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5 days ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2025 – The Commerce Department moved Friday evening to cancel grants under a $1.25 billion digital equity program, according to people familiar with the matter and an email reviewed by Broadband Breakfast.
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5 days ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2025 – President Donald Trump posted on social media Thursday that $2.75 billion in digital equity funding was “unconstitutional” and that he was ending it “immediately.” It created some confusion and frustration for participants in the program.
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5 days ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2025 – States have been expecting updated guidance from the Commerce Department on a $42.45 billion broadband expansion plan by the middle of this month. That guidance appears to have been delayed until June or July. The delay was first reported in a Thursday research note from Blair Levin, policy analyst at New Street Research and former FCC chief of staff in the Clinton administration.
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5 days ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 9 2025 – UScellular doesn’t see old spectrum auction issues interfering with its plans to sell off its mobile operations and spectrum assets. The company is in the process of having its mobile customers and some spectrum acquired by T-Mobile for $4.3 billion – the deal was originally $4.4 billion, but UScellular executives said on May 2 that the carrier had failed to meet certain performance benchmarks and thus $100 million would be shaved off the price.
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6 days ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2025 – Earlier this year, Kentucky canceled its contract with the administrator of its statewide middle-mile network, known as KentuckyWired. If the state doesn’t find a replacement, rural broadband providers and their customers could face disconnections in the next few months. The Kentucky Communications Network Authority, which oversees the 3,300-mile network, alleges the administrator breached its contract with the state and is litigating the dispute in court.
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6 days ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2025 – Altice USA reported a net loss of 37,000 broadband subscribers in the first quarter of 2025, worse than analysts had been expecting. The cable operator gained 68,700 fiber subscribers for its best quarter yet on that front. The company also reported 33,200 new fiber passings, for a total of nearly 3 million out of its overall 9.85 million-location footprint. Of those, nearly 607,000 have signed up for fiber service.
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1 week ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2025 – Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., urged the Commerce Department Wednesday to expedite its review of a $42.45 billion broadband expansion plan, not to upend the program’s rules. West VirginiaGet a snapshot view of broadband initiatives in West Virginia. And, in a Tuesday letter, a Missouri fiber provider that applied for funding also pushed the state’s Congressional delegation to back the broadband office’s fiber-oriented plan for spending its allocation.
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1 week ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2025 – WideOpenWest (WOW!) reported a loss of 4,500 broadband subscribers in the first quarter of 2025, for a total of 465,900. That’s an improvement from last quarter, when Hurricanes Helene and Milton contributed to 10,200 losses, but worse than the first quarter of last year, which saw 3,400 net broadband disconnects. John Rego, the company’s CFO, guided to subscriber losses between 4,500 and 6,500 for the second quarter.
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1 week ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2025 – The lead Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee is urging against auctioning military spectrum as part of an upcoming budget reconciliation bill. “This would be a grave error, placing short-term corporate gain ahead of our nation’s long-term security,” Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., wrote Tuesday to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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1 week ago | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2025 – In July 2024 under then-Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, the Federal Communications Commission expanded a broadband subsidy program to cover Wi-Fi hotspots for schools and libraries. A Congressional effort to repeal the expansion cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate Tuesday. Senators voted 53-47 along party lines to advance a Congressional Review Act resolution that would reverse the FCC’s order.
