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11/20/2025
AI Order Leak Involves BEAD
As the White House looks to establish AI-related guidelines, it appears to be gearing up to challenge rules implemented by states, and it’s using BEAD as one of the ways to prevent laws it views as too arduous.
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11/18/2025
BEAD Train Moving Again
All the permitting talk Tuesday was capped by NTIA’s approval of 18 final BEAD proposals that the association said will save approximately $6 billion combined.
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11/04/2025
BEAD Highlights Broadband Workforce Concerns
It’s taken a lot of work from a myriad of stakeholders to get the $42.5 billion BEAD bus rolling, but with a shrinking broadband workforce, the job gets tougher.
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10/30/2025
Roth Gives WiFi a Shout-Out
As the spectrum wars continue, NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth told stakeholders Thursday that a tech-neutral approach isn’t just a slogan.
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10/15/2025
Effros: Utility Competition
In a conversation I had with him many years ago, John Malone, then CEO of Telecommunications Inc (TCI)—the largest cable company at the time—asked if I thought we could get “Washington” to regulate cable as a “public utility.”
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09/26/2025
More BEAD Changes Inbound?
State broadband offices have been letting out collective groans as it appears NTIA is preparing to make further changes to its $42.5 billion BEAD program.