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‘A Complete Disaster’: Albuquerque Residents Sound Off on Fiber Construction Damage

Broadband Breakfast

June 5, 2025 – After months of mounting complaints, Albuquerque residents finally got their say Thursday on new city rules aimed at reining in disruptive fiber construction. The city issued a stop-work order on all fiber construction in mid-May, as the volume of frustration grew too high.

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Tom Reid: Common-Sense Solutions to Closing the Digital Divide in Rural America

Broadband Breakfast

Topic #2: Regulatory Relief The regulatory burden imposed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on the BEAD program will unnecessarily delay construction, increase costs and diminish competition among ISPs for the funding.  They are struggling to meet the bandwidth needs of 2020, let alone 2055.

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Reps McEwen and Johnson oppose HF47: a bill that relaxes recent legislation on certification for telecommunications installers

Blandin on Broadband

Pete Johnson on HF47: Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified Before last year, the broadband industry was an outlier in the utilities world, with almost no worker-training requirements. McEwen and Rep.

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Advocates: Fine Print in New BEAD Notice Favors Satellite Providers

Broadband Breakfast

One of the clearest examples, they argued, was a provision under revised rules for the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment program, that gives satellite providers up to 10 years to meet performance benchmarks — more than double the four years allowed for fiber and other technologies to comply.

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FCC Declines Requests to Alter Rural Broadband Subsidy

Broadband Breakfast

The agency’s Enhanced ACAM program subsidizes the construction and maintenance of rural broadband through the agency’s Universal Service Fund, to the tune of $18 billion through 2038.

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States Approach Readiness for the Broadband Rollout, But Federal Nod is Elusive

Broadband Breakfast

The NTIA will have its work cut out for it, expeditiously approving state Final Proposals so that construction can get started, while still meeting any needs arising from policy changes in Washington. States had to draft plan content to satisfy these provisions, and in some cases, they impact subgrantee selection.

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MN House Agriculture and broadband finance and bills bill is held over

Blandin on Broadband

Department of Agriculture, the Board of Animal Health, the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, and the Office of Broadband Development budget established; policy and technical changes made to agricultural and broadband provisions; rulemaking authorized; reports required; and money appropriated. Bill was held over.