Today’s Headlines
■ Don’t Make ISPs Contribute to the USF, Conservative Groups Say
■ Trailing Moulton Has New Take on Polls Ahead of Sept. 1 Primary
■ DIRECTV Asks Supreme Court to Drop Nexstar’s Retrans-Related Antitrust Case
■ Arielle Roth: Spending $100K Per BEAD Location ‘An Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars’
■ Sen. Deb Fischer Discusses Farm Bill and Rural Broadband
■ Verizon Assures Rappahannock County, Virginia, on POTS Cutoff
■ In the age of Zoom, Media Still Preoccupied by ‘Meetings,’ Even Canceled Ones
■ People: Blair Levin Leaving Policy Post at New Street Research
■ Former FCC Space Bureau Chief Jay Schwarz Forms Stratum Policy
ISPs: GFiber topped CNET’s 2026 rankings for best Internet Service Provider, earning the highest scores for price transparency, value, and customer satisfaction. CNET said GFiber’s FCC broadband labels were easy to access and its flat, no‑contract pricing earned a perfect transparency score. The outlet found GFiber offered the strongest speed‑to‑price ratio among all ISPs tested and ranked third in customer satisfaction at 9.3 [out of 10]. “No other ISP we evaluated offers a better price for the speeds,” CNET writer Trisha Jandoc said. (More after paywall)
