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Broadband Breakfast on December 18, 2024 – The 12 Days of Broadband Top Stories
Join Broadband Breakfast's team of reporters and editors as we kick of the 12 Days of Broadband!
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Spectrum
CCIA Raises Alarm Over T-Mobile, UScellular Merger
Trade group concerned about market consolidation, higher consumer bills.
Fiber
AT&T: Carr FCC Will be Good for Copper Decommissioning
The company is planning to retire most of its legacy networks by the end of 2029.
Expert Opinion
How Louisiana Solved the BEAD Rubik’s Cube
Louisiana appears to have achieved the BEAD program’s objective for hundreds of millions of dollars less in subsidy costs than was budgeted.
BEAD
NTIA Releases Draft Guidance on BEAD Performance Testing
Comments are due Dec. 19, 2024
mergers
FCC Approves Sale of Consolidated Communications to PE Firms
Searchlight Capital and BCI aim to take the ISP private for $3.1 billion.
Chips
CHIPS Act May Receive Boost from Defense Bill
About $500 million for tech hubs faces uncertain future in Republican-controlled House.
Infrastructure
Sens. Klobuchar and Blackburn Headline Conference on Broadband in the Trump Administration
Demand is surging for this one-day event, on Thursday, about top issues in Broadband for the Trump Administration.
Defense Department
Free Internet for Certain Service Members in National Defense Bill
The House of Representatives is set to vote on the defense bill this week.
Earnings
Comcast Forecasting 100K Broadband Subscriber Losses in Q4
The prediction was worse than Wall Street had been expecting.
Rip and Replace
Defense Bill Has $3 Billion for FCC's 'Rip and Replace' Program
The defense bill would allow the FCC to borrow $3.08 billion from the U.S. Treasury within 90 days to finance rip and replace.
permitting
Congressional Action Might be Critical for Broadband Permitting Reform
The American Broadband Deployment Act could provide needed statutory authority for permitting reforms, panelists said.
Spectrum
Tech Group Unveils Policy Recommendations for the Next Administration
The TPI report warned against government overreach in content moderation.
Commerce
NTIA Awards Maine $5.7 Million for Digital Equity
Funds will be used by the state’s digital equity program.
Section 230
Law Professor to Carr: Best to Avoid Rosenworcel’s Mistakes
Carr urged to focus on core issues like spectrum.
DC Circuit
TikTok Ban Nears as Appeals Court Upholds Divestiture Law
The D.C. Circuit ruling puts ByteDance on the clock to appeal to the Supreme Court or risk losing TikTok’s U.S. market by mid-January.
