Verizon reportedly has acquired or is in the process of acquiring the LTE mobile network of Chariton Valley Communications Corporation, a small Missouri wireless provider that was a partner in the Verizon LTE in Rural America program. Verizon previously announced…
Great Plains Communications said today that it has acquired USA Communications. Great Plains, which is backed by investment firm Grain Management, has been expanding through acquisitions and by making its own fiber deployments. Its 13,500-mile fiber network reaches parts of…
Service providers will now be able to deploy fixed or mobile wireless service using spectrum in the CBRS band in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Deployments in the band are now possible because an environmental sensing capability (ESC)…
A trial of fixed wireless technology in the small rural Missouri town of Turney aims to use machine learning to improve service. An intelligent router and a machine learning algorithm will be used to predict which household needs more bandwidth…
SiFi Networks said today that it plans to begin deploying fiber networks in 30 U.S. communities by the end of 2022. The company also launched a digital inclusion program to be known as FiberCity Aid. SiFi Networks is a rather…
Facebook, Appalachian Power and GigaBeam are each playing a role in supporting a new broadband build in rural Grayson County, Virginia – an area in the Blue Ridge Mountains where 57% of citizens lack broadband access. GigaBeam will be making…
Cox Communications said yesterday that it will establish a managed private wireless network using spectrum in the CBRS band to support a trial with the city of Las Vegas aimed at enhancing public safety in a local park. A Cox…
Zayo has put an 800G route into production between New York and New Jersey, the company said in a blog post. The news delivers on plans that the service provider announced last month as part of a broader announcement about…
Shentel is hitting the gas on its Glo Fiber high-speed internet business in the wake of the sale of its mobile business to T-Mobile. In the past month, Shentel announced three separate fiber builds in the mid-Atlantic. The company announced…
Regional operator Jade Communications lays claim to being the first company in Colorado to offer multi-gigabit broadband – and the company is doing it with fixed wireless technology. The company uses equipment from Cambium based on Terragraph technology originally developed…
The Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) has sent a letter to the governors of all 50 states asking them to ignore a prohibition against using American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) broadband funding for fixed wireless deployments. “This approach will…
There might be a business case for AT&T to deploy fiber to more than the 30 million locations that the company has forecast to have fiber broadband available to them by 2025 — especially if the Senate infrastructure bill becomes…
What’s happening with broadband and why is it important? Find out by subscribing to Telecompetitor’s newsletter today.