BROADBAND
Keller & Heckman Broadband Infrastructure Funding Series, Part 3: “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Supports Broadband Partnerships” :: BeyondTelecomLaw Blog
“Cincinnati Bell to spearhead Greene County [OH] broadband enlargement”; Greene County utilizing ARPA cash for challenge :: Dayton Daily News
City of Grayson, KY “has designated $250,000 of its [ARPA] funds towards the [citywide] fiber challenge, and Windstream will make investments greater than $685,000.” :: WSAZ “To Bridge the Digital Divide, States Need to Allow Community Networks” :: Morning Consult
“Corporate big tries to kill small Maine city’s broadband plans” :: Press Herald
U.S. ranks among the many high 10 nations with the most costly web prices :: ComparetheMarket
ISPs “are anticipated to aggressively foyer [NTIA] because it crafts new web guidelines beneath the infrastructure invoice’s $65 billion broadband enlargement plan. … [NTIA] has six months to develop a proposal that can require recipients of federal broadband funding to offer a low-cost broadband possibility and encourage states to discover options to dominant ISPs akin to coops, nonprofits and municipalities. … An aggressive broadband plan may harm the underside line of ISPs which have lengthy operated in underserved communities with none competitors. … States will play a key main position in implementing the broadband guidelines. That’s one other lobbying avenue for ISPs, which efficiently pushed greater than a dozen states to undertake guidelines limiting or blocking municipal broadband networks.” :: The Hill
“Tribal Lands Lag on Internet Deployment. Local Efforts, Not Government Intervention, Is Providing a Path Forward in Some Cases” :: Morning Consult
“Beltway politics saved Kansas Republicans in Congress from backing broadband entry for rural cities” :: Topeka Capital-Journal
“Infrastructure Bill May Significantly Boost Tennessee Broadband” :: Chattanooga Times Free Press
“New York common broadband entry doable with infrastructure funds, suppliers say” :: Albany Times Union
“The FCC’s shoddy maps may upend Biden’s broadband gold rush” :: Politico
“FCC Begins the Transition of the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program into the Affordable Connectivity Program” :: Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
(Part 1) :: Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
(Part 2) “Low-Income Broadband Program Sees Significant Provider Fraud” — “Such suppliers could also be focused for authorized motion as investigation continues.” :: Government Technology :: FCC Office of Inspector General
USDA Begins accepting ReConnect functions :: USDA
“FCC Awards $169M in Emergency Connectivity Fund’s Fifth Wave” :: Telecompetitor :: FCC
Sens. Manchin (D-WV) and Barrasso (R-WY) introduce Outdoor Recreation Act to modernize recreation websites; would direct companies to work with RUS to assemble broadband infrastructure at sure recreation websites :: U.S. Senate :: Link to Bill
“The Reforming Broadband Connectivity Act [Sens. Klobuchar (D-MN) and Thune (R-SD)] directs the FCC to provoke a rule-making continuing to reform the [Universal Service Program] contributions system” :: U.S. Senate
WIRELESS
“New Mexico sees TV tech as one repair to Ok-12 web divide” :: AP
“Will 5G Mean Airplanes Falling From the Sky?” (Tom Wheeler) :: Brookings
. . . “AT&T, Verizon conform to C-band energy limitations for six months” :: FierceWireless
VIDEO
“Cord Cutting Stays on Pace 3Q 2021” :: POTs and PANs
KH Broadband Digest: November 29, 2021
