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Tim Stelzig: Explaining BEAD, Trying to Bridge the Digital Divide

Broadband Breakfast

The FCC’s USF Fund was initially designed as a ratepayer cross-subsidy program to ensure all Americans had access to telephone service. The USF Fund contributed significantly to increasing telephone service coverage from less than 50% of occupied housing units in the 1940s, to 78.3% in 1960, to 90.5% in 1970, to 92.9%

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Industry Backs FCC’s Push to Eliminate ‘Outdated’ Regulations

Broadband Breakfast

Scrap TCPA (Telephone Consumer Protection Act) rules, which govern robocalls, with one commenter calling them “a complete mess of stitched together nonsense.” Eliminate broadband reporting requirements for small ISPs, with fixed wireless operators arguing that compliance costs are too high.

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Dean Bubley: After Budget Bill, Do No Harm to CBRS and 6 GHz

Broadband Breakfast

Moreover, other entities such as cable and mobile operators acquired “PAL” (protected access) licenses for the CBRS band in an earlier 2020 auction. Cable ISPs including Charter and Comcast also offer 6 GHz routers. These need extremely high reliability and cannot be easily or quickly moved to alternative bands.

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Hurricane Season Resiliency Coordination – and Why it Matters

Rural Broadband Association

Alongside me were folks from Verizon, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, the head of 911 for the Louisiana Sheriff’s office in the Livingston Parish, Duke Energy, the cable industry and iHeartMedia. With Planters Telephone (Newington, Ga.)  With Washington, D.C.,

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Techbuyer collaboration yields successful recovery of precious metals from printed circuit board

Total Telecom

BT has been trialling the companys bioleaching technology for several years to recover copper and gold from decommissioned telephone exchanges as well as copper from cabling.

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Playing the long game in the fiber gold rush: Large investor owned provider overbuilding publicly owned network in small town that didn't initially pencil for private investment.

EldoTelecom

Consolidated Communications, Fidium’s parent, owns many of the telephone poles in town. The local group had to pay tens of thousands of dollars to put its cables on them. “It came as some surprise when all of a sudden we started seeing, essentially, a duplicated system being built on top of ours,” he said. “If

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Vermont’s Otter Creek CUD Finishes Fiber Expansion, Focuses On Customer Service

Broadband Breakfast

“As well, a portion of our area was peeled off to allow the ILEC in three of the towns in our District to be served by the existing small ILEC business – Shoreham Telephone – under their own grant funding program.” ” CUDs: New alliances to solve very old problems Like so many U.S.