Broadband, Education and Telecommunication

BSNL Gears Up for Major BharatNet Expansion in Karnataka, Goa, and Puducherry

Telecom Talk

JUNE 17, 2025

In a major development towards expanding rural broadband connectivity, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has signed an agreement with Polycab India Limited for the implementation of the Amended BharatNet Project across Karnataka, Goa, and Puducherry.

Construction

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Broadband Breakfast on July 9, 2025 - Undersea Cables and Global Conflict

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 8, 2025

This Broadband Breakfast live session will consider the impacts that global conflict has on subsea broadband infrastructure and global connectivity. What are the potential global consequences if major subsea broadband cables are damaged or disrupted? How are governments responding to the increased risks to subsea cable networks?

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Cable Broadband Telecommunication Internet

State of broadband advocacy targets

Mark Goldberg

JULY 16, 2025

The ITU’s Broadband Commission released a report, “The State of Broadband Advocacy Targets” [ pdf , 6.1MB] as part of its State of Broadband 2025 report series. The State of Broadband Advocacy Targets report is intended to inform policy-makers on progress towards the Broadband Commission’s goals.

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Pew: Incomplete Federal Data Threatens Effectiveness of Broadband Deployment Programs

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.

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League of MN Cities recap on SF2045: Community TV grants and HF1740 Equal access to broadband bill

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 Television Finance Education

Bipartisan PLAN Act Reintroduced in House

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 11, 2025

reintroduced the Proper Leadership to Align Networks (PLAN) for Broadband Act to the House on Wednesday with the goal of developing a national strategy for closing the nation’s digital divide. Scott Peters , D-Calif.,

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Anchorage Update: Lessons from the Frontier State

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 25, 2025

At the Fiber Broadband Association’s (FBA) Regional Fiber Connect Workshop in Anchorage last week, local broadband executives, tribal leaders, and policymakers came together to share best practices and lessons learned in a state that has unique challenges and opportunities connecting communities and people to fiber broadband.

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Rohit Rawool: Why Hardware Matters in a Software-Driven World

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 20, 2025

Yet, as we chase the promise of a hyper-connected future, we risk overlooking a critical component of our technological infrastructure: mechanical engineering in telecommunications hardware. My work in the United States focuses on creating next-generation telecommunications hardware to strengthen broadband infrastructure.

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Hardware Transmission Plug-in Broadband

Texas Senator Resigns to Lead Comptroller’s Office, Citing Broadband as Key Priority

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 20, 2025

Kelly Hancock , a Republican lawmaker with ties to broadband expansion policy, has resigned from the Legislature to lead the Comptroller’s Office – just as the state prepares to distribute billions in federal and state broadband funds. billion broadband grant window. WASHINGTON, June 20, 2025 – Texas Sen.

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Broadband Signal Distribution Healthcare

Mahesh Krishnaswamy: The Future of BEAD: Unlocking Reach & Resilience with High Capacity Wireless

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 23, 2025

It powers everything from education and finance to healthcare and emergency response, not to mention our increasing conversations with AI agents recently. billion allocated through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program represents the largest broadband investment in American history. The $42.5

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Broadband Telecommunication Connectivity Communication

Women’s History Month: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 11, 2025

Over her 22-year tenure, she helped transform the company from a party line system into a modern telecommunications provider, and she was inducted as a charter member of the Kansas Telecommunications Hall of Fame in 1995 for her work. Next, we have Bonnie Krause , who called West River Telecommunications Cooperative (WRT; Hazen, N.D.)

Telephone

Telephone Telecommunication Education Telecoms

MN House updates to HF47: provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified

Blandin on Broadband

MAY 8, 2025

c) (b) Beginning January 1, 2026, all installations of underground telecommunications infrastructure subject to this subdivision within this state must be performed by safety-qualified underground telecommunications installers that meet the requirements of this subdivision. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 326B.198, EFFECTIVE DATE.

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Telecommunication Provisioning Education Broadband

Stakeholders Protest Rural Utilities Service Budget Cuts

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 5, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 5, 2025 – Sixteen organizations representing agriculture, education, health care, and rural infrastructure called on Congress this week to maintain funding for telecommunications programs run by the Rural Utilities Service. Learn more about Speeding BEAD Summit What is Broadband Breakfast?

