Broadband Breakfast

JULY 9, 2025

Christopher Kessler , D-Portland, the main provision of the act states that “an Internet service provider shall provide net neutral service in the provision of broadband Internet to customers in the State.” Originally introduced by Rep.

Provisioning

Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 23, 2025

The Wadena Pioneer Journal reports Since 1950, West Central Telephone Association (WCTA) has been a foundation for communication in rural communities, bridging the gap between neighbors and businesses.

Telephone

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 9, 2025

“The Rule does contain a severability provision which keeps the remaining provisions in effect if any provisions are stayed or determined to be invalid. ”  A request for comment from the FTC by Broadband Breakfast was not answered in time for publication.

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Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 17, 2025

Standford Social Innovation Review looks at why broadband has not reached some rural areas Broadband deserts exist largely because traditional finance and big-name ISPs do not build for communities too rural or too poor to hit their profit targets. Broadband is no different.

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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. The communities needed access. Soon, then-Gov.

Broadband

AT&T Connects

JUNE 17, 2025

The expanded network will give more customers access to super-fast internet speeds up to 5-Gigs. In 2024, Kansas lawmakers passed legislation that eliminated taxes on broadband equipment and otherwise streamlined provisions of the tax code. Simply put, smart public policy helps welcome private-sector investments.

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 26, 2025

Three years and five months after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed, the BEAD Program still hasn’t connected a single person to broadband,  but  it is on the brink of being able to do so on a large scale, if Washington gives a green light.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 22, 2025

“If the panel’s decision stands, the validity of every Commission enforcement action that seeks to impose a monetary penalty under that provision is likely to be challenged.” “Civil penalties are among the [FCC’s] most important regulatory remedies,” the agency wrote in a Wednesday filing.

Television

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 8, 2025

introduced but ultimately withdrew an amendment that would have incorporated provisions from his own Intimate Privacy Protection Act. 2399 , the Rural Broadband Protection Act, would tighten FCC vetting procedures for broadband providers seeking federal funding in unserved areas. Jake Auchincloss , D-Mass., tech supply chains. 

Router

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 14, 2025

Wednesday, House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee passed communications provisions in a broader reconciliation budget package unchanged, defeating a series of Democratic amendments that would have redirected spectrum auction revenue toward broadband affordability, public safety, and cybersecurity initiatives.

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IEEE ComSoc

MARCH 12, 2025

She pointed out that in 3GPP Releases 17, 18 and (forthcoming) 19 and 20, the work has progressed from IoT to broadband to low-earth orbit ( LEO ) satellites. SAT IOT] – Technical and operational aspects of satellite Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Mobile

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 20, 2025

The unlicensed band is largely used for Wi-Fi and fixed broadband. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn , both Republicans from the state, to “consider the importance” of the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service band as they crafted the bill. The group’s members use the shared band to provide broadband.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 23, 2025

He said, “If Elon Musk had decided to be a ginormous Democratic donor , I have no doubt that the Biden administration would have pulled out a piñata and celebrated Starlink providing broadband.”   I understand why the new administration wants to speed up Broadband Deployment across the country.

Retail

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 2, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 2, 2025 – Leaders of electric cooperatives expressed frustration Monday over delays in federal broadband funding and threats to the USDA’s ReConnect program. billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment program, enacted under the Biden administration.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 17, 2025

The brief but consequential provision , tucked into the House Energy and Commerce Committee's  sweeping markup , would be a major boon to the AI industry, which has lobbied for uniform and light touch regulation as tech firms develop a technology they promise will transform society. “That sounds to me like a policy change.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 1, 2025

Mamdani has not talked much about broadband access on the campaign trail, but his legislative history offers some clues on where he stands. In 2021, while serving in the New York State Assembly, Mamdani co-sponsored legislation requiring the state to fund internet access for all individuals residing in temporary housing.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 6, 2025

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program could result in years of delays, a former National Telecommunications and Information Administration official warned Wednesday. billion BEAD broadband expansion program was under “rigorous review” and would be “revamp[ed] to take a tech-neutral approach.”

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Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 20, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2025 – Wisconsin Republicans once said the state didn’t need to invest in broadband because federal money was on the way. “We have a lot of work to do to close the digital divide and make sure every Wisconsinite has access to high-quality, high-speed internet.”

