More than half of the record-breaking $81 billion spent in the C-band auction is attributable to a single bidder – Verizon. The company had the most winning bids — for a total of 3,511 licenses — for which the company…
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FCC Circulates Report and Order on $3.2B Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
The FCC is circulating a Report and Order for administering the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program. The program would provide $3.2 billion for qualifying households with assistance on their Internet bills and in acquiring a computer or tablet. The Emergency Broadband…
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Funding a Dish 5G Network: Speculation About a Major Disruptive Partner
Dish has been making a lot of announcements about the 5G wireless network it plans to build. But the company hasn’t said much about how it will fund network construction – and that’s creating a lot of speculation in the…
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Consolidated Public-Private Broadband Projects Nearing Completion
Consolidated Communications is closing in on completion of the latest in a string of public-private broadband projects. The company has completed construction of FTTP networks supporting speeds up to a gigabit in three New Hampshire towns and is working on…
Verizon Winning Bids In 5G C-Band Auction are More Than Half of the Record $81 Billion Total
More than half of the record-breaking $81 billion spent in the C-band auction is attributable to a single bidder – Verizon. The company had the most winning bids — for a total of 3,511 licenses — for which the company…
TDS Telecom Outlines Gigabit Fiber Expansion into Boise
TDS Telecom is expanding its gigabit fiber broadband service to more than 26,000 homes and businesses in Boise, Idaho, the company says. Consumers will be offered speeds up to 1 Gbps, TDS TV+ IPTV and voice options. Business customers will…
Provider Associations Spar Over RDOF Gigabit Fixed Wireless
The debate about whether fixed wireless is a suitable technology for meeting gigabit speed requirements in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) program continues. Yesterday, the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) sent the FCC a rebuttal to an FCC…
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With $1.9 Billion in Hand, FCC Gets Set for Huawei Rip-and-Replace
The FCC is getting set to implement plans to require smaller rural wireless carriers to rip and replace equipment from Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE. The commission was allocated $1.895 billion in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 for that…
FCC Circulates Report and Order on $3.2B Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
The FCC is circulating a Report and Order for administering the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program. The program would provide $3.2 billion for qualifying households with assistance on their Internet bills and in acquiring a computer or tablet. The Emergency Broadband…
Dobson Fiber Acquires Pinnacle Communications
Dobson Fiber announced it has acquired Ft. Smith, Ark. -based Pinnacle Communications, which provides high-speed fiber to business and residential customers in parts of Western Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma, for an undisclosed sum. The Dobson Fiber-Pinnacle transaction increases Dobson’s fiber…
FirstNet Footprint Now Covers 2.7 Million Square Miles, Serves 15K Agencies
FirstNet added almost 100,000 square miles to its coverage area footprint during 2020, the organization reported in an update. The public/private safety network operates on AT&T infrastructure. It now covers more than 2.71 million square miles, has more than 2…
T-Mobile Magenta MAX Plan Includes Throttle-Free, Unlimited “Premium” Data
T-Mobile today introduced the Magenta MAX plan, which will provide unlimited 4G and 5G data on users’ smartphones without throttling for heavy data usage. Magenta MAX launches Wednesday. Customers under all MAX plans, including those for single-line users, can stream…
Musk Sees Starlink Satellite Broadband Service Offering 300 Mbps Soon
Space X CEO Elon Musk is setting some pretty high expectations for his Starlink satellite broadband service the only way he knows how. Through Twitter of course. In reply to other tweets about Starlink broadband service, Musk says he expects…
Comcast Pushes Back Broadband Data Cap Policy Again
A planned Comcast broadband data cap policy for its markets in the Northeast has been pushed back again. The nation’s largest wireline broadband service provider by total subscribers says the data cap policy will be delayed until 2022. This is…
Funding a Dish 5G Network: Speculation About a Major Disruptive Partner
Dish has been making a lot of announcements about the 5G wireless network it plans to build. But the company hasn’t said much about how it will fund network construction – and that’s creating a lot of speculation in the…
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