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

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

has reintroduced a bill directing the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to develop a national broadband strategy. “The PLAN for Broadband Act would prevent wasteful spending and help streamline communication and coordination between the agencies tasked with rolling out broadband initiatives.

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Blandin on Broadband

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society reports This week, Congress passed the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 , this year’s version of theNational Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

16, 2024 – Broadband ISPs have a request for the highest court in the land: Don't let the 50 states set the retail price of Internet access. Broadband industry groups including USTelecom and CTIA asked the high court to toss out the decision last month. WASHINGTON, Sept. The cable industry and the U.S.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 8, 2024

DENVER, August 8, 2024 – State broadband directors from the the midwest shared updates on their Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program rollouts, and discussed efforts to prevent provider defaults at a Tuesday Mountain Connect panel. Wisconsin's Volume 2 proposal was approved on August 6, the same day of the panel.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 17, 2024

16, 2024 – With millions of Americans still struggling to afford internet access, a new report sheds light on how future broadband affordability programs could better target those in need.    Broadband Affordability: What Should Change? WASHINGTON, Oct.   An estimated 54.1 million households, or 41% of U.S.

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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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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 24, 2025

The National Conference of State Legislatures has a slick Broadband Policy Toolkit … This NCSL toolkit covers the state policy landscape and considerations to address broadband deployment, adoption and affordability, and provides a wide variety of resources for policymakers, including legislative tracking, issue briefs and podcasts.

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 31, 2025

883 :A bill for an act relating to taxation; sales and use; providing an exemption for fiber and conduit used in broadband and Internet access services; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 297A.68, new text end new text begin Fiber and conduit; broadband and Internet access. 68, by adding a subdivision.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 3, 2024

3, 2024 – Internet service providers looking to get net neutrality rules scrapped took one more chance to sway judges Wednesday ahead of oral arguments. That is true but irrelevant,” the broadband trade groups said in a brief Wednesday filed by attorney Jeffrey Wall at Sullivan & Cromwell. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A coalition advocating for student connectivity, along with the Los Angeles Unified School District, has urged the FCC to expand its funding options for off-campus student internet access beyond Wi-Fi hotspots.  

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Airtel

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The importance of the internet is almost equivalent to food and water today. It is unimaginable to live without the internet. So, what is really an internet? The internet service provider is the full form of ISP. It is a corporation that offers internet connectivity. Buy Airtel Broadband with exciting benefits!

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ACT Corp

JULY 10, 2024

In today's society, the speed and quality of connection to the Internet determine many activities, beginning with the choice of the program for viewing videos and games and ending with business communication via the Internet during the pandemic. High speed internet plans an assurance free of congestion, more so during such periods.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 31, 2024

31, 2024 – Internet providers, designed to be neutral carriers of information, now face million-dollar penalties and ambiguous court rulings under a law originally designed to protect them.  Supreme Court to provide clarity on the DMCA's safe harbor provisions for ISPs.  WASHINGTON, Oct.

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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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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Under this model, multiple ISPs can offer services over the same broadband infrastructure. GFiber started in 2010 as a Google-driven experiment to catalyze the gigabit internet ecosystem, and has since pioneered the gigabit and multigig internet future. The Fiber Broadband Association is the voice of fiber.

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ACT Corp

JULY 10, 2024

At the heart of this transformation lies a critical infrastructure component: fiber internet and its components, such as fiber optic cables. This paper aims to outline how fiber internet contributes to realizing smart cities in urban settings. What is Fiber Internet, and What Are its Benefits?

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IEEE ComSoc

MARCH 12, 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. SAT IOT] – Technical and operational aspects of satellite Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 17, 2024 – Once staunch opponents of open access, Tier 1 Internet Service Providers are now entering a space that, in the United States, has been pioneered by local governments two decades ago. That helps AT&T offer fiber broadband and 5G wireless services to more customers, the company said.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The deal, which includes protections against throttling, data caps, and the sale of customer data, will expand high-speed, affordable internet access across the city, connecting 80% of the city by 2028 and 97% of the city by 2030. WASHINGTON, Nov. The $9 million deal allows ALLO – a Nebraska-based telecom company available to 1.2

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EldoTelecom

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In the fourth decade since telecommunications began to shift to Internet protocol-based technologies, about half the connections to U.S. Thats according to a recently published white paper commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association and Frontier Communications. homes have not yet been modernized to fiber optic lines.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 4, 2025

Here are three proposals for common-sense solutions to improve the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program of the U.S. Topic #1: Fiber Priority When we consider broadband infrastructure as a 30-year investment rather than focusing on speed targets, the case for building fiber networks in rural areas becomes clear.

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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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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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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. We will continue working with state leaders to get this policy right.

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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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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? The Internet Code has been in force for nearly 5 years.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In today’s digital age, seamless and reliable mobile internet is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. By eliminating the need for traditional SIM cards, vSIM transforms mobile connectivity, delivering a seamless, adaptive internet experience worldwide.  This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast.

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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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IEEE ComSoc

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By including already provisioned devices, customers can use their own highly secure and robust private cellular network almost immediately. It’s a pre-built, plug and play kit with multiple options available (see below) to cater to different use cases, such as surveillance, fixed wireless access and point of sale.

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TELCO

APRIL 22, 2024

This latest contract extends the original five-year licence agreement by a further two years and includes additional services provision to support the deployment. They offer a comprehensive range of services, including standard telephone, VoIP, high-speed broadband internet, security systems, and app-based TV content.

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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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epsilontel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

technologies such as the internet of things (IoT), industrial internet of things (IIOT), the cloud , edge computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). Cloud-powered SD WAN can deliver traffic to a variety of transport modes, including broadband, ethernet, fiber, 4G, 5G, and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).

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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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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 2, 2025

21 that stripped many of those provisions from the final version. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2025 – Despite including telecommunications and technology proposals in earlier drafts, Congress passed a government funding bill on Dec. Ted Cruz , R-Texas, and Amy Klobuchar , D-Minn., Ted Cruz , R-Texas, and Amy Klobuchar , D-Minn.,

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 28, 2024

28, 2024 - AT&T, the largest fiber internet provider in the U.S., “We’ve built the nation’s fastest broadband network,” said John Stankey, CEO of AT&T. billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. WASHINGTON, Oct. is aiming to expand its collaboration with Corning Inc.

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