Broadband

Blandin on Broadband

JUNE 26, 2025

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Representative Jim Clyburn (D-SC) and over 40 of their colleagues called on Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to fully implement the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program as Congress intended to connect all Americans to high-quality, affordable internet.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 5, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2025 – In news that many in the broadband industry have been bracing for, the Commerce Department said Wednesday it was launching a sweeping review of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, and vowed to strip Biden-era requirements.

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Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 25, 2025

billion broadband expansion program. “We therefore urge you to implement the BEAD program in accordance with the best reading of the statute so we can make high-quality internet accessible and affordable for all Americans. The letter, led by Sen. Amy Klobuchar , D-Minn., Jim Clyburn , D-S.C.,

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 3, 2025

Paired with the tax provisions in the bill, this legislation paves the way to restore America’s global lead in wireless technology through smart policy,” AT&T said in a release. He also emphasized that the bill’s tax provisions would “advance infrastructure investment, create jobs, and grow the economy.” 

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 22, 2024

Woking, 20 th August 2024 – Strategic Imperatives, the UK’s leading provider of SaaS provisioning, connectivity, and monetisation solutions for the telecom industry, announced today that Netomnia, following its recent merger with Brsk and now the UK’s fourth-largest full-fibre network, has joined The Fibre Café platform.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 9, 2024 – Efforts to expand high-speed internet access in Wisconsin have hit a political roadblock, stalled by partisan infighting, according to Democratic Assembly members. billion in federal money to expand broadband through the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment program, Cap Times reported last Monday.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 9, 2024

9, 2024 – Service members living in unaccompanied housing may soon enjoy free broadband internet access under a key provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025. WASHINGTON, Dec. While the service is free, it will be subject to reasonable use policies. Approximately 11.5

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 16, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 16, 2024 – In the second quarter, the pattern looked familiar among publicly traded broadband Internet Service Providers: The wireline variety as a group lost subscribers, while fixed wireless access providers posted solid gains. Smaller ISPs’ results also varied based on the technology they provision.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 21, 2025

Now that the lengthy legal beef has been settled and New York’s  Affordable Broadband Act is set to take effect this month, it marks a potentially pivotal moment in a national effort to address one of the biggest barriers to broadband adoption:  Affordability.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

has reintroduced a bill directing the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to develop a national broadband strategy. “The PLAN for Broadband Act would prevent wasteful spending and help streamline communication and coordination between the agencies tasked with rolling out broadband initiatives.

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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.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 30, 2024

New Hampshire is getting the gift that keeps on giving: $191 million in federal money to put every last residence and business in the state within reach of broadband internet service over the next five years. Get Broadband Breakfast's free daily newsletter every morning, Mon.-Fri. Want top news about tech and politics?

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 8, 2024

DENVER, August 8, 2024 – State broadband directors from the the midwest shared updates on their Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program rollouts, and discussed efforts to prevent provider defaults at a Tuesday Mountain Connect panel. Wisconsin's Volume 2 proposal was approved on August 6, the same day of the panel.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

16, 2024 – Broadband ISPs have a request for the highest court in the land: Don't let the 50 states set the retail price of Internet access. Broadband industry groups including USTelecom and CTIA asked the high court to toss out the decision last month. WASHINGTON, Sept. The cable industry and the U.S.

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Blandin on Broadband

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society reports This week, Congress passed the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 , this year’s version of theNational Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 17, 2024

16, 2024 – With millions of Americans still struggling to afford internet access, a new report sheds light on how future broadband affordability programs could better target those in need.    Broadband Affordability: What Should Change? WASHINGTON, Oct.   An estimated 54.1 million households, or 41% of U.S.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Their concerns involve not only video but also broadband. NCTA, The Internet and Television Association filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission on Monday regarding the planned merger between the satellite operators. WASHINGTON, Oct. billion purchase of Intelsat.

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 24, 2025

The National Conference of State Legislatures has a slick Broadband Policy Toolkit … This NCSL toolkit covers the state policy landscape and considerations to address broadband deployment, adoption and affordability, and provides a wide variety of resources for policymakers, including legislative tracking, issue briefs and podcasts.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 3, 2024

3, 2024 – Internet service providers looking to get net neutrality rules scrapped took one more chance to sway judges Wednesday ahead of oral arguments. That is true but irrelevant,” the broadband trade groups said in a brief Wednesday filed by attorney Jeffrey Wall at Sullivan & Cromwell. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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