Expert Opinion

Expert Opinion

Joe Finn: A Firefighter's Mayday on the Urgent Need for 3D Tracking on the Fireground

A veteran fire commander who lost two firefighters in a 2014 Boston blaze is urging the FCC to fast-track indoor 3D location technology.

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Lindsay Miller and Doug McCollough: Providers Can Better Manage the Risks of America’s Data Center Debate

Broadband providers serving data centers risk reputational damage and overlook regional growth opportunities when they fail to engage with the communities their fiber runs through.

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Jill Marx: The Marketing Fix Behind Multi-Gig Adoption

The number of homes a network passes is not the same as the number of homes that can realistically receive multi-gig service.

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Gigi Sohn: The Town BEAD Forgot

In Louisiana's poorest parish, a $6 million BEAD fiber award became a $150,000 Starlink contract under the Trump administration's rewritten program, leaving Lake Providence behind.

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Terrence Kelly: U.S. AI Leadership Demands a Modern Network

Realizing AI's full potential requires the U.S. to build a secure, high-capacity national fiber intranet alongside the public internet.

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Chip Pickering: Data Centers are America's Most Misunderstood Infrastructure Asset

The case for data centers rests on meaningful tax revenue, durable jobs, grid investment and the digital infrastructure that lets rural communities share in the AI economy.

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Michael Santorelli: FCC Pole Ruling Faces Early Test

Whether the FCC enforces its February pole-attachment order against Appalachian Power will decide if BEAD produces ribbon cuttings or recriminations.

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Jim Brisimitzis and Stephen Leotis: How CBRS is Powering Rural America's Agricultural Future

CBRS shared spectrum is solving rural farms' connectivity crisis, but proposed higher-power rules could dismantle the balance making it work.

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Glen Howie: Arkansas's BEAD Surplus Opens Door to Broader Broadband Investment

Arkansas connected all of its unserved locations using less than a third of its BEAD allocation, leaving $650 million for broader investment.

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Arthur Sidney: Broadband Is Becoming AI Infrastructure. Who Actually Controls It?

As broadband becomes the delivery layer for AI-driven public services, agencies must build audit rights, explainability, and override authority into procurement contracts.

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Alejandro Roark: Spectrum Is the Foundation of America’s AI Future

America's physical AI future depends on a balanced spectrum strategy that pairs licensed auctions with expanded unlicensed and shared spectrum, the author urges.

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Evan Swarztrauber: Your Phone, Their Rules. It’s Time to Unlock the Mobile Market

The FCC should require carriers to automatically unlock cellphones once they're paid off, freeing consumers to switch providers and benefit from wireless competition.

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Ben Sperry: The FCC’s Digital-Discrimination Detour Hits a Dead End

The author praises the Eighth Circuit for striking down the FCC's digital discrimination rule, arguing that it imported disparate-impact liability into the broadband market.

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Joel Thayer and Matthew Wong: Space Policy Can’t Run on Dial-Up Speeds

A bipartisan push at the FCC and in Congress aims to modernize satellite licensing and clear the backlog threatening American leadership in space.

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Eric Bathras: From Fiber to Fabric, the Next Evolution of BEAD

Maryland officials are urging NTIA and Congress to let states use remaining BEAD funds for integrated, multi-use infrastructure rather than single-purpose broadband builds.

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Lou Blatt: AI Models as Sovereign Assets, or Redefining Data Control in Emergency Communications

As AI reshapes emergency communications, public safety agencies must rethink data sovereignty as a matter of operational readiness rather than basic compliance.