Ted Hearn is Managing Editor for Broadband Breakfast. He is also Editor and Publisher of Policyband, a website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the broadband communications market.
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'NAB thanks Chairman Carr for taking this important step towards modernizing a decades old rule that limits television broadcasters’ ability to compete in today’s media marketplace.
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Trade group executives, public interest groups, and company executives responded to the Senate vote by lavishing praise on Trusty.
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Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz issued a press release yesterday listing the prominent individuals, companies, and organizations backing his spectrum plan.
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Some states are in denial, going through their stages of grief. But not West Virginia, which will likely receive $1.2 billion from the $42.45 billion BEAD fund by the end of the year.
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The Senate Commerce Committee approved Trusty's nomination in a bipartisan 21-7 vote on April 30.
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FTC: Alvaro Bedoya, a Democratic FTC Commissioner fired in March by President Trump, resigned on June 9.
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'Now is the time to finish the job. I am confident that NTIA, under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Lutnick, will do just that,' Cruz wrote.
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The SHLB Coalition yesterday said it was concerned that the Commerce Department’s new BEAD rules went too far in narrowing the range of 'anchor institutions'
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'Look at Alaska: Washington approved a $33 million grant (plus a required $11 million match) to run fiber to just 211 homes and five businesses. That equals over $204,000 per address and the work hasn’t even started,' said Lutnick.
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A question out there is whether President Trump even bothers to nominate a Democrat to replace Starks after firing the two Democrats at the FTC.
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'Just do the right thing for the American people, let's get the broadband to the people for the most efficient way, and we will put out the money.'
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is scheduled to testify today before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science.
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Charter isn’t buying Cox, Cox is buying Charter. That was the conclusion of MoffettNathanson Senior Managing Director Craig Moffett.
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Senate Minority Leader Schumer sent a message to President Trump and Commerce Secretary Lutnick on Friday: No BEAD money for Starlink.
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Arkansas yesterday said it has wrapped up its BEAD bidding process, reporting that 99% of locations have been covered by an ISP at an average per-location cost of $7,072.
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'BEAD is a golden opportunity to drive as much fiber infrastructure as feasible into our country, which will help advance your Administration’s important connectivity, AI, and advanced manufacturing goals,' trade groups wrote.
