NTIA

Roth: New Permitting Tool Will Fast-Track Nearly All BEAD Projects

NTIA administrator projects up to 95 percent of projects will bypass environmental reviews.

FCC

Carr: FCC Ready if Shutdown Hits This Week

Agency ‘crunching the numbers’ to gauge how long it could operate without new funding.

Alaska

FCC Tweaks Alaska Connect Fund

The agency affirmed that it expects 5G upgrades in some areas that lack any homes and businesses.

BEAD

States Race to Meet Federal Broadband Funding Deadline

States race to meet a federal deadline for the $42.5 billion BEAD program amid dramatic cost reductions.

BEAD

With Florida, Utah, 48 States Have Posted BEAD Plans

Only Texas and California have yet to post plans. Those results are expected in late October.

Policyband

Alaska’s BEAD Plan Includes Eye-Popping Per-Location Costs

Is it time for Alaska to consider moving people to broadband instead of deploying broadband to people at $113,000 per location?

Data Center

Private Equity Sees Profits in Power Utilities as Big Tech Seeks More Energy

Private investment firms that are helping finance America’s AI race and the huge buildout of energy-hungry data centers are getting interested in the utilities that deliver electricity.

Infrastructure

Experts Discuss the Importance of Satellite and Terrestrial Infrastructure for Resilience

A robust positioning, navigation and timing network could help America discourage attacks.

mergers

CPUC Aiming to Resolve Verizon-Frontier Merger Ahead of Key Deadline

Justice Department approval for the deal will expire Feb. 13, 2026.

FCC

Carr To Congress: FCC Improving Coordination Among Federal Broadband Programs

Chair responds to an April audit that flagged mapping weaknesses and data gaps.

BEAD

New Street: NTIA Caps Might Not Affect Many Locations Nationally

Alaska is planning to get fiber to 53 percent of its BEAD locations.

FTC

Amazon to Pay $2.5 billion to Settle FTC Allegations it Duped Customers

Amazon settled with the FTC after being accused of tricking customers into Prime memberships and making them hard to cancel.

Social Media

Chair of House China Committee Demands Urgent White House Briefing on TikTok Deal

The request by John Moolenaar, Chairman of Select Committee on the Chinese Community Party, comes after Trump signed an executive order supporting the arrangement.

Broadband Mapping and Data

New York Fed Finds Low-income Neighborhoods Pay Higher Share of Income for Worse Broadband

Lower income areas spend 2.43 percent of their income on broadband compared to 0.51 percent elsewhere, the report found.

FCC

FCC Prepares for Mass Furloughs Amid Looming Government Shutdown

Agency’s previous contingency projected retaining just 12 percent of staff

China

West Virginia To Pull State Investment from China by 2026

Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R) says plans will be completed by early 2026.