A GOP Senator from Missouri says NTIA is pushing BEAD rate regulation on states while denying that to Congress

The NTIA head defended its policy of ensuring a low-cost option.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said there will be more approvals handed down in the coming weeks.

T-Mobile continues to outpace Verizon and AT&T in the home broadband sector with the planned acquisition of established fiber operator, Lumos.

The state increased its low-cost option from the draft circulated in September.

The author argues that Virginia’s firm stand on BEAD funding serves as a beacon for the states.

Their Republican counterparts and conservative groups have opposed the agency's low-cost policies.

Encapsulating the most important broadband happenings of the past week and considering what's next.

Four other states are accepting challenges and three more are planning to begin the process soon.

More than 20 think tanks asked Republican lawmakers to push the NTIA to approve lighter touch state plans.

The experts expressed doubts about addressing workforce shortages that could potentially stall BEAD build-outs.

The state wants to avoid setting out a price or formula for what BEAD-funded providers can charge low-income households.

The proposals detail plans for the $42.5 billion broadband expansion program.

Comments are due to Oregon’s broadband office on December 10, and to the University of Hawaii by December 9.

It is the second state to start ground-truthing broadband data as part of the $42.5 billion program under IIJA.

Right-of-way disputes regularly hold up deployments, providers said.

The new guidelines specify that only subscribers of 100 * 20 Mbps service will have speed tests accepted.

Feinman is also architect of the BEAD matching funds program: He will keynote BEAD Implementation Summit on September 21.

Outlines subgrant processes and application scoring criteria.

Dr. Tamarah Holmes, Director of the Office of Broadband for the Commonwealth of Virginia, on program.

Broadband Breakfast revisits what some state legislatures did to narrow broadband gaps.

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WASHINGTON, March 26, 2010 – The Federal Communication Commission’s National Broadband Plan is an ambitious blueprint for the country’s future containing lofty goals and pragmatic solutions, and implementing it will require action from the agency and lawmakers, experts said Thursday at a hearing on

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2010 – The Commerce Department earlier this month announced it has awarded grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Virginia and American Samoa under the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s State Broadband Data and Development Grant P

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WASHINGTON, November 13, 2009 – Access charges are well above the actual costs to connect telephone calls, despite the efforts made by the Federal Communications Commission, said Andy Regitsky of Regitsky and Associates, in a webinar presentation on “Access Charges and Network costs – A Guide to FCC

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 28, 2009 — Virginia Deputy Secretary of Technology Karen Jackson said here Monday that the second version of Virginia’s innovative, multi-platform broadband map would be publicly released on Friday.

In cooperation with Massachusetts Broadband Institute, the RFP hopes to “solicit responses from firms or teams of firms with experience providing consulting services on the development and operation of broadband infrastructure, writing requests for proposals, outreach and evaluation of industry part

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2009 – With little questioning or controversy, the Senate Commerce Committee appeared poised ready after a Tuesday hearing to submit to the full Senate for confirmation the nominations of two key technology officials in the Obama administration.

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2009 – The federal government’s Commerce Department is at least one month off from finalizing the rules that will govern the broadband stimulus funds. But that isn’t stopping an array of states from getting started on a variety of broadband data projects.

WASHINGTON, May 12, 2009 – The chairman of a House Communications Subcommittee on Tuesday warned against too narrowly defining eligibility limits for grants in dispensing $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus money authorized by Congress.

WASHINGTON, April 22, 2009 – With the fast-moving broadband stimulus package almost certain to stretch the capabilities of federal agencies such as the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, state governments and agencies say they can help expedite the proc

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WASHINGTON, April 3, 2009 – The NTIA/RUS broadband grant program is “a landmark opportunity” for the cable industry, House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., said Thursday during a speech at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s annual con

WASHINGTON, July 28 – The following is a transcript of Gov. Tim Kaine’s response to a question at the Brookings Institution about whether Virginia had decided to shield carrier data – and if so, why – from the map of broadband availability currently being pursued by the Commonwealth of Virginia.