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Doug Dawson
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Broadband consultant and author of daily blog PotsandPansbyCCG. Hanging in Asheville and loving life. Lifelong deadhead.
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Misaligned Priorities
We have several sets of broadband priorities at odds with each other in the country. The federal government is on a big push to move all transactions with the government to digital. The example tha…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Northern lights made it to Asheville last night.
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Why BEAD to Kuiper?
There is no question that this has turned into one of the oddest years for broadband during my career. We’ve seen Digital Equity grants killed. We’re seeing the spending for BEAD being cut in half.…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Network Timing
One element that is key to all networks rarely gets discussed. Network timing (or network clocks) involves hardware or processes to make sure that all parts of a network are in synch. Timing and sy…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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FCC Raises Inmate Calling Rates
In what would normally be an extraordinary action, but which is becoming commonplace, the FCC thumbed its nose at Congress and raised rates for telephone and video calls placed from jails and priso…
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November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Limiting Digital Device Use
The City Assembly of Toyoake, Japan, a city with 68,000 residents, recently introduced a rule limiting the use of digital devices to two hours per day outside of work and school. The idea was intro…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A New ReConnect
Senators Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Peter Welch (D-Vermont) have introduced a new bill that would fund USDA ReConnect grants with $650 million annually through 2030. It seems probable that, if p…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Justifying Cuts to BEAD
NTIA Assistant Secretary Arielle Roth recently made a speech at the Hudson Institute that outlined her policy positions related to reshaping the BEAD program. The changes to BEAD were initiated by …
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November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I’m Ready to Call It
I think we can now foresee the demise of traditional telephone service delivered over the PSTN (public switched telephone network). My best guess is the PSTN will ether be dead or dying by the end …
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November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Missed by BEAD
An article from the Advanced Communications Law and Policy Institute at the New York Law School claims that over 1 million locations were missed by the BEAD grants. They identified these as locatio…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Cox Wins DMCA Case
There was another interesting court decision involving Cox. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that ISPs can’t be served subpoenas related to some portions of the Digital Millenn…
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October 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Big ISPs and Speeds
I was recently reminded in a conversation with a client how cable company executives used to tell the public that they didn’t need faster broadband speeds, and what the cable companies offered was …
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October 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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AT&T Raises Rates
AT&T announced it will raise broadband rates as of December 1 by $5 per month. This is the second year in a row that the company has raised rates by that amount. The fact that the company is ra…
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October 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Where is Congress?
One of the things that mystifies me this year is how many federal elected officials have disappeared in terms of supporting broadband. For example, there has been little talk of elected officials o…
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October 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Are Spectrum Licenses Property?
There is an interesting lawsuit in the U.S Court of Appeals for the case of Ligado Networks, LLC v. United States.  Ligado Networks filed a suit that alleges that the U.S. government unlawfully too…
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October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Digital Opportunity in Action
I recently attended a wonderful event sponsored by the Blue Ridge Broadband Alliance. The Alliance is headquartered in Asheville and is focused on improving broadband in the many rural counties in …
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October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Where Were the ISPs?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how the BEAD grant program got off track. Even before the current giant swing in rules by NTIA, the program had a lot of problems. One of my observations abo…
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October 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Creative Destruction
The Nobel Prize for economics this year went to three economists who together developed an economic concept known as creative destruction. Creative destruction describes the economic impact that oc…
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October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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WiFi is the Problem
TechSee advertises itself as the world’s leading visual agentic AI platform. The company conducted a nationwide survey of  3,790 people that asked about real-world experiences and expectations arou…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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NDIA Sues Over Digital Equity Act
The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) is suing the Trump administration for cancelling the funding for the Digital Equity Act. The Digital Equity Act was created by the same IIJA legislati…
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October 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Who Will Still Need Broadband After BEAD?
A question I’ve been asked lately is what comes after BEAD. While BEAD will build good broadband networks in a lot of rural communities, it’s becoming clear that BEAD is not going to solve a lot of…
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October 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Forcing Connectivity
In August, FEMA changed its disaster policy, and everybody who receives federal aid from the agency must now have an email address and must register and deal with disaster-related issues through a …
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October 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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A New Security Risk
A new security risk has recently been brought to my attention. I was on a Teams call that included an attorney who would not let the call continue while an AI notetaker was present. His comment was…
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October 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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FCC to Review State AI Regulation
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the FCC will pursue the directive from the White House to review and possibly block state regulations related to artificial intelligence (AI). At an industr…
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October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM