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West Virginia Secures $4 Billion Artificial Intelligence Data Center Investment
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (202+ words) Penzance project marks the state's first High Impact Intelligence Center designation. WASHINGTON, March 9, 2026 " West Virginia secured a $4 billion private-sector investment from Penzance Management to develop the state's first designated High Impact Intelligence Center, Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R) announced on Feb. 26. The…...
Malik Khan: The Beginning of a Post-Satellite Era for B2B Media Distribution?
18+ hour, 37+ min ago (432+ words) Broadcasters face a shrinking window to modernize their distribution infrastructure as upcoming FCC spectrum auctions threaten to eliminate much of the C-band satellite capacity. B2B media distribution in the United States is entering a period of major change in how programming…...
Paris-Based Orange CEO Said Telecoms Are Undervalued Backbone of Digital Economy
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (366+ words) BARCELONA, March 7, 2026 " European telecommunications companies are capturing a fraction of the value they create, Orange's chief executive said Tuesday at Mobile World Congress, describing an industry that runs the backbone of the global digital economy while collecting less than 5 percent…...
ACLP Study Suggests NTIA Is Steering BEAD Billions to Many Weakling ISPs
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (90+ words) ACLP said small ISPs set to expand their markets drastically because of BEAD money may not have 'the bona fides' to meet their deployment commitments Some CBRS users fear interference if the FCC raises power limits. At the Benton Institute…...
Marcelo Oliveira: The Router is the Next Strategic Battleground for ISPs
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (789+ words) ISPs risk ceding the high-value digital services layer of the connected home to tech giants like Amazon and Google. Amazon's recent announcement of backup internet capabilities through its eero platform may look like a simple resilience feature. But it signals…...
President Trump Issues ‘Rate Payer Protection Pledge’ Proclamation
3+ day, 47+ min ago (540+ words) Experts have said data centers are being added significantly faster than capacity is likely to catch up WASHINGTON, March 6, 2026 " Flanked by executives of some of the largest tech companies in the United States, President Trump signed the "Rate Payer Protection…...
NTIA Needs More Time to Issue Guidance on Non-Deployment Funding, State AI Laws
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (544+ words) Agency guidance on the issue was expected March 11. WASHINGTON, March 6, 2026 " Federal guidance on how states can spend $21 billion in broadband funding, and on which states are potentially ineligible to use their slice of the money, has been delayed. The head…...
AWS Says Telecoms Will Outsource AI Infrastructure as On-Premises Costs Prove Prohibitive
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (337+ words) Capital budgets already stretched across broadband and capacity are constraining room for GPU investment for the industry. BARCELONA, March 5, 2026 " AWS, the cloud computing division of Amazon, said telecommunications operators are shifting from manual to autonomous network operations and will increasingly…...
City of Bellevue In Iowa to Sunset Cable TV, Citing Streaming Network Competition
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (310+ words) Bellevue's broadband network will continue to operate. March 5, 2026 " The city of Bellevue, Iowa, will be sunsetting its cable television service Oct. 1, following almost two decades of operation, citing increased competition from streaming platforms and financial challenges." The notice was sent…...
At Mobile World Congress, Attendees Flag AI, Tech Sovereignty, and Geopolitics
4+ day, 5+ min ago (681+ words) A global telecom cold war as 70 percent of AI computing infrastructure sits in the U.S., but Chinese equipment vendors are ascendant elsewhere BARCELONA, Mar 5, 2026 " Telecommunications industry leaders gathering at Mobile World Congress here this week highlighted many of the themes emerging…...