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How Reliable is Our Nation's – and the World's – Broadband Infrastructure?

Broadband Breakfast

Were readers of this publication to present at a telecom conference on the topic of broadband reliability, outages might not be top of mind.  More pointedly, in today’s technology-centric ecosystems, to not have broadband means the real potential for societal catastrophe. 

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Court Pauses Challenge to FCC’s USF Forbearance Policy

Broadband Breakfast

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit  agreed Friday to pause consumer groups’ effort to require Internet Service Providers to contribute to a multibillion broadband subsidy program run by the  Federal Communications Commission. It remanded the issue to the FCC, which has signaled an intent to appeal.

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Broadband Industry, Advocates Defend USF to High Court

Broadband Breakfast

Broadband trade groups and advocates both joined the agency in asking the Supreme Court to uphold the fund’s legality. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2025 – Telecom court battles often pit industry associations against consumer advocates, but not in the case of the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund.

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A Zombie Broadcasting Signal Treaty That Won’t Die But Should

US Telecom

Rather than a ghost, this one is a zombie international treaty that could create new intellectual property rights in broadcast signals to purportedly protect them from piracy. What would the broadcasting signal treaty mean in practice if enacted? The treaty should not be enacted in its current form.

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GPS Does Need a Backup, Terrestrial Is the Answer – But Which Terrestrial?

Broadband Breakfast

Thanks to Loretta Sanchez and Greg Walden for highlighting America’s critical over-dependence on GPS , and how vulnerable those signals are to many forms of mischief. China, Russia, and others are not nearly as vulnerable to disruption of essential positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) signals from space as we are.

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Small Texas City Losing Cable TV, Keeping Internet after Network Sale

Broadband Breakfast

6,000) will soon experience a shift in its media landscape as TDS Telecom plans to discontinue its cable TV service there by Sept. "I was made aware of the sale when I received a notice in the mail from TDS indicating the upcoming changes," Mayor Eaves told Broadband Breakfast. "To Alpine, Texas (pop.

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Some Educators Urge FCC to Go Beyond Wi-Fi Hotspots

Broadband Breakfast

LAUSD, serving over 500,000 students, echoed this in its petition Friday, urging the FCC to allow cellular broadband service to be eligible for E-Rate funding without requiring a hotspot device.  Devices without such service or non-hotspot Wi-Fi-enabled devices were excluded from support.

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