5G fixed wireless access (FWA) is transforming how Americans are accessing the internet. In less than three years, 7.9 million customers signed up with FWA as their preferred internet solution. Recon Analytics interviewed more than 40,000 home internet customers in …
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The Affordable Connectivity Program – Will Congress Do the Prudent Thing?
Recon Analytics recently conducted the largest survey run to date to assess whether consumers eligible for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) are actually enrolling and if so, what they are using their ACP funds for.
We conducted nationwide consumer surveys …
Broadband for All – who pays? 71% of Americans want Google, Facebook, Amazon and the alike pay for it
Americans overwhelmingly support that broadband should be available to every American and that the funding base to achieve that should be broadened to every company that makes money through the internet.
More than 78% of respondents agreed that broadband internet …
China’s anti-trust authorities march to the beat of their own drum
As China has become a major global economy and grows more assertive on the global stage, the country has discovered the power of anti-trust legislation. While created on three common pillars of fighting anti-competitive agreements between companies, the abuse of …
Attempts to Close the Digital Divide — What has worked and what hasn’t?
Over the past 15 years, there have been several government initiatives to expand the adoption of broadband in the United States. At the same time, industry has been busily focused on extending the reach and capacity of both fixed and …
European Lessons on Broadbroad — A Look at Germany
For a country that is known for being as efficient, organized, and technologically advanced as Germany, its state of mobile networks constitutes a rare black mark. Germany is the third largest economy in the world with 82 million inhabitants (double …
Mobile is Colorblind
Stay-at-home orders, school closings, and social distancing have raised the issue of the digital divide in the United States. While the availability and affordability of connectivity is important, owning a device to access the internet is equally important. Broadband without …
Tales of two continents and the Internet During COVID-19
A few weeks ago, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton made headlines when he asked Netflix, Google’s YouTube and Disney to voluntarily reduce their video quality from High Definition to Standard Definition in order to “secure Internet access for all.” Is this …
Audio conference: Will the U.S. Tech, Telecom and Mobile Sectors Survive Election Year 2020 and COVID-19?
Is U.S. missing a big 5G opportunity at 6 GHz?
The FCC is on a rampage trying to make as much spectrum available for 5G as it can. But in so doing, is it creating an imbalance in spectrum allocations in the U.S., and if so, what will that mean …