On Tuesday, the Senate Communications and Technology Committee reported out Senate Bill 491, legislation sponsored by Senator Kristin Phillips-Hill modernizing the telecom portions of the Pennsylvania Utility Code. During the […]
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Industry News: 10-24-25
By virtue of this week’s publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, review of the state’s Universal Service Fund has been reenergized in the form of the USF Working Group which will […]
Legislature: 10-17-25
Prevailing wage legislation designed to have technicians working on BEAD projects paid at the appropriate level dropped in the Senate this week in the form of Senate Bill 1042. Sponsored […]
Industry News: 10-3-25
With the federal government shutdown officially thrust upon us, industry experts are opining as to the impact on telecom with most anticipating relatively minimal disruption. The FCC has a plan […]
Industry News: 9-26-25
More bumps in the road for Pennsylvania’s BEAD program as the state’s Prevailing Wage Appeals Board decided earlier this week that the higher wage rate for broadband installers is still […]
Industry News: 9-12-25
At its Public Meeting yesterday, the PA PUC unanimously approved the abandonment application of Comcast Business Communications, an entity which the company said has no retail VoIP customers in Pennsylvania. […]
Legislature: 9-5-25
Saying (in a co-sponsor memo) that data centers are a “vital component of our technological, AI driven world” which also “consume an enormous amount of energy”, Representative Rob Matzie (D-Beaver) […]
Industry News: 8-22-25
If you have something to say about the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority’s Final Proposal on the BEAD program the clock is ticking. The PBDA posted the draft Final Proposal on […]
Industry News: 8-15-25
Yesterday, the FCC issued a news release following up on its issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking to streamline the permitting process regarding impacts of broadband infrastructure deployment […]