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988 Fee Lobbying Irks State Legislators

Top News|26 Jul 2021|Ref: 2107230050|by Adam Bender, Jimm Phillips, and Matt Daneman

It's not just congressional Democrats upset about wireless industry lobbying and other efforts to keep a lower lid on customer surcharges for mental-health services related to hotlines, we found. State legislators are also irked, they said in recent interviews. Federal…Subscribe to Read >>

FCC Net Neutrality Moves Could Come With Other Action on EO

Top News|26 Jul 2021|Ref: 2107220014|by Matt Daneman

Items adjacent to net neutrality in President Joe Biden's executive order issued earlier this month (see 2107090006) could get packaged together with net neutrality or at least all be on deck for FCC meetings late this year or early 2022…Subscribe to Read >>

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NY, ISPs Seek to Settle -- for Now -- Cheap-Broadband Case

Bulletin|23 Jul 2021|Ref: 2107230032|by Adam Bender

New York wouldn't enforce its cheap-broadband law as part of a settlement with ISP associations including the New York State Telecommunications Association, USTelecom and CTIA.Read More >>

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BSA|The Software Alliance taps Gideon Lett, ex-Access Partnership, as chief growth officer ... Windstream's Kinetic hires Logan Shine, formerly in Iowa governor’s office, as vice president-state government affairs, Iowa, and Ann Ames, ex-deputy chief administrative officer of Nebraska's Lancaster County, in same position as Shine but for Nebraska ... Filecoin Foundation names digital rights expert Danny O’Brien, ex-Electronic Frontier Foundation, a senior fellow.

Georgia Public Service Commission unanimously elects Tricia Pridemore chairman; her term is through 2024 ... Nexstar Media promotes Ron Romines to senior vice president-regional manager, overseeing "broadcast and digital operations in various markets across the country" ... Amobee, TV and social media advertising tech company, hires Dentsu’s Nick Brien as CEO, replacing Samba Natarajan, who will refocus on his CEO role of strategic portfolio at parent Singtel Group and continue as an Amobee board member.

Gov. Janet Mills (D) swears in board of Maine Connectivity Authority, a new agency "charged with achieving universal availability of high-speed broadband": Carlos Barrionuevo, Georgetown Broadband; Maine Community College System Chief Workforce Development Officer Daniel Belyea; John Chandler, BerryDunn; Danielle Louder, Northeast Telehealth Resource Center; Michael Reed, who has coordinated municipal broadband projects; Tilson Technology General Counsel Tim Schneider; and Robert Souza, recently retired from Otelco.

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