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Aug 9, 2024 | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jericho Casper |Teralyn Whipple |Taormina Falsitta
August 9, 2024 – Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced more than $41 million in grants for 10 broadband construction projects across 20 communities in the state on July 24. The money comes from the Virginia Telecommunications Initiative, which seeks to provide high-speed internet access to unserved addresses. It is primarily funded through state appropriations, but is supplemented by the American Rescue Plan funds.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Taormina Falsitta |Jericho Casper |Teralyn Whipple |Drew Clark
August 9, 2024 – Colorado received approval from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration for its proposed list of eligible locations for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program on Wednesday. As per the BEAD Notice of Funding, states must conduct a challenge process of its broadband coverage map where providers, organizations and government agencies can refute coverage claims.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jericho Casper |Teralyn Whipple |Drew Clark |Taormina Falsitta
August 1, 2024 – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced August 1 that it received 227 applications for the second round of its Wireless Innovation Fund, which sought nearly $3 billion to support advancements in wireless equipment. The Wireless Innovation Fund, a 10-year grant program, provides up to $420 million to enhance and commercialize open radio units, critical components of cellular networks that transmit and receive signals.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Taormina Falsitta
WASHINGTON, August 1, 2024 – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration approved the initial proposals for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program from Montana, Oklahoma, and Vermont. These states were allocated more than $1.6 billion combined through the BEAD program. The BEAD program requires that states submit an initial proposal, consisting of two volumes prior to receiving access to the full funds.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Taormina Falsitta |Jake Neenan
WASHINGTON, August 1, 2024 – The fight over Virginia's low-cost service requirement for participants in the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program appears to be over. It ended with something of a compromise. The Infrastructure Act, which stood up the BEAD program, requires providers to offer a “low-cost broadband service option” to low-income households on BEAD-funded infrastructure.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Taormina Falsitta |Jake Neenan |Michael Melero
North Dakota — 1 min read August 1, 2024 – The North Dakota broadband office has announced a statewide broadband conference set to take place on Thursday, August 29, at Bismarck State College from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CT. The conference is scheduled to have 19 speakers talking about advanced broadband adoption through federal programs and funding. Speakers include Michael Romano, Harrison Phelan, Hon. Glenn Bosch, Hon. Kyle Davison, Robyn Madison, Mason Sisk, Carissa Swenson.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Taormina Falsitta |Jake Neenan |Michael Melero
WASHINGTON, August 1, 2024 – The Federal Communications Commission has proposed requiring that all mobile providers unlock consumers’ phones within 60 days. But some groups say that’s too much time, and want the agency to require unlocking upon activation. The non-profit Electronic Freedom Foundations and other advocacy groups are among those seeking not 60 days, but 0 days, to unlock cell phones.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Taormina Falsitta
August 1, 2024 – California’s Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment program challenge process closes on Tuesday. The challenge portal was opened on July 8. California Public Utilities Commission encourages challenge submission be ahead of the deadline so there is time to address revisions or to withdraw and submit a new challenge. Consumer challenges will also be accepted. California was awarded $1.86 billion through BEAD allocations. It has not yet received NTIA approval of its initial proposal.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Taormina Falsitta
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2024 – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Tuesday released a “Dual-Use Foundation Models with Widely Available Model Weights” report, which recommended that large artificial intelligence models should continue to to be accessible to everyone.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
broadbandbreakfast.com | Jake Neenan |Ted Hearn |Taormina Falsitta |Fernando Murias
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2024 – Senators John Thune, R-South Dakota, Ben Ray Luján, D-New Mexico, and John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, introduced the Accelerating Broadband Permits Act on Monday to improve the review permit application process with federal agencies.
