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. It eventually reached more than 23 million American households.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Their concerns involve not only video but also broadband. The association specifically cited GCI in Alaska as relying “ exclusively on satellite technology for the provision of basic telephone service, medical service, and distance learning.” WASHINGTON, Oct. billion purchase of Intelsat.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

How can the UK position itself as a technology leader? Gigabit Britain is the best place to learn about the state of play for the fixed and mobile sectors whilst also understanding what new technology opportunities might be around the corner. Project Rollout: Focussing on the realities of building communications infrastructure.

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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

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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“Tribal communities will only receive adequate broadband service if they are provided the resources to do it themselves, or the ability to choose their provider partnerships.” Other RDOF defaults have cited existing Tribal broadband projects.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

   Both parties petitioned the FCC to reconsider provisions of Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel ’s E-Rate Hotspot Order. 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. 

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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

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. “[T]he [FCC] says that the major-questions doctrine cannot preclude it from classifying broadband.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

13, 2024 – Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Director Evan Feinman is pleased with the program’s participation as states begin fielding grant applications, he said Wednesday. Broadband Breakfast Broadband Breakfast Colorado’s broadband office, which took applications for the program through Oct.

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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. We can’t close the business case on how much it’s going to cost to put those specific types of technologies on a satellite, he added. We’re a carriers carrier.

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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.  Still, there is worry that Verizon could prioritize fixed wireless, a technology it can deploy more cheaply and quickly than fiber. WASHINGTON, Oct. million fiber passings and 2.2

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VoIP Review

DECEMBER 16, 2024

By utilizing low-cost mmWave spectrum, this technology ensures a reliable, high-speed wireless broadband service, especially in regions where fiber installation poses challenges. The joint effort amplifies their service provision abilities, promising download speeds up to 1 Gbps.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

“The city will be leasing half of the 432 fiber strands in conduit one to ALLO, and will be retaining the other half for governmental purposes, such as traffic signals and public safety,” said Mike Giansanti , Boulder’s Deputy Chief of Innovation and Technology. That's community benefit,” Folkerts said.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

CCA and other groups representing rural and regional mobile providers had pushed back on several provisions during the rulemaking process. That program is slated to fund fixed broadband, but Carr and the carriers argued mobile networks could make use of the fiber that is likely to be laid with BEAD money.

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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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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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IEEE ComSoc

MARCH 17, 2025

Nvidias Blackwell AI chips, the main showcase of last years GTC (GPU Technology Conference) , have only recently started shipping in high volume following delays related to the mass production of their complicated design. But the event now unofficially dubbed AI Woodstock is expected to bring more than 25,000 in-person attendees!

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Recognizing these pain points, vSIM technology removes the need for physical SIM cards and automatically connecting users to the strongest, most secure local networks anywhere in the world. Beyond convenience: the broader impact of vSIM The benefits of vSIM technology extend beyond convenience.

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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. At the same time, Washington continues to mull changes.

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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? Solving the supply problem is relatively easy.

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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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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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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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ACT Corp

JULY 10, 2024

Others, such as DSL, cable, and satellite, may have lower speeds and reliability in internet service provision, as determined by several factors. Fiber-optic technology improves bandwidth by providing better signal strengths and, hence, data transfer rates. With more bandwidth, more data can be transferred, hence increasing the speed.

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ACT Corp

JULY 10, 2024

Therefore, thanks to innovative technologies, cities are becoming more efficient, ecological, and comfortable. Fiber internet, commonly called fiber-optic internet, is based on the technology of glass or plastic fibers that carry data in light. What is Fiber Internet, and What Are its Benefits?

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IEEE ComSoc

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

At the 10th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2024) in Istanbul, Turkey , James Chen , President of Huawei’s Carrier Business , delivered a speech entitled “Network+AI, Unleashing More Business Value.”

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epsilontel

MARCH 4, 2025

By overlaying existing WANs, SD WAN lets companies combine broadband, MPLS, and LTE for secure, efficient cloud application access anywhere with minimal investment. Moreover, SD WAN’s compatibility with newer connectivity technologies such as 5G and satellite offers businesses increased flexibility and agility.

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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). However, as organisations in the manufacturing industry boost their operations with a slew of new and connected technologies, they must be ready to face novel networking challenges.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I am unlikely to follow this very closely but it’s more broadband adjacent that directly related but I thought folks might have an interest. 1860 :A bill for an act relating to telecommunications; prohibiting false caller identification information; providing for criminal penalties; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 325E.26,

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 2, 2025

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

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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

MARCH 11, 2025

The MN Senate Committee on State and Local Government looked at SF787: Open meeting laws unlimited remote participation authorization modification provision. It was laid over. 02, subdivision 1, is amended to read: Subdivision 1. Conditions. (a) a) A meeting governed by section 13D.01, Notice of regular and all member locations.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 5, 2025

. "Any platform knows that once we get a duty of care provision in, that makes them vulnerable to lawsuits." " Broadband Breakfast on April 2, 2025 - Kids and Social Media: The Business of Keeping Young Users Safe The business decisions of tech companies have a significant impact on young users.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 6, 2025

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program could result in years of delays, a former National Telecommunications and Information Administration official warned Wednesday. billion BEAD broadband expansion program was under “rigorous review” and would be “revamp[ed] to take a tech-neutral approach.”

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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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