Full archive · updated October 2026
This is the full archive, newest first. Ten stories currently sit in it, spanning federal votes, satellite approvals, subsea cable rerouting, and one state-level speed-check launch. Each entry carries a category label and an estimated reading time so you can decide in a second whether it is worth the next five minutes. Nothing here is paywalled or gated behind a form.
How to read this page
Newest first, so a daily check takes seconds. Older filings stay on the page instead of sliding behind a button.
Each entry is labelled by beat and by story type. Both matter: a spectrum vote and a state tool read very differently.
Reading times estimate the body text, not the source links. A six-minute filing usually means procedural steps worth understanding.
Archive · newest first
The most recent filings start with Vermont's public speed-check tool, launched October 6, 2026, which lets residents test their connection and contributes to an aggregated coverage map.
Residents can run a speed test from the state's own page and see how their result sits against an aggregated coverage map. It is a straightforward tool, but the data it collects shapes how gaps get argued about later.
The October 29 vote would bar the labs from certifying devices sold in the United States, and it would also reach certification bodies in countries that do not offer reciprocal treatment to American labs.
Google, Meta, and Microsoft are reported to be scrambling for overland capacity after repeated disruption to Red Sea cable routes. Land paths carry their own limits, and latency is one of them.
The principles lay out how the senator frames oversight while no broader bill is moving. For broadband readers, the useful part is how training and inference load lands on the same networks people measure at home.
Reuters and Ipsos asked voters how much they trust the current handling of AI risk. The answers matter here because public confidence shapes how far regulators are willing to go on the infrastructure underneath.
Chapter break
Reading newest-first keeps you current. It does not explain a regulatory sequence, where one decision opens the door to the next.
Earlier filings
The archive also holds the FCC's approval for SpaceX to launch and operate 15,000 Starlink Mobile satellites, including a waiver that eases the path to offering satellite wireless service without a spectrum-leasing arrangement with a terrestrial carrier. Alongside it sits the NTIA's expectation that the 7 GHz study finishes by December 2026, with auction rules to follow. Disney's courtroom request over the FCC's early review of eight ABC station licenses, and the agency's planned October 29 vote on direct-to-device spectrum, round out the list.
Reading by category
Categories are not decoration. They let you follow one thread without wading through the rest. Pick the beat that matches what you came for.
If you care about how airwaves get assigned, read the Spectrum and Telecom entries together. If your interest is consumer-facing, Tech and the two guides will be more useful than the political filings. The Poll and AI labels group the two stories about public opinion and legislative movement, which are connected in practice even though they were filed separately.
Guides
Two guides sit alongside the news, and they answer the questions the archive keeps raising. The first walks through running a speed test that holds up: wired or wireless, time of day, what else is on the network. The second reads the result, including the difference between what you pay for and what reaches the device.
How this archive works
A short set of decisions keeps this page honest and easy to use. They apply to every entry above and to whatever gets added next.
A newsroom with ten stories does not need pagination tricks. Every entry is on one page, and we would rather you see the whole list than lose track of where you have been. When the archive grows, older items will move to a dated index rather than disappearing behind a load-more button.
Reading times are estimates for the body text, not the source links. Investigative filings that walk through rulemaking procedure take longer than a product or state-tool announcement. If a story runs past six minutes, it usually means there are procedural steps worth understanding, not that we padded it.
Three labels appear across the archive. News is straight reporting from the filings and the statements. Analysis connects a decision to its likely effect on service or capacity. Opinion appears rarely and is marked in the headline itself, never blended into a news story. Our editorial standards page describes the difference in detail.
Editorial StandardsCorrections are applied to the original story and noted at the foot of the article with the date. We do not delete stories to hide an error, and we do not silently rewrite a headline after publication. If a story is substantially wrong, the correction sits above the body text where it cannot be missed.
Keep reading
If one topic has your attention, the sections page arranges the same stories by beat. Reading the archive newest-first is good for a daily check, but it is a poor way to understand a regulatory sequence, where the order of votes matters more than the date of publication. For everything else, the newsroom has a desk you can write to.
