For one year, FCC won't use Weiss ratings for banks' letters of credit of RDOF, CAF II winners.

The FCC chairwoman requested the report during the Consumer Advisory Committee meeting Thursday.

Several state offices expect to utilize nondeployment funds in conjunction with infrastructure deployment funds for BEAD.

The company needs to be designed as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier to promote the Lifeline option, it said.

The state expects to get broadband to all its unserved and underserved locations.

BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: Together with her Democratic colleague Sen. Maggie Hassan, Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito on Friday introduced legislation designed to establish a national standard that would govern the Federal Communications Commission’s determination about whether mobile and bro

The Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan seeks to promote telemedicine, but the national health care bill recently-passed by Congress fails to include support for it. However, last week Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) signed SB 675, a health insurance bill that mandates covera

WASHINGTON, December 31, 2009 – The Commerce Department agency responsible for the mapping component of the broadband stimulus program announced, on the last day of the year, that it had funded five more states’ broadband data programs. With the announcement – of funding for broadband data and mapp

After reviewing the letters from the states to the NTIA, BroadbandBreakfast.com has learned that all of the broadband stimulus projects awarded today were specifically recommended to the NTIA by the states, with the exception of the Rivada Sea Lion project in Alaska and Bretton Woods Telephone Compa