Spectrum

SpaceX, Unlicensed Spectrum Users Want Tweaks to FCC Direct-to-Device Proposal

Experts said the agency’s proposal would only work in rural areas

Virginia

RiverStreet Networks Loses Virginia Contracts After Numerous Delays

Virginia has stripped the company from multiple state-subsidized broadband projects after years of missed deadlines and funding shortfalls.

Congress

Senate Commerce Advances Kids’ Online Safety Bills

From chatbots to connected toys, senators push new guardrails for kids online

USF

Fifth Circuit Judges Probe USF Spending, Administrator

A Fifth Circuit panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in Consumers' Research's latest challenge to the program

AI

Fiber Users More Likely to Engage With AI More, Analyst Finds

AI sessions with fiber connection are 50 percent more intensive than those with cable.

Broadband Mapping and Data

BEAD Projects Could Require 86,000 Permits Nationwide, Analysts Say

ACLP researchers said that was likely an undercount

Expert Opinion

Rebecca Stone: What ISPs Need to Know About ‘Work from Home’ Habits

ISPs should treat the home network as business-critical infrastructure, since remote-work usage patterns differ sharply between the U.S. and Europe.

Policyband

Elon Musk's Message to Rival ISPs – More Pain on the Way

“It’s not out of the question that at some point, Starlink will deliver a majority of the world’s Internet,” Musk said on an Aug. 4 earnings call with Wall Street analysts

Earnings

SpaceX Planning Terrestrial Deployments to Support Direct-to-Device

The company added 1.7 million broadband subscribers in the second quarter

Wireless

Tower Companies Optimistic Amid Spectrum Auctions, Potential AI Deployments

SBA Communications has been in early talks with satellite companies about terrestrial deployments

Expert Opinion

John Doyle: The FCC’s New ID Rule is a Gift to America’s Adversaries

The FCC's proposed ID collection rule would build the exact database Chinese hackers are already inside U.S. telecom networks looking for.

USF

New Mexico Launches Rulemaking for Broadband Affordability Program

The state program will offer eligible households discounts toward broadband service beginning Dec. 1.

Digital Inclusion

Commerce Working on New Round of Digital Equity Act Funding

The agency is planning to take applications in December

Policyband

FCC's E-Rate Program Splits Markey, Moulton in Their Second TV Primary Debate

After Markey plugged $80 billion in E-Rate spending since 1996, Moulton responded, ‘I don’t think that any family of teenagers out there tonight thinks that our kids are safe from the Internet …’

AI

FTC Inquiry into AI ‘Ideological Bias’ Draws First Amendment Objections

The public comment period on the matter closed Friday.

BEAD

Virginia Moves Forward on BEAD Contracts

One ISP backed out of a small project, but other winners are scooping up those locations