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  • Telecom Policy Analyst Blair Levin Leaving New Street Research
  • Joel Thayer: Getting One Big Beautiful Spectrum Pipeline by 2028
  • Mitch Carrel: Dark Fiber's 3 Barriers of Land Use, Engineering, and Sales

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broadbandbreakfast.com /2 weeks ago

Telecom Policy Analyst Blair Levin Leaving New Street Research

The longtime telecom policy analyst didn’t say what his future plans were

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 day ago

Joel Thayer: Getting One Big Beautiful Spectrum Pipeline by 2028

Notifying NTIA is not the same as identifying spectrum for auction, and the FCC should use that difference to keep 2028 auctions alive.

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

Mitch Carrel: Dark Fiber's 3 Barriers of Land Use, Engineering, and Sales

Dark fiber's economics are compelling in the AI era, but projects stall because operators treat land use, engineering, and sales as sequential hurdles rather than tackling all thre...

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broadbandbreakfast.com /2 weeks ago

NTIA’s Top Spectrum Adviser Elevated to Principal Deputy

Tricia Paoletta assumes the second-in-command role as the U.S. prepares for major international negotiations over satellite and wireless spectrum.

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

Jonathan Williams: Super-Sizing Benefits of the Big Beautiful Bill

The author is the chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission.

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

Towers, Moffett Bearish on Direct-to-Device Mobile Competition

The FCC might take comment on opening three unlicensed bands to the service: 902-928 MHz, 2400-2483.5 MHz, and 5725-5850 MHz

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broadbandbreakfast.com /3 weeks ago

Bartlett Cleland: The Market Is Already Solving Dead Zones; BEAD Shouldn't Fund Them

Now that the big three carriers are jointly building satellite direct-to-device coverage, BEAD should stop chasing rural mobile and stick to connecting unserved homes.

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

Bruce Kushnick: An Open Letter Calling for a Debate with the Group Digital Progress

The authors propose a debate using the Verizon NY 2025 Annual Report, and other pertinent facts

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broadbandbreakfast.com /6 hours ago

Nexstar Needs to Finish ATSC 3.0 Transition Before Leasing Spectrum to Starlink

EVP and CFO Lee Ann Gliha tells Wall Street that broadcasters’ Edgebeam Wireless consortium covers 97% of the country – optimal for a national LEO service like Starlink with mobile...

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broadbandbreakfast.com /3 weeks ago

Task Force Calls for Congress to Cement USF’s Legal, Financial Foundations

Report advocates modernization as FCC considers retrenchment across major programs

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

Seafaring Cable Guy Lou Borrelli Sure Likes His Starlink Mini from Stem to Stern

The NCTC CEO, a sailor who relies on the Mini on the high seas, questioned broadband subsidies: ‘If we're all being brutally honest, does anybody think $7,500 a passing for BEAD mo...

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

Roth's Speech Backing Technological Neutrality Hits a Nerve at Fiber Trade Group

FBA CEO Gary Bolton, hoping to trim Trump administration support for LEOs and FWA, calls fiber 'fundamentally different' from other broadband technologies and the 'foundational inf...

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broadbandbreakfast.com /2 weeks ago

NTIA's Roth Celebrates Major Policy Victory – All BEAD Plans Have Been Approved by the Trump Administration

Now it’s up to the 50 states, five territories, and Washington, D.C., to sign contracts with ISPs (or Subgrantees in BEAD parlance) to get the backhoes digging and the networks hum...

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broadbandbreakfast.com /3 weeks ago

Mark Vasconi: A Growing Reality Check for BEAD

I’m a former State Broadband Officer. Here's what other SBOs are saying about BEAD.

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broadbandbreakfast.com /2 weeks ago

Bhavin Gandecha: The Permitting Bills Won’t Fix What’s Actually Broken

Congress keeps asking how to build faster, but nobody has defined how much delay or funding variance the system will tolerate before escalation is automatic.

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

Communications Subcommittee to Consider Bill Requiring National Broadband Strategy to Close the Digital Divide

Six bills before the panel would create new responsibilities for NTIA and the FCC.

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broadbandbreakfast.com /3 weeks ago

With RDOF-Era Clairvoyance, FCC Democrat Anna Gomez Once Again Relegates Starlink to the ISP Underclass

“Until it is proven to me that [LEOs] have the capacity and the latency able to serve in our artificial intelligence economy, then I’m not convinced that that is in fact the answer...

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

BEAD Participants Could Face Tough Finances: Moffett

NTIA has been adamant that it’s preventing defaults

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theblaze.com /2 weeks ago

Big Tech gets the network. You get the bill.

The Federal Communications Commission’s latest broadband report makes two things clear: America has made real progress, but the rural job is far from finished.The number of America...

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

Broad Coalition Urges NTIA to Make BEAD Network Performance Data Public

Labor and public interest groups concerned over LEO providers' ability to carry out their commitments.

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 week ago

Nick Jeffery Ready to Resume His ‘Fiber-Powered’ Career as Charter’s New COO

In a LinkedIn post outlining his priorities as No. 2 to CEO Chris Winfrey, Jeffery set a high bar for himself and the company: ‘The Great Cable Comeback starts here’

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

White House Nominates Danielle Thumann for FCC Spot

A senior attorney in FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s office, she would give Republicans a 3-1 majority at the agency

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 month ago

Joel Thayer and Ethan Tun: Stop Making Americans Pay for Yesterday’s Phone Network

Outdated rules tying carriers to copper phone lines are diverting billions from fiber and wireless buildout, and the FCC should finish modernizing them.

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broadbandbreakfast.com /1 week ago

KeyBanc: Starlink’s Talk of Deep Price Cuts Unlikely to Disrupt Terrestrial Broadband ISPs

The latest developments highlight how quickly the broadband market is evolving

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