On August 22, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) threatened significant fines for eleven internet service providers (ISPs) that failed to participate in the FCC broadband data collection and mapping process. These ISPs have been issued several warnings from the FCC to begin complying with the broadband mapping rules.
Today's top broadband news
President-elect Donald Trump picked Tesla CEO Elon Musk and biotech company founder Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate, to lead an effort to cut spending, eliminate regulations and restructure federal agencies. Musk and Ramaswamy will lead what the president-elect called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE . The group’s mandate is to streamline government bureaucracy, the president-elect said.
There is an urgent need to recruit and train 180,000 staff to complete federal and state funded broadband networks. Who will do the work? Thanks to the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) and the Power & Communication Contractors Association (PCCA) the recently published "Broadband Market Workforce Needs" report details when, where, and what type of workforce is needed over a 10-year demand cycle. Join this session for insights into the workforce need measured by both dollars and people, existing workforce supply, and wage rates for critical position across the Broadband spectrum.
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