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November 2025

Remarks of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Adam Cassady at NVIDIA GTC

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Adam Cassady spoke at NVIDIA GTC on October 29. He spoke about National Telecommunications and Information Administration priorities, including 6G and artificial intelligence. "In AI, NTIA’s vision is just that of the Administration’s: we want the United States-led AI to power the future. Of work, of recreation, of life. And second, and more specifically at NTIA: We want to ensure that the United States leads, together with secure and trusted global partners, in the next generation of connectivity, 6G.

Sens Marshall and Welch Reintroduce Legislation to Strengthen USDA Broadband Program for Rural Communities

Sen Roger Marshall (R-KS) reintroduced the bipartisan ReConnecting Rural America Act alongside Senator Peter Welch (D-VT). This legislation will strengthen the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Loan and Grant Program.

Texas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Final­izes His­toric Set­tle­ment with Google and Secures $1.375 Bil­lion from the Big Tech Giant for Vio­lat­ing Tex­ans’ Pri­va­cy Rights

Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) announced that Google has signed the historic $1.375 billion settlement agreement with the State of Texas, marking the conclusion of two of the largest data privacy enforcement actions ever brought by a single state against the tech giant.

Spotify and Netflix perfected the business of distraction—and now we’re paying the price

Netflix and Spotify share much in common. The two media companies have spent the first quarter of this century reshaping audience behaviors around on-demand streaming, and normalizing creative economies where consumers pay for subscriptions rather than music and films directly. They are known for their highly personalized recommendation feeds, built with massive pools of behavioral data extracted from users. And both companies operate with what often feels like an ambivalence towards the health of the mediums they’ve disrupted.

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Fiber Broadband Association

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Tue, 11/04/2025 - 13:00

For years, fiber has been seen as the gold standard for delivering high-capacity, reliable broadband. At the same time, fixed wireless has rapidly advanced to provide gigabit performance, faster deployment, and greater flexibility. But what if you didn’t have to choose between the two?


Cruise Ship Wi-Fi Steams Ahead

Wi-Fi connectivity is a consumer expectation throughout the travel industry. There are any number of reasons for needing to be connected online on a cruise ship. Staying in touch with people back home directly (messaging, video calls) and sharing the experience via social media are a given. Staying up on things—sports, news—seemingly antithetical to the spirit of taking a cruise, is certainly welcome as well, including access to one’s on-shore streaming habits. Key takeaways on cruise ship connectivity:

Missed by BEAD

An article from the Advanced Communications Law and Policy Institute at the New York Law School claims that over 1 million locations were missed by Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment grants. They identified these as locations that are still shown as unserved and underserved on the Federal Communications Commission broadband maps, but which did not make it into the BEAD program. ACLP also identified two other sources of locations that will likely not get broadband. They predict some BEAD defaults since a number of small and untested internet service providers won sizable BEAD grants.

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