Joel Thayer: Why the Pentagon Wants Ligado’s ScalpThe dispute over Ligado highlights a clash between the FCC’s spectrum policy decisions and Defense Department’s efforts to block them.Broadband Breakfast·Sep 5·6 min readThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...Join the Community!approvedIridium
Minnesota Broadband Chief on BEAD Challenges, State Investments, and Tribal PartnershipsWhile BEAD changes complicated Minnesota’s broadband plan, state investments and tribal partnerships remain strong.Broadband Breakfast·Aug 27·3 min readThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...Join the Community!June 6 restructuringBorder-to-Border grant program
AT&T CTO Outlines Plan to Become ‘Lowest Cost’ Data Transport ProviderLegg says converging networks, modernizing infrastructure, and expanding AI key to the plan.Broadband Breakfast·Aug 12·3 min readThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...Join the Community!
Nuclear Power Resurges, Absent a Strong Environmentalist ResponseIs the sound of silence replacing the roar of the crowds against ‘no more nukes’?Broadband Breakfast·Aug 11·7 min readThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...Join the Community!A Gallup reportA Washington Post study
Big Telecom Carriers Bankroll the Universal Service FundPanelist estimates that AT&T alone pays over $1 billion into the fundBroadband Breakfast·Aug 8·3 min readThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...Join the Community!ruledrelaunched
New Study Sheds Light on ChatGPT's Alarming Interactions With TeensThe Associated Press reviewed interactions where the chatbot gave detailed plans for drug use, eating disorders, and even suicide notesBroadband Breakfast·Aug 6·7 min readaccording to new researchThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...information, ideas and companionshipAI chatbots for companionship
FCC Urged to Fully Fund Remaining Cybersecurity Pilot Program ApplicantsWithdrawn applications free up enough to fund all others in full, New York's E-rate coordinator argued.Broadband Breakfast·Aug 6·3 min readfilingCybersecurity Pilot ProgramThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...previously reported by Broadband Breakfast
Energy Department Picks Federal Sites for AI Data Center DevelopmentThe Trump administration’s push to accelerate AI deployment begins to materializeBroadband Breakfast·Aug 4·3 min reada releaseThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructureestablished by Biden
Lawmakers Open Comment Portal on Future of Universal Service FundWorking group sought input on the effectiveness of USF programs, proposed reformsBroadband Breakfast·Aug 4·2 min readannounced Fridayportalrequest for comment asksThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...
Anchorage Update: Lessons from the Frontier StateIndustry executives, tribal leaders and policymakers came together to connect more Alaskans.Broadband Breakfast·Jul 25·8 min readThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...
Trump Administration Canceled a $4.9B Loan Guarantee for a Line to Deliver Green PowerTrump administration has canceled a federal loan which guaranteed delivering solar and wind-generated electricity to the midwest.Broadband Breakfast·Jul 24·4 min readGrain Belt Express.moving away from fossil fuels.There's a whole community behind your FREE membership...unveiled a plan
FBA: ‘The Fiber Industry Could Not Be Better’Trade association elated by passage of OBBBBroadband Breakfast·Jul 14·4 min readthe passageThursday newsletterThere's a whole community behind your FREE membership...announcement