Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Today the Committee on Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy heard more about: HF47 (Schultz) Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified. MN has good broadband. The certification program set to start this year could bring broadband deployment to a halt.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 29, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 29, 2024 – Telecom companies told the U.S. Faced with Petitioners’ arguments that the Rule exceeds the FCC’s authority under Section 222(a) of the Communications Act, the FCC downplays its previous reliance on that provision and instead pivots to Section 201(b).

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IEEE ComSoc

MARCH 17, 2025

Indosat, a major telecoms provider with over 100 million customers, working with Lintasarta, GoTo, Accenture, and Hippocratic, has deployed a Sovereign AI Factory and a collection of LLMs for Indonesia leveraging the NVIDIA Cloud Partner program.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Federal Communications Commission is trying to keep alive its April order reclassifying broadband as a Title II service under the Communications Act, subject to more stringent FCC oversight. “[T]he [FCC] says that the major-questions doctrine cannot preclude it from classifying broadband.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Speaking at a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event in September 2023 , Hogg also pitched Gigapower’s ability to build open access infrastructure with grants for state broadband offices under the Commerce Department’s Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program.

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VoIP Review

DECEMBER 16, 2024

By utilizing low-cost mmWave spectrum, this technology ensures a reliable, high-speed wireless broadband service, especially in regions where fiber installation poses challenges. In a strategic advancement earlier, EOLO teamed with Fastweb, another Italian telecom entity, to bolster coverage in digitally deprived zones.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Key themes will include the technologies enabling network rollout, engineering strategies, supply chain issues and public-private partnerships. Connected Society: Keeping people connected has never been more important.

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EldoTelecom

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Thats according to a recently published white paper commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association and Frontier Communications. That leads to micro market segmentation as seen on so-called broadband maps that an East Texas local government official compared to the spotted coat of a Dalmatian.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Under this model, multiple ISPs can offer services over the same broadband infrastructure. The Fiber Broadband Association is the voice of fiber. Using an active ethernet infrastructure and operating at the wholesale level, UTOPIA Fiber supports open access and promotes competition in all broadband and telecommunications services.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The $9 million deal allows ALLO – a Nebraska-based telecom company available to 1.2 The council first committed to community broadband in 2018 but faced funding challenges for a municipally owned utility. Boulder, located about 40 miles northwest of Denver, has a population of just over 105,000.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 22, 2024

22, 2024 – A small Vermont wireless provider is fighting to prevent a telecom giant from tightening its hold on dozens of megahertz of critical 5G spectrum. WASHINGTON, Oct. The decision to grant EchoStar a three-year extension was controversial within the FCC.

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IEEE ComSoc

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Reliance Jio has argued that India’s telecom regulator incorrectly concluded that home satellite broadband spectrum should be allocated and not auctioned , according to a letter seen by Reuters. The Telecom Ministry has granted in-principle approval, and the Home Ministry is expected to finalize the vetting process.

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IEEE ComSoc

MARCH 12, 2025

” The market research firm believes annual satellite telecoms service revenue will reach $165 billion by 2033. 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.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

12, 2025 – The conservative nonprofit challenging an $8 billion-per-year broadband subsidy urged the Supreme Court to find the program unconstitutional Tuesday, calling it a “bureaucrat’s dream” and a “nightmare.” WASHINGTON, Feb.

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IEEE ComSoc

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By including already provisioned devices, customers can use their own highly secure and robust private cellular network almost immediately. It’s a pre-built, plug and play kit with multiple options available (see below) to cater to different use cases, such as surveillance, fixed wireless access and point of sale.

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Rural Broadband Association

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

On a more global scale, we are seeing newcomers take part in the provision of telecommunications and broadband. These blogs are brought to you by NTCA Women in Telecom, a program dedicated to empowering women in the telecommunications industry. To learn more about WIT or get involved, visit ntca.org/wit Awareness. Momentum.

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VoIP MS

MAY 16, 2025

This booming sector is creating massive opportunities for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), IT resellers, and telecom entrepreneurs looking to expand their recurring revenue streams. Developer-Friendly API Automate provisioning, billing, number porting, and account management with ease.

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Rural Broadband Association

JULY 18, 2024

It was a great chance to speak before representatives from various media outlets, communications industry executives and a few NTCA members in town for the Women in Telecom Fly-In about NTCA and to highlight some of our important advocacy goals for this year and beyond. Remarks: “What really is universal service?

