Industry News – 7-9-21

Net neutrality proponents must be on the edge of their seats awaiting today’s Executive Order from President Joe Biden urging the FCC to reinstate the rules nixed by his predecessor […]

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Legislature – 7-2-21

Last week, the House Transportation Committee unanimously approved Representative Doyle Heffley’s bill providing for potential cost sharing agreements between ILECs and PaDOT, when infrastructure needs to be moved for road […]

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Legislature – 6-18-21

The House Transportation Committee is the recipient of legislation (HB1658), introduced yesterday by Representative Doyle Heffley which would allow landline telcos to enter into cost sharing agreements with Pa DOT […]

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Legislature – 6-11-21

The House Consumer Affairs Committee is poised to consider legislation which provides for an inventory of state-owned assets which can be used for broadband deployment. Sponsored by Senator Kristin Phillips-Hill, […]

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Legislature – 06-04-21

Introduced and referred to the House Consumer Affairs Committee yesterday, Representative Pam Snyder’s HB 1488 addresses broadband on a number of fronts. First, the bill changes the 1.544 Mbps minimum […]

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Legislature – 5-21-21

On Monday, the Senate Communications & Technology Committee will meet to consider Senate Bill 696 which, among other things, requires state agencies to notify individuals of a data breach within […]

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Legislature – 4-30-21

The Senate doubled down on last week’s missive to Governor Wolf regarding the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), with this week’s support of Senate Bill 119 by the Environmental Resources […]

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Legislature – 4-23-21

Calling the legislation part of a “multi-faceted approach to closing the digital divide” Senate Communications and Technology Chairman Kristin Phillips-Hill teed up Senate Bill 341 for committee consideration on Tuesday. […]

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Industry News – 4-16-21

At its public meeting yesterday, the PA PUC unanimously approved the Competitive Access Provider applications of Get Wireless Inc. and Hudson Fiber Network Inc to provide service throughout the state. […]

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