October 2024

Weekly Digest
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Broadband Breakfast

Date: 
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 12:00

In 2022, the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program largely excluded satellite broadband from its Notice of Funding Opportunity, due to reliability concerns over the technology's nascent state. But recent guidance from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has cracked the door open, allowing alternative technologies like satellite broadband to compete for BEAD funding in high-cost areas - provided they can meet the program’s performance standards. How will fiber and wireless projects be impacted? How will the BEAD program be affected?



State Digital Equity Spending Can Benefit Economies, Health Care, and Education

States are using their digital equity plans to demonstrate how successful digital inclusion efforts can advance progress toward other goals, including improvements to civic and social engagement, economic development, education, health care, and delivery of essential services.

SpaceX Has a Plan for Starlink to Hit Gigabit Speeds

SpaceX is seeking approval for changes to Starlink that the company says will enable gigabit-per-second broadband service.