Broadband Breakfast

JULY 30, 2025

   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 Furthermore, most leading home broadband providers now sell routers using 6 GHz in conjunction with gigabit-grade broadband.

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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. He said that involved radios, chips, and mobile phone hardware and software that could take advantage of the airwaves. “Now that’s all done,” he said.

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VoIP Review

MARCH 24, 2025

Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) and Mavenir recently tested an Open RAN (O-RAN) mobile network at the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham during the England vs Italy Six Nations match. Insights from this trial will help shape future radio access network rollouts.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 23, 2025

On July 7, the National Association of Broadcasters urged the FCC to modernize its regulatory fee structure by expanding the base of fee payers to include broadband ISPs, streaming services, and Big Tech companies, arguing that the FCC’s current system unfairly regulates legacy media companies. percent year-over-year.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 30, 2025

LOS ANGELES, April 30, 2025 (AP) — Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has filed a defamation lawsuit against Meta alleging that the social media giant's artificial intelligence chatbot spread false statements about him, including that he participated in the riot at the U.S. Free Broadband Breakfast News every morning, Mon.-Fri.

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AWS Telecommunications

MAY 1, 2025

With this launch, Outposts empowers communication service providers (CSPs) to accelerate modernization of their on-premises telecom workloads such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF) and Radio Access Network (RAN) Central Unit (CU) function. They are deployed in AWS Regions to benefit from the elasticity and high availability of the cloud.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 15, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 15, 2025 – The House passed Monday six bipartisan bills focused on telecom and broadband.  ”  The office would also study broadband use and develop cybersecurity and privacy policies, among other things.   NTIA Policy and Cybersecurity Coordination Act ( H.R.

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Developing Telecoms

JUNE 18, 2025

Engineered to achieve a similar mission, Tarana’s next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) broadband platform combines fibre-class performance with the agility of wireless technology to connect communities at a fraction of the cost or time required to deploy wired solutions.

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 1, 2025

Republicans Focus on Media Ownership and USF Spending Republicans on the Senate Commerce committee also submitted questions to the FCC nominee. Three of the six who submitted written questions were particularly concerned with modernizing the FCC’s media ownership rules.    In response to questions from Sens.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 12, 2025

This is why NextNav has  petitioned  the FCC to reconfigure the lower 900 MHz band, aiming to provide more 5G broadband spectrum and enable a terrestrial (ground-based) PNT service—at no cost to taxpayers. Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 19, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2025 – The Federal Communications Commission defended its media ownership rules in federal appeals court in Minnesota on Wednesday. Carr has long supported relaxing media ownership rules and is expected to roll back the 2023 order regardless.

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 12, 2025

  The pair recommended sweeping changes to the agency’s structure and programs, including slashing the Universal Service Fund, downsizing the FCC’s Media Bureau, and automating the agency’s licensing process. “The Media Bureau remains significantly overstaffed,” Wax and Simington wrote.

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 13, 2025

The Commission’s structure has remained essentially unchanged since 1927, when Congress created the Federal Radio Commission. Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene. Reinventing the FCC in this new world will require much hard work.

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 27, 2025

WASHINGTON, May 27, 2025– National Public Radio, along with three local stations, has sued President Donald Trump, calling illegal his efforts to defund public media by Executive Order.   According to NPR, it serves over 43 million Americans with its media weekly, including syndicated local member stations.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 16, 2025

on Tuesday, according to Senate staff posts on social media. billion in funding from public broadcasting and radio services like NPR and PBS, plus $8.3 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. WASHINGTON, July 16, 2025 – Senate Majority Leader John Thune , R-S.D., Republicans are looking to claw back $1.1

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 11, 2025

They originated in the progressive and New Deal eras, when Congress created the FTC in 1914, the Federal Radio Commission (the precursor to the FCC) in 1927, and the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934.  Clark also served as head of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois, a state broadband initiative.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 9, 2025

💡 ◾ Big Tech Must Pay FCC Fees: NAB ◾ NCTA to FCC: Finish Unlocking Rulemaking First ◾ Groups Ask FCC to Block Verizon-UScellular ◾Free State a Hard Pass on Social Contracts ◾ Click to Cancel: Canceled NAB:   On the media policy battlefield, no one defends his broadcast foxhole like  Rick Kaplan.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 1, 2025

Even a little-known social-media influencer turned politician from Cyprus has benefited from the Musk effect. The result is a further concentration of power for the world’s richest man, who now commands the most popular account on a social media platform used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 18, 2025

