Accepting $1.42 billion in federal broadband funding would require California to give up enforcing its net neutrality, affordability, and public-safety laws aga…
We asked AT&T if it still believes that it would be impossible to comply with the zero-rating rule only in California. We also asked AT&T if it is compl…
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Stanford Law Professor Barbara van Schewick about a federal court's decision to strike down the Biden administration'…
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) accepted BEAD funding but said that it has neither the authority nor intention to enforce some of the conditio…
UPDATE, Nov. 3, 2026: The California Public Utilities Commission signed the Notice of Award for the state’s $1.42 billion federal broadband grant Monday, accept…
I recently noted how California’s being told by the Trump administration that it can’t enforce any of its own telecom consumer protection laws if it wants to re…
In the hills of West Sonoma County, a fire can crest a ridge faster than an evacuation order can reach you. In our Hacienda Firewise Council, we practice phone…
On August 31, the Trump administration sent formal notice of a $1.42 billion grant to California to supply broadband access to 270,000 households and businesses…
California utility regulators this week cleared the way for the state to accept more than $1.4 billion in federal funding to build out broadband in underserved…
As the federal U.S. government has given up on consumer protection and corporate oversight, states have filled the void with various degrees of success. That’s…
Consumer advocates in California are calling on state officials to fight a provision added to the BEAD program by the Trump administration that would require th…
California is on the verge of accepting $1.86 billion in federal broadband grant funds, despite the Trump administration telling states they cannot enforce net…
Accepting $1.42 billion in federal broadband funding would require California to give up enforcing its net neutrality, affordability, and public-safety laws aga…
Net neutrality is a principle that states that all sites on the internet must be equally accessible with no speeding up or slowing down of sites (known as throt…
Earlier this year, Austrian and German NGOs filed a complaint with the German Federal Network Agency against Deutsche Telekom, alleging that the internet servic…