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06/11/2025

EchoStar’s Ergen Has a Friend in Ex-FCC Commish Simington

Former FCC commissioner Nathan Simington doesn’t seem to share Brendan Carr’s views on EchoStar.

By Cablefax Staff

Found in: Elon Musk / Olivia Trusty / FCC / 5G / New Street Research / Brendan Carr / EchoStar / Blair Levin / Nathan Simington
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06/04/2025

BEAD NOFO Coming Soon

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday that a BEAD Notice of Funding Opportunity will be issued “shortly.”

By Cablefax Staff

Found in: BEAD / Howard Lutnick / New Street Resarch / Commerce Secretary / Senate Appropriations Committee / NTIA / Jerry Moran / Blair Levin / Starlink
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06/02/2025

Fiber Connect Notebook

Fiber Broadband Association used its annual conference to debut the documentary film “ThoughtWaves,” which chronicles the rise of fiber broadband.

By Cablefax Staff

Found in: Ajit Pai / Vince Cerf / Cisco / "Hot Ones" / Nokia / Sean Evans / New Street Research / TAK Broadband / Conan O'Brien / David Eckard / Blair Levin / Trent Edwards / Fiber Connect 2025 / Fiber Broadband Association / Fiber Connect / FCC / "ThoughtWaves" / YouTube / Kirk Lougheed
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04/23/2025

Taking a BEAD Beat

There’s still no word on what changes are coming to the $42.5 billion BEAD program, so NTIA is giving states more time to submit their final proposals for the broadband deployment funding initiative.

By Cablefax Staff

Found in: BEAD / Howard Lutnick / New Street Research / NTIA / Department of Commerce / Blair Levin
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04/17/2025

Power of Partnership: ISPs Fed Up with Grant Processes

Folks at BCAP’s Pennsylvania Broadband Summit 2025 weren’t afraid to air out their resentment with the stagnation that seems to be attached to federal and state grant programs.

By Noah Ziegler

Found in: Chris Kyle / BEAD / Comcast / Project Kuiper / Shentel / Commerce Department / Verizon / Pennsylvania Broadband Summit 2025 / Donald Trump / Chris McDonald / T-Mobile / Frontier / SpaceX / BCAP / Blair Levin
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03/11/2025

Stakeholders Ask for Strategy Updates Around Spectrum

The U.S. leading in spectrum policy doesn’t just benefit domestic companies. It shapes how the nation shows up on the global stage.

By Sara Winegardner

Found in: NTIA / Harold Feld / Blair Levin / Technology Policy Institute / Elon Musk / FCC / Starlink / Public Knowledge / Shawn Bone / Verizon / Arielle Roth / T-Mobile / Salt Point Strategies / New Street Research / David Redl

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