The Broadband Grant Tax Treatment Act introduced in the Senate today would exempt grant funding that network operators receive for rural broadband deployments from taxation. According to the release, broadband deployment grants are currently factored into a company’s income and…
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The broadband industry is firmly in the gigabit era, with most wireline service providers offering gigabit service tiers. Google Fiber certainly played a role in this gigabit era, having raised the visibility of gigabit service over a decade ago with…
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The next update of the FCC broadband map, expected in late November or early December, is likely to have a considerable number of errors, according to sources familiar with the broadband data collection initiative on which the map will be…
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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) wants to offer a limited waiver of the Buy America Domestic Content Procurement Preference provisions for the Middle Mile grant program. That program has a budget of $980 million to cover some of…
The state of Alabama has awarded $82.5 million to a corporation formed by eight rural electric cooperatives to fund a middle mile broadband network that will connect almost 3,000 miles of existing and new fiber infrastructure. The project is expected…
Hurricanes Ian and Fiona have created catastrophic damage to impacted areas, with telecom networks not escaping the storms’ fury. The FCC reports on areas impacted through its daily Communications Status Report. Hurricane Ian has devastated many parts of Florida, with…
The Broadband Grant Tax Treatment Act introduced in the Senate today would exempt grant funding that network operators receive for rural broadband deployments from taxation. According to the release, broadband deployment grants are currently factored into a company’s income and…
Google Fiber is working to build a fiber-to-the-home network in Omaha, Neb., the company announced this week. The initial step for the Omaha project will be for the company to receive a license agreement from the city. The license will…
LS Networks has entered into an agreement to acquire PocketiNet Communications Inc., a residential internet, phone and Wi-Fi service provider, for an undisclosed price. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2023. For the time being,…
Tarana, who is expected to supply gigabit fixed wireless for at least one or two of the biggest winning Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) bidders made some product announcements this week. Telecompetitor talked with Dirk Gates, Tarana’s president, about the…
Manufacturing, distribution and other delays have hit nearly every industry over the last two years and continue to plague us. Fiber optic equipment and supplies are no exception – and those delays are likely to be exacerbated as unprecedented funding…
The broadband industry is firmly in the gigabit era, with most wireline service providers offering gigabit service tiers. Google Fiber certainly played a role in this gigabit era, having raised the visibility of gigabit service over a decade ago with…
North Carolina is launching the state’s first digital equity grant program, designed to help state residents afford high-speed internet, obtain digital devices, and access digital literacy resources. The $24 million, multi-phased program, administered by the state’s Department of Information Technology’s…
Regional operator Lumos has received franchise approvals from the Virginia cities of Chesapeake, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach to deploy broadband fiber capable of cumulatively serving as many as 85,000 residents and small businesses. The deployment will consist of almost 900…
The FCC has proposed rules to combat malicious robotext campaigns. The bureau says that it is accepting public comment on ways to apply caller ID authentication standards to text messaging and to require providers to find and actively block illegal…
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