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. billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Telecom Argentina has said that it will continue to develop the country’s digital infrastructure and increase fixed and mobile broadband coverage, and accelerate the deployment of fibre optics and 5G. The state will take all pertinent measures to avoid this, a statement confirmed.

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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. The first is strengthening and securing technology and telecommunications supply chains. billion in 2024 alone.

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Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 9, 2025

Pete Johnson on HF47: Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified Before last year, the broadband industry was an outlier in the utilities world, with almost no worker-training requirements. To address these concerns, the Minnesota Legislature passed the 2024 Broadband Safety Bill.

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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.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 25, 2025

I have also been following but nice to see what others day During the week of March 17, Minnesota lawmakers considered two bills related to telecommunications and broadband access.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 29, 2025

The connectivity challenge in rural areas According to the International Telecommunication Union, barely 19% of residents in underdeveloped regions have internet access, compared with 87% in more advanced economies. This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast. LEO satellite constellations promise a workaround.

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Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 6, 2025

Thats prompted a request by the city of Ely, via its telecommunications access board, to get behind legislation that would expand collection of franchise fees, which support the broadcasts of local public access programming. Currently, those fees are only collected for cable television service. Grant Hauschild (D) and State Rep.

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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. This transaction includes a combination of $21.9

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

News The heavy reliance on undersea cables remains a major risk as over 95% of global internet traffic depends on them UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer has urged European leaders for increased cooperation on subsea infrastructure defences at a European Council meeting in Brussels. Get tickets here.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This bill is tangential to broadband but could relate directly to cable franchising, which does connect it to broadband. 1740, A bill for an act relating to arts and cultural heritage; appropriating money for community cable television programming. Minnesota House reports Nadeau, Norris and Carroll introduced: HF.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 3, 2024 – A small Texas city is finding out what it's like when the cable TV company cuts the cord. 6,000) will soon experience a shift in its media landscape as TDS Telecom plans to discontinue its cable TV service there by Sept. Alpine, Texas (pop. the parent company of Big Bend Telephone Co.,

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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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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 5, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2025 – The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved by a voice voice 10 bipartisan bills on Tuesday, sending the full House the measures focused on telecommunications, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and domestic manufacturing. Buddy Carter , R-Ga., The bill’s sponsor, Rep.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Back in April, a consortium led by telecoms mogul Xavier Niel’s NJJ Holding announced plans to purchase both Ukrainian TV and fixed broadband provider Datagroup-Volia and mobile operator Lifecell, with the intention of merging the two operators.

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Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 24, 2025

The Arlington Enterprise journalist Mark Ollig reports on current Minnesota broadband legislation The 2024 OBD report reveals that 89,000 households in Minnesota do not have access to the 100/20 mbps broadband standard. 395 to revise the priorities of the border-to-border Broadband Grant Program.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 18, 2024

18, 2024 — As traditional cable TV subscriptions decline, a debate over the appropriate compensation from communication services using public rights of way took center stage during a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event Wednesday. WASHINGTON, Oct. “The law is clear,” said Amunson.

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Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 11, 2025

Learn more about Speeding BEAD Summit What is Broadband Breakfast? ” RWA’s concerns come as two of the largest cable companies with existing Verizon mobile resale agreements – Charter Communications and Cox Communications – move forward with plans to merge their mobile operations.

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Total Telecom

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Press Release Rural broadband provider Quickline has taken a significant step in its commitment to nurturing regional talent by welcoming its first cohort of telecoms apprentices. These contracts will see Quickline bringing gigabit-capable broadband to hard-to-reach communities, bridging the digital divide in rural areas.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

18, 2024 – Modern broadband should be considered a telecommunications service subject to utility-style regulation, a former Federal Communications Commission staffer told federal judges Tuesday. Broadband trade groups trying to strike down the rules had an early success invoking the Supreme Court’s major questions rule.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 28, 2024

about Chinese technology infiltrating telecommunications networks, subsea cables carrying nearly 98% of global internet traffic have surfaced as the latest potential targets for sabotage, with China and Russia identified as primary threats. WASHINGTON, August 28, 2024 – Amid escalating concerns in the U.S.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