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IEEE ComSoc

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

At the 10th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2024) in Istanbul, Turkey , James Chen , President of Huawei’s Carrier Business , delivered a speech entitled “Network+AI, Unleashing More Business Value.” AI supports high-level network autonomous driving and improves network operation efficiency.

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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. Agriculture Finance and Policy Chair: Rep.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 2, 2025

21 that stripped many of those provisions from the final version. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2025 – Despite including telecommunications and technology proposals in earlier drafts, Congress passed a government funding bill on Dec. Ted Cruz , R-Texas, and Amy Klobuchar , D-Minn., Ted Cruz , R-Texas, and Amy Klobuchar , D-Minn.,

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The 12 Days of Broadband (click to open) On the First Day of broadband, my true love sent to me: An extra-planetary-life-promoting tech billionaire set on electing a president. On the Second Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me: 23 million served by the Affordable Connectivity Program.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 16, 2025

16, 2025 – At the top of AT&T’s telecom policy wishlist are: Restoration of the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction authority and opposition to more broadband affordability laws like the one in New York State. WASHINGTON, Jan. AT&T has 477,000 Internet Air subscribers nationally.

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Mark Goldberg

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In early January, in my look at the year ahead , I said these items topped my telecom agenda: Driving universal broadband adoption Online harms Regulatory overreach Mandated wholesale access Impacts of investment on coverage and resilience Digital literacy How did we do? Solving the supply problem is relatively easy.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 10, 2025

Last year, the legislature passed a law that could single-handedly stall broadband expansion across the state. This new law specifically and unfairly targets broadband installers and imposes requirements not required of any other similar installation.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 6, 2025

1971, A bill for an act relating to commerce; relieving telephone companies or telecommunications carriers of the obligation to serve certain areas; requiring the Office of Broadband Development to resolve disputes; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 237. Subdivision 1. Service requirement. (a) Dispute resolution. (a)

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 5, 2025

2224 :A bill for an act relating to commerce; relieving telephone companies or telecommunications carriers of the obligation to serve certain areas; requiring the Office of Broadband Development to resolve disputes; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 237. Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 28, 2025

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2025 – The House passed Monday five telecom and communications bills, including efforts to require more vetting for high-cost fund participants and codify modern responsibilities of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.  The bill still had bipartisan support Monday, with Reps.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 8, 2025

The bill, which criminalizes the distribution of non-consensual deepfake pornography and intimate images, was one of more than ten key tech and telecom measures considered during the marathon markup, many of which have already cleared the Senate Commerce Committee. An amendment from Ranking Member Frank Pallone , D-N.J., tech supply chains. 

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 18, 2025

Broadband Breakfast Broadband Breakfast Once a quiet, rural community, Prineville, Oregon is now the bustling home of a sprawling network of high-tech facilities around which its economy centers. ’ Broadband Breakfast Teralyn Whipple Regional differences in grid capacity further complicate the picture.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Latta chairs the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, which deals with telecom issues. A provision in a major defense spending bill would allow the agency to auction spectrum in a single band, one that was already auction off but ultimately returned to the FCC after a legal fight with Dish. "That

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Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 4, 2025

” Learn more about Speeding BEAD Summit What is Broadband Breakfast? said he was "working with the Senate parliamentarian” to rule the provision out of order under the so-called Byrd Rule. ” Nvidia’s senior vice president of telecom Ronnie Vasishta brought urgency to the issue.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 2, 2025

will lead the key House subcommittee that keeps a close watch on federal communications regulators and a range of industry participants, including broadband Internet Service Providers. Hudson’s appointment could signal a renewed focus on reforming the provision. Richard Hudson , R-N.C., Hudson, likely starting Jan.

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 17, 2025

An Op-Ed from Johnny Kampis of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance talks about deployment of BEAD funding from the provider perspective Some states are finding it difficult to entice providers to participate in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program due to the myriad hoops (i.e.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

Well, due to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision in  Ohio Telecom Association v. But to extent others differ, Congress is now the appropriate forum for the debate regarding adoption of a proper policy framework for broadband providers. FCC  on January 2, the saga, mercifully, may be coming to an end.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 14, 2025

KSTP TV posts about the BEAD funding coming into Minnesota for broadband Minnesota has been giving grants to broadband providers over the last 10 years through its Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant program to encourage investment in unserved and underserved areas of the state.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

9, 2024 – The Biden Administration Justice Department joined the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday in urging the Supreme Court to strike down a decision holding that the agency’s $8 billion-per-year broadband subsidy was unconstitutional. WASHINGTON, Jan.

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