A draft of the Senate infrastructure bill shows $40 billion in broadband funding going to individual states to go toward the cost of deploying broadband to unserved or underserved areas. The program would target areas lacking service at speeds of…
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When it comes to precision agriculture, broadband is moving beyond being nice to have; instead, it is fast becoming a “must have,” according to a new report from NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association. The 28-page report, titled “From Fiber to Field:…
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Windstream CEO Tony Thomas addressed the fiber broadband industry today at Fiber Connect, taking place in Nashville. With a theme of Windstream’s growing broadband ambitions, Thomas also revealed he’s no fan of the RDOF program implementation and he is among…
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Each of the big three wireless providers won a category in RootMetrics’s 5G report for the first half of 2021, but AT&T was tops in “Best Everyday 5G Experience”– a new category measured by RootMetrics. The category was added in…
Regional broadband provider Comporium and the York Electric Cooperative (YEC) last week connected the first of 5,000 unserved people they will bring service to in western York and parts of Cherokee counties, S.C. The two organizations formed a partnership to…
A draft of the Senate broadband infrastructure bill shows a budget of $685 million for a program aimed at increasing broadband adoption. The draft also shows that the Senate is considering renaming the Emergency Broadband Benefits affordability program and extending…
Year-over-year worldwide growth of Chromebooks was almost 70% and tablet unit sales grew 4.2% during the second quarter, according to International Data Corp (IDC). The latest findings of the firm’s Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker found that Chromebook volume…
A draft of the Senate infrastructure bill shows $40 billion in broadband funding going to individual states to go toward the cost of deploying broadband to unserved or underserved areas. The program would target areas lacking service at speeds of…
Cincinnati Bell is expanding its fiber network to cover all addresses in the northern Kentucky counties of Campbell, Kenton and Boone. At the conclusion of the project, which is expected to take two to three years, service will be available…
When it comes to precision agriculture, broadband is moving beyond being nice to have; instead, it is fast becoming a “must have,” according to a new report from NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association. The 28-page report, titled “From Fiber to Field:…
T-Mobile launched a new promotion today aimed at vulnerable Boost Mobile subscribers, as well as Cricket subscribers. The move comes in the wake of Boost owner Dish’s new deal that calls for AT&T to replace T-Mobile as Dish’s MVNO services…
Emergency Broadband Benefit Program enrollment now exceeds 4 million households, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today. One million of those households signed up in the first week after the $3.2 billion subsidy program began in May. People are interested…
Consolidated Communications has made symmetrical gigabit fiber FTTP available to 122,000 locations during the first half of 2021. Expansion plans include making service available to 300,000 locations by year’s end. The company has upgraded infrastructure in more than 60 towns…
Verizon and Samsung have conducted an end-to-end fully virtualized 5G data session over C-band spectrum over a live network, according to the carrier. The demonstration anticipates the carrier’s use of C-band spectrum it recently acquired. Virtualization decouples the hardware and…
Windstream CEO Tony Thomas addressed the fiber broadband industry today at Fiber Connect, taking place in Nashville. With a theme of Windstream’s growing broadband ambitions, Thomas also revealed he’s no fan of the RDOF program implementation and he is among…
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