What a Digitally Equitable Minnesota Could Look Like—And How to Get There
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
August 2023
Tech Chiefs to Gather in Washington on A.I. Regulations in September (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 08/30/2023 - 06:38Analysis
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Early C-Band Spectrum Access Allows USCellular to Fast-track 5G Expansion
UScellular announced that it has received full access to the 5G C-Band spectrum it was awarded from Auction 107 in March 2021, allowing the company to expand its 5G network faster than anticipated. UScellular upgraded more than 440 cell sites in preparation for this spectrum access, and the company will turn on this enhanced 5G service in the coming weeks – three months ahead of schedule.
Assessing the Utility of ChatGPT Throughout the Entire Clinical Workflow: Development and Usability Study
Large language model (LLM)–-based artificial intelligence chatbots direct the power of large training data sets toward successive, related tasks as opposed to single-ask tasks, for which artificial intelligence already achieves impressive performance. The capacity of LLMs to assist in the full scope of iterative clinical reasoning via successive prompting, in effect acting as artificial physicians, has not yet been evaluated. The objective of the study was to evaluate ChatGPT’s capacity for ongoing clinical decision support via its performance on standardized clinical vignettes.
Sports leagues ask US for “instantaneous” DMCA takedowns and website blocking
Sports leagues are urging the US to require "instantaneous" takedowns of pirated livestreams and new requirements for Internet service providers to block pirated websites. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 requires websites to "expeditiously" remove infringing material upon being notified of its existence.
Brightspeed Announces Leadership Succession Plan; Tom Maguire Will be Elevated to CEO (Brightspeed)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 08/29/2023 - 16:32The Fiber Broadband Association and Cartesian unveil their BEAD Threshold Financial Model that will help states to calculate their Extremely High Cost Per Location Threshold (EHCT) for fiber broadband deployments using Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (B
FCC Declines to Reconsider Rules for Consumer Access to Easy-To-Understand Info on Broadband Labels
The Federal Communications Commission largely rejected petitions to reconsider its Broadband Consumer Label rules. Today’s action preserves consumer access to clear, easy-to-understand, and accurate information about the cost and performance of broadband services. Following the adoption of the Broadband Label Order, several petitions were filed asking the FCC to clarify and/or reconsider certain label requirements.
A Tale of Two Markets
There is a huge disparity in regulating two distinct but highly intertwined industries – broadband and voice. Voice regulation includes the cellular business, and, in terms of revenue, the voice market is larger than broadband. JD Powers reported in April 2023 that the average household is spending $144 for cellular per month. I call these industries intertwined because the players at the top of both industries are the same. The big internet service providers (ISP) are Comcast, Charter, AT&T, and Verizon. The biggest voice players are AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.