From a 1956 court decision to the 1996 Telecom Act

Veterans are wiring 3,400 homes with fiber while they finish telecom apprenticeships

Authors of AI civil rights and AI-ready networks bills join Republican Buddy Carter of Georgia, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and fellow Democrat Reps. Landsman and Barragán

Ohio Democrat Landsman co-authored bills on data center costs, data center secrecy, and broadband infrastructure permitting

A Santa Clara County task force and dozens of partner agencies recovered 73 trafficking victims from February's Super Bowl

The backlash is about the concentration of power, not AI itself, panelists said on Broadband Breakfast Live Online

Computers were already sending data over telephone lines, and in 1966 the FCC began deciding whether that traffic should be regulated

Europe’s post offices ran their satellite links. Washington chartered an investor-owned company

Congress chartered a private corporation to run the American share of a global satellite system. Nearly every other nation used a state agency.

The event, on Dec. 1 at the National Press Club, links the issues of AI risk, digital infrastructure, energy use and federal preemption

Even AT&T’s 769,000 internet additions didn’t help, as investors are weighing satellite expansion against carriers’ pricing and bundling advantages

Satellite expanded programming, but most subscribers had one cable provider.

Broadband permitting bill sponsor joins Dec. 1 conference on AI risk, infrastructure, data center power and federal preemption.

Access to lower-priced plans helped explain why the rankings differed

Authors of the BroadbandNow and Ookla reports join Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday

The Communications Act of 1934 recognized two kinds of regulated companies, broadcasters and common carriers. Cable fit in neither.

It wasn’t legislation that limited American television to three national networks – it was the FCC

If Republicans suffer heavy losses, it could push the party toward tougher AI legislation, panelists said

This webinar will examine what an effective, sustainable anti-trafficking ecosystem requires.

A pause in new television licenses, ordered by the Federal Communications Commission in 1948 and meant to last six months, ran nearly four years.

Nearly nine in 10 American farms lacked electricity in 1930. In response, Washington financed an unusual kind of utility: Cooperatives owned by the rural customers they served.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Rural Electrification Administration by executive order on May 11, 1935. Congress made the agency permanent in 1936

The funds come from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Republicans passed in July 2025

Experts revisited AT&T’s 1984 breakup and the 1996 Act for lessons on regulating technology platforms.

The FCC's expanding 'Covered List' now requires companies to seek government approval, reversing innovation

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but who’s the father of competition?

For 38 years, the FCC required competing views on controversial issues across broadcast programming.

Tribal communities are combining fiber, shared networks and adoption support to create internet services they can govern and sustain.

A report from a federal agency told American broadcasters in 1949 to cover controversial public issues and to carry opposing views, and no Congress ever voted that rule into law.

BEAD’s next phase will depend on workable contracts, timely permitting and consumer-focused accountability as broadband projects move toward construction.

Newton Minow, Kennedy’s FCC chairman, warned in 1961 that broadcasters risked losing their licenses if they neglected educational and other public-service programming.

Event will begin at 12 Noon ET, and include two virtual panels, on innovation and competition.

The commercial stations' own industry sat on the committee that proposed 'public interest' as the test for federal licensing, at a 1925 conference.

At the AI Infra Summit, experts said the future of data centers hinges less on AI itself and more on securing electricity and community trust.

The system worked while radio was dominated by ships and point-to-point communication. Mass broadcasting in the 1920s exposed what Congress had left unresolved.

Join SmartWAVE Technologies and Juganu for an engaging conversation about how smart street lighting can become the foundation for a more connected, intelligent, and resilient city.

Panelists said small businesses need affordable, reliable service and the skills to use it, not just a connection.

The Titanic sank in April 1912, Congress required a federal license to transmit four months later, and the Navy seized or shut every private radio station in the country when the country entered the war in 1917.

Britain held its network 114 years. America's experiment lasted twelve months, ending August 1919.

This lesson asks the comparative question of why the American telephone monopoly stayed in private hands, when most of the world ran its telephones through a government post office.

Illinois was the final state approved under the federal government’s landmark broadband program. Michigan, Hawaii, Virginia and California are among many states now building.

Panelists say the evaluation gap, not geopolitics, is the binding constraint on global AI rules

In the illustration, J.P. Morgan is depicted as an Octopus trainer, AT&T President Theodore Vail says 'perfectly abhorrent,' and the dog, representing independent companies, says 'I'm next.'

Some personal reflections on the value of looking back over 250 Years of American Independence, and our broadband heritage

The field's toughest challenges have moved past connectivity to teacher preparation, human presence and the arrival of AI in the classroom.

Bell had 3,000 telephones around Boston, and a patent. Western Union had $40M and every U.S. state. The patent won.

Broadband Breakfast CEO previews the 35-lesson course tracing American telecom from Bell's patent to AI. The course launches Monday

BEAD delays left Mountain Connect panelists weary, while AI pushes compute toward an edge rural economics struggle to reach.

Republicans were unable to move their bill forward. The measure will determine the future of the USDA’s ReConnect Broadband program.

Rural broadband is now table stakes for economic development, panelists said on a Broadband Breakfast Live Online panel.

