Ten percent of organizations had a security breach in the past year, according to a report from Action1, provider of a risk-based patch management platform. Almost half of breaches (47%) resulted from known security vulnerabilities, according to the researchers. The…
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today awarded two grants for more than $25.7 million to two Tribal nations: The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota and the Pueblo of Acoma in New Mexico- as…
The FCC has “largely completed” work on the second version of the National Broadband Map, said FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel today. Although Rosenworcel confusingly called this the “fabric,” a term usually reserved for the broadband serviceable location database, an FCC…
Verizon has announced two free offerings: a thirty-day trial of unlimited data on its 5G Ultra Wideband network and BlueJeans Basic, a free conferencing service. The thirty-day Ultra Wideband offer, which is open to those with unlocked and compatible phones,…
A fiber broadband investment forecast from RVA Market Research and Consulting calls for 100 million new fiber passings over the “next ten years or so.” The firm says that investment in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) from this year to 2027 will be…
Lumen has added another contact center as a service (CCasS) offering for business customers to its portfolio of CCasS offerings. The new offering comes via a partnership with Talkdesk and is based on the Talkdesk CX Cloud. Lumen Solutions for…
“If you build it, they will come” is a phrase that gets tossed around a lot in telecom, and sometimes it’s true, but you can’t always count on it. This recognition is a likely driver behind the “Gig City Goes…
There is good news and bad news for the augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) category, according to an AR/VR forecast from International Data Corp. (IDC). The bad news is that 2022 results were weaker than anticipated and the firm lowered its…
Twenty-eight percent of U.S. Internet households have three or more smart devices, according to Parks Associates. The firm’s new “Smart Home Consumer Insights Dashboard” found that the average household has 7.1 smart devices and that 40% of U.S. Internet households…
Two states recently made moves on broadband funding. Funding bills were passed by legislatures and signed into law by governors in Alabama and Idaho. $260M in Alabama Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation to make $260 million in funding from…
AT&T says that it spent more than $140 billion between 2018 and last year, mostly on its domestic wired and wireless network. Much of the spending was in capital investments—including the FirstNet first responder network – and wireless spectrum acquisition….
Verizon plans to deploy Fios fiber broadband and make 5G fixed wireless service available to nearly 2,000 locations in five Delaware markets. Construction costs will be covered, in part, through $6 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. The…
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