Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 26, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2025 — Zito Media Communications has filed an opposition with the Federal Communications Commission to block Everstream Solutions LLC’s planned discontinuance of fiber services in Pennsylvania, citing critical public safety concerns. 

Media

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 9, 2025

Expanding broadband access has become a cornerstone of federal and state infrastructure efforts. These logistical challenges are often compounded by legal disputes, poor communication, and even community opposition, threatening the ability to make meaningful progress in expanding broadband infrastructure.

Construction

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

27, 2025 – House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans blocked efforts to expand Congressional oversight of broadband affordability and the Federal Communications Commission, during a contentious 12-hour markup session Tuesday. “Unfortunately, this committee's oversight plan only prioritizes broadband availability.

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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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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 1, 2025

demanding she get New Mexico its broadband money. “I urge you to fulfill your commitments to Congress that you will ‘follow the law,’ ‘act impartially,’ and ‘deliver the best broadband service possible for all Americans,’” Luján wrote to Roth.

Broadband

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

Cable

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.

Hardware

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 28, 2025

States are busy re-working their BEAD grants in accordance with the new guidance from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. How are state broadband offices navigating the uncertainty? Breakfast Media LLC CEO  Drew Clark  has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008.

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Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 15, 2025

Today, full participation in society requires access to both home broadband and mobile data services. To reflect this reality, the Commission should update Lifelines benefit structure to allow simultaneous support for both fixed broadband and wireless service.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 23, 2025

billion allocated through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program represents the largest broadband investment in American history. Both determine whether new broadband deployments can actually deliver on their promise – not just on day one, but in the years and decades ahead.    The $42.5

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Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 28, 2025

With the program’s constitutionality upheld, the focus shifts to Congress to do what only it can—reform the fund for the broadband age and a $5 trillion digital economy. The bipartisan Senate bill Lowering Broadband Costs for Consumers Act of 2025  and the House version (H.R. and Deb Fischer , R-Neb.,

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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. This is why we would prefer that all satellite broadband systems be eligible for the BEAD program.

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 17, 2025

Part 1: Explaining BEAD, Broadband Abundance? Part 2: Explaining BEAD, Trying to Bridge the Digital Divide As a brief recap, the nation has been working for decades to achieve universal access to broadband. Instead, Congress structured the BEAD program as a state and territory broadband grant program.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 12, 2025

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, Broadband Breakfast has added a timely panel to next week's Speeding BEAD Summit.  will now feature analysis of the funding notice and its implications for broadband deployment nationwide. How will deployment of BEAD be expedited? Secure your spot today.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 2, 2025

billion investment in universal broadband internet access may be on track for a major overhaul. Three years into its meticulous planning and implementation process, and with  significant progress  already made, the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program may pivot from prioritizing fiber to satellite connectivity.

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Rural Broadband Association

JULY 31, 2025

NTCA will also be scouring representatives’ websites and social media accounts to learn about events and fundraisers they are hosting and sharing those with our members as opportunities become available. The FCC’s National Broadband Map offers a useful starting point for determining where broadband service may be available.

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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. Commission members and their local partners wanted to know why, Feinman said.

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Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 8, 2025

Learn more about Speeding BEAD Summit What is Broadband Breakfast? of unserved / underserved and unfunded broadband serviceable locations (BSLs) are in geographic areas with a fiber provider within a few hundred yards (the same FCC fabric L8 hexagon).  In any area with existing fiber. We   In fact, 30.4%  Often.

Hospitality

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.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 14, 2025

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. NTIA stands for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is a subagency of the U.S. NTIA’s broadband grant program has taken some heat in recent weeks. Prior to March 2025, I helped manage NTIA’s $42.45 Department of Commerce.)

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Rural Broadband Association

APRIL 17, 2025

Each day brings new noise: politics, social media outbursts, endless opinions, baskets of drama and mounting demands on our attention. Our industry mirrors this constant clamor with frequent updates, changes and the ongoing issues with the Universal Service Fund and Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program that demand focus.

Telephone

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 13, 2025

Because broadband throughputs and speeds – meaning how much data the system is capable of carrying, and how quickly data is actually delivered, respectively – are constantly changing (and consistently improving), tracking those toe vital metrics is critical to the future of both enterprise planning and governmental policymaking.

Broadband

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.

Telecommunication

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 2, 2025

And thanks to recent changes in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, areas served by unlicensed fixed wireless are no longer considered “unserved.” He is also Principal and Founder at CorePoint Strategies, a technology and telecommunications policy consulting firm.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 9, 2025

billion in broadband subsidies has pledged to move away from an 'extreme tech bias in favor of fiber' toward technology neutrality—a welcome shift that could bring transformative connectivity to rural America. billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment program.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 15, 2025

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

Telecoms

AWS Telecommunications

MAY 1, 2025

Telecom workloads consist of multiple domains such as RAN, packet core for mobile broadband Internet, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for voice communication, and Operational Support Systems/Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) for management and operations.

Network

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 9, 2025

WASHINGTON, May 9, 2025 – President Donald Trump posted on social media Thursday that $2.75   “We really don't know anything other than the social media post from President Trump,” she said. ” It created some confusion and frustration for participants in the program.

Media

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 21, 2025

Texas is pushing back on policies set by the previous administration for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program, hopeful that the Trump administration will tweak the program. billion  for broadband development in 2023, with state lawmakers looking to add another $2.5 This piece is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast.

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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 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.

Connectivity

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.

Global Positioning System

US Telecom

JUNE 12, 2025

Senators Deb Fischer (R-NE), Chair of the Senate Telecommunications and Media Subcommittee, and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Ranking Member, announced the reconstitution of the Universal Service Fund (USF) Working Group. Today, U.S.

Hospitality

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 14, 2025

The cancellations followed a social media post from Trump calling the law’s programs “racist and illegal.” billion to address barriers to broadband adoption that persist after infrastructure is deployed, like expensive devices or a lack of experience navigating online services. ” The law allocated $2.75

Education

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 13, 2025

Policymaking functions would be committed to a single official located in the executive branch, perhaps in the National Telecommunications and Information Agency, part of the Department of Commerce. Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene.

Entertainment

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.

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