Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 21, 2025

Now that the lengthy legal beef has been settled and New York’s  Affordable Broadband Act is set to take effect this month, it marks a potentially pivotal moment in a national effort to address one of the biggest barriers to broadband adoption:  Affordability.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 26, 2025

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) reports … We asked broadband officials and industry stakeholders to identify challenges they face with deploying broadband to underserved and unserved locations.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 23, 2025

The Wadena Pioneer Journal reports Since 1950, West Central Telephone Association (WCTA) has been a foundation for communication in rural communities, bridging the gap between neighbors and businesses.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 5, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 5, 2024 – The Federal Communications Commission has approved RiverStreet Communications’s request to hand over more than 3,700 subsidized locations to EMPOWER Broadband.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 30, 2024

New Hampshire is getting the gift that keeps on giving: $191 million in federal money to put every last residence and business in the state within reach of broadband internet service over the next five years. Get Broadband Breakfast's free daily newsletter every morning, Mon.-Fri. Want top news about tech and politics?

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 9, 2024

9, 2024 – Service members living in unaccompanied housing may soon enjoy free broadband internet access under a key provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025. WASHINGTON, Dec.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 29, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Monday that new Federal Communications Commission data breach rules are too similar to ones nixed by Congress in 2017. That should end this case,” trade groups for the wireless , cable, and broadband industries wrote in a reply brief submitted to the Cincinnati-based court.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Their concerns involve not only video but also broadband. NCTA, The Internet and Television Association filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission on Monday regarding the planned merger between the satellite operators. WASHINGTON, Oct. billion purchase of Intelsat.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

25, 2024 – Public school leaders and other education advocates give the Federal Communications Commission's Wi-Fi hotspots plan high marks, but they think the agency can still do better.    Both parties petitioned the FCC to reconsider provisions of Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel ’s E-Rate Hotspot Order.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Gigabit Britain: Taking strategic look at the commercial and regulatory context for the deployment of next-generation communications infrastructure in the UK.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Federal Communications Commission is trying to keep alive its April order reclassifying broadband as a Title II service under the Communications Act, subject to more stringent FCC oversight. 31. “[T]he [FCC] says that the major-questions doctrine cannot preclude it from classifying broadband. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 22, 2024

22, 2024 – Tribal governments are urging the Federal Communications Commission to require their consent before subsidizing 5G infrastructure on Tribal lands. Other RDOF defaults have cited existing Tribal broadband projects. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 31, 2024

  The lack of regulatory clarity around the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has placed Internet Service Providers in an impossible situation, warned Shirley Bloomfield , CEO of NTCA – the Rural Broadband Association, in a recent blog. Supreme Court to provide clarity on the DMCA's safe harbor provisions for ISPs. 

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 4, 2024 – Lumen told the Federal Communications Commission last week it was handing back more than 3,500 locations it won at auction in 2020. Run by the FCC, RDOF is set to disburse more than $6 billion in total to get broadband to nearly 3.5 million homes and businesses.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 16, 2024

16, 2024 – Verizon said its $20 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications won’t harm competition in the broadband market.    The company filed a joint application with the Federal Communications Commission on Oct. WASHINGTON, Oct. million fiber passings and 2.2

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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, 395, subdivision 9; 216B.17, new text end Sec.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

T-Mobile also committed to a number of other provisions, including segmenting its network to limit the “blast radius” of a given breach, more secure authentication methods for employees, and more oversight of virtual network operators that provide service on T-Mobile’s infrastructure, among other things. WASHINGTON, Sept.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 5, 2024

billion federal initiative launched in 2020 to bring high-speed broadband to unserved areas has hit its midway point.  However, for increases below this threshold, there is no provision for extra support, CostQuest reports.  WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2024 – A $20.4

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The impact of losing the Affordable Connectivity Program subsidies gets a lot of attention, because it is leaving many of low income households without broadband and has changed the math for BEAD funding. Others—such as those in New York , North Carolina , and Pennsylvania —considered legislation to establish their own broadband subsidies.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The T-Mobile-Lumos deal is currently under review by the Federal Communications Commission.  New motivations for Tier 1 providers This month, AT&T announced wholesale agreements with fiber broadband providers such as Boldyn, PRIME, and Ubiquity in key regions, including Texas military bases, Florida, and Minnesota.

