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As the COVID-19 pandemic brought an increased reliance on online instruction, hundreds of Berkeley households have enrolled in the Emergency Broadband Benefit, or EBB, program for help affording internet access.
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Space- and sky-based solutions offer some of the most promising ways to ensure that access to innovation occurs sooner rather than later.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge Monday from a telecommunications industry group against the city of Berkeley ordinance that requires cell phone retailers to provide radiation warnings at the point of sale.
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Berkeley City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance mandating that all new buildings be built without natural gas infrastructure at its Tuesday night meeting.
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The city of Berkeley and the state of California are working to reinstate net neutrality rules after the FCC’s decision last year allowed internet service providers to prioritize favorable content and treat internet traffic unequally.
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A federal court panel has found the city of Berkeley’s cellphone disclosure ordinance, originally passed May 12, 2015, to comply with the First Amendment, as first reported by the East Bay Times.
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On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard arguments for and against nonprofit organization CTIA – The Wireless Association’s appeal of a U.S. district judge’s decision to allow a disputed Berkeley ordinance to pass.
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On Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council will deliberate on an “internet-for-all” proposal, a hate crime prevention response plan and a mental wellness center, among other items on the meeting agenda.
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Why would anyone possibly doubt the value of net neutrality? The core idea is simple: The network should treat all packets of information that travel across it equally. If you are a network provider, such as Comcast, you can’t slow down packets that carry Netflix movies to their subscribers just
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While high school nostalgia, or Vegas, wasted most of us during spring break, my parents’ brand new high-definition plasma TV radiated all the real-time exhibitionism I could handle during five days of Oregon rain (and fresh crab!). Recovering from Craig Ferguson’s camera-tapping into my bereft soul, I concluded that the
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