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The Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal by Dish Network, a move that effectively ends the companys pursuit of $515 million and 197 AWS-3 spectrum licenses.

We did have some staff reductions, Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi told Light Reading. These kinds of adjustments are necessary at this stage.

This week in broadband builds: Verizons rural builds in Virginia and Pennsylvania, Comcast expands in Minnesota, SiFi Networks to connect 78,000 in Illinois, and more.

The worlds biggest public cloud has opened a $100 million AI innovation center and spies a huge opportunity in the telco sector.

Only a few hours remain for service providers, vendors and their partners to submit nominations for their outstanding achievements in 5G, broadband, optical networking, AI, digital transformation and more as part of Light Readings Leading Lights awards program.

Not everyone inside the O-RAN Alliance is happy about approved changes to the open fronthaul specification.

The $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program will see Texas receive the largest sum, at $3.3 billion, followed by California ($1.8B) and Missouri ($1.7B) to build high-speed Internet.

Also in todays EMEA regional roundup: EE upgrades for the festival season; Skyvera migrates mystery Eastern European telco to its BSS/OSS; Telenor chooses VoLTE from WG2 for IoT customers.

This week in broadband builds: Fidium Fiber continues footprint upgrade; Spectrum, Frontier, AT&T to get grants in Michigan; GoNetspeed progresses in Connecticut and more.

After proposed network sharing deal between Telstra and TPG fails on appeal in Australia, critics call for shift away from infrastructure-based competition to neutral host.