Craig Corbin

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/2tVcTXDK3Q via @YouTube The FCC could finally add a 4th Commissioner. Satellite broadband company Hughes declares bankruptcy. A 3rd AI model goes rogue. More scrutiny of the USF. And a really, really big AI chip manufacturing plant is on the drawing board in Texas.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

@uofnorthgeorgia Congratulations UNG!

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/zizZBwwqjg via @YouTube The FCC launches a review of E-Rate. Amazon to start satellite based mobile service. Echostar closes its deal selling spectrum to AT&T. Nex-Tech completes its fiber network in Kansas. And a Community Access Portal debut in Kingfisher, OK.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/ChqmfRV1av via @YouTube An impressive 13th launch for SpaceX’s Starship. OpenAI to build a $20 Billion data center project in the coastal region of Georgia. Oregon to raise the price for connecting subsea cables. FCC puts more C-band spectrum on the auction block.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/qJvNSd014E via @YouTube Oklahoma’s Broadband Office announces a $14.5 Million expansion of access to essential services. The DEA Grant Program gets a win in federal court. $52 Million in funding AI innovation from NTIA. And an overhaul of USF in the works by the FCC.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/RshMQJ9DqO via @YouTube The Navajo Nation approves a nearly quarter of a billion dollar broadband investment. Oregon announces reassigned BEAD awards. SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 Gen3 satellites. And WIA awards nearly $30 Million to expand workforce development.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/05zObDVhDK via @YouTube Louisiana races through BEAD NEPA reviews. C-band spectrum used by TV networks may be auctioned by the FCC. Comcast plans to spinoff NBCUniversal. Chapter 11 for Dish Wireless & a new custom built AI chip with a spicy name.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

THIS WEEK IN THE BROADBAND UNIVERSE 6 19 26 https://t.co/gwLnG0jSzt via @YouTube NTIA announces $790 Million in Tribal broadband funding. Fox acquires Roku for $22 Billion. SpaceX makes a huge AI acquisition. And the AWS-3 spectrum auction surpasses $3.4 Billion in bids.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/dZA6Z22j9b via @YouTube CPUC approves broadband grants for projects in low income areas of California. Arkansas is 1st to sign a BEAD agreement with Amazon LEO. Meta launches the Workforce Training Academy. Amazon signs a multi-billion dollar fiber deal with Corning.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/mECz4KHTuC via @YouTube E-Rate goes under the FCC’s microscope. The 1st spectrum auction in four years gets off to a slow start. Nvidia rolls out laptops specifically designed to run AI Agents & TV viewing hits a post pandemic high.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/RnhOis0sH8 via @YouTube Blue Origin’s rocket explosion is yet another setback for Amazon LEO; NYC pursues a long-term broadband strategy; Cogent Communications reaches a deal to sell 10 major data centers & Spectrum launches an ultra low latency broadband network.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/lET0gInoQr via @YouTube FBA celebrates the 25th edition of Fiber Connect; FCC issues a 1-year waiver to AT&T on foreign routers; $2 Billion awarded to quantum computing companies & Comcast sees wireless phone service as a higher priority than cable TV or broadband.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/WYcFXQss7A via @YouTube Vistabeam activates the first BEAD funded broadband subscriber nationwide; Comcast & Appalachian Power disagree on pole attachment fees; FCC greenlights the $40 Billion Echostar spectrum sale; And SpaceX & Google pursue data centers in orbit.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/Pmvweg5A91 via @YouTube Yet another BEAD mandate riding on legislation in Congress; ND wraps up its BEAD deployment contracts; The FCC’s Digital Equity Rule is struck down in court; A large acquisition for Lumen; And remembering the legend that was Ted Turner.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

@CarsBow910 Sad, but true sir. Sad but true. Thank goodness we had Ted & Superstation TBS. (spoken as a kid from WNC who now lives in Atlanta)

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/qRceb4vv2T via @YouTube Funding for USDA’s ReConnect is restored; FCC wants to streamline broadband data collection; Big growth for T-Mobile Fiber; New spectrum rules may speed up satellite broadband service; And analysts push for a merger of Comcast & Charter.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/fEwJLmSlmd via @YouTube Oklahoma receives BEAD final proposal approval; Potential cuts ahead for ReConnect; FCC denies satellite spectrum requests; T-Mobile & Deutsche Telekom look at a merger; And trouble for Blue Origin’s first commercial rocket launch.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/MR25h8pVgL via @YouTube Maine passes a ban on large data centers; Amazon makes a big splash acquiring Starlink rival Globalstar; Utilities to spend $1.5 Trillion on AI power demand; Utopia Fiber continues to expand & OpenAI gets into the streaming talkshow business.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/xO2vkceEm4 via @YouTube Data center guidelines adopted in Anchorage, Alaska; Congress urges the FCC to set a firm ATSC 3.0 transition; A new AI model from Meta; Tubi uses AI to attract Gen Z viewers; And a timely reminder about protecting underground infrastructure.

[Craig Corbin @_craigcorbin]

https://t.co/W1ewtmtaaW via @YouTube A Supreme Court win for Cox Communications; The FCC makes it easier to decommission copper networks; Foreign made routers are banned; NATE urges House passage of an Act to protect the infrastructure workforce & the end of an era in radio news.