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  "description": "Federal agencies and lawmakers made progress in broadband and energy permitting rules in 2025.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-12-08T18:49:55.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "_****One Carr driving the Federal Communications Commission****_",
    "_****Two superpowers racing toward AI superintelligence dominance****_",
    "_****Three branches of government (and some formerly independent agencies)****_",
    "_****Four programs with Universal Service Funds****_",
    "_****56 states and territories without digital equity grants****_",
    "_****Less than 6 months for a broadband permit****_",
    "_****Data center-powered electricity bills up 70 percent****_",
    "_****800 megahertz of spectrum to sell at auction****_",
    "_****$9 billion + 12 billion (or $21 billion) in BEAD remaining funds****_",
    "_****Not even $10/month for an affordable connectivity program****_",
    "_****Through BEAD and broadband, 110 million locations served****_",
    "_****More than 1200 megahertz of spectrum for unlicensed wireless****_",
    "_****Click to read each of the 12 Days of Broadband articles!****_",
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  "textContent": "_Editor's Note: Published on Dec. 8, 2025; republished on Dec. 31, 2025._\n\nPermitting reform became one of the few cross-cutting infrastructure buzzwords in 2025. It became a shared obsession for broadband builders seeking BEAD funding and for energy developers racing to add generation, transmission, and data-center-linked capacity.\n\n#### 12 Days of Broadband 2025 (click to open)\n\n  * _****On the First Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****One Carr driving the Federal Communications Commission****_ _****.****_\n  * _****On the Second Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****Two superpowers racing toward AI superintelligence dominance****_ _****.****_\n  * _****On the Third Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****Three branches of government (and some formerly independent agencies)****__****.****_\n  * _****On the Fourth Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****Four programs with Universal Service Funds****_ _****.****_\n  * _****On the Fifth Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****56 states and territories without digital equity grants****_.\n  * _****On the Sixth Day of Broadband, my true level sent to me:****__****Less than 6 months for a broadband permit****_ _****.****_\n  * _****On the Seventh Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****Data center-powered electricity bills up 70 percent****_ _****.****_\n  * _****On the Eighth Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****800 megahertz of spectrum to sell at auction****_ _****.****_\n  * _****On the Ninth Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****$9 billion + 12 billion (or $21 billion) in BEAD remaining funds****_ _****.****_\n  * _****On the Tenth Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****Not even $10/month for an affordable connectivity program****_ _****.****_\n  * _****On the Eleventh Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****Through BEAD and broadband, 110 million locations served****_ _****.****_\n  * _****On the Twelfth Day of Broadband, my true love sent to me:****__****More than 1200 megahertz of spectrum for unlicensed wireless****_ _****.****_\n\n\n\n_****Click to read each of the 12 Days of Broadband articles!****_\n\nBroadband and energy deployment are both critical to national digital infrastructure investment. Both can be slowed by the same environmental, historic, and right-of-way bottlenecks that haunt power lines and pipelines.\n\nIn the broadband world, 2025 was less about a single breakthrough than a layered push across the White House, Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the Commerce Department — with most of the momentum aimed at eliminating repetitive review for routine work and setting clearer timelines for the rest.\n\n### _The White House seeks streamlining_\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "A Full Court Press for Permitting Reform in 2025",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T05:41:36.722Z"
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