The following article appeared on The Verge: At 9PM ET on the night of May 28th, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sat on the launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The craft was in the middle of a hot-fire test awaiting the arrival of Amazon Leo satellites, the first of 24 batches to be shuttled into low Earth orbit for an ambitious satellite internet venture. The effort was backed by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, leveraging a Biden-era law meant to ad

The following article appeared on Broadband Breakfast: WASHINGTON, June 2, 2026 – A prominent consumer advocate supports blocking private equity from taking majority control of broadband Internet Service Providers. Gigi Sohn, Executive Director of the American Association for Public Broadband, was a guest on the Light Reading podcast “The Divide” on June 1, where she discussed her concerns about private equity having primary control of broadband infrastructure.

In this episode, we talk with Gigi Sohn, executive director of the American Association for Public Broadband (AAPB), a membership organization that advocates for community-owned broadband networks.

The following article appeared on Broadband Breakfast: I’m a Washington, D.C. communications policy wonk. I spend my days arguing in the abstract about the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program. Earlier this month, in the far northeastern corner of Louisiana, I saw what those abstractions look like in reality. It isn’t pretty. The town is Lake Providence, the parish seat of East Carroll Parish. Time Magazine called it “The Poorest Place in America” in the 1990s. Tod