internet radio campaign, and the media mergers on the horizon.
Stay tuned . . .
oh
hi
telecom
also
exists https://twitter.com/ByronTau/status/1290707234129874948
NEW: In guidance issued today, the NSA recommended that military and intelligence community personnel disabling location tracking, an acknowledgment that Silicon Valley's indiscriminate ad tech data collection poses a national security risk.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nsa-warns-cellphone-location-data-could-pose-national-security-threat-11596563156
You can read all these stories for yourself in the linked complaints in the @dailydot piece below.
No one deserves to lose access to critical utilities like broadband, esp. during a pandemic. #NoShutoffs https://www.dailydot.com/debug/fcc-coronavirus-pledge-complaints/
Tribes are being devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and understandably asked for a six month extension to apply for broadband licenses. @AjitPaiFCC only gave them an extra 30 days. That’s an insult.
The abysmal @FCC has granted a mere 30 day extension to allow input from Tribal communities - hit hard by COVID - applying for 2.5G connectivity. Virtually *every* party has asked for substantially more time. Pointless and disgraceful. @HaroldFeld
https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-knowledge-rebukes-fcc-for-ineffective-time-extension-to-rural-tribal-priority-window/
