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June 2025

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Federal Communications Commission

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Mon, 07/07/2025 - 09:30 to 12:30

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau will host a public roundtable to promote resiliency during hurricane season by focusing on collaboration between communications service providers, electric utilities, and emergency management officials. 


Sen Cantwell, Commerce Committee Democrats Call for Regular Order on Dangerous and Damaging Commerce Title of Reconciliation Bill

We write to urge you to schedule a markup of the budget reconciliation text you released on June 5, 2025, instead of fast tracking these significant policies through a partisan floor process. If these policies are “bold and transformational” and will have an impact “for generations to come” as you argue, then they should be debated and considered through the regular order of our committee process.

Ripple Fiber Agrees to Acquire BridgeNET Fiber, Strengthening its North Carolina Footprint

Ripple Fiber, a fiber optic network builder and operator headquartered in Charlotte (NC), will acquire BridgeNET Fiber. Ripple Fiber is partnering with BridgeNET’s ownership team to expand the network throughout Statesville (NC), where the provider is headquartered. BridgeNET will continue to operate the market and will be empowered with the capital and a toolset to support rapid expansion.

AT&T CFO: No pressing need for spectrum right now

AT&T doesn’t immediately need more spectrum, but it’s always on the lookout for additional airwaves to meet future demands, AT&T CFO Pascal Desroches. However, it’s the part about not needing spectrum right this minute that AT&T’s rivals in the cable industry seized upon, maintaining that he’s saying the “quiet part out loud,” contradicting arguments that AT&T and its fellow wireless carriers are making in Washington (DC) about the dire need for more spectrum, stat. Desroches said that when he took the CFO role at AT&T almost five years ago, the company was concerned abo

Mobile Experts: T-Mobile fiber growth is a boost to its FWA

More fiber infrastructure could be a boon to T-Mobile’s still-growing fixed wireless access (FWA) business. “T-Mobile’s access to fiber will increase their ability to provide FWA,” said Mobile Experts Principal Joe Madden. Not only is fiber good for the backhaul fixed wireless requires, but T-Mobile can still deploy FWA in cases where it’d be too expensive to run fiber all the way to the home. “It’s the last 100 feet from the curb to the house that creates more than 80% of the cost for a fiber-to-the-home service,” he explained.

Trump’s broadband program overhaul favors Musk tech, strips low-cost plans

The Trump administration released revised rules for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program, stripping the Biden-era effort of many key requirements and making it easier for Elon Musk’s company to win grants. Under the revised guidelines, the BEAD Program will take a technology-neutral approach to expanding broadband access rather than focusing on fiber internet.

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