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€631bn ‘Made for Germany’ initiative presents major opportunity for telcos

Total Telecom

Industries targeted for this funding include energy, transport, R&D, education, and healthcare. While Deutsche Telekom and United Internet (1&1) are the only explicitly telecoms companies directly listed as participating in the ‘Made for Germany’ initiative, the sector as a whole has much to gain from its creation.

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Can community/public broadband plans help serve unserved areas?

Blandin on Broadband

The Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), a $20 billion program to fund high-speed rural internet, is a prime example. Many goodstransportation, education, low-income housingdont work on a pure profit-maximizing basis. Second, program design has often led to poor results or outright failure. Broadband is no different.

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An Interview With Former BEAD Director Evan Feinman

Broadband Breakfast

What was missing, those executives told them, was broadband internet access. ” He added in bold type: “Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington.” The communities needed access.

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House Includes 10-Year Ban on States Regulating AI in Budget Bill

Broadband Breakfast

The brief but consequential provision , tucked into the House Energy and Commerce Committee's  sweeping markup , would be a major boon to the AI industry, which has lobbied for uniform and light touch regulation as tech firms develop a technology they promise will transform society. “That sounds to me like a policy change.

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Some Educators Urge FCC to Go Beyond Wi-Fi Hotspots

Broadband Breakfast

25, 2024 – Public school leaders and other education advocates give the Federal Communications Commission's Wi-Fi hotspots plan high marks, but they think the agency can still do better.    Both parties petitioned the FCC to reconsider provisions of Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel ’s E-Rate Hotspot Order.

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The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) set to connect barracks-type housing to broadband

Blandin on Broadband

Included in the law are provisions to rural telecommunications networks more secure andinternet access service affordable formembers of the armed service while addressing issues aroundartificial intelligence and cybersecurity.

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New Hampshire Getting $191 Million for Universal Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

New Hampshire is getting the gift that keeps on giving: $191 million in federal money to put every last residence and business in the state within reach of broadband internet service over the next five years. billion to extend broadband internet service nationwide to areas of the country that are either unserved or underserved. ."