Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced the appointment of Bradley Craigmyle as Deputy General Counsel of the FCC. Craigmyle will serve as the FCC’s Deputy General Counsel for litigation. He joins the FCC from the U.S. House of Representatives Office of General Counsel, where he served as Associate General Counsel and managed the office’s high-priority and high-profile litigation.
Under existing law, federal broadband deployment grants are subject to federal taxation, limiting the funds available for recipients to use.
The Missouri Office of Broadband Development announced that the year’s first round of Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment funding is closed. During this initial round, OBD received a total of 519 applications, which would bring broadband to more than 192,000 of the state’s residents and businesses. OBD said this represents 90 percent of the locations eligible for the funding. Nearly $4 million in funding was requested. The next step will be for OBD to review those applications.
An open-access fiber network is installed by a company that then sells access to internet service providers. That means you can have multiple providers offering plans for your house. They use the same infrastructure but may have different prices, services and bundles. You’ll find two types of open-access networks in the US. Municipally-owned networks are owned by cities. Private companies own commercial networks. They both work in a similar fashion, usually with multiple ISPs competing for customers.
As it looks at 2025 and beyond to 2030, the telecommunications industry is expected to work to keep cutting costs, keep capital expenditures under control, monetize their past investments, and use mergers and acquisitions to drive value. Growth-oriented companies will likely also find ways to grow revenues faster than core connectivity growth would suggest. However, the market for telecommunications is rapidly evolving.
US cable companies Comcast and Charter Communications have long suggested that they will build their own small-scale public wireless networks using their 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum holdings. Doing so, according to the companies, will help them reduce their MVNO payments to Verizon.
The Supreme Court has once again rejected a telecommunications industry challenge to New York's $15 broadband law. The court first refused the hear the case in December, which meant that an appeals court ruling upholding the law was not disturbed.
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