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WiFi is the Problem | by Doug Dawson | POTs & PANs

WiFi is the Problem | by Doug Dawson | POTs & PANs | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
TechSee advertises itself as the world’s leading visual agentic AI platform. The company conducted a nationwide survey of  3,790 people that asked about real-world experiences and expectations around home WiFi performance. I think every ISP I know could have predicted the gist of the responses, but I think ISPs might be surprised at the percentage…
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Why a new California law could change the way all Americans browse the internet | by Cal Matters | Lake County Record Bee | Record-Bee.com

Why a new California law could change the way all Americans browse the internet | by Cal Matters | Lake County Record Bee | Record-Bee.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
The privacy changes web browsers will be required to make under a new California law could set the de facto standard for the entire country, changing how Americans control their data when using the internet, according to experts.
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Follow the Money: Comcast, Starlink, and the BEAD Backslide - Episode 664 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast | by Jordan Pittman | CommunityNets.org

Follow the Money: Comcast, Starlink, and the BEAD Backslide - Episode 664 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast | by Jordan Pittman | CommunityNets.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Chris Mitchell, Karl Bode, and Sean Gonsalves break down the politics, corruption, and power plays shaping the broadband landscape—and what it all means for communities fighting for real Internet choice
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Experts: Withholding BEAD Funds Because of State Affordability Laws On Shaky Legal Ground | by Sean Gonsalves | CommunityNets.org

Experts: Withholding BEAD Funds Because of State Affordability Laws On Shaky Legal Ground | by Sean Gonsalves | CommunityNets.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Legal analysts are questioning the recent assertion by the head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) that the agency can legally withhold federal broadband deployment funds from states that have laws enforcing net neutrality or that have enacted affordable broadband legislation. Last week in speaking before the conservative Hudson Institute, NTIA administrator Arielle Roth offered remarks that have legal observers scratching their heads in bewilderment.
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AWS, Azure outages demand telecom-style regulation on Big Clouds | by Giacomo "Jack" Lee | SDxCentral.com

AWS, Azure outages demand telecom-style regulation on Big Clouds | by Giacomo "Jack" Lee | SDxCentral.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

Financials bloomed for the hyperscalers after recent system failures. Is it time to treat them like carriers?

 

In the view of analyst John Strand, this position of privilege comes from a lack of accountability for the hyperscalers when systems go awry. According to a recent Strand Consult report, AWS escapes the kinds of statutory obligations telecoms have, such as universal service contributions, minimum backup and reliability rules, and public filing of tariffs.

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Fiber Forward Weekly: FBA Research Shows Fiber Broadband Reshaping American Life | Fiber Broadband Association

Fiber Forward Weekly: FBA Research Shows Fiber Broadband Reshaping American Life | Fiber Broadband Association | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

New study shows how fiber networks protect lives and keep communities connected before, during, and after disasters 

 

Bolton presented a view on the major technology innovation tipping points that will be fueled by critical fiber optic infrastructure. During his discussion, he provided an overview on the progress of the fiber build out in the U.S., including an update on the $42.45B government subsidy funding...

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Opinion: Faster Disaster Recovery Depends on Smart Communications Policy | by Bill McGuire | BroadbandBreakfast.com

Opinion: Faster Disaster Recovery Depends on Smart Communications Policy | by Bill McGuire | BroadbandBreakfast.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

Local governments must be empowered in communications infrastructure policy to ensure faster disaster recovery. Retry,

 

Hurricane Melissa recently slammed into Jamaica as a Category 5 storm – the strongest to hit the island in nearly 200 years. While the U.S. has been spared this time, Melissa’s rapid intensification is a stark warning. As ocean temperatures rise, powerful storms are forming faster and hitting harder. It’s not hard to imagine a hurricane of this scale making U.S. landfall in the near future. 

 

When that day comes, our ability to recover will depend on more than just rebuilding homes and restoring power. It will hinge on how quickly we can reconnect. Connectivity has become a lifeline. Communications networks are essential to every part of emergency response – issuing evacuation orders, coordinating first responders, updating the public, and reuniting displaced families.

