Nextlink Internet, which was one of the biggest winning bidders in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, said it has achieved speeds of 1 Gbps downstream and 500 Mbps upstream using fixed wireless equipment in the 6 GHz band….
By: Joan Engebretson
CMO Profiles Two Main Types of T-Mobile Fixed Wireless Customers
T-Mobile is seeing two primary types of customers for its fixed wireless offering, said Mike Katz, T-Mobile chief marketing officer, at an investor conference yesterday. It’s important information, considering that the company garnered 1 million fixed wireless customers within the…
FCC Seeks Input on Increasing A-CAM Broadband Speed Requirements for Rural Carriers
The FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) today seeking input on whether to increase the speeds that providers receiving rural broadband support through the A-CAM program would be required to deploy. The proposal recommends increasing the funding available…
Frontier Has a ‘Super Cluster’ Strategy, On Target to Exceed 2022 Fiber Deployment Goal
Frontier plans to deploy fiber broadband to at least 100,000 more locations than originally planned this year, said Frontier Chief Financial Officer Scott Beasley at an investor conference yesterday. The company’s original build target for the year was one million…
That Was Fast! NTIA Reports Receiving 34 LOIs for $42.5B BEAD Broadband Program
Just a few days after NTIA released the notices of funding opportunities for key broadband programs created in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the agency reports that 34 states have submitted letters of intent to participate in the…
Cable One Says 10G Investments Are Approaching $1 Billion
Cable One said it has invested $950 million over the past three years to upgrade its network to be prepared to offer 10G services. The investments were made across all the company brands, which include Sparklight, Fidelity, Hargray and ValuNet….
RDOF Funding Authorized for Frontier, Hawaiian Telcom, Lumen, Smaller Companies
The FCC has authorized RDOF funding for Cincinnati Bell’s Hawaiian Telecom unit, for Frontier winning bids in seven states, for certain winning bids for Lumen’s CenturyLink business and for more than a dozen small companies. About $9.2 billion was tentatively…
Funding Notice (NOFO) for $1 Billion IIJA Middle Mile Program Released
The NTIA released a 54-page notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) early this morning for the nearly $1 billion Middle Mile program established in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Today’s notice details the requirements that funded projects must meet,…
NTIA BEAD Program Funding Notice (NOFO) Prioritizes Fiber Broadband
NTIA released the eagerly awaited notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program early this morning. Rules for the program call for individual states to establish selection criteria and other rules for…
AT&T Hopes Indiana Public Private Partnerships Will Be the First of Many
The two public private partnerships that AT&T has announced in Indiana, including one expected with the City of Boonville, could be the first of many, said Jeff Luong, AT&T president for broadband access and adoption initiatives, in an interview with…
Smart Farm Leverages Private LTE Network, Robotics
The idea of using private wireless to support the smart farm gained further traction this week with the news that Federated Wireless has deployed a private wireless network using CBRS spectrum to support a 2.1 square mile vineyard. Federated Wireless…
Rural Carriers Get Another Reprieve from FCC USF Budget Control
The FCC said today that it will not impose the high-cost Universal Service Fund (USF) budget control mechanism for the upcoming funding year. Budget control was scheduled to go into effect in July for small rural rate-of-return providers that have…
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