Satellite

Starlink Best for Rural Areas, Analysts Say

The company is planning another test launch of its Starship rocket this week

Missouri

Charter Planning to Lay Off 107 Engineers, Managers in Missouri

The company is buying Cox for $34.5 billion

AI

As Gas Plants Rise to Power AI, Renewable Energy Allies are Fighting For Cleaner Alternatives

wealthy companies putting billions of dollars into data centers can afford to build renewable energy sources to power them.

Briefs

AT&T Reaches $184 Million Settlement Deal With Pensioners

Accused of shortchanging married workers, the wireless carrier maintained it did nothing illegal

Policyband

SpaceX Set to Deploy V3 LEOs in New Starship Test That Wall Street Will Watch with Keen Interest

NextGen LEOs pack a punch: 1 Tbps of downlink and 200 Gbps of uplink capacity per satellite or more than 10 times the bandwidth of V2 models, becoming a larger threat to established ISPs nationwide

Data Center

Massive AI Buildout Poses Latest Inflation Threat as Consumers Pay More for Laptops and Electricity

Economists expect the $700 billion investment in data centers will continue to push up inflation at least through the end of this year.

Data Center

Trinidad and Tobago Signs Agreements with U.S. Companies that Pave Way for Data Centers

The agreements with Hummingbird AI Holdings and Ernst and Young were signed on Friday, the first such agreements with a Caribbean country.

Funding

Wireless Infrastructure Association Nabs $30 Million for Workforce Development

Pew said in a recent paper that states have multiple avenues for shoring up their workforces ahead of BEAD

FCC

FCC Bureau Chief Promises Clutter-Free Broadband Labels

Commissioner Anna Gomez has been a vocal opponent of the proposed changes.

BEAD

Texas AG Candidate Vows to Investigate SpaceX’s BEAD Awards

Nathan Johnson says the state’s subgrant selection process ‘sure looks like’ corruption.

White Papers

Supply Chain Resiliency Playbook Broadband

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.

Wireless

Dish Creditors Should Get Discovery, Judge Says

The next hearing in the bankruptcy case is July 23

Expert Opinion

Mariam Sorond: America Has No GPS Backups. Fixing That Should Be About Engineering, Not Politics

A telecom executive urges Congress not to block FCC review of a spectrum proposal meant to give America a backup to GPS.

Policyband

D.C. Circuit Tosses Challenges to FCC Approval of the Nexstar-TEGNA Merger

Three-judge panel basically says DIRECTV and cable trade groups jumped the gun in attempting to force judicial review of the Media Bureau’s March 19 approval of the big TV station transaction

National Security

FCC Cites National Security Risks in Denying Digitalsystem Telecom License

Agency says executive branch committee review found national security risks that could not be resolved.

mergers

CPUC Judge Proposes Approving Charter-Cox Merger

A CPUC commissioner filed an alternative decision that would still approve the deal, but impose fewer conditions