The recent White House statement that hyperscale data centers should “pay their own way” for electricity captures a broader, overdue principle: when large, U.S.-based digital platform and cloud companies drive…
The Amazon Web Services outage might seem a small price to pay for the high quality and value AWS provides. After all, the disruption was unintentional—a simple backend mistake—and AWS…
Modern democracies engage in policy to promote broadband including legislation for universal service, the principle that everyone has access to essential services, no matter where they live or how much…
Strand Consult leads the Global Project on Broadband Cost Recovery and Business Models. Strand Consult collects, organizes and synthesizes knowledge on the policy globally so that policymakers, the press, and…
The largest internet companies Alphabet, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and TikTock (“Big Tech”) derived an estimated $200 billion in revenue in 2024 from the 135 million users connecting to…
On November 16, 2023, three U.S. Senators released the bipartisan, Lowering Broadband Costs for Consumers Act of 2023 (S. 3321). The bill is sponsored by Senators Mullin (R-OK), Kelly (D-AZ),…
The cost to manage video streaming in broadband networks is growing 2-3 times faster than revenue, frustrating broader investment and affordability goals. Strand Consult’s new report Broadband Cost Recovery: A…
Analysys Mason is a respected international consultancy whose reports inform the policymaking process. It has produced a series of reports commissioned by US tech companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon,…
The pandemic has heightened the importance of braodband with policymakers and increased the urgency of closing the digital divide, particularly in the US as FCC data shows that 22% of…
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