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Attorney General Barr Praises FCC Ligado Item as Helping Beat China to 5G (Multichannel News)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 13:18Tech Groups Lobby Hill, Trump Administration for Big IT Investments (Multichannel News)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 10:515G Action Launches COVID-19 Telehealth Ad Campaign (Multichannel News)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 04/15/2020 - 14:41Music creators join with consolidation critics to ask DOJ not to approve Liberty Media's proposal to buy iHeartMedia (Multichannel News)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 04/15/2020 - 14:40AlticeUSA Extends Free Broadband to Students
Altice USA said it is extending its free broadband service to students in its service territory until June 30, 2020. The company also has been partnering with school districts in the New York Tri-state area to offer its Student WiFi product at no cost for 60 days, a program that provides students who have school-issued devices the ability to use the Optimum WiFi Hotspot Network to access their school’s network and resources from home if they do not have dedicated Internet access. To date, Altice USA has partnered with more than 100 school districts and connected more than 240,000 student de
Robert McDowell: A COVID-19 Survivor’s Story
When communications attorney Robert McDowell started feeling a little under the weather in March, he chalked it up to seasonal allergies and related bronchitis and got the usual antibiotic from his primary care physician. Then his symptoms worsened. It wasn’t seasonal allergies. After a trip to the hospital and back home again, the former Federal Communications Commissioner was re-admitted with what turned out to be COVID-19-related double pneumonia.