This is so cool! Check out Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Community Network map, which compellingly displays the more than 400 municipal broadband networks in operation today, serving more than 700 communities 🛜 communitynets.org/content/commun…

Jake Varn with a new piece covering the post-ACP reality for states and their deployment goals pew.org/3MTXLw9 via The Pew Trusts

New from Pew: Every State Identifies Broadband Affordability as Primary Barrier to Closing Digital Divide pew.org/4h4obt5 via The Pew Trusts

We just published a report on the status of communications services in areas affected by Hurricane Helene: fcc.gov/document/hurri…

New by me —> With Hurricane Milton looming and cellular networks damaged, Florida's NPR stations got a lower-bandwidth way to reach residents yesterday. (Text-only news sites!) niemanlab.org/2024/10/with-h…

New from 404 Media: hackers have breached a part of Verizon and stolen "call logs." Relates to Verizon's push-to-talk product, marketed to government agencies, enterprises. Being advertised on Russian forum; hack was by young criminals, not a nation state 404media.co/hackers-advert…

Some news: Federal emergency response officials had workers in hard-hit Rutherford County NC move to a safe area after the National Guard encountered pick up trucks of “armed militia saying there were out hunting FEMA,” per a USFS email sent to agencies wapo.st/3BM0GEP

Exclusive: Verizon bid for Frontier faces investor skepticism, sources say reut.rs/48bYJ0r

“It looks to me like Brendan Carr is reading the political tea leaves to say being in good with Elon Musk is how you advance in the next Trump administration.” Craig Aaron told John Hendel politico.com/news/2024/10/1…

We just published today's report on the status of communications services in areas affected by Hurricane Helene: fcc.gov/document/hurri…

NEW: We watched as privacy advocates geofenced an abortion clinic in Florida, where the procedure remains legal, and identified specific devices that came from Alabama, where it is not. Inside the wild world of phone tracking data for sale. notus.org/technology/cel…

Elon Musk has secretly been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022 on.wsj.com/48jWPuO on.wsj.com/48jWPuO

the throughline is tech corporate stewardship and bracing for a trump presidency big tech moguls who dont own media companies doing the same even if you believe editorial board influence is waning in the internet age, i cant see how this does anything but neuter them further

NEW: My cheat sheet to Tuesday features more than 500 races up and down the ballot. Now we have it in PDF, printable form: Save it, print it, give it to your kids to color the electoral college, & use it your worksheet on Tuesday night. Find it here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-b…

Johnson backpedals after saying Republicans will ‘probably’ repeal the CHIPS Act ow.ly/7UTF105NEFp

CNBC's David Faber: "The real winner is the M&A market..." Says that CEOs in the media industry - Comcast and Warner Brothers - are now talking about mergers. Says Comcast may merge with Charter, Exxon and Chevron may merge.

Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can’t punish us for selling user location data arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Verizon customers in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest lost internet access briefly before service was restored early Tuesday. wapo.st/4fnDiMC

New: Trump taps Brendan Carr, currently the senior Republican on the FCC, as FCC chairman. “His current term runs through 2029 and, because of his great work, I will now be designating him as permanent Chairman,” Trump says.

T-Mobile is part of the consortium that won Louisiana's biggest Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) award. However, the company declined to provide much detail about the role it's playing. lightreading.com/fttx/t-mobile-…