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Rural Spectrum Scanner
FCC Releases Annual Section 706 Report
By Gracie Kreth
The FCC has voted to adopt its annual Section 706 Report on “whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.” The report…
Truth on the Market
Fiber Freeze: How Maple Grove Made a Cable Franchise the Price of Broadband
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Build America Agenda rests on a simple premise: Stop making it so hard to build. Federal and state policymakers have spent years reducing permitting delays,…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
August Tribal Workshop in New Mexico Announced
The FCC announced a workshop for Tribal Nations and Native Hawaiian Organizations (NHOs) on a broad range of FCC initiatives that support the deployment of communications infrastructure and services nationwide,…
Comm Law Center
FCC Enforcement Monitor — July 2026
By Scott R. Flick, Elizabeth Craig
By Scott R. Flick and Elizabeth Craig Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published the FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC…
Truth on the Market
The Cost of Holding Up Broadband
America’s multibillion-dollar broadband push rests on an unglamorous piece of infrastructure: the utility pole. Fiber may carry the future, but first someone has to pay for the wood holding it…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
FCC Releases New Version of Alaska Connect Fund Eligible Areas Map
The FCC has published the final version of the Initial Eligible-Areas (EA) Map, v.1.3, for the Alaska Connect Fund (ACF), establishing the geographic areas that will qualify for mobile universal…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
Comment Deadlines Set for Rulemaking to Streamline the BDC Process
Comments are due on or before July 24, 2026 and reply comments are due on or before August 24, 2026 in response to the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection (BDC) Sixth…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
FCC Streamlines BDC Processes
The FCC adopted a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) aimed at streamlining the Broadband Data Collection (BDC) framework. The Order: (1) aligns reporting requirements for…
Missouri Lawyers Media
8th Circuit vacates FCC’s digital discrimination rule
By Correy E. Stephenson, Special To Missouri Lawyers Media
Listen to this article Summary The Federal Communications Commission’s final digital discrimination rule exceeded the agency’s authority by including disparate impact liability and overbroadly defining the covered entities, the 8th…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
First BEAD-Funded Tower in Nation Activated in Louisiana
On May 1, Nextlink Internet activated a tower in southern Bienville Parish, Louisiana — the first in the nation to be funded by the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD)…