In five years, more than half of U.S. broadband households – 58 million homes — will not use a service from a multi video programming distributor (MVPD), according to a video cord cutter forecast from The Diffusion Group (TDG). In…
By: Carl Weinschenk
With $37M Award, USDA ReConnect Has Now Reached Total Announced Round 2 Budget
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect program late last week announced six awards with a total value of $37 million for fiber broadband networks in rural Alabama. Total awards made now surpass the $550 million USDA ReConnect Round 2 budget….
AT&T and Cisco Deepen IoT Management Ties
AT&T Control Center powered by Cisco, which was announced last week, deepens the companies’ cooperation on the complex challenges of managing and securing the huge and growing universe of IoT devices used by enterprises. The goal of the AT&T Cisco…
ReConnect Program Announces $158M in Broadband Awards, Almost 100% of Second Round $550M Budget Reached
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program has announced 15 more second round awards. The program is investing almost $158 million in Kentucky, Illinois, Washington, Missouri, Michigan, New Mexico and Iowa. So far, the second round of the ReConnect Program,…
Report: Add Rising Infected IoT Devices to Network Security Challenges
Infected IoT devices have more than doubled as a percentage of all devices infected from cyberattacks – from 16% to 33% since 2019 — according to the Nokia Threat Intelligence Report. The reasons for the acceleration are poor security protection…
USDA ReConnect Awards Made in West Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota
The USDA ReConnect Program has made awards to service providers for deployment of FTTP networks in West Virginia, Illinois and Minnesota. The West Virginia, Illinois and Minnesota USDA ReConnect awards came in the form of grants. The three projects, which…
T-Mobile 5G Underlies World Series “BatterCams”
T-Mobile plans for World Series coverage are an effort to meet a subtle but vital challenge facing carriers and their ecosystems in the 5G age — developing attractive applications capable of convincing people of the benefits and value of 5G….
AT&T Adds Nokia to its Private Cellular Networks Offering, Cites Fourth Industrial Revolution
AT&T has added several Nokia offerings to the AT&T Private Cellular Networks offering. Those networks are expected to appeal to businesses with enterprise and industrial applications. By establishing their own private cellular networks, businesses can gain a level of privacy,…
Comcast Business Teleworker VPN Expands WFH Options
The evolution of work at home continues with the introduction of the Comcast Business Teleworker VPN. Comcast is partnering with Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, for the VPN platform. The COVID-19 pandemic has quickly restructured how people work. The…
Verizon to Acquire Assets of Rural America Partner Bluegrass Cellular
Verizon Communications says that it has signed an agreement to acquire “certain assets” of Bluegrass Cellular, a wireless operator in rural central Kentucky with which it has a long relationship. The Verizon Bluegrass deal will bring Verizon 210,000 customers in…
Social Security Selects Verizon for Next Generation Telephone Project
The Social Security Administration has selected Verizon to upgrade and modernize its unified communications and contact center (UC and CC) infrastructure. The initiative is known as the Next Generation Telephone Project, or NGTP. The goal of the Social Security Next…
USDA ReConnect Awards Made in South Dakota, Wyoming and Pennsylvania
The USDA has announced three more awards in the second round of its ReConnect Program. The awards, which total a bit more than $7 million, bring the announced investment during the week of October 11 to more than $173 million….
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