The National Content & Technology Cooperative (NCTC) said today that its Connectivity Exchange platform is now “fully built.” The platform is designed to let NCTC broadband provider members compete for and win bids to provide services to commercial customers by…
The next generation of passive optical network (PON) technology, known as 25G PON, has seen relatively few deployments, but that appears set to change. Dell’Oro Group recently raised its forecast for 25G PON, also known as 25GS PON, and expects…
NRTC, a membership cooperative of rural electric and telecom providers, has acquired Pivot Group, a marketing and customer experience (CX) agency that serves rural broadband providers. NRTC traditionally has focused on technology, helping members plan, deploy and manage technology investments….
More than halfway through President Biden’s four-year term as president, the FCC finally has a full complement of commissioners. The Senate today confirmed Anna Gomez for the fifth spot on the commission, which has been largely deadlocked since Biden took…
Winning funding in the $42.5 billion broadband equity, access and deployment (BEAD) rural broadband program will be “trickier than we were hoping for,” said Charter CEO Chris Winfrey at an investor conference today. “We didn’t get all the guidelines and NTIA instructions…
The U.S. Treasury awarded $158 million in Capital Projects Fund (CPF) money for Puerto Rico broadband. The commonwealth will use $85.7 million for broadband infrastructure and $64.7 million for multi-purpose community technology centers. The remaining $8 million will be used…
Charter has won approximately $113 million in rural broadband funding in awards made by the state of Kentucky this week. Total awards made were $196 million. In addition, service providers will contribute matching funds totaling $190 million to bring total…
LICT Corp. announced in its second quarter earnings report released Friday that it has completed its spinoff of Michigan Broadband on August 31. The spinoff company is now known as MachTen Inc. Each LICT shareholder received 150 shares of MachTen…
AT&T wants “large technology companies, edge service providers and others that directly benefit from the nation’s universal service goals” to contribute to Universal Service Fund (USF) subsidies. Doing so will ensure that USF objectives are met, said AT&T Executive Vice…
NTIA has tried hard to generate excitement about Buy America requirements for the $42.5 billion BEAD rural broadband funding program, even enlisting U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in the process. It appears the efforts are paying off. While some industry…
As the U.S. sets out to get everyone connected to broadband, it’s about more than just making sure broadband is available everywhere. As Angela Thi Bennett, NTIA’s first director of digital equity put it in an interview with Telecompetitor, “We’re…
Kwikom, a broadband provider based in Kansas that also serves some markets in Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma, has begun work on fiber deployments in several Kansas markets. Deployments in some of these markets were funded, in part, through a state…
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