The percentage of broadband households that had a remote healthcare visit increased from 15% in 2019 to 41% last year, according to a telehealth adoption report from Parks Associates. The firm also found that 29% of respondents are very likely…
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The FCC yesterday adopted additional rules for the Digital Opportunity Data Collection with the goal of gaining more accurate broadband availability data. It’s an important move, as several planned government broadband funding initiatives will not move forward until more accurate…
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Frontier and CenturyLink told the FCC they may not have met all deployment deadlines for 2020 for the Connect America Fund CAF II rural broadband program. If so, that would mark the second time the companies have missed CAF II…
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Ninety-four ISPs added wired broadband plans costing $60 per month or less during the fourth quarter of 2020, according to a new broadband price report from BroadbandNow. The research used the FCC broadband definition of 25 Mbps downstream and 3…
Verizon has rolled out 5G vRAN (virtualized radio access network) technology from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The technology aims to help create more programmable networks that dynamically allocate resources. Verizon is also deploying Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) from Samsung. DSS…
President Biden has appointed Jessica Rosenworcel to serve as acting chairwoman of the FCC now that former chairman Ajit Pai has stepped down with the change in presidential administration. Rosenworcel has served as FCC commissioner since 2012, with an interruption…
The percentage of broadband households that had a remote healthcare visit increased from 15% in 2019 to 41% last year, according to a telehealth adoption report from Parks Associates. The firm also found that 29% of respondents are very likely…
The 2021 FCC Broadband Deployment Report was released yesterday, just nine months after the 2020 report came out and just one day before today’s change in administration. The report found that “significant progress has been made to bridge the digital…
The FCC yesterday adopted additional rules for the Digital Opportunity Data Collection with the goal of gaining more accurate broadband availability data. It’s an important move, as several planned government broadband funding initiatives will not move forward until more accurate…
Verizon and 3D technology company Unity are partnering on projects aimed at leveraging the carrier’s 5G Ultra Wideband and mobile edge computing (MEC) in combination with Unity’s technology to support 3D applications. The idea is to enable interactive real time…
A broad coalition of Republican and Democratic senators and representatives have sent a letter to the FCC asking the commission to thoroughly vet RDOF auction winners. At stake is $9 billion in rural broadband funding awarded through the reverse auction,…
In our fourth installment of Telecompetitor’s Broadband Industry Innovator video series, I speak with Mark Mrla, Director, Strategy Operations at Finley, about state run broadband funding programs. There is much attention on federal programs like the FCC’s RDOF program and…
Frontier and CenturyLink told the FCC they may not have met all deployment deadlines for 2020 for the Connect America Fund CAF II rural broadband program. If so, that would mark the second time the companies have missed CAF II…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has chosen 14 pilot programs over 11 states for the Connected Care Pilot Program, awarding applicants $26.6 million for their proposed projects. The program started taking applications for a projected $100 million in awards in…
The bidding in the clock phase of the FCC’s C-band spectrum auction has ended. In all, FCC Auction 107 grossed more than $80.9 billion, almost double the previous auction record of $44.9 billion. Bidders won all 5,684 spectrum blocks up…
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