 

Local governments bear a great responsibility for keeping communities safe during times of disasters. Nevertheless, local governments are too often left out of policy conversations around the critical infrastructure that makes recovery possible. 

 

We can fix that. With smarter policies and better planning, we can ensure faster recovery and stronger resilience in the face of future disasters.

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Inside YouTube’s Impact on TV, Sports and Late-Night Comedy Shows | by Alex Weprin | HollywoodReporter.com

Inside YouTube’s Impact on TV, Sports and Late-Night Comedy Shows | by Alex Weprin | HollywoodReporter.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake.
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EchoStar sells more spectrum in $2.6 billion deal for bigger SpaceX stake | by Jason Rainbow | SpaceNews.com

EchoStar sells more spectrum in $2.6 billion deal for bigger SpaceX stake | by Jason Rainbow | SpaceNews.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Geostationary satellite operator EchoStar is selling another batch of radio frequencies to help improve SpaceX’s direct-to-cell services in the United States, in return for $2.6 billion worth of the company’s stock.
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Cleveland's Digital Equity Model Sets National Standard as DigitalC Nears 7,000 Homes Connected | News provided by Digital C | PRNewsWire.com

Cleveland's Digital Equity Model Sets National Standard as DigitalC Nears 7,000 Homes Connected | News provided by Digital C | PRNewsWire.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

DigitalC, the nonprofit selected by the City of Cleveland to deliver citywide broadband access for $18 per month, presented its

third-quarter progress report to Cleveland City Council's Utilities Committee on October 30, highlighting growth, transparency, and national recognition for what is now known as "The Cleveland Model."

 

About two years into Cleveland's citywide broadband initiative, DigitalC has connected nearly 7,000 households and brought high-speed home internet to over 17,000 residents across the city—representing 85% of its 2025 goal of 4,700 new connections.

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Arizona’s Broadband Director on the State’s New Permit Finder: Interview by Ian Doescher | Telecompetitor.com

Arizona’s Broadband Director on the State’s New Permit Finder: Interview by Ian Doescher | Telecompetitor.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Capozzi said his team in the Arizona State Broadband Office has been working on the Permit Finder for about a year and a half.
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A New ReConnect | by Doug Dawson | POTs & PANs

A New ReConnect | by Doug Dawson | POTs & PANs | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Senators Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Peter Welch (D-Vermont) have introduced a new bill that would fund USDA ReConnect grants with $650 million annually through 2030. It seems probable that, if passed, this would be the only federal grant program for the foreseeable future. The requirements listed in the bill are pretty basic and reminiscent of…
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Ultrafast Wi-Fi Needs Access to Lower 7 GHz Band, Analyst Says | by Ted Hearn | BroadbandBreakfast.com

Ultrafast Wi-Fi Needs Access to Lower 7 GHz Band, Analyst Says | by Ted Hearn | BroadbandBreakfast.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Policy analyst Bartlett Cleland says the Charter-Broadcom 10 Gbps Demo at SCTE TechExpo25 Stays a Cool Science Project if Licensed Carriers Can Hog the Airwaves.
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NTIA unveils yet another new requirement for BEAD money | Masha Abarinova | Fierce-Network.com

  • NTIA’s Roth said BEAD providers must agree not to take additional federal subsidies
  • The agency clarified this rule won’t apply to providers that already receive support for non-BEAD areas
  • But it still gives ISPs fewer options to fund costly rural builds

 

Just when we thought the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program has seen enough adjustments, NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth indicated BEAD participants would have to forego other federal funding or else lose out on their money.

 

Providers must certify to the NTIA “in writing” that they will not require or take additional federal subsidies – including operational subsidies – to complete or operate their BEAD projects, said Roth at a Hudson Institute event last week.

