The Broadband Grant Tax Treatment Act introduced in the Senate today would exempt grant funding that network operators receive for rural broadband deployments from taxation. According to the release, broadband deployment grants are currently factored into a company’s income and…
Tarana, who is expected to supply gigabit fixed wireless for at least one or two of the biggest winning Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) bidders made some product announcements this week. Telecompetitor talked with Dirk Gates, Tarana’s president, about the…
Manufacturing, distribution and other delays have hit nearly every industry over the last two years and continue to plague us. Fiber optic equipment and supplies are no exception – and those delays are likely to be exacerbated as unprecedented funding…
Rural broadband providers saw their average revenue per user (ARPU) and subscribership increase in 2021, according to the 2022 Telecommunications Benchmarking Study from Moss Adams, an accounting firm with a specialty in rural telecom. Subscribership increased 5.2% between 2020 and…
The next update of the FCC broadband map, expected in late November or early December, is likely to have a considerable number of errors, according to sources familiar with the broadband data collection initiative on which the map will be…
The USDA announced $502 million in USDA ReConnect awards this morning and at a pre-briefing with media yesterday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the balance of awards in Round 3 of the program will be announced soon. In addition, Vilsack…
Comcast has chosen Samsung to provide radio access network infrastructure for the 5G network it will be building. In a blog post on the Comcast website, Comcast Senior Vice President of Wireless Strategy Tom Nagel said the company has licenses…
A Texas judge has reduced the exemplary, or punitive, damages that Charter must pay in connection with the stabbing death of an elderly Charter customer by a Charter installer in the customer’s home. Earlier this year a jury said Charter…
Comcast said it has completed a successful test of newly designed full-duplex DOCSIS 4.0 (FDX) amplifiers, which according to the company, was “the final core element of the 10G ecosystem that needed to be tested to ensure 10G technology could…
T-Mobile plans to deploy the new spectrum that it won in the recent auction of spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band as soon as it receives its licenses from the FCC. The company was by far the biggest winner in…
The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs has recommended that Comcast modify advertising for its mobile 5G service that compares the service to Verizon’s. The decision on Comcast vs. Verizon came in response to a challenge from Verizon….
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg told investors today that he sees three enterprise market opportunities that will require 5G – use cases that don’t exist for previous generation cellular technologies. Two of the opportunities involve mobile edge computing. But the one…
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