The Nebraska broadband auction awarded funding originally intended for Frontier and Windstream from the state’s universal service fund.

Among the key broadband developments for the year: AI, E-ACAM, cableco funding wins, satellite-to-cellphone, quantum networks and

NTCA says the Universal Service Fund, or USF, is still needed, even though the government has made money available for broadband because

The E-ACAM program raises the broadband speed that rural providers must deploy from 25/3 Mbps to 100/20 Mbps. All rural

The FCC cautions carriers that confirmation of receipt of an election letter is not authorization to receive Enhanced ACAM and that

TDS has been a big advocate for E-ACAM, which raises the speed for rural broadband buildouts to 100/20 Mbps. TDS said that
