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July 2023

Choptank Fiber Partners with Bay Country Communications on Fiber Broadband Services

Choptank Electric Cooperative and its subsidiary, Choptank Fiber, finalized a deal to acquire thousands of broadband fiber customers from Bay Country Communications (BCC) over the next 10 years. The deal sets up a partnership between Choptank and BCC whereby Bay Country will continue to serve its cable customers and will construct fiber services to customers already in the construction pipeline.

Senate Commerce Committee Approves FCC Nominations and Sends them to the Senate Floor

The US Senate Commerce Committee approved the following nominations for three Federal Communications Commission Commissioners, and the FCC Inspector General:

  • Anna Gomez to be a Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission;
  • Geoffrey Starks to be a Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission;
  • Brendan Carr to be a Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission; and
  • Fara Damelin to be Inspector General of the Federal Communications Commission.

AT&T and Verizon Knew About Toxic Lead Cables—and Did Little

For decades, AT&T, Verizon, and other firms dating back to the old Bell System have known that the lead in their networks was a possible health risk to their workers and had the potential to leach into the nearby environment. They knew their employees working with lead regularly had high amounts of the metal in their blood, studies from the 1970s and ’80s show.

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