Finance

Finance Education Broadband Telecommunication

OBD Updates: BEAD, Line Extension and Future Office Hours

Blandin on Broadband

JUNE 18, 2025

Minnesota’s Office of Broadband Development is working with federal, state and local partners to understand how this impacts our state’s ability to empower Minnesotans through the implementation of the federal BEAD program in our state. Benton Institute for Broadband & Society blog What Do We Know About LEO Bids?

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Broadband Internet Internet Connectivity

Shentel Announces Glo Fiber Expansion with Acquisition of WideOpen Blacksburg

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 30, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 30, 2025 — With a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and operations of WideOpen Blacksburg, a local internet service provider, Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) has announced plans to expand its Glo Fiber Service into Blackburg, Virginia. ”

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Jeff Forbes

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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Bridged Broadband

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 29, 2025

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Women’s History Month: Today’s Trailblazers

Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 19, 2025

One of her proudest accomplishments was the creation of Consortias Connections conferences, which serve as a space to educate and advance womens careers in the rural broadband industry. Though she recently retired, the company grew significantly during Mauns tenure as CEO. Kristi Westbrock joined CTC (Brainerd, Minn.) To help people.

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An Interview With Former BEAD Director Evan Feinman

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 25, 2025

What was missing, those executives told them, was broadband internet access. The Tobacco Commission paid for 3,000 miles of rural broadband. Ralph Northam would call on Feinman for another job, as the commonwealth’s chief broadband adviser. Commission members and their local partners wanted to know why, Feinman said.

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Leadership From the Inside Out

Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 11, 2025

The network and professional development experienced through the NTCA Women in Telecom program offer a view of the telecommunications industry from the inside out, rather than the isolating and more difficult work seen from the outside in. Women supporting other women is magical and a superpower when shared! Promote to Featured Blog Off

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Twenty-one States Push to Scrap Carrier-of-Last-Resort Laws

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2025 – Industry leaders from AT&T, Lumen, Ziply Fiber and Brightspeed said Thursday that federal and state policies requiring providers to maintain copper telephone networks are diverting capital away from next-generation broadband networks. “It's not good for healthcare [or] education.”

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Internet Outage in Much of Gaza Disrupts Humanitarian Operations, Deepens Isolation

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 21, 2025

Israeli strikes damaged a main connection, cutting off communications in large areas of the strip since Tuesday, according to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Free Broadband Breakfast News every morning, Mon.-Fri. But outages have forced educators to cancel classes and exams.

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Comporium Names New CEO

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 10, 2025

based telecommunications company announced Thursday that David Barnes would be its new CEO and President. Employing nearly 900 people, the privately held corporation offers broadband, TV, voice, wireless, and smart home systems across the Carolinas. WASHINGTON, July 10, 2025 – Comporium has a new leader from a familiar family.

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Texas May Return $1 Billion in BEAD Funding to Treasury

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 7, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 7, 2025 – In an unexpected development, Texas may be handing back as much as $1 billion in Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment funds to the federal government. billion in BEAD money allocated by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Biden administration.

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Maine’s BEAD Plan Delayed, Triggered by NTIA’s New Policy Direction

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 17, 2025

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, state officials acknowledged this week, citing a pending federal policy rewrite that has effectively paused progress. In recent weeks, broadband officials in Maine and Minnesota have sent letters urging the Commerce Department not to upend years of planning.

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Dito Telecommunity reaches 15 million subscribers

Developing Telecoms

JULY 25, 2025

The company said it plans to continue investing in its network in the coming months, though it did not provide further details. MORE ARTICLES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN.

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Bridged Broadband

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 24, 2025

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MN House introduces HF1740 a bill appropriating money for community cable television programming

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. Minnesota House reports Nadeau, Norris and Carroll introduced: HF. 1740, A bill for an act relating to arts and cultural heritage; appropriating money for community cable television programming.

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Television Cable Finance Distribution

Central Arkansas Telephone Co-Op, inc

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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OCA Fiber Solutions

Rural Broadband Association

JUNE 6, 2025

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Peter Murray: Connected Cities Tour Event Summarized

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 19, 2025

Broadband Breakfast Peter Murray Jamaal Smith described how his company Kajeet provides a managed service where they own, deploy and manage the network for their clients. This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast. Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene.

