{"id":230110,"date":"2025-06-05T23:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/fcc-commissioner-spectrum-allocation-broadband-expansion"},"modified":"2025-06-05T23:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:29:53","slug":"an-fcc-commissioner-explains-spectrum-allocation-broadband-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=230110","title":{"rendered":"An FCC Commissioner Explains Spectrum Allocation + Broadband Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/fcc-commissioner-spectrum-allocation-broadband-expansion\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/hubfs\/AdobeStock_762900574.jpeg\" alt=\"Colored light streams through darkness\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In this episode of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.telegeography.com\/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast\">TeleGeography Explains the Internet<\/a> <\/em>podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/\">FCC<\/a> Commissioner Nathan Simington joins&nbsp;the show for a deep dive into the evolving world of spectrum allocation, broadband infrastructure, submarine cable policy, and cybersecurity. With a unique background in finance, law, and policy, Simington offers an interesting perspective on the complexities of the current telecom environment and where federal policy is headed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=594292&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.telegeography.com%2Ffcc-commissioner-spectrum-allocation-broadband-expansion&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.telegeography.com&amp;bvt=rss\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of the TeleGeography Explains the Internet podcast, FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington joins&nbsp;the show for a deep dive into the evolving world of spectrum allocation, broadband infrastructure, submarine cable policy, and cyb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5042,480,5027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-networks","category-podcast","category-submarine-cables"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230127,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230110\/revisions\/230127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}