The FCC today said it is ready to authorize $311 million in rural broadband funding to 48 companies that had winning bids in the RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) auction. Also today, the commission released a list of RDOF defaults…
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Cox is Helping Henderson, Nevada Get Smarter
Cox through its smart city platform, Cox2M, and Henderson, NV have extended their smart lighting project to include smart water meters and smart parking. Smart water meters lead to early leak detection, early freeze detection – which can prevent water…
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AT&T Fiber is Having a Moment
AT&T reported 2Q 2021 results today and AT&T Fiber results were a big part of the narrative. AT&T now counts 5.4 million fiber subscribers, second only to Verizon, who now has 6.4 million fiber subscribers. AT&T Fiber gained 246K customers…
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Consolidated Expansion: 122K New Fiber Locations So Far This Year
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 Run Fully Virtualized 5G Data Session in C-band
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: Industry Should Not Repeat RDOF Mess, USF Reform Needed
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…
Vexus Fiber to Add to its Texas Fiber Markets
Thirty-five thousand homes and business in San Angelo, TX, are getting access to 10G-capable FTTH connectivity in a project that will be fully funded by Vexus Fiber. It will be the latest in several Texas markets that Vexus has announced….
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Moffett: AT&T MVNO Deal Will Make Dish a Much Stronger Competitor
The recently announced MVNO deal with AT&T will make Dish a much stronger competitor, according to a new report from Craig Moffett and other researchers at financial research firm MoffettNathanson. Without the AT&T deal, Dish likely would have gone bankrupt,…
FCC Ready to Authorize 48 RDOF Winning Bidders, Releases List of Defaults
The FCC today said it is ready to authorize $311 million in rural broadband funding to 48 companies that had winning bids in the RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) auction. Also today, the commission released a list of RDOF defaults…
FBA Adds Fiber Technician Certification Program
The Fiber Broadband Association’s Optical Telecom Installation Certification (OpTIC) program, which was announced today, aims to enable quick scaling of fiber education, fill in gaps in technician skills and accelerate North American deployments. The fiber technician certification program, which will…
Report: Black Rural South Less Likely to Have Broadband Access
Nearly 40% (38%) of the Black Rural South population lacks home internet service, according to a new report from Joint Center, which calls itself “America’s Black think tank,” focusing on policy solutions to “eradicate persistent and evolving barriers to the…
Altice USA Rebranding Mobile Service as Optimum Mobile
Altice USA said that it is rebranding its mobile service as Optimum Mobile. Optimum Mobile will be the brand for both Optimum customers in the New York City tri-state area and Suddenlink, which serves customers in the west and mid-Atlantic…
Comcast Engineer Repurposes Long Haul Gear for Local Access Network Insight
Through a corporate blog post, Comcast highlights an innovative use of an existing technology — reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs) – that now greatly increases technicians’ visibility into local network traffic. ROADMs generally are used in long haul transport. A key…
Cox is Helping Henderson, Nevada Get Smarter
Cox through its smart city platform, Cox2M, and Henderson, NV have extended their smart lighting project to include smart water meters and smart parking. Smart water meters lead to early leak detection, early freeze detection – which can prevent water…
Consolidated Selects DZS for 10G XGS-PON Fiber Expansion
Consolidated Communications will leverage DZS technology for planned 10G XGS-PON fiber broadband deployments. Consolidated is on a path to extend its fiber footprint to 70% of its service territory. A five-year expansion plan, which already is underway, eventually will pass…
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