Bill Callahan

@cycbill.bsky.social

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NE Ohio / Old grassroots digital equity hand / Data has its uses / Don't mourn, organize!

Chart: Ohio Natural Gas Consumption by End Use (Millions of cubic feet per year)
Chart showing Ohio electric generating plant use of natural gas vs all other uses, from 2015 through 2025.
Screencast from Reddit: Sorry about the cancer, here's a coupon.
Chart of total Ohio locations approved for BEAD funding and shares of those locations awarded to Space X / Star Link, by county, 5/30/26
"Opposition Grows to California CPUC Amendment", text of Communications Daily article reproduced at https://www.turn.org/turn-newsroom.
Screenshot of X post by City of Cleveland announcing that the permit application for a data center in Slavic Village has been rejected.
Charts showing percentages of residential broadband locations served by AT&T fiber Internet in Cleveland Census tracts, grouped by the tracts' median household incomes and non-White household percentages. Sources are FCC Broadband Map data for June 2025 and American Community Survey 2024 5-Year Estimates.
Map of AT&T fiber to the home availability percentages in June 2025 in Cleveland, by Census tract. Source: FCC National Broadband Map data for June 2025
Tweet by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr celebrating a court ruling that vacates the agency's 2023 "Digital Discrimination" order.
FCC "Broadband Facts" consumer label for DigitalC's Canopy home fixed wireless service, showing an $18 monthly charge for 100/100 Mbps internet.
Map of AT&T fiber to the home availability percentages in June 2025 in Cleveland, by Census tract. Source: FCC National Broadband Map data for June 2025.
Chart of largest US Internet providers' estimated home Internet customers at the end of 2025, before and after FCC-approved buyouts of Cox by Charter, Frontier by Verizon and part of Lumen by AT&T, as well as reported possible deal between T Mobile and Uniti (Windstream). Also shows estimated changes in top five providers' share of the US home broadband Internet market resulting from these acquisitions, from 68% before the deals to 75%-76% after.
Language from Trump 2027 budget proposal calling on Congress to cancel funding of the Digital Equity Act: "The Budget proposes to cancel funding for NTIA’s Digital Equity program that the statute requires, and the Biden Administration planned to, unconstitutionally award based on race. After taking office, the President announced, 'The Digital Equity Program is a RACIST and ILLEGAL $2.5 BILLION DOLLAR giveaway. I am ending this IMMEDIATELY.' Prior to the President terminating the program, grants were planned for: o Explicitly prioritizing members of racial and ethnic minority groups, people who do not speak English, and people incarcerated in non-Federal correctional facilities."
Screenshot of Starlink residential offer as of 4/3/26.
Infographic summarizing allocation of funded BEAD locations in Ohio to various technology categories by the Ohio BEAD Final Plan approved on Dec 2 by the US Commerce Dept.
Concept graphic showing one version (V2) of developer's proposed plan for Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport site
Sherrod Brown tweet opposing US attack on Iran.
Comparison chart of BEAD locations proposed by BroadbandOhio, by type of broadband technology, with locations by technology approved by the U.S. Dept of Commerce.
Comparison chart of BEAD locations proposed by BroadbandOhio, by type of broadband technology, with locations by technology approved by the U.S. Dept of Commerce.
2024 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates data chart re: Internet connections of Ohio households
Chart of rural broadband funds awarded to SpaceX in the 30 state BEAD Final Proposals posted for public comment as of August 29.
Detailed chart of BEAD rural broadband awards announced on Aug 28 by BroadbandOhio as part of its BEAD Final Proposal to the U.S. Commerce Department.
FCC Broadband Map image of Youngstown, OH showing small area served by fiber broadband Intenet (less than 5% of units). Youngstown is in AT&T's historic service territory.
Chart of 2023 American Community Survey data showing number of urban and rural Ohio households without home wireline broadband service.
Congressman David Joyce post on X yesterday regarding his Yes vote for the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act".
Excerpt from FCC Broadband Map showing areas of Memphis and adjacent suburbs where AT&T offers Internet speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps (fiber, DSL or fixed wireless) to at least half of residential locations, as of December 2024.
Excerpt of FCC Broadband Map showing areas of Detroit and adjacent suburbs where AT&T offers Internet speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps (fiber, DSL or fixed wireless) to at least half of residential locations, as of December 2024.
Excerpt of FCC Broadband Map showing areas of Cleveland and adjacent suburbs where AT&T offers Internet speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps (fiber, DSL or fixed wireless) to at least half of residential locations, as of December 2024.
The Commerce Department's BroadbandUSA Digital Equity Act Programs web page as of May 13, 2025 (Internet Archive)
Trump Truth Social post announcing that he will end the Digital Equity Act,
Screenshot FCC's "Funding Map" showing more than 640 broadband projects, covering 700,000 consumer locations, that were awarded CCPF funding in 2022 or 2023, and must be complete by the end of next year.
Screenshot from https://www.instagram.com/clevelandmaidan/ -- 700 turn out for Ukraine support rally in Parma, OH
Excerpt from current FCC Broadband Map showing areas where Verizon offers fiber Internet service to at least 25% of residential locations -- Baltimore city vs nearby suburbs.
Congress Joyce district office inormation
Excerpts from a fact sheet on Canada/Ohio 2023 imports and exports published by Canada's Detroit Consul General.
Section 60506 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Digital discrimination)
Excerpt from FCC Chair Carr's "DEI" statement which pledges to eliminate the agency's Digital Discrimination Task Force.