Consolidated Communications has made symmetrical gigabit fiber FTTP available to 122,000 locations during the first half of 2021. Expansion plans include making service available to 300,000 locations by year’s end. The company has upgraded infrastructure in more than 60 towns…
Verizon and Samsung have conducted an end-to-end fully virtualized 5G data session over C-band spectrum over a live network, according to the carrier. The demonstration anticipates the carrier’s use of C-band spectrum it recently acquired. Virtualization decouples the hardware and…
Windstream CEO Tony Thomas addressed the fiber broadband industry today at Fiber Connect, taking place in Nashville. With a theme of Windstream’s growing broadband ambitions, Thomas also revealed he’s no fan of the RDOF program implementation and he is among…
Thirty-five thousand homes and business in San Angelo, TX, are getting access to 10G-capable FTTH connectivity in a project that will be fully funded by Vexus Fiber. It will be the latest in several Texas markets that Vexus has announced….
The recently announced MVNO deal with AT&T will make Dish a much stronger competitor, according to a new report from Craig Moffett and other researchers at financial research firm MoffettNathanson. Without the AT&T deal, Dish likely would have gone bankrupt,…
The FCC today said it is ready to authorize $311 million in rural broadband funding to 48 companies that had winning bids in the RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) auction. Also today, the commission released a list of RDOF defaults…
The Fiber Broadband Association’s Optical Telecom Installation Certification (OpTIC) program, which was announced today, aims to enable quick scaling of fiber education, fill in gaps in technician skills and accelerate North American deployments. The fiber technician certification program, which will…
Nearly 40% (38%) of the Black Rural South population lacks home internet service, according to a new report from Joint Center, which calls itself “America’s Black think tank,” focusing on policy solutions to “eradicate persistent and evolving barriers to the…
Altice USA said that it is rebranding its mobile service as Optimum Mobile. Optimum Mobile will be the brand for both Optimum customers in the New York City tri-state area and Suddenlink, which serves customers in the west and mid-Atlantic…
Through a corporate blog post, Comcast highlights an innovative use of an existing technology — reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs) – that now greatly increases technicians’ visibility into local network traffic. ROADMs generally are used in long haul transport. A key…
Cox through its smart city platform, Cox2M, and Henderson, NV have extended their smart lighting project to include smart water meters and smart parking. Smart water meters lead to early leak detection, early freeze detection – which can prevent water…
Consolidated Communications will leverage DZS technology for planned 10G XGS-PON fiber broadband deployments. Consolidated is on a path to extend its fiber footprint to 70% of its service territory. A five-year expansion plan, which already is underway, eventually will pass…
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