By Jonathan Spalter Let it be said that the Biden administration’s $100 billion investment in broadband infrastructure was a bold proposal to permanently close the digital divide and deliver affordable connectivity for every home, school, hospital and business in America. But tucked away in the plan — presumably, to justify…

By Jonathan Spalter Last week I had the privilege of testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee on the state of broadband during the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency. I shared with senators the extraordinary steps USTelecom’s innovative broadband providers and technology leaders are taking to keep citizens connected and the…

By Jonathan Spalter When the COVID-19 pandemic began compelling widespread workplace and school closures across the country, there was some speculation the atypical traffic demands would crash, clog or otherwise overwhelm American broadband networks. …

By Jonathan Spalter The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a national challenge to our society, our economy and the infrastructure that undergirds it. …

By Jonathan Spalter California’s landmark privacy law is set to go into effect on January 1. Ready or not, virtually all companies will need to comply with the new law if they want to do business in a state that — if it were a nation — would have the…

By Jonathan Spalter Three things you can count on: death, taxes and Washington’s seemingly endless ping pong of a debate over net neutrality. It has been nearly two years since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal the old-school regulations that classified today’s internet like a Depression-era utility. This…

By Jonathan Spalter Our nation’s broadband providers — large and small — collectively have invested far more (and for far longer) than any other sector to connect rural America and address one of the most critical challenges facing our country: ensuring every person in the nation has access to the…

By Jonathan Spalter USTelecom launched our initiative to revolutionize broadband mapping nationwide in March. We answered the call from regulators, lawmakers and the consumers we serve rightfully demanding better tools to improve the allocation of federal broadband dollars and make progress ending the digital divide — especially in rural America. …

By Jonathan Spalter With passage today of the Save the Internet Act, the net neutrality story morphs from a debate about the right set of rules governing internet service in a hyper-connected world to a proxy battle pitting so-called internet freedom advocates against the innovators that invest in, and the…