Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 15, 2025

and Marc Veasey , D-Texas, have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at curbing theft and destruction of broadband infrastructure, citing growing concerns over service disruptions and public safety risks. Code to impose stronger penalties for those who intentionally damage or steal broadband cables and equipment.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 23, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2025 – The House of Representatives passed legislation Monday directing the Secretary of Commerce to examine the “value, cost, and feasibility of a trans-Atlantic submarine fiber optic cable connecting the contiguous United States, the United States Virgin Islands, Ghana, and Nigeria." Virgin Islands. 

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 11, 2025

April 11, 2025 - Kansas has officially designated broadband and telecommunications systems as critical infrastructure, a move aimed at strengthening legal protections and deterring tampering with essential internet services.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 16, 2025

billion acquisition of Cox Communications would allow the combined company to better compete for fixed and mobile broadband subscribers, the companies told federal regulators Tuesday. “Overlaps between Charter’s and Cox’s mass-market broadband footprints are extremely limited, covering well below 0.1

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 10, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 10, 2025 – Enhanced federal data collection was needed to strengthen broadband program design and reduce connectivity barriers, a report published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center declared.  Department of Agriculture. 

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 3, 2025

  Studies routinely find  that open access networks drive down entry costs, improve local competition, and result in better, cheaper, and faster broadband access. Stephen Conn The city’s broadband mapping efforts found that only a small segment of the city had access to affordable fiber at next generation speeds.

Network

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 20, 2025

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2025 – Utilities and the cable industry are again clashing over federal pole attachment rules, this time over a cable plan for regulators to make it easier for attachers to use their own contractors to prepare poles for new communications equipment.

Cable

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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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 23, 2025

As a result, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is working to fortify American telecommunications networks and counter foreign adversaries’ cyber aggression.  This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast. Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 8, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 8, 2025 – Federal regulators are planning to remove what broadband providers say is a barrier to deployment, largely taking the industry’s side in an ongoing dispute with utility companies. USTelecom counts major national broadband providers and pole owners among its members.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 7, 2025

April 7, 2025 – Charter Communications has officially acquired Bardstown Connect, the city-owned broadband and cable utility, for $49.5 Bardstown Connect had roughly 9,500 broadband and 5,000 cable TV customers at the time. million, ending nearly four decades of municipal ownership.

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 24, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2025 – The Federal Communications Commission updated its pole attachment rules Thursday, instituting a controversial new timeline for utilities to respond to ISP requests to use new contractors. There's a whole community behind your FREE membership.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 31, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2025 – Comcast reported 226,000 lost broadband subscribers in the second quarter of 2025, the most the company has seen since subscriber growth turned negative in 2022, but fewer than Wall Street had expected. ” There's a whole community behind your FREE membership. Know you need Breakfast Club?

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Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 16, 2025

million state-funded project that seeks to connect over 22,000 homes and businesses to broadband internet in rural Sullivan County, N.Y., It plans to lay 253 miles of cable within the sparsely populated N.Y. It plans to lay 253 miles of cable within the sparsely populated N.Y. about 100 miles from Manhattan.

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2025 – The cable industry asked Congress Tuesday to protect shared and unlicensed spectrum bands as part of the sweeping budget bill Republicans are working on pushing through. Learn more about Speeding BEAD Summit What is Broadband Breakfast?

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 29, 2025

In early 2023, Dryden, New York,  formally launched  the town’s municipal broadband network, becoming the first municipality in the state to provide residents with direct access to affordable, publicly owned fiber. million broadband gran t courtesy of the  New York State ConnectALL program.

Modem

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 29, 2025

WASHINGTON, April 29, 2025 - Major broadcast and streaming industry groups are pushing back against efforts to apply federal TV loudness regulations to streaming services, arguing the Federal Communications Commission lacks the legal authority to do so. 

Television

All West Telecommunications

JULY 8, 2025

Carollo to be formally inducted at the 59th Annual Cable TV Pioneers Banquet in Washington, D.C. Kamas, UT | July 8, 2025 – All West Communications proudly congratulates Marty Carollo, a Government Relations and Strategic Partnership Representative, on his induction into the 2025 Cable TV Pioneers class.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 15, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 15, 2025 — The Federal Communications Commission’s new Council on National Security is sharpening its focus on telecommunications supply chain threats, according to Joshua Levine , a research fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation.

