Even as the National Telecommunications and Information Administration moves to push states’ BEAD final proposals through, discussions about what to do with more than $20 billion in non-deployment funds continue to rage. Impact: Two Republican senators, Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced legislation last week known as the SUCCESS for BEAD Act …
AT&T gained early access to the 3.45 GHz mid-band spectrum licenses it’s in the process of acquiring from EchoStar in a $23 billion deal (that also includes 600 MHz low-band licenses) to help ramp up its 5G download speeds by a significant margin. Impact: A short-term spectrum lease management deal between the two companies while …
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What a week for Warner Bros. Discovery, whose stock soared Thursday based on reports that the newly Skydance Media-powered Paramount plans to make a play for the iconic studio. So much to break down: Wall Street has been buoyed by renewed enthusiasm over artificial intelligence that added roughly $100 billion to Larry Ellison’s wealth after …
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called the SpaceX deal to acquire $17 billion in EchoStar spectrum “a potential gamechanger for the American consumer,” but not everyone seems sure the transaction will change much beyond giving SpaceX access to more spectrum. Impact: Nevertheless, the transaction (and a similar AT&T deal two weeks ago) ended the FCC’s twin …
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What a week for Warner Bros. Discovery, whose stock soared Thursday based on reports that the newly Skydance Media-powered Paramount plans to make a play for the iconic studio. So much to break down: Wall Street has been buoyed by renewed enthusiasm over artificial intelligence that added roughly $100 billion to Larry Ellison’s wealth after …
With so much uncertainty in the world right now, it wouldn’t be surprising to see companies pull back on risk-taking until things get more stable both economically and politically in the U.S. and around the globe. Impact: But that hasn’t been the case in U.S. telecom so far in 2025 (and wasn’t really in 2024 …
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AST SpaceMobile, the direct-to-device satellite connectivity partner of AT&T and Verizon, successfully unfolded its first five BlueBird satellites in late October, six weeks ahead of schedule. Impact: The launch milestone moves AST SpaceMobile closer to a rollout of commercial and U.S. government operations even as a burgeoning rivalry with SpaceX heats up, with an AST …
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No one on the distribution or content side of the industry wants piracy. It’s a bad look, and it hurts the entire value chain that depends on consumers paying for what they watch (or at least watching ads). That’s why this week’s announcement by the Motion Picture Association’s enforcement group, the Alliance for Creativity and …
AT&T last week revealed a massive data breach involving call and text records logged from the vast majority of its mobile customers, with the incidents occurring between May and October 2022, and then again on Jan. 2, 2023. Impact: This security breach, first discovered in April, affected “nearly all” AT&T wireless customers, including subscribers to …
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