The final guidelines for the $20 million Missouri Cell Tower Grant Program have been released by the state’s Department of Economic Development (DED). The state will begin accepting applications in the funding program on May 31 and eligible entities have…
Comcast’s NOW TV streaming service, which the company says will launch in the coming weeks, will sell for $20 a month and feature more than 40 live channels, more than 20 free ad-supported channels and a subscription to Peacock Premium….
Seventy-one percent of senior decision makers say that smart manufacturing is producing anticipated results, an increase from 37% in 2022, according to a study conducted by research firm Information Services Group (ISG). At the same time, uncertainty over whether success…
The White House says that President Biden intends to nominate Anna M. Gomez, a veteran of the FCC and NTIA, as FCC commissioner. In addition, Biden will nominate Geoffrey Starks and Brendan Carr to continue in their roles as commissioners,…
Competitive broadband provider Highline has joined the multi-gigabit club. The company said it is providing symmetrical 2 Gbps service to 32,000 residences in the Escanaba area of the Upper Peninsula and in the Thumb areas of Michigan. Highline began providing…
Infinera and Sumitomo Electric said they have demonstrated point-to-multipoint pluggable transceiver technology that uses coherent XR optics. Coherent optics can deliver more data in comparison with traditional optical communications based on ones and zeros. Until now it has only been…
AT&T had the highest satisfaction score among mobile network operators in the latest wireless customer satisfaction report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). AT&T had a score of 75 on a 100-point scale, a bit higher than the industry…
The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs recommended that Comcast drop and modify some claims it made about T-Mobile’s fixed wireless offering known as T-Mobile Home Internet. The recommendation came in response to a request from T-Mobile. The…
The importance of local TV channels in rural areas is at a high point since telecom software provider Innovative Systems began monitoring it eight years ago, according to this year’s study. Respondents to this year’s survey gave the importance of…
The Biden Administration has released a fact sheet that updates progress on broadband and other infrastructure upgrades during the past two years. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. has a budget of…
Service providers recognize the benefits of fully automated and dynamic service delivery systems and are adopting the approach, according to industry association MEF. The association has been developing standards for application programming interfaces (APIs) to support automated services that involve…
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau’s first RoboBlocking order will compel voice service providers to block and cease accepting traffic from international gateway provider One Eye within 30 days. International gateway providers are the “on ramp” for traffic from outside the United…
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