December 16, 2024

December 16, 2024

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FCC Opens Entire 6 GHz Band to Very Low Power Devices

The FCC adopted new rules to expand very low power (VLP) device operations across all 1,200 megahertz of the 6 GHz band alongside other unlicensed and WiFi-enabled devices. The agency has previously expanded unlicensed use between 5.925 and 7.125 GHz, Inside Towers reported, which officials say helped to usher in WiFi 6E, set the stage for WiFi 7, and support the growth of the Internet of Things. Read More

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Charter CEO thinks satellite has an edge in rural areas

Low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite is poised to play a bigger role in the broadband landscape come 2025, and Charter seems to be all for it. Read More

FCC drops bank safety rating requirement for rural broadband program

The Federal Communications Commission announced today that it will discontinue its requirement that banks obtain certain types of Weiss safety ratings to be eligible to provide a letter of credit to telecommunications provider recipients of the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. Read More

Starlink in the News

There is a lot of speculation that Starlink is positioned to get a lot more federal subsidy from the BEAD grant program. There are a few things that have to happen for that to come to pass, but that is not the only news about Starlink these days. Read More

The New Administration’s Approach to Telecom

The next four years of telecommunications policy will be unlike anything Wall Street and other stakeholders have ever seen, according to one long-time analyst and former FCC staff member who has seen his share of changes and administrations over the past three decades. Read More

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Here’s what people are saying about AT&T’s CBRS relocation plan

When AT&T first floated a proposal to move Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) from 3.5 GHz down to the lower 3 GHz band, it sounded like a joke to some of the folks who work with CBRS on a daily basis. Read More

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Utility Companies Face 42% Surge in Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware groups are focusing more than ever on utilities, with the sector facing a 42% surge in attacks over the past year, according to ReliaQuest. Read More

Trump 2.0: What cybersecurity shifts lie ahead?

Cybersecurity and cyber defense challenges don’t go away with the change of administrations. A new Trump administration is likely to reject aspects of the Biden administration’s cyber strategies, while continuing others. Read More

How (and when) AT&T will kiss copper goodbye

AT&T has been laying the groundwork for the decommissioning of its extensive copper network. This week, the company shed a lot more detail on when it expects to retire the vast majority of its copper, how it will pursue the transition and what products it has developed as an alternative to plain old telephone service, or POTS, that can run on either fiber or wireless networks. Read More

The Ability of the FCC to Issue Fines

We are definitely entering into a new era in regulation. Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are disputing the FCC’s ability to levy fines on them. The fines in question all stem from an FCC action to penalize the carriers for selling customer location data to aggregators. This data allows marketers to become intimately knowledgeable about where people spend their time every day. In the majority of cases, the carriers did not get permission from customers to share their data. Read More

Behind the Curtain: The Great Upheaval

Governance, media, business and global geopolitics are all being reordered at breakneck speed — all simultaneously. Read More

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