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07/31/2024
ACP, Rip-and-Replace and AI Make it Out of Markup
Refunding the Affordable Connectivity Program may have bipartisan support, but that wasn’t the case at Wednesday’s Senate Commerce markup.
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05/08/2024
Amendment Keeps ACP Hope Alive, Would Fund Rip & Replace
Is Congress down with ACP? Maybe. Late Tuesday, a bipartisan group of Senators filed an amendment to the FAA reauthorization that would include $6 billion for the Affordable Connectivity Program.
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08/17/2023
RDOF Winners Group Seeks More Money or Amnesty for Defaults
A Coalition of RDOF Winners filed an emergency petition at the FCC asking it to grant supplemental funding or a potential amnesty period to allow RDOF auction winners to relinquish all or part of their winnings without penalties.
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06/21/2023
GOP Senators Want COVID Funds Reallocated to ACP
Sen Roger Wicker (R-MS) and several Republican colleagues have asked President Biden to repurpose a portion of unobligated emergency COVID relief funds to the Affordable Connectivity Fund (ACP) while they explore “alternative sustainable funding mechanisms and updated parameters.”
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12/08/2022
Wicker Wants Big Tech Hearing This Year
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) is asking Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to hold a hearing on the state of free speech on social media before the end of this Congress. In a letter, he said the release of internal communications from Twitter’s content moderation team signaled a need for the hearing. Those documents indicated that Twitter was working with the Biden campaign to take down posts.
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11/18/2022
FCC Unveils National Broadband Map Draft
The FCC marked a major milestone Friday with the release of the pre-production draft of its new National Broadband Map. The map displays location-level information about broadband services available throughout the country, a major step up from the census block level data used to create the agency’s previous maps.