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Blandin on Broadband

AUGUST 8, 2024

Maybe there’s a way to communicate with OBD about this sort of situation. Q: If there are a flurry of 11 th hour challenges and it takes the State a longer while to get back to folks – are there provisions to extend the rebuttal to 30 days? It’s easier for them if you draw individual polygons to only capture eligible locations.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 8, 2025

8, 2025—Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel named eight to serve as members to the Universal Service Administrative Company Board of Directors in December. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided in July 2024 that the USF’s funding mechanism may violate provisions of the U.S.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

29 essay , published by the Free State Foundation, O’Rielly called on Congress to federally criminalize “willfully or maliciously injuring or destroying communications facilities operated or controlled” by private companies. In his Jan. He wants it to cover private companies as well.

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IEEE ComSoc

MARCH 12, 2025

Analysys Mason says investments in the satellite communications industry from AT&T, Google, Vodafone, Apple “could well surpass $20 billion in 2025.” She pointed out that in 3GPP Releases 17, 18 and (forthcoming) 19 and 20, the work has progressed from IoT to broadband to low-earth orbit ( LEO ) satellites.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In a recent filing to the Federal Communications Commission, AT&T argued that the FCC lacked explicit authority to enforce such a mandate. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2024 – AT&T has pushed back against a consumer-focused proposal from federal regulators to unlock mobile phones within 60 days, citing potential legal overreach.

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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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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

24, 2024 - A group of five Republican Attorneys General submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission detailing their positions against the agency’s proposed 60-day unlocking rule for handheld devices. WASHINGTON, Sep.

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EldoTelecom

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Thats according to a recently published white paper commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association and Frontier Communications. That leads to micro market segmentation as seen on so-called broadband maps that an East Texas local government official compared to the spotted coat of a Dalmatian.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 22, 2024

VTel Wireless, in a petition filed with the Federal Communications Commission on Monday, argued that granting EchoStar more time to deploy spectrum partially obtained in the T-Mobile/Sprint merger would further delay the rollout of crucial 5G infrastructure. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

6 challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s 5G Fund for Rural America. CCA and other groups representing rural and regional mobile providers had pushed back on several provisions during the rulemaking process. Circuit on Feb. billion BEAD program was further along.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

12, 2025 – The conservative nonprofit challenging an $8 billion-per-year broadband subsidy urged the Supreme Court to find the program unconstitutional Tuesday, calling it a “bureaucrat’s dream” and a “nightmare.” WASHINGTON, Feb.

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AT&T Connects

JULY 2, 2024

Last month, I shared Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (D-Inglewood) had introduced a new proposal (AB 2797) to modernize regulations and introduce provisions to protect California’s vulnerable communities while maintaining the state’s leadership in innovation.

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IEEE ComSoc

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Reliance Jio has argued that India’s telecom regulator incorrectly concluded that home satellite broadband spectrum should be allocated and not auctioned , according to a letter seen by Reuters. That intensifies Jio’s face-off with Elon Musk’s Starlink.

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Rural Broadband Association

AUGUST 15, 2024

Member Moments: Twin Valley First to Launch Mobile Offerings Send to all affiliates Off user_1153020 Thu, 08/15/2024 - 10:18 Byline By Danielle Malley, Communications Assistant Associated Date Thu, 08/15/2024 - 12:00 Advanced Content Section Twin Valley Communications (Miltonvale, Kan.)

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Blandin on Broadband

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.; 39, subdivision 1; 116J.394;

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TELCO

APRIL 22, 2024

Building on the initial success of the Edgility deployment, the contract extends and expands the original agreement that was entered into in 2021, when Edgility was selected as the virtualization platform for CEMEX’s new communications network.

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Rural Broadband Association

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On one hand, NTCA continues to hold out that we will have some members across the country looking to participate in this historic broadband grant program and fill in the gaps in rural communities where other providers have chosen not to deploy. On this last point, an analogy may be helpful. Why would we settle here?

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