Health IT Can Aid Disease Prevention in New Ways
Electronic health records, social media, and mobile tools are providing a new line of defense in the fight against preventive disease. New technologies are making access to patient histories, support groups, and health resources more available than ever before.
Personal Health Record Adoption Faces Digital Divide
Personal Health Records (PHR) have been on the rise in the United States as a means of easily accessing and coordinating health information. Growing in popularity, such records are part of a broader health IT movement that simplifies health care for patients and care pr...
Computers 4 Kids Teaches High School Students to Refurbish Computers, Donates Them to Local Families
ConnectKentucky?s Computers 4 Kids program will donate 150 refurbished computers to Greenup County families, according to Connected Nation.
West Virginia Implements Statewide Fiber Optic Broadband Network
An ambitious project to create a statewide fiber optic broadband network in West Virginia is underway. The statewide fiber broadband network will connect critical anchor institutions, including hospitals, public schools, libraries and fire and police departments across...
Telemedicine at Work in Southwest Virginia
The Meadowview Health Clinic and Community Center in Meadowview, Virginia has received a $227,613 federal grant to join a telemedicine network with the University of Virginia.
Fiber: The only answer to the need for speed
New innovations like internet TV and phone service are making the need for speed clearer and clearer. The only technology that will be able to handle these and future innovations is fiber-optic cable. Delivering speeds up to 100 megabits per second, fiber is the future...
Small Texas Towns, High Speed Connections
Clint, TX may only have 1,000 residents, but, like other small towns in Texas, it's being opened up to new opportunities thanks to high-speed Internet.
Getting High Speed to the Heartland
The long journey toward getting high speed internet to America's heartland continues.
Comcast, Charter deepen mobile partnership
Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile relies on Comcast’s hot-spots and Verizon Wireless’s network. It ended the fourth quarter of 2017 with 380,000 subscribers.
Call center workers left behind in new NAFTA deal
CWA President Shelton vowed to continue to work to address these concerns and ensure that the final agreement puts working people first.
CWA members fight COVID outbreak at AT&T call center
Nearly 40 percent of the workers on the center's fifth floor have become infected with the coronavirus or developed symptoms since mid-November.
All 50 states opt-in to FirstNet
Opting into FirstNet is a win-win for the states, first responders, wireless workers, and the public.
Tech workers protest Peter Thiel’s Palantir to protect immigrants
Workers are concerned that the company could help the Trump administration collect data on immigrants, ultimately allowing the new administration to keep some of its most draconian campaign promises.
Google Express workers seek union
More than 140 warehouse and shipping workers have asked the Teamsters to represent them in negotiations for better wages, safer working conditions, and fairer employment agreements.
Net neutrality in context
Former Undersecretary of Commerce Ev Ehrich put net neutrality in a wider context in the San Francisco Chronicle, saying. "?there's nothing neutral about the Net now, despite what a few strident voices say.?
USDA to fund distance learning and telemedicine projects
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $14 million in grants for telemedicine and education in low-income rural counties.
Majority of Under-45s Have Smartphones
While overall smartphones are still less than 50 percent of total mobile ownership, they're a majority for people between 18 and 44.
USF Reform Will Bring 21st Century Communications to Rural Areas
The unanimous vote by the Federal Communications Commission to reform the Universal Service Fund (USF) is a first step toward bringing the promise of high speed broadband to communities, residents, and businesses in rural and underserved areas.
Candidates sign on to Speed Matters
Democratic presidential candidates Joseph Biden, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, and Bill Richardson told Iowans of the critical importance of CWA's Speed Matters initiative during campaign events this week.
Klobuchar Criticizes Rural-Access Cuts
In response to President Bush's budget, Minnesota's new Senator, Amy Klobuchar, decried cuts to a program providing loans to assist communities in creating Internet infrastructure.
Bandwidth Limiting Entertainment and Advertising Potential
The internet has seen exponential growth in advertising in the last several years, while targeting and tailoring those advertisements to the individual user.
MD Office of People’s Counsel urges PSC to investigate Verizon service
An analysis of 1,200 customer complaints from 2011 through the present shows a pattern of neglect, including de facto copper retirement and failure to fix its copper network.
State, local, tribal governments advisory committee supports Lifeline modernization
The Intergovernmental Advisory Committee filed comments in support of the FCC?s proposal to update the Lifeline program to include broadband, agreeing that high-speed Internet is a modern communications necessity.
Robustness and Resiliency in the IP transition
Benton Foundation's Ted Gotsch writes this week about another principle to guide the transition to IP: Robustness and Resiliency.
Possible T-Mobile, PCS Metro Link-up Means More Jobs Loss
CWA is concerned about a potential T-Mobile USA/Metro PCS link-up, which may presage Deutsche Telekom selling off T-Mobile assets over time.