Telecompetitor

This week's top articles from Telecompetitor: Texas pauses Digital Equity grants, Secretary Lutnick pushes for "technology-neutral" BEAD Program, and Stephen Cox expands Indiana’s #broadband office.

The Vermont Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (VT-BEAD) Program Full Proposal portal will be open until 11:55 PM on April 16, according to the Vermont Community Broadband Board... https://lnkd.in/e7whQ6Rt #bead #vermontbroadband

More than 20 million Comcast customers will get upgrades, receiving enhanced Xfinity internet speeds at no extra charge, Comcast announced today... https://lnkd.in/eWPaAtAH #xfinity #comcast #internet

Verizon Business today launched Trusted Connection, a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) security service for businesses that enables them to secure their devices, network, and cloud-hosted applications by constantly verifying who’s accessing what and from where... https://lnkd.in/e94WmveW #verizonbusiness #ztna #cybersecurity

UPDATE, March 12: Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati refused to reconsider its January 2 opinion striking down the FCC Title II regulations on net neutrality... https://lnkd.in/eQQRWDxA #fcc #titleii

The acquisition of certain TDS Telecom assets announced yesterday by telecommunications and broadband service provider RiverStreet is expected to increase the company’s presence and help it provide enhanced services to customers, according to a press release that the company posted... https://lnkd.in/egKCDCnp #tds #telecom

More than 10,000 residential customers in Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana now have high-speed fiber broadband service because of the work of Visionary Broadband... https://lnkd.in/esJdjaG8 #fiberbroadband #ruralbroadband

As newly installed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick gets set to announce rule changes to the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) funding program, industry financial analyst and D.C. insider Blair Levin looked at the impact of various potential reforms... https://lnkd.in/eqnAWKVP #bead #broadband

The battle over the Federal Communication Commission’s [FCC’s] One-to-One Consent Rule continued this week with four small business owners requesting an en banc hearing to reconsider the decision by a three-judge panel to vacate the rule... https://lnkd.in/ejdsc2zh #fcc #policy

Those interested in a career as a technician in broadband communications can get a jump on their education through a broadband technician pre-apprenticeship training program being co-sponsored by Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB) in partnership with North Country Career Center... https://lnkd.in/exxtwKiM #vcbb #telco