
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Telecom companies are spending a lot of money on wireless infrastructure to support their 5G networks. In an FCC auction announced last week, Verizon spent $45 billion on acquiring new spectrum. AT&T spent $23 billion. But wired infrastructure is not seeing the same kind of love. AT&T has stopped connecting new customers to its DSL network, and a report out last fall found that it has deployed high-speed fiber to only about a third of the households in its network. Molly talks with Angela Siefer, the executive director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance.
4.5
12361,236 ratings
Telecom companies are spending a lot of money on wireless infrastructure to support their 5G networks. In an FCC auction announced last week, Verizon spent $45 billion on acquiring new spectrum. AT&T spent $23 billion. But wired infrastructure is not seeing the same kind of love. AT&T has stopped connecting new customers to its DSL network, and a report out last fall found that it has deployed high-speed fiber to only about a third of the households in its network. Molly talks with Angela Siefer, the executive director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance.
1,647 Listeners
903 Listeners
4,358 Listeners
1,753 Listeners
8,659 Listeners
30,839 Listeners
1,358 Listeners
32,283 Listeners
2,171 Listeners
5,497 Listeners
1,438 Listeners
9,568 Listeners
10,141 Listeners
3,585 Listeners
6,259 Listeners
163 Listeners
2,743 Listeners
1,319 Listeners
90 Listeners