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@dougdawsonccg.bsky.social

Broadband consultant and author of daily blog PotsandPansbyCCG. Hanging in Asheville and loving life. Lifelong deadhead.

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Broadband in a Hurry There is an interesting new twist on wireless backhaul. The Swedish company TERASi has developed a wireless backhaul technology that enables networks to be configured on the fly. The company has de…

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Easing Tower Placement Communities need to be on the alert because the FCC has opened a new proceeding that will make it easier for carriers to deploy towers and other wireless infrastructure. On September 9, the FCC app…

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Highlighting Cable One Today’s blog looks at the market performance of Cable One. Cable One is a traditional cable company that markets under the name Sparklight. The company has over one million broadband customers. I’v…

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Urban WISPs When Tarana released the new G2 generation of radios, one of the claims the company made was that the radios are powerful enough for ISPs to bring point-to-multipoint broadband to metropolitan area…

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BEAD Cost Caps Most States have now sent final BEAD proposals to NTIA with a list of the proposed ISPs to win BEAD funding for every eligible location. The next step is for NTIA to review grant applications, whic…

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A New Major Telecom Vendor Many folks in the industry will already recognize Amphenol, the company that is poised to become one of the major new vendors in the industry. The company has decided to grow quickly by acquisition…

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BEAD Awards and Satellite North Carolina, where I live, recently announced its preliminary awards for BEAD. The State has allocated $408.5 million for preliminary BEAD awards out of an allocation of BEAD money to the State …

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Space Shorts September 2025 Space has been a part of the communications networks since the communications satellite Telstar was first put into orbit in 1962. I remember as a kid tracking Telstar across the sky. Space today is…

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FCC Killing USF WiFi Hotspots After a prompt from Senator Ted Cruz, the FCC will be voting to ban using the Universal Service Fund to buy hotspots that can be lent to the public from libraries. This follows a similar action ear…

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FCC to Ease Copper Retirement At the end of August, the FCC issued a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would make it even easier for telephone companies to tear down copper networks. The Rulemaking proposes to chang…

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Broadband Shorts September 2025 The following topics are interesting, just too short of a topic for a full blog. Criminal Damage to Undersea Fibers. Finland filed criminal charges against the top officers of an oil tanker in conn…

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A School Without WiFi There was an interesting article in the Washington Post that talked about an elementary/middle school in West Virginia that is finally going to get WiFi for students. The Green-Bank Elementary-Midd…

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Big Changes in Federal Grants There was an Executive Order (EO) in August from the White House that made some fundamental changes to the way that federal grants work – some positive and some negative. The EO is titled Improving…

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Broadband Technology Improving As has happened continuously since the introduction of DSL and 1 Mbps cable modems, the major broadband technologies continue to evolve and get faster. Cable HFC technology is getting faster. Harmo…

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My USF Comments to Congress A bipartisan group in Congress is tackling the topic of USF reform. They created a portal to solicit comments, which are not being made available to the public. I provided comments to the group on …

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Here We Go Again It looks to me like history is repeating itself. We’re seeing the same hype cycle for 6G that we saw for 5G. The big push for 5G was mounted on several fronts. Telecom vendors preached the wonderfu…

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Going, Going, Gone? We now know the next BEAD fight, and it might be the biggest fight yet. On September 5, NTIA issued a press release talking about the progress of the Benefit of the Bargain round for States to awar…

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Canada Finally Orders Open-Access The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ordered, in August 2024, that all broadband providers in the country open their networks to competitors on a wholesale open-ac…

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The Golden Dome and Spectrum The recent H.R. 1 legislation included $24.5 billion for fiscal year 2025 spending to fund an integrated nationwide air and missile defense system. Although the term isn’t used in the legislation, …

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Death of the Fourth Cellular Carrier The press has been full of recent headlines saying that EchoStar is finished as the fourth facility-based cellular network. EchoStar announced that it is selling 50 MHz of low and midspan spectrum …

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The Accelerating Rate of Deregulation We’re less than eight months into the new administration, and when considering that short amount of time, there has been an unprecedented amount of deregulation coming out of the federal government…

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FCC Examines Environmental Rules The FCC recently released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making where the agency is looking to relax some of the rules related to NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act), mostly related to wireless inf…

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Access to Rights-of-Way There is an interesting docket at the FCC that is examining the ability of Β City to sign an exclusive agreement with an ISP that keeps other new ISPs out of the market. The case involves Cottage Gr…

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AT&T’s Landline Alternative AT&T announced at the end of 2024 that it plans to retire all copper networks by the end of 2029. The FCC noted in a recent filing that the use of traditional telephone service has decreased ra…

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You're absolutely right. Added a digit to my math for the AT&T award.

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Big ISPs and BEAD I remember that within a month after BEAD was announced, there were a lot of predictions that the program was going to be a huge giveaway to the largest telcos and cable companies. There was some r…

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What do you think led to this award? Was this because nobody else bid for locations, or did they toe the line on the NTIA guidelines to go with the low-cost option?

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Our Attachment to the Cellphone Here on a holiday I’m posting a more light-hearted blog, but one that shows the degree to which people have become attached to their cellphone. D30, a manufacturer of hard cases for cellphones, con…

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Flood Sensors and Broadband I’ve been increasingly hearing about local governments installing flood sensors as a way to alert the public about high-water situations. There seems to be an increasing number of major flooding ev…

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Charter Sued Over ACP Losses In recent years, it seems that when there is a sudden drop in the stock price for a publicly traded company, a class action suit will soon follow. In the broadband industry, Charter was recently su…

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