The White House says the public media system is politically biased and an unnecessary expense. said he secured a deal from the White House that some money administered by the Interior Department would be repurposed to subsidize Native American public radio stations in about a dozen states. Mike Rounds , R-S.D.,

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 21, 2024

The new FAST channels are powered by Harmonic’s VOS®360 Media SaaS, which simplifies all stages of media processing, including advanced playout, powerful graphics insertion, premium OTT encoding and distribution. Leveraging the VOS360 Media platform, RTL can easily create and deploy additional FAST channels at scale.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 22, 2025

The Republican’s message: The two public media outlets likely missed an obvious wake-up call. “Americans are increasingly skeptical of media institutions, with trust in media at historic lows. That reality cannot be ignored. ” ( More after paywall.)

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

5, 2025 – A bill to bar children under 13 from accessing social media sparked the most controversy at a Senate Commerce Committee markup session on Wednesday. The Kids Off Social Media Act, reintroduced last week by Committee Chair Sen. 315 – AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act : Introduced by Sens. WASHINGTON, Feb.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Were readers of this publication to present at a telecom conference on the topic of broadband reliability, outages might not be top of mind.  More pointedly, in today’s technology-centric ecosystems, to not have broadband means the real potential for societal catastrophe. 

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Brown , Executive Director, WifiForward Dean Bubley , Founder & Director of Disruptive Analysis, London Dr. Monisha Ghosh , Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame Drew Clark  (moderator), Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast Mary L.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Once again, broadband Internet Service Providers as a distinct group will be exempt from paying fees directly – over the strong objections of state and national broadcast associations concerned about the overall fairness of the agency's fee regime. million budget for the current fiscal year.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Over the past 30 years, Madden has predicted digital predistortion, remote radio heads, small cells, 5G fixed wireless, as well as accurate growth forecasts for IoT, virtual RAN, and open RAN. He has worked as a radio frequency engineer and managed product lines in mobile infrastructure and in handset components.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 16, 2024

15, 2024 - A plan by federal regulators to take the first step toward regulating AI political ads on radio and TV keeps running into opposition and concerns from various media outlets. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

19, 2025 – Local radio and television stations face a tough challenge against major tech giants like Netflix, TikTok, and YouTube, which are replacing traditional news sources at an alarming rate. WASHINGTON, Feb.

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VoIP Review

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The trials leveraged Ericsson’s advanced antenna-integrated radio technology along with devices powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF Systems. Vodafone’s first trial focused on Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) to deliver fiber-like broadband speeds without needing extensive underground infrastructure.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

 Walden  owned and operated radio stations and chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Sanchez Not only does this plan solve a major national security vulnerability, but it also frees up airwaves for broadband. This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Mike Lee , R-Utah, introduced legislation last week to remove a critical source of funding for the National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service: taxpayer dollars. The bill will likely intensify the battle between Washington conservatives and taxpayer-supported media outlets, which some see as favoring liberal policy positions.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Sarah Palin (R) in the 2008 presidential election showed that exclusively regulating AI-generated political ads on radio and TV would be arbitrary when Fey, with a little makeup, glasses and a wig, would have little problem fooling a TV audience into thinking she was Palin.  23 filing at the FCC.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

  Wi-Fi innovation has stalled On paper and in simulation Wi-Fi 7 is presumed to reach lofty speeds on every scenario thanks to its use of Multi-Link Operation (MLO,) two radios operating in parallel at different frequencies. A killer app for 5G is clear: residential broadband over fixed wireless access (FWA) networks.

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VoIP Review

JANUARY 13, 2025

million broadband users by the end of the December quarter. Media outlets suggest the offering could raise between $4.08 During the 47th annual general meeting of Reliance Industries, Ambani proudly declared that over 85% of 5G radio cells in India are owned by Jio. By September 2024, the company had already surpassed 2.8

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 10, 2025

These limitations underscore the importance of efficient bandwidth management to avoid replanning from a radio access perspective.  This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast. Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 7, 2024

” The agency voted along party lines to put the proposed rules, which would require political advertisers on broadcast TV and radio to disclose the use of AI-generated content, up for public comment in July. The comment period is open until October 11.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We collect outage data, conduct spectrum surveys to understand the state of coverage, determine the impact on radio and television, and assess capabilities for emergency services,” Rosenworcel said in a statement. ” “When disaster strikes, the FCC will always have boots on the ground.

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