November 25, 2024

November 25, 2024

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Trump taps Brendan Carr to chair FCC

President-elect Donald Trump has named conservative Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr to chair the agency, he announced Sunday night. Read More

Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement

Emboldened by Donald Trump’s election win, Republicans are seeking big changes to a $42.45 billion broadband deployment program. Their plan could delay distribution of government funding and remove or relax a requirement that ISPs accepting subsidies must offer low-cost Internet plans. Read More

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FCC Draft Order Would Loosen RDOF, CAF II Auction Financing Rules

A draft of an order up for consideration at the Federal Communications Commission’s December meeting would loosen some financing rules for its broadband subsidy programs. Read More

New National Broadband Map Update v5, Data as of June 2024

A few days ago, the FCC released the 5th version of the National Broadband Map, with data as of June 2024. At a high level, the trend continues of fewer and fewer unserved and underserved locations: in the previous version, 8.8 million locations were unserved or unserved. Now, with six months more data, we’re down to 7.5 million locations needing better broadband service. That’s an 15% decrease over one six-month period. And a 37% decrease from the first BDC broadband map 18 months ago. Read More

Is it Too Late to Change BEAD?

There has been a lot of speculation since the election that the BEAD grant program is going to get revamped. I’ve heard speculation that a lot more money might go to satellite broadband. There have been rumblings that some in Congress want to relax some of the harsher BEAD rules that make it harder and more expensive to build new broadband networks. Read More

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Unlicensed Use of the 6 GHz Band

In 2023, the Commission expanded 6 GHz band unlicensed use to permit an additional
class of unlicensed access points—very low power (VLP) devices. VLP devices are intended to provide high data rate connections across short distances that can support cutting-edge applications, such as augmented and virtual reality and body-worn technologies. The Third Report and Order will expand unlicensed use of the 6 GHz band by permitting VLP device operation in two additional portions of the band. This action will make a contiguous 1200 megahertz of spectrum between 5.925-7.125 GHz available for high throughput, low latency VLP devices, which will facilitate more intensive use of limited spectrum resources and make exciting new technologies available to American consumers, while ensuring that incumbent services are protected from harmful interference. Read More

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Sen. Blumenthal wants FCC to get busy on telecom wiretap security rules

A top senator on Tuesday urged the Federal Communications Commission to begin writing rules that would create mandatory security standards for wiretapping systems embedded in the networks of telecommunications carriers. Read More

USDA Releases Success Story Detailing the Implementation of Phishing-Resistant Multi-Factor Authentication

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released Phishing-Resistant Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Success Story: USDA’s FIDO Implementation. This report details how USDA successfully implemented phishing-resistant authentication for its personnel in situations where USDA could not exclusively rely on personal identity verification (PIV) cards. Read More

CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

The CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses List highlights the most severe and prevalent weaknesses behind the 31,770 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Records in this year’s dataset. Uncovering the root causes of these vulnerabilities serves as a powerful guide for investments, policies, and practices to prevent these vulnerabilities from occurring in the first place — benefiting both industry and government stakeholders. Read More

US EPA report cites cybersecurity flaws in drinking water systems, flags disruption risks and lack of incident reporting

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Inspector General released a report on cybersecurity concerns in drinking water systems. Read More

Local transmission spending soars nationwide amid ‘serious absence of cost containment’

Spending on local transmission projects has been increasing across the United States with little regulatory oversight, according to a report from RMI.
In New England, for example, annual spending on local transmission projects, called asset condition projects in the region, increased eight-fold from 2016 to nearly $800 million in 2023, RMI, a clean energy think tank, said in its report, Mind the Regulatory Gap: How to Enhance Local Transmission Oversight. Read More

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