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Limiting Digital Device Use | by Doug Dawson | POTs & PANs

Limiting Digital Device Use | by Doug Dawson | POTs & PANs | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
The City Assembly of Toyoake, Japan, a city with 68,000 residents, recently introduced a rule limiting the use of digital devices to two hours per day outside of work and school. The idea was introduced by mayor Masafumi Kouki. He’s grown concerned that residents, particularly children, have become addicted to digital devices. The new law…
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Trump FCC Votes To Weaken Broadband ‘Nutrition Label’ Rule That Already Saw Mixed Compliance | by Karl Bode | CommunityNets.org

Trump FCC Votes To Weaken Broadband ‘Nutrition Label’ Rule That Already Saw Mixed Compliance | by Karl Bode | CommunityNets.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
The Trump FCC has announced that it's taking formal steps to weaken or eliminate the rules as part of the agency’s broad, frontal assault on consumer protections. On October 30, the The Trump FCC under Brendan Carr voted in favor of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to eliminate or weaken the rules; especially requirements that ISPs transparently detail itemized fees buried in their advertised prices.
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Superior, Wisconsin’s ‘Game Changing’ Open Access Fiber Network Goes Live | by Karl Bode | CommunityNets.org

Superior, Wisconsin’s ‘Game Changing’ Open Access Fiber Network Goes Live | by Karl Bode | CommunityNets.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Superior, Wisconsin’s community-owned open access fiber network has gone live in its first two deployment neighborhoods, as the city works toward providing affordable next-generation fiber access to the city’s long under-served community of 26,000. The city’s open access network means that multiple broadband providers can compete over the same shared infrastructure and so far two independent ISPs are offering retail service to residents.
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EchoStar Agrees to Sell Full Unpaired AWS-3 Spectrum License Portfolio to SpaceX | EchoStar.com

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. and HAWTHORNE, Calif.Nov. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- EchoStar has entered into an amended definitive agreement with SpaceX to sell the company's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for approximately $2.6 billion in SpaceX stock valued as of September 2025. This transaction builds on the agreement the companies entered into in September. EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses are nationwide and are part of 3GPP Band 70n (1695-1710 MHz uplink).

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Opinion: A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices | by Tyler H. Norris | New York Times | NYTimes.com

Amy Wasserman and her husband were stunned when the energy bill for their home in Wilmington, Del., topped $500 in September — the highest it had ever been and almost double what they typically pay. They say they’ve done nearly everything experts advise to cut energy use: installed new windows and ductless heat pumps, upgraded to efficient appliances and sealed their basement. “Yet the bill continues to go up,” Ms. Wasserman told me.

 

Dale Williams and his wife, who’ve lived in the same house in New Jersey for 30 years, opened their August bill to find a charge of $766 (over $250 higher than what’s typical for them that month). Their electricity costs have climbed even though their use hasn’t changed meaningfully from previous years.

 

After nearly two decades of relatively flat prices, U.S. residential electricity rates have risen sharply since 2022, with increases of more than 20 percent in some states. It’s happening at the same time as, but not always as a result of, a surge in power demand from new factories, electric vehicles and heaters and, of course, data centers and the artificial intelligence companies that rely on them.

 

To understand how the price spikes land on real families, Times Opinion invited readers to share their electricity bills. Dozens did, and their stories revealed just how helpless many people feel to stop the increases. Their experiences also expose a deeper problem: a power system where every uptick in demand triggers costly new infrastructure instead of better management of what we’ve already built. Something has to change.

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Everything Is Television | by Derek Thompson | DerekThompson.org

Everything Is Television | by Derek Thompson | DerekThompson.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

A spooky convergence is happening in media. Everything that is not already television is turning into television. Three examples:

 

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You learn a lot about a company when its back is against the wall. This summer, we learned something important about Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. In an antitrust case with the Federal Trade Commission, Meta filed a legal brief on August 6, in which it made a startling claim. Meta cannot possibly be a social media monopoly, Meta said, because it is not really a social media company.

