The digital frontier is starting to feel decidedly like 2021 all over again, fueled by crypto’s big comeback — and the return of one of our surreal, meme-powered digital landscape’s biggest characters.

Keith Gill, better known as “RoaringKitty,” announced his comeback on Sunday after more than two years of inactivity with a Reddit post showing nothing but a multimillion-dollar position in the video game retailer GameStop. It instantly breathed life back into the “meme stock” phenomenon that set Wall Street and regulators alike on their back feet in the early days of the Biden administration, creating a fiasco for the market.

Gill’s story doesn’t revolve around cutting-edge generative AI, or a sophisticated messaging campaign, or hopes for a crypto-fueled financial revolution. But if you want to know how technology can really disrupt how things work, it might just be the headline example. He’s the figurehead of a retail stock trading movement that challenged not just institutional power on Wall Street, but the market’s shared, fundamental understanding of whether or not a company is valuable.

Yellow Springs, Ohio recently launched a fiber pilot project currently being used by 100 local homes and businesses. While Yellow Springs hasn’t yet determined its next steps, city officials say they considering some type of public-private partnership with Altafiber.

Congress inserted an interesting requirement into the bill that reauthorizes the funding for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Both the House and Senate added language that would require that a national broadband plan be created that would try to put the FCC, the NTIA, USDA, and other agencies on the same page. This…

Today’s interconnected world makes it hard to imagine a day or more without internet access, but that may soon be the reality for millions of Americans when funding for a critical federal program runs out. The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) provides a monthly subsidy to eligible low-income households to help pay their monthly broadband bill. To be clear, we’re talking about basic internet access and the doors it opens, not free Netflix.

This program has made tremendous progress in getting and keeping low-income Americans connected to affordable broadband, but if Congress fails to fund it this month, the digital divide will widen. Now is the time for lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to come together and fund this popular, empowering, consumer-friendly, fiscally compelling and bipartisan program.

An Anchorage-based ISP has begun construction on an Aleutian Islands fiber project that will connect a dozen communities.

The program to subsidize broadband rates ended on June 1 after Congress failed to provide new funding

A more robust demand for connectivity in education, driven by future tech, was a main impression at this year's SXSW EDU.

Reliable, high-speed internet access has long been a challenge in rural parts of the West. Recently the Western Governor’s Association sent letters to Congress to encourage efforts to improve the situation.

Five-year-old OXIO is connecting to telecom networks, so you don't have to. The company's CEO said his platform takes the best parts of telecom networks and layers services on top.

The Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program holds exciting potential for members of the NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, but there are wrinkles to be ironed out, says the group's CEO, Shirley Bloomfield.

Reasons for the layoffs have not been confirmed, but both companies reported positive results in cloud services last quarter. It's not clear if cuts were due to declining business or efficiencies in
generative artificial intelligence.

The report suggests that lawmakers in New York have reached a "tentative agreement" on the bill introduced last year by state officials, which requires parental consent for algorithmic feeds.

The TDS US Signal deal will put TDS's OneNeck data centers in US Signal's hands so TDS can invest more in fiber buildouts.

About half of class-B stockholders get $15 a share

Disney, WBD and Fox are bracing for more congressional scrutiny after Friday talks fail to satisfy concerns over Venu sports bundle.

Allowing ACP funding to lapse is penny wise and pound foolish, according to FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez.

Legislation compelling Colorado's MDU owners to comply with requests from providers to install equipment for broadband is on the books.

The Online Streaming Act, which amended the Broadcasting Act, requires the CRTC to modernize the Canadian broadcasting framework and ensure that online streaming services make meaningful contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content.

This week: Digital equity advocates Shayna Englin (California Community Foundation) and Kevin Miller (Fresno Coalition for Digital Inclusion) on digital discrimination in California and a new legislative effort to end it.

Frontier has launched a fiber securitization offering of $750 million that will be used to pay down its term loan and might also be applied toward investments and for fiber expansion and copper migration strategies.