Ted Hearn

Washington, D.C., United States

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Articles

FCC's Simington Ready to Apply Cable Act to YouTube TV

1 week ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Ted Hearn

💡◾ Arkansas BEAD Spend: $7,000/Location ◾ Where’s ACP a Year Later? ◾ Carr Hails SCOTUS Permitting Case ◾ WH Close with NPR/PBS Cuts ◾ SHLB: Kill House Hotspots CRA ◾ Kuiper’s Next Launch: June 13Streamers: FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington is ready to cross the streaming Rubicon. In a recent essay in the Daily Caller, Simington said YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV – or virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributors (MVPDs) – should be regulated like Comcast and Charter.
Phoenix Center Bombshell - 5G Had 'No Measurable Economic Impact'

1 week ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Ted Hearn

💡◾ Why So Little Respect for Sec. Lutnick? ◾ Gomez: Time to ‘Punch the Bully’ ◾ House Panel Lines Up Robocalls Hearing ◾ Trump DOJ Backing Cox in Copyright Case ◾ Kansas LPTV Wants 5G Broadcasting OK5G: The Phoenix Center yesterday released a paper with a startling conclusion: Wireless 5G has been a bust. Say what? “Despite the industry’s sweeping promises, the data show no measurable economic impact from 5G so far,” said Phoenix Center Chief Economist Dr. George S. Ford, the study’s author.
GCI to Become GCI Liberty After Spinoff from Liberty Broadband

1 week ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Ted Hearn

💡◾ VTel: EchoStar 5G Extension Unlawful ◾ Rep Gill: House Will Defund CPB ◾ WSJ: States Getting with Starlink Program ◾ ImOn Has Cayman Islands ‘Control Chain’ ◾ Nispel: Lumen Deal Negative for CableAlaska: Say hello to GCI Liberty. That will be the new name of GCI in Anchorage, Alaska, after the ISP and mobile carrier is spun off from Liberty Broadband prior to Charter’s acquisition of Liberty Broadband in an all-stock deal.
Norfolk Southern Victorious over Cox in Virginia Takings Case

1 week ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Ted Hearn

💡◾ Simington: Send Broadcast Regs to 'Slaughterhouse' ◾ West Va. Gov. Signals Satellite in BEAD Plan ◾ Leader Jeffries (D) Attacks Charter Exec Named to Head Fla. HBCU ◾ Does RI's BEAD Math Add Up? ROW: Terrestrial broadband deployment was dealt a setback last Thursday when a Virginia state law designed to speed ISP access to railroad property was held to include an unconstitutional taking of private property for private use in a dispute between Cox Communications and Norfolk Southern Railway.
With FCC's Starks Moving On, Carr Just Days Away from 2-1 GOP Majority

2 weeks ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Ted Hearn

GOP: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is just days away from having a 2-1 majority as Democratic FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks said yesterday he would not participate at the agency’s June 26 open meeting. Starks, who made his announcement at the FCC’s open meeting in Washington, D.C., did not provide a specific date for his departure, possibly complicating Carr’s near-term plans a bit.
Oklahoma Broadband Official Concerned about Washington 'Bureaucrats'

2 weeks ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Ted Hearn

BEAD: Oklahoma’s top broadband official wants his state to decide where and how BEAD program money is spent. “We're ultimately wanting to make sure that Oklahomans can decide what's best for Oklahoma, not, you know, perhaps bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.,” Mike Sanders, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Broadband Office, said yesterday on a webinar hosted by the Fiber Broadband Association.
Verizon Wants FCC to Lift Mobile Phone Unlocking Mandate

2 weeks ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Ted Hearn

Unlocking: Verizon on Monday asked the FCC to waive a regulation that requires it to unlock mobile phones within 60 days. The FCC imposed the mandate first when Verizon acquired 700 MHz spectrum in 2007 and again when the communications giant acquired Tracfone in 2021. “The Unlocking Rule applies only to particular providers – mainly Verizon – and distorts the marketplace in a critical U.S. industry.
Court Tosses Biden-Era FCC Rules on Broadcaster Employment Data; DEI Victory for FCC's Carr

2 weeks ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Ted Hearn

FCC: A panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit yesterday tossed out Biden-era FCC rules that required TV and radio stations to collect employment demographics data and disclose the information on FCC Form 395-B, with the agency posting the data on its website on a broadcaster-identifiable basis. The court held the FCC lacked statutory authority to adopt the rules in two respects.
Cable Has a New Godfather - What Does Charter CEO Christopher Winfrey Do with His Power?

2 weeks ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Ted Hearn

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2025 – At once glib and serious, affable and stony, Charter CEO Christopher Winfrey is cable’s new capo di tutti capi – inheriting the Godfather mantle from Comcast’s Brian Roberts, who held it for 15 years after John Malone moved to the sidelines.
Senate Democrats Pressure Trump to Shut Down Lutnick's BEAD Review

2 weeks ago | broadbandbreakfast.com | Ted Hearn

BEAD: A group of Senate Democrats led by Jacky Rosen of Nevada sent President Trump a letter last Friday asking him to start releasing BEAD funds now being held up by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s decision in March to overhaul the $42.45 broadband deployment program to make it more tech neutral and cost efficient, perhaps including a per-location cost cap.