Fiber broadband provider Arvig has announced completion of the construction of its first 400 Gbps-capable routes in parts of its Minnesota backbone. The routes, located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, offer the potential for four times as much capacity…
The FCC this week adopted rules to reduce robocalls by “strengthening and modernizing” the way in which VoIP providers obtain direct access telephone numbers. The FCC says that the steps also will protect national security and law enforcement, reduce stress…
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) program has made awards totaling more than $40.8 million in funding to support approximately 110,000 students, primarily in eight states: Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Utah and Washington. The…
Two regional service providers – 360 Communications and 903 Broadband – merged last month to create a new company called 360 Broadband. The company will serve almost 16,000 customers in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. To reach its customers, the company…
U.S. Commerce Assistant Secretary Alan Davidson will be on hand today in Auburn Hills, MI, where Calix will announce plans to manufacture broadband equipment at a facility in the city operated by global manufacturing company Jabil. Building the equipment in…
The FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) today that seeks comment on previously established plans to use a reverse auction process to award funding to cover some of the costs of making 5G service available in areas where…
OpenAI, creator of the popular artificial intelligence software ChatGPT, has launched a version of the product aimed at the enterprise market. The new software, dubbed ChatGPT Enterprise, aims to help businesses operate more efficiently. Some companies already are using the…
Lumen Technologies is beta testing artificial intelligence (AI) software from Microsoft with its approximately 30,000 employees. According to Lumen, the software — known as Microsoft 365 Copilot — already has helped enhance employee productivity. Customer service teams are using Microsoft…
Charter Communications and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. have collaborated to develop next-generation Advanced Wi-Fi routers for Charter’s residential and commercial Spectrum broadband accounts. These new network devices are planned to be made available in 2024. Dave Rodrian, Charter’s Group Vice President…
The state of New Mexico has awarded $66.8 million to cover some of the costs of making broadband available to 10,300 unserved and underserved locations. Tribal areas were the big winners, with more than half of the funding ($40.72 million)…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) strengthened its actions yesterday against One Owl Telecom, saying that the gateway provider hasn’t complied with the agency’s robocaller blocking rules. According to the FCC, One Owl operated as a gateway provider for international robocalls…
Traditional television viewership gained ground in August, as broadcast (20.4%) and cable (30.2%) each bounced back to combine for more than half (50.6%) of total TV usage, according to the August 2023 edition of Nielsen’s The Gauge. In the same…
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