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FPL celebrates smart grid technology after the 2024 hurricane season

“This year was a challenging hurricane season for Florida and much of the Southeastern U.S. I’m proud of the way our team worked together and responded as quickly as possible to get our communities back on their feet,” says FPL President and CEO Armando Pimentel. “Be assured, we will continue our year-round approach towards building a stronger, smarter, and more storm-resilient electric grid and our teams will be ready for when the next storm strikes.” Read More

Potential FCC Nominees Could Cement GOP Majority

The Federal Communications Commission is poised for a shakeup under President-elect Donald Trump, with recent reports hinting at potential Republican nominees to join soon-to-be Chairman Brendan Carr. Read More

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T-Mobile stays silent on its BEAD plans in Louisiana

T-Mobile is part of the consortium that won Louisiana’s biggest Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) award. However, the company declined to provide much detail about the role it’s playing. Read More

Competition is Heating Up in the New June 2024 FCC Broadband Map

On Friday, November 15, 2024, the FCC released the fifth version of the National Broadband Map representing broadband service nationwide as of June 30, 2024. It’s clear that ISPs were very busy between the end of 2023 and mid-2024. Nearly 1.3 million more locations have speeds at 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload or higher, an increase of 1.2 percent. An impressive 6.1 million more locations now have competition at that service level or higher – up 8.9 percent from the end of 2023. What’s clear is that most of this comes from wireless which now serves 6.6 million more locations than at the beginning of 2024 (over 81 million total locations), also up just under 9 percent. Cable and fiber competition also increased dramatically with nearly 2.6 million more locations with two or more providers for those technologies – up over 5 percent. This comes from the growth in fiber which in the first half of 2024 served over 3.4 million more locations, while cable served fewer locations in mid-2024 than at the beginning of the year. In fact, given the substantial increase in cable/fiber competition and not in cable/fiber service, it’s clear that the additional fiber service is primarily competing with cable based broadband service. This is all good news for U.S. consumers who saw competition at 5 percent more serviceable locations, and with nearly half of that competition coming from fiber. The figure below provides the highlights followed by a table with detailed location counts. Read More

Universal Fiber Access Could Add $3T to U.S. Economy: Report

Currently, more than half of homes and businesses in the U.S. lack access to fiber. Filling the gap between those who have access and those who don’t would result in tremendous positive economic impact, according to a new report from the Fiber Broadband Association and The Brattle Group, commissioned by Frontier Communications. Read More

USA FCC Publishes Final Rule to Improve Public Safety Communications in 4.9 GHz Band

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the USA published a Final Rule on November 20, 2024, to improve public safety communications in the 4940-4990 MHz (4.9 GHz) frequency band. The Final Rule will help to clarify responsibilities of the 4.9 GHz Band Manager, allowing the 4.9 GHz Band Manager to apply for a nationwide overlay license and enter a sharing agreement with the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) to use unassigned spectrum in the 4.9 GHz band for the nationwide public safety broadband network (NPSBN). The Final Rule comes into effect on December 20, 2024. Read More

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Rural And Municipal Utility Advances Cybersecurity Grant And Technical Assistance Program

The Rural And Municipal Utility Advances Cybersecurity Grant And Technical Assistance Program is designed to provide grants and technical assistance to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, eligible entities to protect against, detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats. Read More

Bezos, Musk rivalry heats up ahead of Trump’s second term

A social media spat between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos this week underscored a sharpening rivalry between two of the world’s richest men at a time when both are trying to grow their sprawling business empires in President-elect Trump’s second term. Read More

EPRI, Kraken advance DER interoperability standards to boost virtual power plant deployment

The growth of virtual power plants, which are large portfolios of consumer-owned distributed resources, is about to get a big boost. Read More

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