Today’s Headlines
■ Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan Has a Joe Russo Problem
■ Confident Sen. Markey Already Seeking Boston Interns in 2027
■ Musk Disputes Ukraine’s Claims about Starlink’s War Role
■ SpaceX to FCC: Do Not Use E-Rate Money to Overbuild Existing ISPs
■ Consumers’ Research: E-Rate Meant for Baseline Telecommunications Discounts
■ New Mexico Signs First BEAD Contract Worth $26.9 Million with Kit Carson Electric Cooperative
■ Alaska Communications Reaches Deal to Become Authorized Starlink Reseller
■ Netflix Is Laying Off about 6% of Its Employees or 1,000 Workers
■ Pine Bluff Cable TV Offering $10,000 Reward After Fiber Vandalism
■ NCTC Promotes Steve Beardslee, Rob Smith, Shelley Thompson and Stewart Myers to SVP
USF: Alaska is close to seeing a large influx of universal service cash. The FCC is preparing to vote on a plan from Chairman Brendan Carr that would make $162 million available to expand mobile broadband in hard‑to‑serve parts of Alaska. Carr made the announcement Tuesday on a visit to Alaska, joining President Trump at a campaign rally for Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) in Wasilla. “We have brought hundreds of millions of dollars to the state [and] thousands of people are newly connected. We have high-speed Internet going across the state, but the job’s not done. We are committed to working with Sen. Sullivan until we can finish the job of getting every single person in Alaska connected to high-speed Internet,” Carr said at the Wasilla rally, speaking in his personal capacity. (More after paywall)
