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FCC Announces Tentative Agenda for April 2025 Open Meeting
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced the tentative agenda for the April Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Monday, April 28, 2025:
Nevada is vast—covering over 110,000 square miles—and despite substantial federal funding for broadband expansion, the state faces unique challenges. Rugged terrain, remote communities, and geographic isolation create significant barriers to digital access. The High-Speed Nevada Initiative is designed to overcome these hurdles by strategically combining federal, state, local, and private investments to bridge the digital divide.
Civil Rights Groups Demand Senate Commerce Committee Ensure Balanced FCC
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and its Media/Telecommunications Task Force co-chairs, UnidosUS and United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry, wrote to the chair and ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee demanding that they delay the confirmation hearing for Olivia Trusty to serve as a Federal Communications Commissioner until the administration provides a binding commitment that it will keep the FCC fully staffed with five commissioners, two of whom must be Democrats.
A full committee Executive Session on Wednesday, April 9, to consider the nomination of Arielle Roth to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Roth is currently the telecommunications policy director for the Commerce Committee Republican majority.
Nominees
- Mr. Jared Isaacman, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Ms. Olivia Trusty, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission
As policymakers in Washington (DC) and the states gear up for critical decisions about the future of connectivity, this event brings together leading broadband executives for important discussions on common-sense paths forward to connect our communities.
House Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) announced a Full Committee Markup of 26 bills including:
Speaker
Evan Feinman, fmr Director, BEAD
The massive BEAD program "provides $42.45 billion to expand high-speed Internet access by funding planning, infrastructure deployment and adoption programs. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the five territories participating in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program have approved Internet for All plans." -NTIA
Current debate revolves around best technologies to use. Wired or wireless? Fiber or low earth orbiting satellites?