Frontier made broadband available to a record 185,000 locations in the third quarter and saw a 10% year-over-year increase in average revenue per user (ARPU) for fiber customers. But the fiber gains weren’t enough to offset losses among copper subscribers,…
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, as news today from AT&T about connected cows illustrates. In a development reminiscent of the 1960s sci-fi movie “Fantastic Voyage,” AT&T has inked a deal to provide wireless connectivity for smaXtec, developer of sensors…
Amazon expects to launch two low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites to support Project Kuiper by year-end 2022. The company has inked a deal with ABL Space Systems to launch the satellites and has filed an experimental license application with the Federal…
Regional carrier Dakota Central, an operator serving rural areas of North Dakota, recently upgraded its fiber ring to support higher speeds and to provide more room for growth. The company, which is an owner company of statewide network Dakota Carrier…
Private wireless networks are poised to play an important role on the nation’s farms, potentially creating opportunities for rural network operators, as news this week from Inland Cellular and edge computing provider Trilogy Networks illustrates. We talked to Venky Swaminathan,…
Windstream’s Kinetic business unit has reached a public-private partnership agreement with Georgia electric membership cooperative Sumter EMC to bring fiber broadband to 16,000 homes and businesses in rural southwest Georgia. Windstream has become increasingly interested in public-private broadband partnerships in…
Farms need broadband – and not just to the farmer’s home, but more broadly to fields and outbuildings, according to a new report from Benton Institute for Broadband & Society sponsored by United Soybean Board. The report includes a wide…
President Biden has appointed Acting FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel for that spot permanently, although there is an important caveat related to that appointment. He also nominated Gigi Sohn, who was a counselor to FCC Chair Tom Wheeler during the Obama…
Verizon plans to use low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband connectivity from Amazon Project Kuiper to provide backhaul for 5G service in rural areas. Initially, the focus will be on “expanding Verizon data networks using cellular backhaul solutions from Project Kuiper,”…
The USDA today said it will make $1.15 billion available in the next round of the ReConnect program to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband to rural areas where broadband is not available today. Areas in which 90%…
The FCC said today that it is ready to authorize Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) winnings for Windstream and 11 other companies that were winning bidders in last year’s RDOF auction. LTD Broadband is not among them and the company…
Verizon for the first time provided subscribership information about its fixed wireless services known as Verizon 5G Home Internet and Verizon LTE Home Internet. The company said the net new consumer and business additions for the services were 55,000 in…
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