Researchers at national nonprofit Connected Nation contend that policymakers are still focused on broadband speeds while underinvesting in the middle-mile and interconnection infrastructure that will determine future AI performance.

Panelists warned that anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with scammers exploiting cheap internet calling and AI.

Where design meets reality, straight from the experts who live it every day!

Four state broadband directors, still awaiting federal guidance on billions in remaining BEAD funds, speak at Broadband Breakfast Live Online event.

With the industry facing fierce competition, engaging a turnkey supply chain solutions and deployment partner is a more efficient and lower risk path.

More than 18,000 incidents nationwide, affecting over 11.8 million customers.

The high court's 9-0 Cox v. Sony ruling hands AI developers a ready-made defense against claims that their models are built for infringement.

With service providers hyper-focused on meeting the deployment goals set forth by federal and state initiatives, now might be the time to rethink your supply chain management process.

Panelists at BroadbandLive event including the ‘father of the Internet,’ the author of the maxim that ‘Code is Law’ and a pivotal FCC chairman

Media scholars argued that politics, not technology, shaped American broadcasting from 1927 on, repeatedly shielding incumbents from competition.

The patent Bell filed in 1876 never described a speaking telephone. His lawyers later argued it did.

Tarana's fixed wireless technology and a public-private partnership powered DigitalC's more than 10K-strong Cleveland buildout.

With Tarana technology, DigitalC has deployed a high-speed broadband network to more than 10,000 connections in Cleveland, Ohio.

A well-executed upgrade plan not only enhances service delivery but also reduces operational costs and improves customer satisfaction.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance Releases Comprehensive 2026 Census of Tribal Broadband Networks

Online event series runs June 17, June 24, and July 1, tracing American communications from Bell's first telephone call to the age of artificial intelligence.

With few meaningful competitors, Starlink is the primary beneficiary

What is fiber's expanding role in telehealth, precision agriculture, quantum networks and data centers?

Fiber industry speaking at BroadbandLive at Fiber Connect on Tuesday discussed BEAD delays, workforce shortages and data center demand.

Fiber Connect 2026 panelists said the broadband buildout has become a marathon, reshaped by soaring make-ready costs.

Don't miss Broadband Breakfast's wall-to-wall news and video coverage at Fiber Connect!

What's working, where momentum is building, and how federal agencies, ISPs, and industry partners can strengthen support for tribal initiatives.

This BroadbandLive discussion will examine the emerging global AI governance landscape and the growing tension between regulatory oversight and technological innovation.

Early signs of a massive federal broadband expansion effort are beginning to reach local communities.

What is 'American Drone Dominance' all about?

How should broadband providers be thinking about cybersecurity in an AI-driven world?

This session examines where networks are being built, where gaps remain, and how deployment patterns are evolving as funding flows into the market.

How high-power risks dismantling shared spectrum and upending the U.S. businesses it powers

Here’s what 30 governors said about broadband expansion, AI growth, and online child safety.

A partnership between a city and a school district to Bridge the Digital Divide

Coming on Monday for Breakfast Club Members... Videos from the BEAD Implementation Summit!

Wednesday's BEAD Implementation Summit builds upon prior events in 2025 and late 2023.

MWC reinforced that AI and wireless connectivity are inseparable, and that U.S. leadership in both hinges on smart spectrum policy and outpacing China.

Although it didn’t originate that way, O-RAN has become seen as an ‘anti-Huawei’ alliance. It stands to gain as U.S. and Europe are mandating removal of Chinese telecom equipment

The BEAD Implementation Summit 2026 is set for March 18 at the National Press Club, from 12 Noon ET to 5 p.m. ET.

Two of the three dominant global mobile equipment vendors are European, the partnership's governing board chair said.

Heydemann said AI-generated content has already surpassed human-generated content in volume.

Mobile data prices fell 97 percent over 10 years, dropping from $3 per gigabyte to nine cents

Helios Towers calls Africa the world's top tower growth market.

Amdocs said it is launching a new agentic operating system for managing AI agents across carrier networks

Capital budgets already stretched across broadband and capacity are constraining room for GPU investment for the industry.

In the same keynote, AT&T's Stankey said company had achieved 40% improvement in software development efficiency through AI

The satellite company sent leaders to MWC this week to tease plans for its Starlink Mobile service.

A global telecom cold war as 70 percent of AI computing infrastructure sits in the U.S., but Chinese equipment vendors are ascendant elsewhere

The company's CEO said open interfaces and interoperability are essential to connecting intelligence across network domains.

Chairman Bret Taylor says trillions in AI value unrealized as enterprise deployment lags behind model development

Calix Invested $2B to Build AI Platform Now Serving 1,200 Broadband Providers, said CEO Michael Weening

The consultancy aims to use Ookla's data-collection services to help ISPs, hyperscalers, and enterprises optimize networks.

The European Commission’s proposal is aiming to unlock continental scale, accelerate fiber transition, and restrict high-risk suppliers.

After selling its fiber-to-the-home business to AT&T, company pivots toward enterprise AI infrastructure.