Jessica Rosenworcel became the first permanent chairwoman of the FCC following Senate confirmation today of her new five-year term as a commissioner. She had been appointed acting chair by President Joe Biden shortly after he took office, and he appointed…
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Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg offered an update to the investor community about Verizon this morning via the UBS Global TMT Virtual Conference 2021. Among many topics, the company’s push into fixed wireless was a hot topic, with Vestberg sharing insight…
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By 2027, 5G will be the dominant mobile access technology, according to a 5G forecast from the latest Ericsson Mobility Report. At that time it will have 4.4 billion subscribers globally, according to the report. Also by 2027, 5G will…
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Lumos Networks is expanding its Virginia fiber footprint with the addition of 12,000 homes and businesses in five communities. The project, which the company says will be completed by the end of next year, will bring an all-fiber network to…
Jessica Rosenworcel became the first permanent chairwoman of the FCC following Senate confirmation today of her new five-year term as a commissioner. She had been appointed acting chair by President Joe Biden shortly after he took office, and he appointed…
After securing FCC approval, Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. has closed the second stage of the previously disclosed $75 million investment transaction with an affiliate of Searchlight Capital Partners, L.P. The investment is part of the aggregate $425 million investment from…
The Broadband Forum today unveiled a framework, TR-466, defining a new metro-compute networking architecture designed to move applications or content toward lower edge tiers in the network hierarchy. The goal is to provide users with a better Quality of Experience…
In this episode of the Broadband Bunch, Pete chats with Camilla Formica of NCTI. Listen in as we discuss how organizations should tackle workforce challenges facing the broadband industry.
After years of broadband subscriber losses, larger telecom companies are poised to see subscriber gains in the 2023 to 2024 time frame, according to researchers at investment bank Cowen. This will occur as the telecom companies complete “record-setting” fiber broadband…
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg offered an update to the investor community about Verizon this morning via the UBS Global TMT Virtual Conference 2021. Among many topics, the company’s push into fixed wireless was a hot topic, with Vestberg sharing insight…
At the same time that the government is making unprecedented funding available for broadband, it also is considering setting more ambitious broadband goals. A new set of ambitious goals came this week from the FCC Precision Agriculture Task Force which,…
Smartphone shipments will reach 1.35 billion by the end of the year, representing a 5.3% increase over the number shipped in 2020, according to a new forecast from International Data Corp (IDC). Total smartphone shipments for the year are less…
Resound Networks is seeing speeds of 1 Gbps downstream per customer over distances of five miles using fixed wireless equipment in rural deployments in the 5 GHz band, said Resound Networks CEO Tyson Curtis in an interview with Telecompetitor. To…
Verizon Business says that it is extending its network-as-a-service (NaaS) capabilities by adding software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) based services from Cisco that include options for both 4G and 5G connectivity. The new offerings, which are built upon Cisco’s managed services…
The average fixed wireless downstream speed used is 5.19 Mbps, according to new research from Preseem, a company that specializes in fixed wireless analytics and that gathers anonymized data from fixed wireless subscribers located primarily in the U.S. The average…
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