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Senate Bill Requiring NTIA to Overhaul Federal Broadband Efforts Is Back

Broadband Breakfast

“Under the previous administration, broadband programs were utterly mismanaged, keeping resources out of the communities that need reliable internet connection the most,” Wicker said in a statement. The bill also includes a provision that specifies the scope of its impact on broadband regulation.

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ALLO Fiber Agrees to Net Neutrality in Network Lease Deal with Boulder, Colo

Broadband Breakfast

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. Construction and service rollout are expected to begin in 2025. WASHINGTON, Nov. of wholesale revenue.

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Building Smarter Cities: The Role of Fiber Internet in Urban Development

ACT Corp

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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National Conference of State Legislatures’ Broadband Policy Toolkit

Blandin on Broadband

MN S 1063 2024 Sales and Use Taxation Status: Failed – Adjourned – Senate Taxes Committee Date of Last Action: 1/31/2023 Author: Westrom (R) Topics: Funding and Taxes, Infrastructure Summary: Relates to taxation, relates to sales and use, provides an exemption for fiber and conduit used in broadband and internet access services, appropriates (..)

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Former FCC Chair Pai urges states to direct BEAD funds to sparsely populated counties as countywide projects

EldoTelecom

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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Automated networking with shared VPCs at Swisscom

AWS Telecommunications

The following key considerations shaped their approach: Multi-tenant but centrally governed: the network constructs should automatically extend to provisioned accounts, allowing reuse of critical centrally deployed and governed resources. Each VPC consists of multiple subnets: a) Public routable subnets for internet connectivity.

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Digital Infrastructure Investment 2024: 'All-in' on Open Access

Broadband Breakfast

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. Their network provides blazingly fast Internet speeds, phone, and television services. What, if anything, have states been doing to prioritize open access fiber?