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Integral Consulting Inc.

Submarine Cables Face Geohazard Risks with Significant Societal Impacts

On March 14, 2024, damage to four subsea cables resulted in widespread internet outage in 13 countries in West and Central Africa with prolonged (multiday) nationwide outages in six countries impacting millions of Africans....more

Wiley Rein LLP

[Webinar] 2024 Federal Infrastructure Series - Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program Award and Subaward Process -...

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Please join us for the latest installment of Wiley’s Federal Infrastructure Webinar Series, in which attorneys from across the firm discuss the federal government’s ongoing, once-in-a-generation initiative to invest in...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Internet For All! – NTIA Releases Notices of Funding Opportunities for Broadband Infrastructure Programs

Interested parties should review each program’s requirements and the application-related information provided by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. BEAD program – Interested parties should...more

Jones Day

Ninth Circuit Approves California's Net Neutrality Law, Shifts Focus to FCC

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In 2018, the FCC deregulated broadband internet access service, repealed its 2015 net neutrality rules, and specified that these actions were intended to preempt state net neutrality laws. On appeal, the D.C. Circuit upheld...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Congress Invests Historic $65 Billion in Nation's High-Speed Internet Networks and Affordability Program

President Biden signed into law a bill that provides for historic levels of investment in the nation's infrastructure, including $65 billion to construct and upgrade networks used to provide high-speed internet access, as...more

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Arkansas Legislature Passes Bill to Ease Local Government Expansion of Broadband Access

Arkansas’ 93rd General Assembly unanimously passed legislation amending the Telecommunications Regulatory Reform Act of 2013 last week. Generally, government entities in Arkansas are prohibited from providing “directly or...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

New Environmental and Telecommunications Laws

Telecommunications - AB 1699 Telecommunications: mobile Internet service providers: first response agencies: emergencies - Fire officials experienced a significant data transmission slowdown of their mobile emergency...more

Hogan Lovells

Interim Code rights – the Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill

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What are interim Code rights? Operators have been having issues in relation to non-responsive owners of multi-let buildings where the Operator’s customer occupies part of the building as a tenant. This means that there is...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Trump Administration: 2017 Recap and 2018 Outlook

On January 20, 2017, businessman Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States following a contentious and unconventional 2016 presidential election. Republicans also successfully maintained control...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FCC Vows Its Never Gonna Give Up On Bridging Digital Divide: Opens Rulemakings To Promote Access To Broadband Infrastructure

At the end of March, new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai branded April “Infrastructure Month.” He paired this declaration with the announcement of a comprehensive agenda aimed at tackling a host of infrastructure-related challenges...more

Perkins Coie

FCC Thwarted in Efforts to Preempt State Broadband Laws

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has struck a major blow to the FCC’s efforts to remove barriers to broadband service and promote competition in broadband markets. In State of Tennessee v. FCC, the court...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Public-Private Partnerships in Municipal Broadband Internet

Cities have long been the center of economic growth in our country, and smart cities recognize that modern infrastructure is a key threshold issue to be addressed for successful economic development....more

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