According to a Dell’Oro Group forecast, worldwide sales of PON equipment for fiber-to-the-home deployments, cable broadband access equipment, and fixed wireless CPE will all increase from 2022 to 2027, as service providers continue to expand their fiber, DOCSIS 4.0 and…
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today awarded 12 additional grants, totaling more than $33.5 million, as part of the part of the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program (CMC). The program is directing $268 million from…
More than $1 trillion in online purchases were made in 2022, the first time the $1 trillion figure has been eclipsed in a single year, according to a new Comscore report. The 2022 figure for Comscore’s Digital Commerce Measurement, which…
Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) could be a bright spot in the business market according to a UCaaS forecast from Future Market Insights. Researchers expect the market to grow at a compound annual rate (CAGR) of 14.5% between 2021…
Lumen Technologies said it has deployed 400 Gbps (400G) services across its U.S. intercity wavelength network connecting 70 markets. The company also noted that it is fulfilling customer orders of more than 50TB of 400G wavelengths. Reaching the 70-market milestone…
Minnesota broadband provider Arvig has completed an agreement to buy a fiber network from ALP Utilities. The network serves about 130 businesses in the city of Alexandria, MN. ALP Utilities is a community-owned municipal utility that provides residential and commercial…
Verizon increased wireless revenue nearly 6% year-over-year and added broadband subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022, the company announced in its quarterly earnings release today. Total wireless service revenue grew 5.9% compared to the fourth quarter of 2021, driven…
Cox Communications’ mobile phone service, Cox Mobile, today announced a new marketing campaign, featuring Annie, a CGI sheep. The mascot’s brand was designed to reflect the values of Cox Mobile customers, according to a press release — she’s “kind, honest,…
While some broadband providers are exiting the video business, one company that has launched a new video offering is DFT Communications, which serves western New York and parts of Pennsylvania. The company’s offering is an example of a vMVPD service,…
Bluebird Network today announced that it had completed its 126-fiber-route-mile network build in Illinois, giving it a network of 11,000 miles of fiber and further expanding the company’s reach outside its initial Missouri footprint. The recently completed Illinois network will…
Ziply Fiber is establishing a new Point of Presence (PoP) to serve the fast-growing data center market in Portland, OR, through an expanded partnership with GTT Communications, Inc. The new PoP is providing an initial 400G of capacity to customers…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to the Verizon Business Virtual Contact Center (VCC) offering. Among the capabilities are conversational AI and insights that are automatically generated through AI. The new capabilities are designed to support “smart, connected, self-service and human-assisted…
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