 

Only a small share of time spent on its social-networking platforms is truly “social” networking—that is, time spent checking in with friends and family. More than 80 percent of time spent on Facebook and more than 90 percent of time spent on Instagram is spent watching videos, the company reported. Most of that time is spent watching content from creators whom the user does not know. From the FTC filing:

 

"Today, only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services—7% on Instagram, 17% on Facebook—involves consuming content from online “friends” (“friend sharing”). A majority of time spent on both apps is watching videos, increasingly short-form videos that are “unconnected”—i.e., not from a friend or followed account—and recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta developed as a direct competitive response to TikTok’s rise, which stalled Meta’s growth."

 

Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached a kind of settled end state, in which TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a screen showing hours and hours of video made by people we don’t know. Social media has turned into television.

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'Mega-Layoffs' Under Trump as Corporations Have Cut 1 Million Jobs This Year—Most Since 2003 | by Brad Reed | CommonDreams.org

'Mega-Layoffs' Under Trump as Corporations Have Cut 1 Million Jobs This Year—Most Since 2003 | by Brad Reed | CommonDreams.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
US labor market in downward spiral with record job cuts in October 2025. Tech sector hit hardest, AI adoption driving layoffs. Dems blame Trump's policies.
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CPUC Program Information--California LifeLine Program | CPUC.ca.gov

CPUC Program Information--California LifeLine Program | CPUC.ca.gov | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

California LifeLine provides discounted home phone and cell phone services to qualified households. The Commission recently approved Decision 25-08-050, which will provide up to $20 per month for standalone broadband and up to $30 per month for bundled broadband and voice.

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Sen Ernst Drafts Bill to Clawback BEAD Funding | by Kevin Taglang | Benton Institute for Broadband & Society | Benton.org

Sen Ernst Drafts Bill to Clawback BEAD Funding | by Kevin Taglang | Benton Institute for Broadband & Society | Benton.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) has drafted a bill—the Recovering Excess Communications Appropriations while Protecting Telecommunications Upgrades, Reinvestment, and Expansion Act or the ‘RECAPTURE Act—that would amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to require remaining funds under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to be used for deficit reduction. The RECAPTURE Act would change a section of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that redirects unused state BEAD funds to other states.
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Kansas Wraps Up Major Broadband Program, Eyes BEAD Construction in 2026 | by Akul Saxena | BroadbandBreakfast.com

Kansas Wraps Up Major Broadband Program, Eyes BEAD Construction in 2026 | by Akul Saxena | BroadbandBreakfast.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Kansas broadband development official outlines next steps as Kansas nears BEAD deployment.
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Castanet takes aim at 5G Broadcast | by Jeff Baumgartner | LightReading.com

Castanet takes aim at 5G Broadcast | by Jeff Baumgartner | LightReading.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Castanet 5G intends to team with low-power TV stations on a national 5G Broadcast network that coexists with – rather than competes with – ATSC 3.0.
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White Paper: The 5G Promise Falls Short of Reality--Examining Economic Impact Claims | by George S. Ford, PhD from the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies | Broadba...

White Paper: The 5G Promise Falls Short of Reality--Examining Economic Impact Claims | by George S. Ford, PhD from the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies | Broadba... | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

Over the past decade, the mobile wireless  industry has promoted 5G as a transformative  technology—one that will boost the U.S.  economy by over $1 trillion and create millions of  jobs. They described 5G not just as a faster  internet connection, but as a technology that will  transform everything affecting the average  American’s life—from healthcare and  transportation to manufacturing and education. The industry’s claims have shaped public policy  debates, influencing decisions about spectrum  allocation, infrastructure investments, and  regulatory priorities.

 

But once 5G began to roll out, the mobile wireless  industry’s big promises started to face serious  questions. Many users noticed little difference  between 5G and the previous generation (4G).  Some media outlets and tech experts called 5G an  “overhyped technology bust.” And as talk of 6G  begins to emerge, it’s worth asking: Has 5G  really delivered the massive economic benefits  we were promised?  

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