Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 6, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 6, 2024 – Broadband providers and banking groups are continuing to ask that the Federal Communications Commission ditch the bank rating system it has relied on for its subsidy program’s financing requirements.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 13, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 13, 2025 - Industry experts gathered Wednesday to assess the state of broadband connectivity in America, highlighting both significant progress and persistent challenges in closing the digital divide since the COVID-19 pandemic began. "We " Broadband Breakfast on March 12, 2025 - 5 Years On: Where Is Broadband Now?

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

13, 2025 – Altice USA reported 39,300 total broadband losses in the fourth quarter of 2024, in line with Wall Street expectations. The cable operator gained 56,600 fiber subscribers. percent of its broadband customers had taken up a mobile plan, lower than Comcast and Charter. WASHINGTON, Feb. The company said 5.7

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Senate Committee on Taxes heard two bills that talked about tax exemptions for broadband equipment. As of Jan 2025, 395,000 households dont have broadband. This bill would extend tax exemptions for fiber and conduit purchased (or leased) to deploy better broadband. Revenue thinks this has to do with finances.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 16, 2025

” Conexon’s Alexis Madison told ILSR that the EREC project will be financed with approximately $21.8 million, two Broadband Opportunity Program grants totaling $5.9 million, and a Broadband Infrastructure Program grant of $9.6 million in grants, including an Escambia County grant of $6.3

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 22, 2024

22, 2024 – A major cable industry group is warning that a proposed 60-day mobile phone unlocking standard could open the door to billions of dollars in fraud. “Handset fraud has blossomed into a billion-dollar industry: criminals obtain handsets under a subsidized/financed arrangement in the U.S., WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

844, A bill for an act relating to telecommunications; modifying provisions governing broadband workforce plan data; modifying investigative authority; modifying provisions governing underground telecommunications infrastructure; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 116J.395, From the Minnesota House Schultz and Baker introduced: F.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association – which represents wireless resellers Comcast and Charter Communications – has pushed for a 180-day unlocking rule, arguing that a shorter timeframe could disrupt current financing models or increase fraud risks.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Under this model, multiple ISPs can offer services over the same broadband infrastructure. The Fiber Broadband Association is the voice of fiber. Using an active ethernet infrastructure and operating at the wholesale level, UTOPIA Fiber supports open access and promotes competition in all broadband and telecommunications services.

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EldoTelecom

APRIL 1, 2024

Cable companies, publicly owned and coop networks and smaller fiber network owner/operators will be offered buy outs of their existing footprints on highly favorable but time limited acquisition terms, according to sources close to the negotiations leading up to the deal.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Today the Committee on Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy heard more about: HF47 (Schultz) Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified. MN has good broadband. The certification program set to start this year could bring broadband deployment to a halt.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A mammoth piece of arctic sea ice had scraped the ocean floor 34 miles north of Oliktok Point,  cutting a fiber optic  cable buried 13 feet underground, below about 90 feet of water. " I've heard stories like Hopson's a lot in my seven years reporting on the broadband industry and its technology.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

974, A bill for an act relating to broadband; establishing the Equal Access to Broadband Act; modifying provisions governing broadband services and broadband infrastructure; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 116J.39, From the Minnesota House … Freiberg; Lee, F.; Carroll; Koegel and Clardy introduced: H.

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ersi

MARCH 4, 2020

So we set out to ask a few geographically enlightened participants in the telecom and cable industry for their thoughts about resource optimization. Before GIS, our company was slow to tell a prospective customer their max broadband speeds or what services we could offer. Two projects for fiber design came in around the same time.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 31, 2025

White Paper Protecting The Nation's Critical Communications Infrastructure From Theft & Vandalism Learn More White Paper Provided by NCTA, CTIA, USTelecom, The Rural Broadband Association: The U.S. Increasing vandalism has also impacted the fiber-optic networks that are now common in many broadband and wireless networks.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 11, 2025

The League of MN Cities reports… Building on last sessions momentum to update Minnesotas cable act, lawmakers have reintroduced the Equal Access to Broadband Act in both the House and Senate. Support community media efforts, similar to the authority cities already have under the Minnesota Cable Act.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 13, 2025

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture Finance and Policy. Office of Broadband Development and Digital Equity ; deployment data. Disclosure of deployment data provided by a broadband provider to the Office of Broadband Development and Digital Equity is governed by section 116J.397.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 17, 2025

Nevada’s final proposal for deploying broadband throughout the state received federal approval Thursday evening, meaning every state that released the document has been greenlit. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2025 – It’s now three for three. Nevada tapped Amazon’s nascent Kuiper Systems for its satellite locations.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 1, 2024

1, 2024 – Republican complaints about various provisions of the Biden administration’s flagship broadband expansion program are well known. The preference for fiber, more expensive but more future-proof than wireless broadband, was set out by the NTIA. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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