FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said today that she is circulating a proposal that would be the first step in reinstating Net Neutrality rules that were overturned under the previous presidential administration. The proposal also calls for broadband access to be…
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Comcast said yesterday that it will begin using its own mobile network to support service beginning this month. The network will use CBRS band spectrum, and the company plans to lease, and eventually sell, spectrum in the 600 MHz band…
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The countdown will start again soon for providers to implement consumer broadband labels, sometimes known as broadband nutrition labels because of their resemblance to the labels that appear on food items. Plans were disrupted for several months as the FCC…
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The U.S. Treasury has approved $149 million in Capital Projects Fund money to go toward the cost of rural broadband deployments in Oregon. A U.S. Treasury press release also references a figure of $156.7 million because $7.7 million of the…
AT&T and Lawrence County, Indiana, are collaborating on a $4.3 million public–private partnership, the second such partnership in the county this year. AT&T was also selected by the county in May to build AT&T Fiber to more than 2,300 customer…
Google Fiber (GFiber) is offering 300 Mbps service for $30/month to participants in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). As part of the ACP program, the FCC provides a $30/month subsidy for ACP customers, which essentially makes…
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said today that she is circulating a proposal that would be the first step in reinstating Net Neutrality rules that were overturned under the previous presidential administration. The proposal also calls for broadband access to be…
T-Mobile has announced that its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) platform provides businesses and governmental organizations with two techniques that more thoroughly protect their increasingly remote work forces. SASE networks are key enablers of…
Verizon touted gains it has made involving its 5G and fixed wireless access (FWA) services in a blog post today. The post highlighted key achievements on its multiyear network expansion and update roadmap. The impact of the upgrade is evident…
Cox Communications has launched what it’s calling Neutral Host as a Service (NHaaS). Neutral host technology uses cellular equipment that can provide connectivity to multiple service providers. “This is a managed service,” said a Cox spokesperson in an email response…
Charter Communications, Inc. today kicked off a new marketing campaign for its Spectrum Business unit. The “Made to Work” ads focus on how the company’s connectivity solutions work together to provide small business owners with seamless, reliable internet, phone, mobile…
Holograms replaced more commonly used avatars as Bell Canada, Verizon, Vodafone and Matsuko conducted what they called “the first live transatlantic collaborative meeting connecting multiple holographic people in Canada, the US and the UK using 5G and multi-access edge computing…
Consolidated Communications will build a fiber network in Lamoille County, Vermont that will be funded, in part, through the state. Consolidated will invest almost $10 million in the network and the Lamoille FiberNet communications union district will invest $14.9 million….
Nebraska-based Allo Communications, a competitive provider that serves urban and rural areas, has seen strong growth over the 20 years since its founding. Telecompetitor talked to Allo CEO Brad Moline about how the company achieved this. Moline, who previously founded…
A $580,000 Windstream public–private partnership in Throckmorton, Texas has the provider’s Kinetic gigabit fiber broadband service available to public schools and 650 homes and business in the small city. The bulk of the financing – $420,000 – is being provided…
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