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D.C. Memo: Elon Musk's SpaceX Calls on the FCC to Slash the $4.5 Billion High-Cost Fund
Starlink's parent said 'the long-standing problem of high-speed broadband network access has effectively been solved, rendering most legacy High-Cost…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Verizon CEO Sees Starlink, Amazon LEO Capped at 5 Million U.S. Subs within 10 Years
Meanwhile. New Street Research says rapidly growing Starlink doubled its global subscriber base in 2025, hitting 2.7 million U.S. customers and becoming…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: ACLP Analysis Projects BEAD-Related Pole Costs Could Reach $4.6 Billion
BEAD projects are expected to involve 3.9 million utility‑owned poles, researchers Alex Karras and Michael Santorelli of the Advanced Communications Law…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: FCC Says It Will Vote on Media Bureau Approval of Nexstar-TEGNA Merger Sometime 'This Year'
Agency tells D.C. Circuit the deal is under 'active consideration,' but wants the ‘typically deferential approach toward the management of its own…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Wall Street Keeps Selling Cable Stocks While the S&P 500 Hits All-Time Highs
Shentel and TDS stand apart from the carnage, likely because their bold pivot to fiber keeps yielding net subscriber additions
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Democrat Rosenworcel’s Progressive FCC Legacy Resides on Wikipedia, Not in the Federal Code
The Biden FCC’s pivot left on Net Neutrality and Digital Discrimination lost in federal court, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr dismantled Rosenworcel’s…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Vacated – Eighth Circuit Tosses Out Rosenworcel’s Digital Discrimination Rules over Unlawful ‘Disparate Impact’ Standard
Court took 588 days from oral arguments to deliver another major judicial setback for Biden-era communications policies embraced by FCC Democrats…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Elon the Disrupter – Starlink Slashes 100 Mbps Promotional Price to $29 a Month, with Free Hardware
The 90-day promotion appears aimed at attracting new customers who have hesitated over upfront costs
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Former GOP Presidential Hopeful Steve Forbes Hammers Critics of the Nexstar-TEGNA Merger
'Their argument has the musty smell of 1985,' Forbes says in an Op-Ed posted Monday on Fox News' website
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Here’s a Number Wall Street’s Starting to Care About: (888) GO-STARLINK
On earnings calls, analysts are starting to use up their limited quota of questions to ask CEOs if they are feeling any heat from Elon Musk's Low Earth…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Cable One Keeps Leaking Broadband Subs Under New CEO Holanda
Net debt expected to surge later in the year after taking full control of Vyve Broadband
 • Ted Hearn

April 2026

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