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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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 29, 2025

740: A bill for an act relating to labor; modifying grant award requirements for the border-to-border broadband development grant program; repealing certain labor standards for broadband industry installers; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 116J.395, MN Senate Journal reports Senator Westrom introduced– S.F.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

VTel contended that only the full FCC had the authority to modify the construction deadlines set in the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Order, and that the WTB overstepped its bounds by approving the extension. The decision to grant EchoStar a three-year extension was controversial within the FCC.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The council first committed to community broadband in 2018 but faced funding challenges for a municipally owned utility. Councilmember Mark Wallach urged staff to refine contract provisions to guarantee that any future assignee of ALLO’s lease meets the same financial and operational standards.

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EldoTelecom

AUGUST 7, 2024

A “project” may constitute a single unserved or underserved broadband-serviceable location, or a grouping of broadband-serviceable locations in which not less than 80 percent of broadband-serviceable locations served by the project are unserved locations or underserved locations.

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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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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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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 26, 2025

Three years and five months after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed, the BEAD Program still hasn’t connected a single person to broadband,  but  it is on the brink of being able to do so on a large scale, if Washington gives a green light.

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TELCO

APRIL 22, 2024

NYSE: CX), a leading global construction materials company, for Edgility, the company’s virtualized edge management and orchestration platform. This latest contract extends the original five-year licence agreement by a further two years and includes additional services provision to support the deployment.

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Rural Broadband Association

JULY 18, 2024

With the August recess quickly approaching and members of Congress headed home for an extended period, I hope this is helpful as you explain our broadband priorities to those you see around town or invite to your offices. ACP ensures that broadband service is affordable for low-income consumers specifically.

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ACT Corp

JULY 10, 2024

Smart Utilities: Smart grids, in the provision of electricity and water management systems, employ fiber internet as a means of efficient tracking of resources, hence minimizing costs. Public Safety: Security cameras, alert systems, and disaster control equipment require good connectivity.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 5, 2025

The MN House Ag, Finance and Policy committee heard about HF47 : Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified. Live Video Bills Added HF47 (Schultz) Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified. Agriculture Finance and Policy Chair: Rep.

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Finance Broadband Provisioning Education 52

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 23, 2025

He said, “If Elon Musk had decided to be a ginormous Democratic donor , I have no doubt that the Biden administration would have pulled out a piñata and celebrated Starlink providing broadband.”   I understand why the new administration wants to speed up Broadband Deployment across the country.

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Mark Goldberg

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In early January, in my look at the year ahead , I said these items topped my telecom agenda: Driving universal broadband adoption Online harms Regulatory overreach Mandated wholesale access Impacts of investment on coverage and resilience Digital literacy How did we do? Such investments are much harder work than building broadband access.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 4, 2025

2045 :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, Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development.

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Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 15, 2025

Low-Cost Broadband Service Option Describe the low-cost broadband service option(s) that must be offered by subgrantees as selected by the Eligible Entity, including why the outlined option(s) best services the needs of residents within the Eligible Entitys jurisdiction. The minimum 100/20.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 13, 2025

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. 39 OFFICE OF BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT AND DIGITAL EQUITY. (a) 391, subdivision 1; 116J.394;

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 18, 2025

Broadband Breakfast Broadband Breakfast Once a quiet, rural community, Prineville, Oregon is now the bustling home of a sprawling network of high-tech facilities around which its economy centers. ’ Broadband Breakfast Teralyn Whipple Regional differences in grid capacity further complicate the picture.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Johnson later walked back his comments, suggesting that the party might instead focus on 'streamlining' its provisions by cutting what he called 'costly regulations.' ' As the Republican-controlled House prepares to take up the defense bill this week, the future of CHIPS Act provisions remains uncertain. 

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IEEE ComSoc

MARCH 12, 2025

billion broadband funding bill ( Broadband Equity Access and Deployment- BEAD ), which endeavors to expand internet access in underserved/unserved areas. The proposed new rules will make it much easier for Elon Musk owned Starlink satellite-internet service, to tap in to rural broadband funding, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

” Trump wants to reverse Biden's policies, but construction is already ongoing While Trump on the campaign trail railed against Biden's record, he has offered few details on what initiatives he might scrap. million construction and manufacturing jobs,” she said. "Over The road ahead is clear.”

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 24, 2025

science and technology - those are goals that are completely aligned with what President Trump wants," said Mimi Stroble , senior director for policy and government relations at Nokia, during a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event Wednesday. manufacturing and increasing competitiveness in U.S.

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IEEE ComSoc

JANUARY 2, 2025

The court ruled that broadband communications, including broadband delivered via mobile networks, is classified as an “information” service rather than a more heavily regulated “telecommunications” service. The FCC, under Rosenworcel, passed the current set of net neutrality rules in April 2024.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 22, 2025

22, 2024 – The Trump administration clarified Wednesday that an executive order directing agencies to pause Inflation Reduction and Infrastructure Act funding applies only to certain energy projects, dispelling some fears of broadband deployment efforts being caught in a political crossfire. It does not mention broadband.

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