SK Telecom intends to leverage SK Group’s energy-efficient technologies to make these centres regionally and globally connected, supported by submarine cables. The company plans to build large AI data centres (AIDCs) in key regions, powered by renewable energy sources such as hydrogen, solar, and wind.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Viewpoint It’s all too easy to overlook the fact that the quality of the network depends on the quality of the fibre cable, points out Richard Moyes, Digital Solutions Business Director at Prysmian In building an effective digital infrastructure the hero of the network is (or should be) the fibre optic cable.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

26, 2025 – The cable industry is re-upping its push for federal regulators to set a blanket timeline for large pole attachment orders. The cable representatives met with senior legal staff for FCC Chairman Brendan Carr , plus personnel from the Wireline Competition bureau and Commissioner Nathan Simington ’s office. 

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VoIP Review

MAY 9, 2025

Telecommunications and IT infrastructures are shifting towards sustainable and open designs. The major selling points of the Nokia Aurelis Optical LAN include its significant reduction in cabling and power consumption, with reports of up to 70% less cabling and 40% less power usage compared to traditional copper-based networks.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 7, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 7, 2024 – In a bid to prevent duplication of federal broadband funding, Resound Networks has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a waiver to give up certain Rural Digital Opportunity Fund obligations on Tribal lands.

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VoIP Review

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Rural broadband provider Quickline has launched its first telecoms apprenticeship program, marking a commitment to regional talent development. They shadow qualified engineers in installing full fiber broadband for rural homes and businesses in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Today the Task Force heard a Presentation on MN Broadband Cost Analysis Report, CTC Technology & Energy. Wireless access to 100/20 (MN broadband Speed goal): Grant funds required: $2.1 Wireless access to 100/20 (MN broadband Speed goal): Grant funds required: $2.1 They created three scenarios of how to spend the BEAD money.

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Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 13, 2025

What is Broadband Breakfast? AT&T and the Defense Department have floated moving current users, like wireless ISPs, cable companies, and others, and auctioning the band off. “I guarantee you no one is telling my colleagues every plane and every DoD asset will need a new altimeter.”

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 13, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 13, 2025 - Industry experts gathered Wednesday to assess the state of broadband connectivity in America, highlighting both significant progress and persistent challenges in closing the digital divide since the COVID-19 pandemic began. "We " Broadband Breakfast on March 12, 2025 - 5 Years On: Where Is Broadband Now?

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 - Cable operators that need satellite services to receive TV programming are concerned about SES's proposed $3.1 Their concerns involve not only video but also broadband. a critical platform that enables 35 million cable customers nationwide to receive TV programming. "As Telecommunications Service Sector.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 27, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 27, 2024 – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration published Monday draft guidance on how states can fund alternative technologies through its flagship broadband subsidy program. The agency is taking comments through September 10.    For the purposes of the $42.5

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MARCH 7, 2025

The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society report On March 4, the House of Representatives’ Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep.Brett Guthrie (R-KY),held a full committee markup to consider twelve bills in totalthe committee’s first legislative markup of the 119th Congress.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Airtel Business is India’s leading and most trusted provider of ICT services with strategically located submarine cables, satellite networks and global networks spanning 400,000 Rkm (including IRU) across 50 countries and five continents. Its sales force is active worldwide and distributed over 33 countries.

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Blandin on Broadband

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

MinnPost reports on MTA’s reaction to BEAD funding… While Minnesota will be receiving $652 million from the federal Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program to help fund broadband access projects across the state, many internet service providers might not opt-in over frustrations with the program. “My

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Connecticut-based GoNetspeed, a fiber-optic provider in the region, maintained that without regulatory changes, current pole owners’ practices in Massachusetts may block the effective use of $147 million in broadband expansion funding designated for the state to deploy fiber and other broadband technologies.

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