Broadband's Impact
FCC Pushes Congress on Spectrum Auction Authority, ACP Funding at Oversight Hearing
Commissioners from both parties emphasized the issues to the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department Commerce, is implementing the bipartisan infrastructure legislation, including broadband funding.
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Commissioners from both parties emphasized the issues to the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
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The state is unsure if any of its $1.7 billion allocation will be left over after funding new infrastructure.
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The state is asking for a waiver to open up RDOF areas to BEAD applications.
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The state is planning to expand its fiber technician training program after funding infrastructure projects.
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The state expects to get broadband to all its unserved and underserved locations.
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The proposals detail plans for the $42.5 billion broadband expansion program.
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The state will mark all DSL customers as ‘underserved’ in its Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment plan.
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The state is looking to set locations outside its mapped community boundaries as extremely high-cost.
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Varied geography might result in multiple high-cost thresholds, the state said.
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The state is opting into speed tests, area and MDU challenges, and new financing guidelines.
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The state plans to get fiber to up to 90 percent of its unserved locations.
Funding
The move is a win for wireless providers, who have been pushing the NTIA on the issue.
FCC
The FCC also approved support for domestic abuse victims, inquiry on AI and robocalls and preventing cell phone scams.
Spectrum
The NTIA will study repurposing 2,786 MHz of spectrum in the next two years.
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Comments are due to Oregon’s broadband office on December 10, and to the University of Hawaii by December 9.
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Group who pushed for LOC changes are looking to ensure state contracts work well with performance bonds.