West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey announced that the state's Final Proposal for Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment funding will be available for public comment, beginning August 19, 2025. The draft Final Proposal is available here. Comments may be submitted through the web form found here through 11:59 PM EDT on August 26, 2025. West Virginia’s BEAD subgrantee selection results include:
The executive director of Colorado’s Broadband Office Brandy Reitter offered a sneak preview of results from Colorado’s Benefit of the Bargain Round. Under the old Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, roughly 70 percent of Colorado’s locations were set to be served by fiber, and 30 percent were to be served by fixed wireless and low-earth orbit satellites. Now, only 40 percent of Colorado’s locations are set to be served by fiber, with most of the remaining 60 percent going to LEO.
T-Mobile is acquiring Minnesota-based internet service provider U.S. Internet, marking another notch on its fiber broadband toolbelt. Unlike T-Mobile’s acquisitions of Lumos and Metronet—both of which are officially closed—the U.S. Internet buy has an under-radar vibe.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced the appointment of Courtney Cowper as a Special Assistant in his office.
SpaceX is trying to block Louisiana’s plan to use over $400 million for fiber installations instead of allocating more money for satellite-based services like Starlink.
In comments that should be comforting to ears in the cable industry, Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez stressed that the agency should continue to pursue sharing arrangements amid the FCC's mandate to free up and auction 800MHz of spectrum in the coming years. And that goes for the CBRS band—shared spectrum that Comcast, Charter Communications, Mediacom Communications, and Cox Communications are using to either offload mobile traffic in high-density areas or for fixed wireless access services.
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