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5 days ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
NASHVILLE, June 2, 2025 – UTOPIA Fiber completed its project in Bountiful, Utah, the company announced Monday. That brings the open access operator to 22 completed citywide deployments. “We completed the project nearly a full year ahead of schedule, and you don’t hear about that often in this industry,” said Roger Timmerman, UTOPIA Fiber’s executive director.
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5 days ago | 
benton.org | Jake Neenan
Sen Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is looking for a larger pipeline of licensed spectrum as the Senate takes up a sweeping budget bill. The bill, officially dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and narrowly passed by the House, would reinstate the Federal Communications Commission’s ability to auction off spectrum, which expired in March 2023.
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5 days ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
NASHVILLE, June 2 2025 – Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is looking for a larger pipeline of licensed spectrum as the Senate takes up a sweeping budget bill this week. The bill, officially dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and narrowly passed by the House, would reinstate the Federal Communications Commission’s ability to auction off spectrum, which expired in March 2023.
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6 days ago | 
benton.org | Jake Neenan
The Fiber Broadband Association joined those urging the Commerce Department not to make sweeping changes to the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. States “have the best understanding of their budget, the topology, their climate, unique challenges, and the families and communities that they seek to serve,” the group wrote in a Friday letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
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6 days ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
NASHVILLE, June 1, 2025 – The Fiber Broadband Association joined those urging the Commerce Department not to make sweeping changes to the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. States “have the best understanding of their budget, the topology, their climate, unique challenges, and the families and communities that they seek to serve,” the group wrote in a Friday letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
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1 week ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 30, 2025 – Peak day broadband usage among businesses more than doubled since 2021, according to a report from OpenVault. Peak residential usage also increased significantly. Among businesses, peak day upload traffic increased 102 percent and download traffic increased 105 percent from 2021 to 2025, the report found. That’s compared to a 75.8 percent increase in peak residential upload traffic and 59 percent increase in residential download.
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1 week ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2025 – More than 80 groups are urging the House not to move forward with a resolution to scrap a Federal Communications Commission rule subsidizing Wi-Fi hotspots for off-campus use. “If this resolution becomes law, not only would the FCC have to reject currently pending requests for hotspots from schools and libraries across the nation, the FCC would be barred from ever reinstituting this program,” the groups wrote.
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1 week ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2025 – Major broadband trade groups are starting to weigh in on the dispute over the future of $42.45 billion in broadband expansion funding. They joined those urging the government to let the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program move forward without major changes.
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1 week ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 28, 2025 – Dish defended itself from allegations it is underusing satellite spectrum Wednesday, arguing Elon Musk’s SpaceX was misleading federal regulators in a bid to gain access to the airwaves. “Unfortunately, SpaceX’s persistent, misleading, and anti-competitive campaign appears to have influenced the Public Notices” from the Federal Communications Commission seeking comment on the issue, the company wrote in a filing with the agency. “SpaceX is still wrong.
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1 week ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 28, 2025 – The Supreme Court is being asked to take a copyright infringement case that threatens broadband ISPs with billion-dollar penalties. The Trump Justice Department this week urged the Court to take the case, arguing ISPs should be largely shielded from liability for online music piracy committed by their broadband subscribers.
