“A good friend of mine… calls this ‘the single mom with two kids bill,’” said California Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, speaking with Telecompetitor about the $15 internet bill she introduced last month. “I always think about…
Yesterday, the Oregon Broadband Office announced more than $24 million in broadband grants. The funding is part of the state’s Broadband Deployment Program (BDP), part of the American Rescue Plan Act’s (ARPA) COVID Capital Projects…
This week, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein announced more than $22 million in broadband grants. The funding is part of the state’s Completing Access to Broadband (CAB) program. This round of funding will connect 10,810…
SpaceX’s satellite broadband service Starlink announced this morning that it would acquire Alphabet’s Google Fiber for $22 billion. The deal is pending review by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Google Fiber will be renamed to…
Jim Stritzinger, Director of the South Carolina Broadband Office, likes “to think of the work we’re doing as an Olympic relay race.” The first leg, he told Telecompetitor, was the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic…
This afternoon, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing for Arielle Roth to become the next Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information. As such, Roth would become the…
The Bringing Online Opportunities to Texas (BOOT) Program, which announced a second round of broadband grants for $701.9 million earlier this year, has updated its list of grantees to include seven new awards. The awards…
United States Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick told his staff yesterday that he wants to make changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program guidelines to make the program “technology-neutral,” opening the path…
Stephen Cox was enjoying retirement in Florida when the opportunity to become Indiana’s broadband director arose. After two and a half years as the head of Indiana’s Department of Homeland Security, Cox and his spouse…
“With [generative and agentic] AI, you have access to more real-time data than any person can handle, and because you can process that you can discover new things and solve problems that are too complicated…
Work/life balance was the theme of the Women in Telecom session at NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association’s RTIME conference in San Antonio, Texas this week. The session presenter was Kari Coffey, a speaker and life coach…
Rural broadband providers have an opportunity to take advantage of the explosive demand for data centers, according to CoBank Lead Economist of Digital Infrastructure Jeff Johnston. Johnston, leading a session at the NTCA–The Rural Broadband…