As Congress considers an infrastructure funding bill, wireless internet service providers (WISPs) are asking legislators not to be too aggressive in setting broadband speed targets. Doing so would delay broadband deployment and could be anti-competitive, more than 400 WISPs argue…
Some wireless internet providers (WISPs) are seeing fixed wireless speeds of at least 100 Mbps in rural areas over distances as great as six miles using CBRS spectrum. Of two WISPs on a webcast with press and analysts today, Watch…
Demand created by the COVID-19 pandemic is “pushing our members to upgrade both last-mile and backhaul capacity” according to a COVID-19 WISP traffic report from the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA). The survey confirmed some trends that WISPA and…
The FCC has received challenges from about 180 entities that have stated that they provide broadband at speeds of at least 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream, along with voice service, to at least part of census blocks that…
Wireless internet service providers (WISPs) are seeing faster fixed wireless speeds using spectrum in the 5.9 GHz band that the FCC is allowing them to use temporarily to help respond to increased traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a press…
The FCC has extended the deadline for most fixed wireless providers to transition from current to new rules for the CBRS spectrum band. All parties that have deployed fixed wireless in the portion of the band between 3650 and 3700…
The FCC said today that it has approved initial commercial deployments (ICDs) in the CBRS spectrum band from five spectrum access system (SAS) administrators. Each SAS administrator’s plans for CBRS initial commercial deployments may involve multiple wireless carriers, fixed wireless…
Any day now, the FCC is expected to issue final approval for fixed and mobile service providers and end users to deploy service in the CBRS spectrum band. One company that has a rather comprehensive view on this is Federated…
More than 200 companies (220) have qualified to participate in the Connect America Fund II (CAF II) auction scheduled to begin in late July, including large incumbent carriers such as Verizon, Cox, Windstream, Frontier, Cincinnati Bell and Hawaiian Telcom and…
The Federal Communications Commission has provisionally chosen nearly 40 entities to receive funding in the commission’s rural broadband experiment initiative. Among those chosen are 14 wireless ISPs, seven local telephone companies, four power companies and two cable companies. Other winners…
Wireless internet service providers (WISPs) have never been coy regarding their opinion of the universal service fund (USF) and its impact on their business. Many WISPs feel the USF unfairly rewards incumbent providers with subsidies and undermines their ability to…