Today’s Headlines
■ Verizon Adds 155,000 Fiber, 159,000 FWA Subs in Q3, Lagging AT&T
■ S&P Global: Midcontinent Needs to Worry about Starlink in Its Rural Backyard
■ NAB Handles Fiery Gomez Letter with Cautious Response
■ X Post of the Day: Speaker Johnson Backs Carr on Fake Polls Tainting Elections
■ Michael O’Rielly: States Need to Let Telcos Retire Aging Copper Plant
■ DOJ Sues Alaska Officials over Appearance of Second Dan Sullivan on Ballot
■ NTIA Promotes LEO Service ahead of WRC in Shanghai, China
■ Trump Signs Wireless Alerts Law after Texas Flooding Disaster in 2025
■ Cogeco Rolls Out Value Broadband Brand welo in East-Central New Hampshire
■ More than 100 Workers Will Lose Their Jobs if The Blade Closes in Toledo
■ Former First Trump Administration Aide Concerned about FCC Marketplace Liability Rules
LEO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said restrictions affecting low-Earth orbit communications support for Ukraine’s military have been resolved, with Starlink and Starshield services restored to previous operating speeds. “The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions,” Zelensky wrote on Oct. 24 on his X feed. Starlink CEO Elon Musk addressed the issue several hours later. “Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be,” he said to his 241 million followers on X. “Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.” (More after paywall)
