Daily Digest 9/21/2021 (Peter Beresford Williams) Submitted by benton on Tue, 09/21/2021 – 07:07
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Cable companies in position to capitalize on federal broadband funding | Read below | Diana Goovaerts | Fierce Starlink Won’t Be the Broadband Game Changer You Think | Read below | Karl Bode | Vice People Love Starlink, But They Don’t Really Get It | PC Magazine Digital Inclusion Verizon Announces New Digital Inclusion Program in Eight States and DC | Read below | Press Release | Verizon Wireless AT&T 5G Upgrade Risks Silencing Home Alarms Reliant on Old Tech | Bloomberg T-Mobile urges FCC to get moving on 2.5 GHz auction date | Fierce T-Mobile wants to lease 600 MHz spectrum for private wireless at prisons | Fierce States/Local How California’s Broadband Infrastructure Law Promotes Local Choice | Read below | Ernesto Falcon | Analysis | Electronic Frontier Foundation Bristol, New Hampshire, launches high-speed internet service | Read below | Associated Press Nokia and DigitalC to provide Private LTE internet connectivity in Cleveland, Ohio | Read below | Press Release | Nokia Report: Strengthening Ohio’s Broadband and 5G Workforce | Ohio Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation Platforms News Consumption Across Social Media in 2021 | Read below | Mason Walker, Katerina Eva Matsa | Research | Pew Research Center Twitter to Pay $809.5 Million to Settle Securities Suit | Read below | Colin Kellaher | Wall Street Journal Elaine Moore: LinkedIn may be the nerdiest social network — but its strategy is working | Financial Times Privacy/Security Senators urge FTC to begin a rulemaking process to protect consumer privacy, civil rights, and safeguards on personal data use (Sen Richard Blumenthal | Sen Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) Securing Our Digital Future | Foreign Policy Policymakers Verizon Hires Senate Commerce Staffer Shawn Bone to Handle Broadband | Read below | Benjamin Din | Politico Health Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline | Wall Street Journal Education Podcast: Why schools still need a remote option to mitigate COVID-19 | Brookings Climate Big Tech and Climate Policy | InfluenceMap Television Netflix and Apple Finally Broke Old TV at This Year’s Emmys | Wall Street Journal Life As We Know It Now More companies say goodbye to the office as COVID rages and remote work gains acceptance | USA Today The Winners of Remote Work: gains are captured by the few and not the many | New York Times FedEx, UPS Rate Rises Are Making Online Shopping More Expensive | Wall Street Journal Pandemic Supercharged the Role of Chief Information Officer | Wall Street Journal Company News Tim Cook Faces Surprising Employee Unrest at Apple | New York Times Stories From Abroad ITU launches Partner2Connect Digital Coalition to bridge the digital divide by 2030 | Read below | Press Release | International Telecommunication Union Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development Holds Annual Meeting | Read below | Press Release | International Telecommunication Union Nine charts that show who’s winning the US-China tech race | Washington Post Cristiano Lima: Tech’s allies say antitrust reform would help China.…