Author Archives: Susan Carter

The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority has scheduled an industry roundtable for December 8th at 10:00 a.m. to provide potential BEAD grant applicants an update on the program and to discuss […]

Today’s the day. A public notice from the FCC announced the release of the “pre-production” draft of the National Broadband Map and the accompanying ability of those interested to begin […]

A week from today, in accordance with the requirements of the Broadband Data Act, the FCC will unveil its first broadband map, labeled by the Commission as a “pre-production draft.”  […]

The FCC issued a consumer alert this week calling on phone companies to “heighten their vigilance and take decisive measures to block student loan debt scam robocalls.” The recent announcements […]

Data breaches and personal information are front and center in legislation passed by the legislature this week in the form of Senate Bill 696. Sponsored by Senator Dan Laughlin (R-Erie), […]

On Tuesday the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee took steps to fill two long-empty seats on the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and re-up John Coleman who has served […]

Get ready for another acronym. Yesterday the White House released a fact sheet announcing the “Action Plan for Accelerating Infrastructure Projects”, organized by the theme of “On Time, On Task […]

Big news on the national RLEC front with the mid-week announcement that Brightspeed has closed its $7.5 billion deal to acquire Lumen’s assets in Pennsylvania and 19 other states. In […]

The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority’s subcommittees had their inaugural meetings this week and the Technical Subcommittee (on which PTA serves) focused on a variety of topics, most notably comments to […]