A new study from PCMag found strong intent to purchase Starlink low-earth satellite broadband from SpaceX. But what people think they would be buying differs significantly from what they actually would be buying, researchers found. PCMag surveyed 1,041 people over…
AT&T aims to increase access to educational and digital literacy tools by opening the first of more than 20 AT&T Connected Learning Centers across the U.S. These AT&T Learning Centers will be in facilities operated by local community organizations and…
C Spire has finished the two-plus years, multi-million-dollar construction of a 225-mile-long fiber optic cable route from Kiln, Mississippi to West Mobile, Alabama, the company announced. Alabama consumers and businesses represent a critical portion of C Spire’s $1 billion investment…
A new report from 5G Americas identifies a broad range of telecom provider connected car opportunities, including providing cellular connectivity and multi-access edge computing (MEC) to support intelligent transportation systems designed to make roadways safer and more efficient. The 32-page…
The FCC has approved 13 smaller bidders to receive funding won in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction. The funding will go toward covering some of the costs of deploying broadband to unserved and underserved rural areas and had…
T-Mobile and vendor Visual Labs are partnering on a project designed to turn first responders’ smartphones into body cams and communications tools. The goal is to save money over purpose-built systems. The technology provides body camera, digital camera, audio recorder…
Kinetic is expanding its fiber buildout in Newton, Iowa, to cover the entire city. The Windstream business unit said that by the end of the year the more than 4,400 residences and businesses will have access to 1 Gbps service….
MetroNet has acquired CTS, a fiber-based Internet provider that serves the southwest Michigan communities of Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Portage, Texas Township and Climax. The new owners plan to invest more than $100 million to expand the network. No details of…
A new report recommends that the Universal Service Fund (USF) contribution base should be expanded to include broadband internet access service revenues. The current methodology is unsustainable, the report argues. The “USForward” report, from Carol Mattey, founder of Mattey Consulting…
Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom (WCVT), a broadband provider that started out as a rural phone company over 100 years ago, has won another deal to operate a broadband network in a rural Vermont communications union district (CUD). The concept…
The APG Group NV has acquired 16.7% of SiFi Networks America and invested $500 million in a joint venture to build open access 10G FTTH networks in communities in the United States in which more than one-third of households do…
Fiber Minnesota LLC says that it has merged with two other fiber transport carriers – Broadband Visions (BBV) and SM Broadband (SMB) – to create what it says is one of the state’s largest transport networks. The new entity will…
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