All Content by and about S. Derek Turner

T-Mobile Hit With Another Cyberattack

December 29, 2021

Just four months after disclosing a massive data breach, T-Mobile has again been hacked.

Mention

Internet Access, Privacy
Free Press Urges the FCC to Prioritize Choice and Consumer Protections as It Implements $14 Billion Affordable Connectivity Program

December 9, 2021

Free Press explains that the FCC must remove any barriers that broadband providers might put in the way of people seeking to use these benefits to get online.

Press Release

Internet Access
Free Press Comments on Affordable Connectivity Program

December 8, 2021

In these comments, Free Press offers guidance to the FCC on how to implement the infrastructure bill’s $14.2-billion Affordable Connectivity Program.

Download

FCC Filing & Correspondence

Internet Access
The Hiccup in Bridging the Digital Divide Is Going to Be the Government's Bad Maps

November 29, 2021

The FCC doesn’t have the data it needs to ensure that the broadband-infrastructure money is spent where it’s most needed. But there’s a clear place to start: in communities of color.

Mention

Internet Access
Elon Musk's Starlink Is Not the Sole Solution to the Digital Divide

October 2, 2021

The average person living in a rural area in the United States simply cannot afford the cost of Starlink.

Mention

Internet Access
Starlink, Elon Musk and the Promise (and Perils) of Internet from Space

September 6, 2021

The Hoh Tribe consists of 28 homes along a strip of road on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. Getting online here has been a constant struggle.

Mention

Internet Access
T-Mobile Hack Spurs Call for Crackdown on Data Retention

August 30, 2021

T-Mobile's widely publicized data breach is raising new concerns about companies' data-retention practices.

Mention

Internet Access
T-Mobile Shouldn't Be Storing the Sensitive Financial Information of More Than 40 Million Non-Customers

August 18, 2021

Free Press is calling for an official investigation into the harmful data-retention practices of U.S. corporations.

Press Release

Internet Access
Unjust Data Caps Are Driven by Greed and Undermine Efforts to Close the Digital Divide

August 13, 2021

Cable One — a broadband provider to 923,000 customers in 24 states — made some honest comments that should make regulators at the FCC sit up and take notice.

Explainer

Free & Open Internet, Internet Access
FCC Blocks Elon Musk From Getting Millions In Subsidies For Delivering Broadband To Traffic Medians

August 4, 2021

Last year Free Press released a report showing how some ISPs had been gaming the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund subsidy program to get money they didn't deserve.

Mention

Net Neutrality