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Sen. Ed Markey, Invincible at the Polls Since 1976, Has to Reckon with a New Foe – Ageism
Boston Herald conservative columnist Joe Battenfeld accused Markey's primary opponent of naked 'age discrimination.'
Ted Hearn
Ted Hearn is Contributing Editor for Broadband Breakfast. He is also Editor and Publisher of Policyband, a new website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the broadband communications market.
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Sen. Blackburn Calls Cell Phone Records Scandal an 'Egregious Invasion of Privacy’ by AT&T, T-Mobile & Verizon
Senate Republican wants to know why carriers rolled over for the Biden Justice Department.
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Iran to Impose Death Penalty if Caught Using Starlink to Spy
Draft law also makes it illegal to own or use Elon Musk's low Earth orbit satellite Internet service.
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Sen. Markey Can't Recall His Own Effort to Revoke Sinclair's TV Licenses
Veteran Massachusetts Democrat called out on his attacks on the First Amendment in 2018 by freshman Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio.
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Sen. Kennedy Wants Answers from Phone Companies on Handing Over Senate GOP Calls Records to Biden DOJ
Louisiana Republican shocked the telecom firms rolled over and failed to fight the privacy invasion of eight Senate Republicans.
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FCC’s Carr to TV Stations: You Decide When to Pull the Plug on ATSC 1.0
But the agency leader left a lot of jump balls and industry brawls in a draft NPRM released yesterday
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FCC's Carr Ready to Move Ahead on NextGen TV, Details to Follow
NAB in February submitted a plan to wrap up ATSC 3.0 by early 2030 that faced resistance from the Consumer Technology Association and MVPDs like DIRECTV.
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Cedar Falls Utilities Shutting Down 'Dying' Cable TV Next October
President Obama, in a 2015 visit to CFU, vowed to let local governments provide competitive communications services, especially broadband.
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NBC, Google Reach YouTube TV Deal but Statement Says Nothing about Local TV Stations
Deal arrived one day after NAB slammed the ‘unchecked dominance of Big Tech’.
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FBA’s Bolton Says LEO Subs Use AI Less than Fiber Subs
Fiber leader wants $20 billion ‘leftover’ from BEAD to ‘build AI critical fiber infrastructure’
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Showdown at Homework Gap – Carr, Trusty End Democrats' Raid on the $8.6 Billion Universal Service Fund
GOP-led FCC cuts off E-Rate support for Wi-Fi hotspots and Wi-Fi on school buses
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Roth Says NTIA Going After 'Unreasonable' BEAD Costs
'Our role is to be good stewards of the money,' NTIA chief says.
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Alaska’s BEAD Plan Includes Eye-Popping Per-Location Costs
Is it time for Alaska to consider moving people to broadband instead of deploying broadband to people at $113,000 per location?
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FCC Chief of Staff Calls Fixed Wireless 5G's Killer App
President Trump yesterday signed an Executive Order formalizing a deal for American investors to assume control of TikTok’s U.S. operations.
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Cable Industry Generated $569 Billion in Economic Output in 2024, NCTA Study Says
'Cable broadband providers deliver connectivity to 59% of all fixed Internet connections in the U.S., serving 80 million broadband subscribers nationwide,' the NCTA report said.
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Kimmel Returns After Four-Day ABC Exile, Says Charlie Kirk’s Murder Not ‘Funny’
'It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man,' Kimmel said.
