Spectrum
With Anti-DEI Commitments in Hand, FCC Approves AT&T-UScellular Spectrum Sale
AT&T bought 3.45 GHz and 700 MHz licenses for about $1 billion.
Jake Neenan
Reporter Jake Neenan, who covers broadband infrastructure and broadband funding, is a recent graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. Previously he reported on state prison conditions in New York.
permitting
House Commerce Committee Clears Broadband Permitting Bills
The bills would set shot clocks on state and local permitting agencies and make it easier for ISPs to cross railroads.
BEAD
California Announces Grant Winners With BEAD Final Proposal
The state would spend most of its $1.86 billion allocation, and about 44 percent of its 339,000 eligible locations would get fiber.
BEAD
How Quintillion is Justifying Some of the Most Expensive Tentative BEAD Projects
The Commerce Department is looking to drive down spending under the program.
Digital Inclusion
NTIA to Review Federal Spending on Broadband, Tech for Education
The agency is holding an online listening session on the issue Dec. 10.
BEAD
NTIA Approves 9 BEAD Plans, Promises Early 2026 Guidance on Non-Deployment Funds
NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth said the agency was ‘operating under the assumption’ states could retain and use non-deployment dollars.
Copyright
Supreme Court Grapples With ISP Copyright Dispute
'We are being put to two extremes here... How do we announce a rule that deals with those two extremes?'
Justice Department
AT&T to DOJ: EchoStar Spectrum Deal Won’t Harm Competition
T-Mobile, rural carriers want conditions ensuring rural deployment.
BEAD
House Democrats Want Non-Deployment Funds Maintained
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R) suggested he would push for his state to access its full allocation.
FCC
Crown Castle Suing Dish
It's the second major tower company to allege Dish is trying to improperly exit its contracts after major spectrum sales.
NTIA
Judges Press FCC, Challengers in FirstNet Spectrum Case
The agency is looking to make more spectrum available to AT&T-operated FirstNet.
BEAD
West Virginia BEAD Plan Approved
The approved plan would spend $78 million less than the state's tentative awards.
NTIA
Texas BEAD Plan Approved
The approved spending plan differed little from the state’s preliminary awards.
Spectrum
FCC Takes Step Toward Upper C-band Auction
In a change from the draft, the approved text asks about a Tribal licensing window.
AI
Draft Executive Order Would Tie Non-Deployment Funding to State AI Regulation
The draft would direct NTIA to withhold funds if states regulate AI companies too heavily.
NTIA
Previously Recommended Tribal Broadband Awards Rejected
Previously recommended applicants had been tentatively accepted, but funds were not officially earmarked, for Tribal projects
