Digital Liberty

04/07/2021

Digital Liberty is breaking down President Biden's Broadband plan. Here's part 1 where we discuss the problem of comparing broadband buildout to rural electrification:

By Katie McAuliffe and Noah Vehafric President Biden announced his “American Jobs Plan” – a two trillion dollar spending package meant to target all sorts of infrastructural issues. Here at Digital Liberty we are taking the magnifying glass to see how the President’s Plan will impact technol...

02/05/2021

NEW BLOG: The Private Sector have been spearheading efforts to close the .

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By: Noah Vehafric As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into the new year, one of the lessons we can takeaway is how important having access to broadband is. Americans use broadband to work, see healthcare providers and students use it to learn – all from their home. Families and communities without ...

10/27/2020

America doesn't want it. Say no to nationalized 5G.

By Katie McAuliffe and Noah Vehafric With the Department of Defense’s request for information (RFI) asking for input into building and operating a shared civilian-military 5G network across the nation being well over a month old, we can step back and take a look at the broad opposition that exists...

09/09/2020

By: Noah Vehafric The FCC published a proposed order today that would promote development of the underused 4.9 GHz band by allowing individual State governments to license portions of the band to third party users for commercial, infrastructure, or other purposes This marks a change from a 2002 deci...

09/02/2020

The Trump Administration has announced a $1 billion investment in AI and research institutes nationwide.

By: Noah Vehafric The Whitehouse announced last week a new initiative to commit $1 billion towards research of emerging technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence, and quantum information science (QIS), with the goal of “ensuring American leadership in the future… for technologies that will s...

08/13/2020

President Trump has announced his plan to make 100 megahertz of mid-band spectrum available for commercial 5G deployment.
https://www.digitalliberty.net/unleashing-5g-potential/

07/22/2020

C-Band is Vital in Race to 5G

Central to the conversation on spectrum policy is C-band, a mid-band spectrum that will be vital to the buildout of 5G in the United States.

07/22/2020

Coalition Supports Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act

Americans for Tax Reform has released a coalition letter with 19 signers supporting the Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act. The full letter can be read below, and here. Support S. 765 & H.R.

07/17/2020

Making hundreds of megahertz of mid-band spectrum available would create 1.3 million American jobs and boost the U.S. economy by $274 billion. The U.S. is already a leader in low and high band spectrum. By catching up with other leading countries on mid-band spectrum availability, we can rev up our economy and push ahead in the race to 5G.https://www.digitalliberty.net/mid-band-spectrum-the-race-to-5g/

07/16/2020

Rather than a scatter shot, these efforts to improve our broadband mapping capabilities will ensure that taxpayer dollars are used as efficiently as possible while expanding service to communities most in need of connection. https://www.digitalliberty.net/better-mapping-to-bridge-the-digital-divide/

07/15/2020

The consumer welfare standard requires companies to cater to consumers, not bureaucrats, in order to succeed. It has allowed competition, and our economy more broadly, to flourish.
https://www.digitalliberty.net/antitrust-expansion-is-for-the-birds/