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D.C. Memo: SpaceX Has Company – Consumers’ Research Urges FCC to Fold the $4.5 Billion High Cost Fund

The FCC ‘should not extend legacy support to locations that unsubsidized providers already serve,’ Consumers’ Research Executive Director Will Hild says

Oct 2 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: Disney Is Fighting FCC ‘At the Wrong Time in the Wrong Court,’ Carr Says

Agency Chief Insists No Decisions Have Been Made about the License Renewal of Eight Disney-Owned ABC Stations

Oct 1 • Ted Hearn

September 2026

D.C. Memo: FCC Backs DISH Network in Must Carry Dispute with Georgia TV Station, Nixing Rosenworcel-Era Precedent

Agency holds that a TV station may not elect DBS must carry in two Nielsen Designated Market Areas at the same time. Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna…

Sep 30 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: SpaceX Deploys Powerful V3 Satellites Aimed at Low-Density ISPs Globally

“It really was a spectacular milestone in a lot of ways,” Craig Moffett, Senior Research Analyst at MoffettNathanson, told CNBC

Sep 29 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: FCC Hits Pause on Verizon’s Copper Retirement Plan

By contrast, the FCC in June granted AT&T’s request to discontinue copper voice services at more than 184,000 locations in California

Sep 28 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: Carr Slams House Democrats Opposed to Alerting Parents to LGBTQ Content in Children’s TV Programming

FCC Chairman tells hostile Democrats, ‘Keeping parents in the dark about the nature of these programs is a feature not a bug of the effort’

Sep 25 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: Blair Levin’s Conspiracy Theory – Lutnick Delayed BEAD Just to Help Musk’s Starlink

But the Wall Street analyst’s dubious foot-dragging theory appears to be a few LEO satellites short of a constellation

Sep 24 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: Cable One Takes on Mega Debt to Finance Vyve Broadband Acquisition

Regional ISP borrows $700 million apparently to help acquire the 55% of Vyve parent Mega Broadband Investments Holdings that it did not previously own

Sep 23 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: Colorado Cancels $103 Million BEAD Award After Probe Finds Host of Problems, Including Missing Funds

Colorado Broadband Office terminates Maverix Broadband’s BEAD grants and refers the case to the state’s Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Treasury…

Sep 22 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: Trump, Carr Tell AI Policy Alarmists and Doomsayers – This Is Not Going to Be Your Net Neutrality Hoax 2.0

Trump to create an AI Force run by an AI Czar – ‘Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!’ the President says

Sep 21 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: Investor Ron Baron Expects Starlink’s Value to Reach $14 Trillion, Fueled by $1 Trillion in Revenue within 10 Years

Eventually, he said the majority of Starlink’s revenue will come from government, enterprise, and mobile

Sep 18 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: U.S. ISPs Spent $92.6 Billion on Capex In 2025; Google Alone to Spend $205 Billion in 2026

“Fiber isn’t just wiring for today’s Internet – it’s the load-bearing infrastructure for whatever comes next,” USTelecom CEO Jonathan Spalter said

Sep 17 • Ted Hearn

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