by Pivot
Category: Iowa
Mediacom Network Upgrades Support Speeds Up to 2/1 Gbps in First Market, Priced At…
Mediacom said it has completed upgrades to its hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network in West Des Moines, enabling the company to offer speeds up to 2/1 Gbps. The network upgrades are aimed at eventually supporting…
Rural Telecom M&A: One Iowa Provider Buys Another
In a deal between two broadband and telecom operators in rural southeast Iowa, Kalona Cooperative Technology Company (KCTC) acquired Farmers & Merchants Mutual Telephone Company (Famtel). The transaction was about two years in the making. The companies had shared ideas over the…
Mediacom, Local Providers Share $149M in Iowa Broadband Funding Round
Mediacom and Citizens Mutual Telephone Cooperative were the biggest winners in the latest round of funding in the Empower Rural Iowa rural broadband funding program. Numerous small and local providers also won funding. Mediacom’s award…
Liberty Communications CEO Shares Iowa Expansion, FWA, Funding Gains and Plans
Liberty Communications is an example of a company that started out decades ago as a rural phone company but has transitioned to being a fiber broadband provider offering highly competitive multi-gigabit speeds and expanding beyond…
Ubiquity Launches More Open Access Networks, Claims First Scaled Fiber Deployment
Ubiquity has launched open access networks in Carlsbad, CA and Mesa, AZ. The company said the Mesa deployment is the nation’s first scaled fiber deployment, in which service provider tenants will use both lit and…
Iowa Preps for $148M Broadband Funding Program
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds announced plans for a $148 million broadband funding program today. The program, to be known as the Empower Rural Iowa Broadband Grant Program, was funded through the U.S. Treasury Capital Projects…
Google Fiber Ups the Speed to 8 Gbps in West Des Moines, Iowa
Google Fiber has added a symmetrical 8 Gbps option to its network in West Des Moines, IA. The network now offers four speed options, including 1 Gbps, 2 Gbps and 5 Gbps. The 8 Gbps…
Report: Google Fiber Plans Network Expansion in North Carolina, as Well as Iowa
Google Fiber said it has agreed to build a fiber broadband network in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Additionally, a local media outlet has reported that the company plans to build in Huntersville, North Carolina. A Google…
Metronet Turns Up Multi-Gigabit Speeds in Iowa Markets
Competitive provider Metronet has turned up multi-gigabit service in multiple Iowa markets. Symmetrical speeds up to 2 Gbps will be available to residential customers in the markets and symmetrical speeds up to 10 Gbps will…
Five States Get Almost $30M in BEAD and Digital Equity Planning Funds
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced planning grants to Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina and Rhode Island in the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) and the Digital Equity Act programs. The…
Iowa Releases Broadband Map, Opens Challenge Window
The Department of Management Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) of the state of Iowa has published the fifth version of the state’s Broadband Availability Map. A month-long “challenge window” to enable various parties…
Google Fiber Plans to Expand Iowa Reach into Des Moines
Google Fiber said it is gearing up to start construction into the Iowa capital of Des Moines later this year. “We’re currently in the planning stages, working with the City of Des Moines on the…
