Ziply Fiber says that it has agreed to acquire Eastern Oregon Net (EONI), a provider of fiber broadband, fixed wireless and voice services to residential and commercial customers in Baker, Union and Wallowa counties in northeast Oregon. The transaction must…
AT&T has introduced Secure Workforce with Check Point, a cloud-based suite of security tools optimized for the work from home (WFH) market. The offering is aimed at providing security in an increasingly decentralized work landscape. It was created in partnership…
Brightspeed has announced the specific markets — all in North Carolina — where it initially will deploy fiber broadband. The goal is to complete the buildouts, which will reach 300,000 locations, by the end of next year. The company plans…
More than 200,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana, New Hampshire, Virginia and West Virginia will gain broadband connectivity with the help of funding from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s new Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (CPF). The funding will go…
RDOF winner Resound Networks says that it has successfully achieved gigabit speeds using fixed wireless access (FWA) in the 6 GHz band via an experimental license. The company said that it reached a distance of more than three miles using…
T-Mobile is offering Voice over 5G service in parts of Portland, OR and Salt Lake City, UT. The carrier says that “many” more areas will get the service this year. The service, which is technically called voice over new radio…
AT&T says that in April it tested a drone-based 5G cell site over a remote rural field in Missouri. The device is known as a flying cell on wings, or Flying COW. Drones commonly are used to provide supplemental connectivity…
MetroNet said today that it completed its merger with Vexus Fiber. The merged companies will maintain their current brands and leadership. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. MetroNet primarily operates in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio,…
Analysis Ookla’s Speedtest Intelligence mobile speed data from the first quarter of the year provides some good news for each of the big three mobile carriers. It also notes that the C-band may upset the status quo in the not-too-distant…
The FCC is offering an online help center that includes tutorials and other resources to help Internet service providers as they prepare to submit broadband availability data into the new broadband data collection system developed for that purpose. The filing…
The SimpliSafe home security system now is available at no extra charge to new Verizon 5G Home Internet and Fios customers. A five-piece home security system that includes HD indoor home cameras, two entry sensors, a keypad, a base station…
Verizon and Amazon Web Services are continuing to flesh out their 5G mobile edge computing infrastructure with the addition of AWS Wavelength Zones in Nashville and Tampa. Verizon says that there now are 19 zones and that 75% of the…
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