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D.C. Memo: Earthquake in the Sky – SpaceX Pays $8 Billion for Grain Management Airwaves to Advance Starlink Mobile

Wall Street dumps AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon shares on Grain transaction news despite repeated leadership claims by the mobile incumbents that Starlink…

Oct 9 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: BEAD Deployments to Flood 811 System Designed to Shield Buried Gas Lines from Damage: ACLP Study

Analysts say buried routes will generate about 1.4 million 811 tickets, triggering roughly 8.1 million facility locates, most of them for service drops

Oct 8 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: Starlink Not a Threat to Big Cable – For Now, New Street Research Says

‘The data to date shows no major impact on the wired broadband operators in the U.S., mostly because Starlink has been focused on rural markets where…

Oct 7 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: NAB CEO Warns ‘NFL is Playing with Fire’ by Moving Games to Streaming Platforms

‘We are seeing study after study that shows the mounting consumer frustration with needing to buy a new subscription service just to follow your…

Oct 6 • Ted Hearn

D.C. Memo: ALLO Fiber Sells Joplin, Missouri, Network to Lumos without Any Explanation

The deal comes after Lumos sought approval in July to build out Joplin, taking on ALLO and Cable One

Oct 5 • Ted Hearn

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

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