Cox Communications
National Digital Inclusion Alliance Ranks Low Cost Internet Plans
ISPs create low cost plans post-ACP.
Briefs
NCTA Documentary Depicts Broadband Deployment Challenges
The documentary follows three ISP crews in hard-to-reach, rural areas of the U.S.
Arkansas
Heartland Forward Launches Broadband Careers Site with Arkansas and Louisiana
Jobs board funded by Pew and supported by employers also aims to elevate training of broadband workers.
Cox Communications
Breezeline Announces Discounted Plan for Former ACP Subscribers
The ISP joins a growing list of companies that have stepped in with the lapse of the Affordable Connectivity Program.
BEAD
FCC’s Gomez Says ACP’s Demise ‘Penny Wise, Pound Foolish’
'The end of the ACP will undo the significant progress we have made toward closing the divide.'
Cox Communications
NCTA Urges FCC to Lighten Proposed RPKI Reporting Requirements
The agency will vote in June on a proposal to institute internet routing security mandates.
BEAD
FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Come With a Few Tweaks
A decision to forbear from applying Title II’s rate regulation provisions would preempt New York’s law, argues one scholar.
Privacy
Industry and Public Interest Groups Disagree on Preempting FCC Data Privacy Authority
Industry groups want a federal privacy law to hand all authority over to the FTC.
Cox Communications
Big ISPs Want FCC To Block State USF Mandates
At issue now is whether the FCC has left the door open for states to require them to contribute to state USF programs.
Cox Communications
Cable Companies Looking to Stay Competitive Amid Public Grant Programs
Cable companies can leverage low upgrade costs and network operating experience to win grants, executives said.
Infrastructure
Florida Broadband Grants, Support for Microsoft-Activision, IQ Fiber Investment
Comcast, Conexon, and Cox received $247 million in Florida broadband grants.
Cox Communications
TikTok Fights Montana Ban, FCC Investigates ACP Qualification, Starry Digital Equity Work
A TikTok spokesperson argued that the ban violates the First Amendment.
Infrastructure
Telecoms Urge FCC to Address Pole Replacement Costs Before BEAD Funding Delivered
The FCC approved a comment period to address the issue over a year ago.
IIJA
Fiber Deployment Should Consider Equity and Sustainability: Connected America Conference
Industry leaders agreed that fiber deployment should be prioritized, with other technologies supplementing as needed.
Cox Communications
FCC-NTIA Cooperation on Innovation Fund, Fiber Provider Acquired, T-Mobile Fast on Mobile
Rosenworcel hopes NTIA and the regulator can work together on $1.5B Innovation Fund.
Cox Communications
Cable Providers Back Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks in Face of Pure Fiber
Cox’s Brian Rose said he welcomes market challenges from pure fiber players.
