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NTIA Finds First 5 MHz of Federal Spectrum to Auction for Commercial Use
NTIA is making progress on identifying federal spectrum that can be auctioned for commercial use. That’s according to NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth. She said this week that President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” restored the FCC’s auction authority. The legislation directs NTIA to identify 500 MHz of federal spectrum, to be auctioned and reallocated for full-power commercial licensed use.Read More
Just More BEAD Plans
More states and territories are releasing their final Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program final proposals for public comment before seeking National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) approval. These states received extensions past the NTIA’s early September deadline to submit final plans. Read More
NTIA Finds First 5 MHz of Federal Spectrum to Auction for Commercial Use
NTIA is making progress on identifying federal spectrum that can be auctioned for commercial use. That’s according to NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth. She said this week that President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” restored the FCC’s auction authority. The legislation directs NTIA to identify 500 MHz of federal spectrum, to be auctioned and reallocated for full-power commercial licensed use. Read More
Under the radar – Google warns new Brickstorm malware was stealing data from US firms for over a year
Nation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks
Perimeter devices ought to prevent network hacks. Why are so many devices allowing attacks?Read More
Utilities Reject FCC Bid to Open Streetlights for Broadband
Utilities also criticized limits on make-ready charges proposed in the FCC’s pole attachment plan.Read More
Utility-scale batteries are more commonly used for price arbitrage
In our annual survey of power plant activity, we ask operators of utility-scale batteries how they are using their systems, and one use case is increasingly prevalent: price arbitrage. Arbitrage involves buying electricity when prices are relatively low and selling that electricity when prices are high.Read More
Spanish Startup Wins $9M to Develop Very Low Earth Orbit Satellite Tech
Spanish startup Kreios Space has secured 8 million euros ($9.3 million) from the NATO Innovation Fund and JOIN Capital to advance its Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellite technology.Read More
A New Major Telecom Vendor
Many folks in the industry will already recognize Amphenol, the company that is poised to become one of the major new vendors in the industry. The company has decided to grow quickly by acquisition. It recently purchased the Connectivity and Cable Solutions subsidiary from CommScope for $10.5 billion. Amphenol also bought Trexon, a cable assembly business, for $1 billion.Read More
A massive telecom threat was stopped right as world leaders gathered at UN headquarters in New York
While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.Read More
Canada launches a new task force to update its AI strategy
AI Minister Evan Solomon will seek recommendations from a new group of business and civil society leaders on everything from AI research to adoption and commercializationRead More
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