universal service
Markey Criticizes FCC Rollbacks, Republican Opposition to Affordability Programs
Markey announced his children’s online privacy act passed the Senate.
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Policyband
ACLP Study Suggests NTIA Is Steering BEAD Billions to Many Weakling ISPs
ACLP said small ISPs set to expand their markets drastically because of BEAD money may not have 'the bona fides' to meet their deployment commitments
Africa
African Tower Infrastructure Faces Fourfold Data Surge by 2030
Helios Towers calls Africa the world's top tower growth market.
MWC2026
AT&T Said It Generated 5x Return on AI Investment
Amdocs said it is launching a new agentic operating system for managing AI agents across carrier networks
Rural
GCI Liberty CEO Says Universal Service Fund Is Essential for Alaska
GCI receives 40% of its $1 billion in annual revenue from the Universal Service Fund
Data Center
AWS Says Telecoms Will Outsource AI Infrastructure as On-Premises Costs Prove Prohibitive
Capital budgets already stretched across broadband and capacity are constraining room for GPU investment for the industry.
Nuclear
U.S. Issues First Commercial Construction Permit for a Nuclear Reactor in Years
The commission granted the permit Wednesday for a Bill Gates-backed company to build a sodium-cooled nuclear reactor in western Wyoming.
Child Safety
KIDS Act Passes Energy and Commerce along Partisan Lines, COPPA 2.0 Postponed
Additional bills on kids online safety and cybersecurity passed with bipartisan support
Infrastructure
FCC’s March Agenda: Copper Retirement, Call Center Onshoring
The agency’s next open meeting is set for March 26, 2026
MWC2026
Vodafone Forms Open-Access Satellite Company to Close Europe's Connectivity Gaps
In the same keynote, AT&T's Stankey said company had achieved 40% improvement in software development efficiency through AI
Satellite
Wireless Carriers Not Worried About Competition from SpaceX
The satellite company sent leaders to MWC this week to tease plans for its Starlink Mobile service.
Iowa
City of Bellevue In Iowa to Sunset Cable TV, Citing Streaming Network Competition
Bellevue’s broadband network will continue to operate.
MWC2026
At Mobile World Congress, Attendees Flag AI, Tech Sovereignty, and Geopolitics
A global telecom cold war as 70 percent of AI computing infrastructure sits in the U.S., but Chinese equipment vendors are ascendant elsewhere
Policyband
Nexstar CEO Sook: Having Trump's Support for TEGNA Deal 'Doesn’t Hurt in the Regulatory Agencies'
Sook Remains Confident Deal Will Close Before July and DOJ Will Embrace a Video Market Definition That Goes Beyond Just TV Stations
MWC2026
Mobile World Congress 2026
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MWC2026
Nokia Called 'Token Certainty' the New Network Performance Standard
The company's CEO said open interfaces and interoperability are essential to connecting intelligence across network domains.
