A wild year for broadband: Reviewing our top 10 2025 stories
Year in Review From a BEAD stoppage to DEI drama, 2025 was a wild year for broadband. Broadband...
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Category: Governance
It’s undeniable. Elon Musk won big from BEAD’s revised guidance
News Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won big from the government’s revised BEAD guidance. They...
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How are your taxes being spent? This BEAD tracker lets you see
News There’s a lot of BEAD data to breakdown, but Connected Nation’s BEAD Tracker...
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California hopes to leave few crumbs on the BEAD table
News California wants to spend a larger share of their BEAD allocation than many other states, as...
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FCC eliminates thousands of inactive proceedings
News More than 2,000 proceedings that had gone inactive and dormant were terminated earlier this...
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9 more states get BEAD plan approvals from NTIA
News A total of 26 states and territories have had their Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment...
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Texas wins NTIA approval on their final BEAD proposal
News The Lone Star State has won approval for their final BEAD proposal from the National...
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FCC plans to delete 21 rules deemed “obsolete”
News The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced they will remove 21 rules and...
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NTIA approves 18 final BEAD proposals; Louisiana gets green light
News Louisiana will be able to access BEAD funds after the first batch of NTIA approvals to...
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NTIA pushes to reduce “red tape” around tribal broadband
News An announcement from the NTIA says the agency is embarking on a new push to streamline tribal...
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New Mexico’s OBAE continues push for rural, tribal connectivity
News The New Mexico program provides assistance awards of up to $100,000 without a competitive...
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NTIA admin hints at use for non-deployment BEAD funds
News NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth has hinted at a potential use for unspent BEAD funds, also...
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Arielle Roth outlines new requirement for BEAD providers
News Arielle Roth, speaking last week at The Hudson Institute, outlined a new requirement for...
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Feds push to ban TP-Link from US market over China ties
News Federal agencies have proposed banning future sales of TP-Link Systems’ devices in the United...
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Questions swirl about the fate of unspent BEAD funds
News Questions continue to swirl surrounding the future of billions of dollars of BEAD funds, much...
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Bandwidth Hawk: Fiber continues to dominate BEAD deployments
Bandwidth Hawk With proposed deployment plans now mostly submitted, fiber is still a big winner in...
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FCC order demands an explanation from Hong Kong Telecom
News The FCC took the initial step of revoking permission for Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) to continue...
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Viewpoints: Some ISPs may “opt out” of California market
Viewpoints Some leading consultants are telling their owners with California properties to pause...
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NDIA sues to reverse Trump decision to cancel Digital Equity Act
News The NDIA is suing to reinstate the Digital Equity Act Competitive Grant Program, which they...
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Taiwan rebuffs call to shift 50% of chip production to the US
News Taiwan is the biggest producer of semiconductors in the world. Maintaining this dominance is...
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