Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 4, 2025

The MN Senate Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development passed and referred following bill to Senate Floor SF 0908 – Kupec: Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modification Below is more info on the bill, video of the meeting and notes.

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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,

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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.

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EldoTelecom

JULY 11, 2024

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Investor owned telephone and cable companies and their trade associations hope the courts will put the U.S. In so providing this telecommunications service, the Act states providers “shall be treated as a common carrier” (i.e. They believe their case has been strengthened by the U.S.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

UTOPIA (Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency) Fiber is the group of 11 Utah cities that joined together in 2004 to build, deploy, and operate a fiber to the home network to every business and household within their communities. What, if anything, have states been doing to prioritize open access fiber?

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 4, 2025

The decrepit rural telecommunications infrastructure needs to be fully replaced, not patched. Topic #2: Regulatory Relief The regulatory burden imposed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on the BEAD program will unnecessarily delay construction, increase costs and diminish competition among ISPs for the funding. 

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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.; Carroll; Koegel and Clardy introduced: H. 39, subdivision 1; 116J.394;

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 22, 2025

The MN Seante Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development heard SF2045: Equal Access to Broadband Act establishment provision. Cable companies already pay cable franchising fees. It was held over. The discussion on SF2045 begins at 2:20. Funding goes to the municipalities general fund and PEG.

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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, The MN Senate reports … Senators Rest, Klein, Dibble, and Xiong introduced– S.F. 39, subdivision 1; 116J.394;

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 10, 2025

InForum posts an opinion piece from Melissa Wolf (Executive Director of the Minnesota Cable Communications Association) and Brent Christensen, (President & CEO of the Minnesota Telecom Alliance) on HF47: Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified Minnesota is ready to get millions of dollars in (..)

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 13, 2025

b) “Broadband” or “broadband service” means any service providing advanced telecommunications capability and Internet access with transmission speeds that, at a minimum, meet the Federal Communications Commission definition for broadband. (c) 03 , subdivision 3. (b) 39 , subdivision 1, paragraph (b). (c)

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

In its  National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. This classification is consequential, of course, because “telecommunications service” providers, as common carriers, are regulated in a heavy-handed public utility like fashion while “information service” providers are lightly regulated.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The Trump administration’s focus will be “doubling down on taxes, tariffs, immigration, national security, deregulation and cost effectiveness,” said Andrew Lipman , a partner at Morgan Lewis specializing in telecommunications and media, during a webinar Wednesday.

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IEEE ComSoc

MARCH 12, 2025

By making the broadband the grant program technology-neutral, it will free up states to award more funds to satellite-internet providers such as Starlink, rather than mainly to companies that lay fiber-optic cables which connect the millions of U.S. households that lack high-speed internet service.

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Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 1, 2025

HF2279 / SF2889 : to expand the name and duties of the states Office of Broadband Development HF47 / SF908 : provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 1, 2024

1, 2024 – Republican complaints about various provisions of the Biden administration’s flagship broadband expansion program are well known. WASHINGTON, Oct. Even if Donald Trump takes office next year, experts said it’s probably too late to institute many of the desired changes sought by Republicans.

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