July 2025
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will accelerate an American energy crisis—and it could cost the U.S. the AI race (Fortune)
Submitted by benton on Sat, 07/05/2025 - 18:55President Trump Signs Sweeping Policy Bill at White House Event (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Sat, 07/05/2025 - 18:54
Weekly Digest
FCC Announces Tentative Agenda for July 2025 Open Meeting
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced the tentative agenda for the July Open Commission Meeting scheduled for July 24, 2025.
Cox RDOF Update
On March 31, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau notified Cox of its failure to meet its third year Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) broadband deployment interim milestones in California, Louisiana, Nebraska and Virginia. This letter satisfies Cox’s requirement to file by June 30, 2025 a quarterly report regarding its progress towards compliance. In California and Louisiana, Cox identified and certified additional locations which were deployed in 2024 but not included in the year-end reporting and annual certifications.
Op-ed | Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 07/03/2025 - 12:18BEAD bets big on CBRS and 6GHz bands, so why is Congress gutting them?
The federal government needs to get its broadband policy straight. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration just overhauled a major broadband infrastructure program to shift billions in funding from fiber networks to unlicensed fixed wireless, or ULFW, a high-capacity Wi-Fi connection that's transmitted over the airwaves to a location.
New push for national AI rules likely after state ban fails
The demise of a controversial proposal in Republicans' budget bill that blocked state-level regulation of
Illinois Benefit of the Bargain Round
On June 6, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration released a Policy Notice &
