Colorado is a bit of an enigma. It’s home to numerous dense and high population areas including the Denver/Boulder metro area, Fort Collins to the north and Colorado Springs to the south. But as we learned in an interview with…
By: Doug Adams
Virginia Broadband Director Shares How the State Got a Head Start on BEAD
Virginia will be receiving nearly $1.5 billion in BEAD rural broadband funding – one of the higher amounts allotted in the program. Telecompetitor talked with Dr. Tamarah Holmes, director of the state’s broadband office, about how the state got a…
CEO: Verizon “Deeply Believes in Fixed Wireless Access”
Verizon “deeply believes in fixed wireless access,” said CEO Hans Vestberg on today’s third quarter earnings call. Today, more than a quarter (2.7 million) of Verizon’s broadband customers are fixed wireless subscribers and a majority of the third quarter’s 434,000…
CEO: Rural Electric Subsidiary Velocity Taps FWA to Reach Unserved Areas
Life comes at you fast when you’re a fixed wireless company providing services through the pandemic, and now looking at BEAD investment opportunities. That’s the situation that Velocity, founded in 2018 and located in south central Kansas, finds itself in….
Ting ACP Customers Can Get Speeds Up to 2 Gbps for Free
Ting Internet, offering internet services in California, Colorado, Idaho, Maryland, North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia recently announced that Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) qualifying homes would receive Ting’s premium fiber internet service, at no cost. The ACP program pays up to…
United Communications CEO Shares Grant-Winning Tips, “Outside-In” Build Strategy
“Our DNA is rooted in serving rural, hard-to-reach areas,” said United Communications CEO William Bradford in an interview with Telecompetitor. “We’ve built fiber to the trailer park and fiber to the mansion… Unserved can look a wide variety of ways……
