Electronics retailer Best Buy is launching a membership subscription service, Totaltech, that offers unlimited in-home and virtual technology tech support. The service is offered nationwide, and available to anyone, regardless of where they purchased technology products or services. Priced at…
T-Mobile is cutting its home internet service price by $10 to a flat rate of $50 per month, with no additional fees. T-Mobile is taking aim at wireline competitors who often charge installation, activation, and equipment rental fees, calling the…
It’s a hotly debated topic. Should Netflix pay ISPs for the bandwidth usage generated by its popular streaming platform? Count Korean ISP SK Telecom in the yes camp, as that ISP is now suing Netflix to recoup bandwidth costs. Netflix…
Regional operator Ziply Fiber has secured $350 million in debt funding to fuel its fiber expansion in the Northwest region of the U.S. The additional funding will help the company achieve its fiber expansion plans, which previously targeted reaching 80%…
Vanderburgh County in Indiana is part of an AT&T public-private broadband project to bring AT&T fiber to 20K locations in the county. The project is expected to take two years to complete. About one-third of Vanderburgh County residents lack access…
Frontier announced today it has reached 100K homes with XGS-PON fiber broadband technology. The new fiber-focused Frontier is working with Nokia on the XGS-PON deployments. XGS-PON is the next-generation fiber technology that many carriers are evolving to from GPON fiber…
According to a CNBC report, Amazon is the front runner to acquire rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket package, which airs all Sunday NFL games, allowing subscribers to watch any game they want. The package has been exclusive to Directv…
Arkansas will award Windstream over $46 million in funding to help expand broadband across seven counties. Windstream intends to contribute an additional $17.2 million to the project. The funding comes from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and is…
In this next installment of Telecompetitor’s Broadband Industry Innovator video series, I speak with Sean Middleton, Director of Strategy and Operations, at Finley, about the importance of middle mile infrastructure for utilities and their potential telco partners. The issue is…
The Gulf Coast region is just beginning to recover from Hurricane Ida, with significant impact on cell towers in the state of Louisiana. According to an FCC progress report, as of August 30, 52% of cell towers in the hurricane’s…
Comcast Business signed an agreement to acquire Texas-based Masergy, a managed services provider with a global reach. The acquisition helps feed the appetite for growing the cable company’s business within the enterprise and SMB sectors. Masergy currently serves over 1,400…
In our latest Broadband Industry Innovator video interview, I talk with Nokia’s Bassam El-Zakhem, Vice President of Fixed Networks Americas, about the tremendous momentum in the broadband industry and the implications that momentum presents. Check out our discussion about the gigabit…
What’s happening with broadband and why is it important? Find out by subscribing to Telecompetitor’s newsletter today.