Communications Assistant

Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 14, 2025

I have been following the story, but always interesting to see what others say; Broadband Breakfast reports… Minnesotas push to bring high-speed internet to every corner of the state could hit a roadblock. billion federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 22, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2025 – Utility companies and broadband providers are still dueling over the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed update to its pole attachment rules. The cable industry, which proposed the idea , has been urging the agency to go through with it.

Cable

Total Telecom

APRIL 22, 2025

Take our broadband network. This investment means that nearly ten million homes in the North can access our gigabit broadband, offering services 16 times faster than the national average. million people remain offline, and one in four households struggle to afford communication services. Get discounted tickets here!

Media

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 6, 2025

Josh Edge , a spokesperson for GCI, told Broadband Breakfast in an email that the company’s technical team detected what looked like damage to a strip of undersea cable. Sitka residents lost internet services for 16 days last September when a separate section of GCI subsea cable was damaged.

Bandwidth

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 5, 2025

leadership in global wireless technology and countering foreign influence in communications networks. “America must lead, not follow, in the race to maintain leadership in global technology communications. 1737, would direct NTIA to study the feasibility of a trans-Atlantic undersea fiber optic cable connecting the U.S.,

Telecoms

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 23, 2025

“This is truly a win-win as Charter and Comcast Business customers are benefiting from T-Mobile’s advanced network and T-Mobile gains incremental value from the unique business segment that our partners serve today with broadband,” Omar Tazi , T-Mobile’s EVP and chief product and digital officer, said in a statement.

Mobile

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 19, 2025

May 19, 2025 – Blackfoot Communications has notified the Federal Communications Commission that it is surrendering agency funding awarded to build fiber-to-the-premises broadband internet in three census block groups in Montana. These locations included areas in Flathead, Gallatin, and Missoula counties.

Communication

VoIP Review

MAY 19, 2025

In a significant move set to reshape the telecommunications landscape, Charter Communications plans to acquire Cox Communications for approximately $34.5 This merger will create the largest cable and broadband provider in the United States, surpassing Comcast in subscriber numbers. billion in debt and other obligations.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 25, 2025

Earlier this month, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued a Policy Notice instituting critical reforms to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. Satellite broadband offers compelling advantages that complement, rather than compete with, fiber’s strengths.

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 30, 2025

GHz ranges – spectrum primarily used by the military for applications such as missile defense and satellite communications.      However, the new law does not offer similar specific protections for two other bands desired by the cellular carriers: the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band between 3.55-3.7

Router

Total Telecom

JUNE 19, 2025

He has also held leadership positions at iD Mobile, Dixons Carphone and Cable & Wireless. The changes follow APFN’s successful launch of aquila, a transformative new wholesale fibre platform designed to give Communication Service Providers (CSPs) seamless, scalable access to full-fibre broadband across the UK, last month.

Retail

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 15, 2025

HELSINKI, June 15, 2025 (AP) — Finnish authorities have accused senior officers of a  Russia-linked vessel that damaged undersea cables  last year between Finland and Estonia of criminal offenses related to the wreckage. Free Broadband Breakfast News every morning, Mon.-Fri. Subscribe Email sent! Unsubscribe anytime.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 15, 2025

The cable operator spent more than $460 million on priority licenses in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band in 2020. ” Both of the cable executives sought to emphasize that their mobile networking deals with Verizon were working for them.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 25, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2025 – A new analysis from the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies is raising concerns over a study claiming that nationwide fiber broadband deployment could generate $3.2 “Subsidized broadband deployment should rely on the most efficient approaches,” Ford said.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 25, 2025

WASHINGTON, April 25, 2025 – Charter Communications lost 60,000 internet subscribers in the first quarter of 2025, continuing a trend of stagnation, but showing improvement over the 72,000 lost in the same period the year prior. Executives said wildfires in California were responsible for roughly 9,000 of those disconnects. technology.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 10, 2025

billion acquisition of Cox Communications. The combined cable operator, which will also be called Cox Communications, would be the largest ISP in the country, with 35.9 Cable operators have also been leaning into their mobile services as a means of retaining subscribers with bundled services. million passings.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 17, 2025

The future of broadband isn’t just about faster speeds or more towers—it’s about enabling your communities to tap into the AI economy. More importantly, your community will miss out—on education, job training, healthcare, small business growth, and so much more that AI can enable. Don’t wait.

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IEEE ComSoc

JUNE 26, 2025

are being driven down by fierce competition between mobile carriers offering Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and cable internet companies offering legacy Hybrid Fiber Coax connections. They’re seeing churn rise in their broadband subscriber base. Fixed wireless can sometimes cost half as much as a cable-provided internet plan.

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