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The June Bug Center

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 26, 2025

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Sen. Murray: Canceling Digital Equity Grants Illegal

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 14, 2025

billion to address barriers to broadband adoption that persist after infrastructure is deployed, like expensive devices or a lack of experience navigating online services. Effect in Washington Aaron Wheeler , head of Washington’s broadband office, said at the press conference that losing the state’s $15.9

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Citizen's Mutual Telephone Cooperative

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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State Legislators: Don’t Upend BEAD

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 3, 2025

billion in broadband grants. “The health, safety, education, and economic success of our communities depend on these programs. ” The letter was organized by the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society and State Connections, a working group of state legislators. Indeed, we welcome some changes.

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FTX Broadband

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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Digital Skills Advocates Warn BEAD Changes Undermine Workforce Training

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 17, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 17, 2025 – The adoption of digital workforce skills is more crucial than ever, panelists said Thursday at Broadband Breakfast's Speeding BEAD Summit. billion Digital Equity Act. Several panelists said yes — and forcefully. “I don't consider workforce development a non-deployment issue.

Education

Education Broadband Telecommunication Connectivity

United Telephone Assoc., Inc.

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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Telephone Education Bandwidth Broadband

MN House Ag, Finance and Policy Committee moved onto the general register: HF47: certification of broadband installers modified

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. MTA has an educational program.

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Highline Services MI

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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Estime Enterprises, Inc.

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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Transparent Analysis

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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CCI Systems, Inc.

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2025

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Education Bandwidth Broadband Telecommunication

BSNL Gears Up for Major BharatNet Expansion in Karnataka, Goa, and Puducherry

Broadband Breakfast on July 9, 2025 - Undersea Cables and Global Conflict

Trending Sources

State of broadband advocacy targets

Pew: Incomplete Federal Data Threatens Effectiveness of Broadband Deployment Programs

League of MN Cities recap on SF2045: Community TV grants and HF1740 Equal access to broadband bill

Bipartisan PLAN Act Reintroduced in House

Anchorage Update: Lessons from the Frontier State

Rohit Rawool: Why Hardware Matters in a Software-Driven World

Texas Senator Resigns to Lead Comptroller’s Office, Citing Broadband as Key Priority

Mahesh Krishnaswamy: The Future of BEAD: Unlocking Reach & Resilience with High Capacity Wireless

Women’s History Month: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

MN House updates to HF47: provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified

Stakeholders Protest Rural Utilities Service Budget Cuts

OBD Updates: BEAD, Line Extension and Future Office Hours

Shentel Announces Glo Fiber Expansion with Acquisition of WideOpen Blacksburg

Jeff Forbes

Bridged Broadband

Women’s History Month: Today’s Trailblazers

An Interview With Former BEAD Director Evan Feinman

Leadership From the Inside Out

Twenty-one States Push to Scrap Carrier-of-Last-Resort Laws

Internet Outage in Much of Gaza Disrupts Humanitarian Operations, Deepens Isolation

Comporium Names New CEO

Texas May Return $1 Billion in BEAD Funding to Treasury

Maine’s BEAD Plan Delayed, Triggered by NTIA’s New Policy Direction

Dito Telecommunity reaches 15 million subscribers

Bridged Broadband

MN House introduces HF1740 a bill appropriating money for community cable television programming

Central Arkansas Telephone Co-Op, inc

OCA Fiber Solutions

Peter Murray: Connected Cities Tour Event Summarized

The June Bug Center

Sen. Murray: Canceling Digital Equity Grants Illegal

Citizen's Mutual Telephone Cooperative

State Legislators: Don’t Upend BEAD

FTX Broadband

Digital Skills Advocates Warn BEAD Changes Undermine Workforce Training

United Telephone Assoc., Inc.

MN House Ag, Finance and Policy Committee moved onto the general register: HF47: certification of broadband installers modified

Highline Services MI

Estime Enterprises, Inc.

Transparent Analysis

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CCI Systems, Inc.

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