Expert Opinion - Broadband Breakfast

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Gino Corleto: Beyond the Handshake, Upgrading Enterprise Security Standards

Old Wi-Fi encryption lets attackers guess passwords offline. WPA3, the new wireless security standard, shuts that path down.

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Tom Ferree: The Connection is Coming. The Question is Whether We’re Ready.

From education to healthcare, the ripple effects on our economy and daily lives will be monumental. But there’s a catch.

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Todd Schlekeway: Broadband's Biggest Obstacle Is the Permit Counter

A Minnesota block lost its fiber over a $90,000 permit bill. The FCC can fix that.

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Evan Swarztrauber: Congress Needs to Step In on Broadband Expansion

Aggressive FCC enforcement and congressional action is necessary to establish a uniform national standard on pole-attachment cost-sharing and timelines, the author writes.

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Steven Weber: When Competitors Create Better Competition

Rivals AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon are teaming up on a shared satellite network, a model of infrastructure collaboration that could boost connectivity and U.S. competitiveness.

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Dave Wechsler: The Case Against Defunding Terrestrial Broadband

Satellite has brought availability to remote regions. But availability is not infrastructure.

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George Tronsrue: America’s Arctic Blind Spot

The CEO of Quintillion, the Alaska-based fiber network provider, warns against U.S. reliance on foreign Arctic infrastructure

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Javier Palomarez: Washington Can't Ask for More Broadband Investment While Making Growth Harder

Expanding federal merger reporting requirements risk deterring the private investment needed to build out broadband infrastructure and close the digital divide.

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Dana Goward: Why the FCC Must Reject Ligado’s Latest Plan

Bigger threat, this time from space, the author writes

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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.