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Hughes Satellite Systems Corporation announced that it and certain of its U.S. subsidiaries, including Hughes Network Systems, LLC, have filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, to facilitate a financial and operational reorganization.

AT&T closed its transaction with EchoStar to acquire about 30 megahertz (MHz) of nationwide 3.45 gigahertz (GHz) mid-band spectrum and about 20 MHz of nationwide 600 MHz low-band spectrum for about $23 billion. The spectrum deal was announced in August 2025 and the closure puts a final endpoint to EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen’s bid to own and operate a facilities-based wireless network.

Bain Capital and Tillman Global Holdings announced a $1.5 billion investment in Eaton Fiber to accelerate the expansion of Verizon fiber broadband through fiber network deployment across the United States. In connection with the investment, Eaton Fiber has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ripple Fiber, a leading 100 percent fiber-optic internet provider and network operator.

President Donald Trump nominated D. Adam Candeub, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General. Candeub has served as the General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission since January 2025. Since 2004, Candeub worked as a professor of law at Michigan State University where he focused on competition, regulatory, and antitrust matters. Previously, he served in government at both the Commerce Department and Justice Department.

The proposed $81 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery hit its first significant speed bump when a federal judge in California granted a temporary restraining order that prohibits the companies from closing the deal.

Electricity demand is becoming the clearest measure of the AI industry's extraordinary expansion and a test of how long that pace can last. The huge amount of energy required for AI is raising questions about whether the industry's push toward ever-larger models is producing benefits that justify these growing resource demands. In recent interviews, top sustainability executives at tech companies didn't directly answer if they would reconsider growth in the face of environmental concerns. The potential for AI to improve people's lives and c

Chairman Brendan Carr published an op-ed in Breitbart announcing that the Federal Communications Commission will vote on August 6 on an Order that repeals the FCC’s 39 percent national television multiple ownership rule. Specifically, the FCC would modify the FCC rule for the first time in over 20 years.

This unlawful effort to hand control of the public airwaves to billionaire buddies of this administration will destroy local newsrooms, silence community reporting, and drive up costs for the American families who depend on local stations for news and emergency alerts. A free and diverse media landscape depends on real limits on how much of the public airwaves any one company can control, and this FCC is now poised to allow local broadcasters to sell those airwaves off to the highest bidder.

Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced bipartisan legislation to expand access to broadband in rural areas and ease the burden of regulatory costs for smaller broadband providers that rural communities rely on. The Access to Capital Creates Economic Strength and Supports (ACCESS) Rural America Act provides regulatory relief to rural telecommunications service providers by allowing them to submit streamlined financial reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

A group of 12 states led by Democratic attorneys general sued to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion deal to buy Warner Bros.