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FCC Hits Pause on Verizon’s Copper Retirement Plan

By contrast, the FCC in June granted AT&T’s request to discontinue copper voice services at more than 184,000 locations in California

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Carr Slams House Democrats Opposed to Alerting Parents to LGBTQ Content in Children’s TV Programming

FCC Chairman tells hostile Democrats, ‘Keeping parents in the dark about the nature of these programs is a feature not a bug of the effort’

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Blair Levin’s Conspiracy Theory – Lutnick Delayed BEAD Just to Help Musk’s Starlink

But the Wall Street analyst’s dubious foot-dragging theory appears to be a few LEO satellites short of a constellation

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Cable One Takes on Mega Debt to Finance Vyve Broadband Acquisition

Regional ISP borrows $700 million apparently to help acquire the 55% of Vyve parent Mega Broadband Investments Holdings that it did not previously own

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Colorado Cancels $103 Million BEAD Award After Probe Finds Host of Problems, Including Missing Funds

Colorado Broadband Office terminates Maverix Broadband’s BEAD grants and refers the case to the state’s Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Treasury Inspectors

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Trump, Carr Tell AI Policy Alarmists and Doomsayers – This Is Not Going to Be Your Net Neutrality Hoax 2.0

Trump to create an AI Force run by an AI Czar – ‘Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!’ the President says

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Investor Ron Baron Expects Starlink’s Value to Reach $14 Trillion, Fueled by $1 Trillion in Revenue within 10 Years

Eventually, he said the majority of Starlink’s revenue will come from government, enterprise, and mobile

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U.S. ISPs Spent $92.6 Billion on Capex In 2025; Google Alone to Spend $205 Billion in 2026

“Fiber isn’t just wiring for today’s Internet – it’s the load-bearing infrastructure for whatever comes next,” USTelecom CEO Jonathan Spalter said,

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Regulating AI ‘As American as Apple Pie,’ Sen. Bernie Sanders Says

‘Here’s the bottom line: The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs,’ the Vermont Socialist says

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Wall Street Analyst Has Cloudy Forecast for Comcast, Charter Shares

Wolfe Research’s Peter Supino expects impact of Starlink to grow, saying Starship deployments of powerful next-get LEOs ‘portend significant price cuts’ in retail Starlink rates

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Shentel CEO, Bucking the Trend, Says His ISP Does Not Need Mobile Service

The Virginia-based ISP’s standalone multigigabit Glo Fiber service is sufficient to fuel customer growth, even against cable rivals offering a broadband-mobile bundle, CEO Ed McKay says

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West Virginia Gov. Morrisey Salutes Armstrong for Fiber Builds Connecting 5,000 Unserved ‘Country Roads’ Locations

At an event in Hamlin, West Virginia, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty join in honoring Armstrong President Jeff Ross for bringing rural America into the tech mainstream

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AT&T Likely the ‘Fifth-Largest Copper Mine in the U.S.,’ CEO Stankey Says

Speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference, Stankey says, ‘That copper needs to come out, it needs to be monetized’

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Nexstar Needs to Finish ATSC 3.0 Transition Before Leasing Spectrum to Starlink

EVP and CFO Lee Ann Gliha tells Wall Street that broadcasters’ Edgebeam Wireless consortium covers 97% of the country – optimal for a national LEO service like Starlink with mobile ambitions

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Carr Warns Broadcasters about Airing Fake Polls, Says New Guidance Could Be on the Way

In an interview on the Fox News cable news network, the FCC leader says he’s concerned fake polls could suppress voter turnout

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Who’s Battling Disney for the FCC? Judge Jeanine!

The U.S. Attorney, recently in President Trump’s doghouse for dropping vandalism charges in D.C., told a federal judge her court does not have jurisdiction to hear Disney’s injunction request.