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Sunday, March 26, 2023

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Volume 42 Table of Contents Issue 85
FCC Announces Grants In The ACP And Teases Upcoming New Online ACP Application Release
Is Universal Service At Risk?
No more Moore. It's the Law.
Message-ID: <20230324200910.GA1836941@telecomdigest.us> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 20:09:10 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: FCC Announces Grants In The ACP And Teases Upcoming New Online ACP Application Release by Michael Dover (Los Angeles) In November 2022, the FCC published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) seeking community partners to develop outreach programs to promote awareness of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) among eligible households in historically underserved and unserved communities as part of the ACP Outreach Grant Program. On Friday, March 10, 2023, the FCC announced approximately $66 million in grant funding for two of the four sub-programs in the Outreach Program: the National Competitive Outreach Program (NCOP) and the Tribal Competitive Outreach Program (TCOP). The FCC's announcement accepts about 190 grant applicants, amounting to $60 million for the NCOP, and 20 grant applicants, amounting to about $6 million for the TCOP. Once the Notice of Awards are issued, grant recipients will have 30 days to accept the awards. These funds will be used for digital campaigns, door-to-door canvassing, operate phone banks, distribute direct mail, host ACP application enrollment and outreach events in 50 states and territories. Grants in the other two sub-programs in the Outreach Grant Program, the Your Home, Your Internet Outreach Grants and the ACP Navigator Pilot Program Outreach Grants, will be announced in the future. https://www.mondaq.com/article/news/1295734?q=1803232&n=736&tp=3&tlk=2&lk=21 -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <20230324201210.GA1837070@telecomdigest.us> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 20:12:10 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Is Universal Service At Risk? by Craig A. Gilley (Washington) In Consumers' Research v. FCC, the Universal Service Fund (USF) is under legal and constitutional attack in the Fifth Circuit. A decision striking the USF would have wide-ranging impacts on the telecommuni- cations industry and the various beneficiaries, such as consumers in high-cost areas, low-income households, schools, libraries, and rural healthcare providers. That outcome, while unlikely, is still possible. https://www.mondaq.com/article/news/1296138?q=1803232&n=736&tp=3&tlk=3&lk=22 -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.2303250115460.17826@panix3.panix.com> Date: 25 Mar 2023 01:17:33 +0000 From: "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> Subject: No more Moore. It's the Law. [Intel press release] Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 Moore, who set the course for the future of the semiconductor industry, devoted his later years to philanthropy. Santa Clara - Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. .... In addition to Moore's seminal role in founding two of the world's pioneering technology companies, he famously forecast in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every year - a prediction that came to be known as Moore's Law. ======= rest: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/gordon-moore-obituary.html _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
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