The FCC said Friday that it has authorized RDOF winning bids for Windstream in New York and Florida and for Charter (bidding as Time Warner Cable) for North Carolina. Nearly 40 companies appear on the new RDOF authorization list, the…
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Illinois Electric Cooperative Uses Fixed Wireless for CAF II Build
Illinois Electric Cooperative (IEC) said it will use funding received through the Connect America Fund II (CAF II) auction to deploy fixed wireless in rural Pike County. IEC will use technology from Ericsson and Xtreme LTE for the deployment, which…
FCC Ready to Authorize RDOF for More Small Bidders, Some Frontier and Windstream Bids
The FCC said today that it is ready to authorize over $640 million in Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) winning bids. The list includes about 30 primarily small companies, including several electric cooperatives, as well as some Frontier and Windstream…
FCC Ready to Authorize RDOF Funding for Ziply, Windstream, Talkie, 50+ Smaller Winning Bidders
The FCC said today that it is ready to authorize over $1 billion in RDOF funding for rural broadband deployments. About 60 winning bidders are on the ready-to-authorize list, including Windstream, Ziply, Hawaiian Telcom, Talkie and numerous smaller companies and…
Good News for Windstream, Bad News for LTD Broadband in Latest FCC RDOF Action
The FCC said today that it is ready to authorize Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) winnings for Windstream and 11 other companies that were winning bidders in last year’s RDOF auction. LTD Broadband is not among them and the company…
Fixed and Mobile Carriers Face Off on CBRS Power Levels
The Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA), which represents fixed wireless providers, has asked the FCC to reject a proposal by the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA), which represents mobile providers, involving power levels for the CBRS spectrum band. Earlier this…
Go Kinetic is Windstream’s Updated Customer Portal and Mobile App
Windstream has renamed and upgraded its Kinetic MyWIN online account management tool and mobile app, which now is called Go Kinetic. The company says that the redesigned platform is more customizable and enables users to access, manage and update their…
Windstream Kinetic Adds 13K Broadband Subscribers in First Quarter
Kinetic by Windstream ended the first quarter with a net addition of approximately 13,000 broadband subscribers based on enabling about 129,000 customer locations, the company says. The results are the first fruits of a $2 billion multiyear expansion by the…
UScellular Hits Gigabit 5G Fixed Wireless Speeds at a Range of Over Four Miles
UScellular said yesterday that it has achieved sustained average downlink speeds of approximately one gigabit per second using millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum and fixed 5G on a commercial network over a distance of 7 kilometers (more than four miles). The…
Windstream CEO “Skeptical” About Some RDOF Rural Broadband Funding Winners
Add Windstream CEO Tony Thomas to the list of those who have questioned whether some RDOF winners will be able to deploy the networks they committed to building at the level of funding they won. Without mentioning names, he told…
Nextlink American Tower Deal Will Leverage 1K Towers for Fixed Wireless Expansion
Wireless ISP Nextlink will use more than 1,000 American Tower sites to support the company’s deployment of fixed wireless broadband service to rural areas of 11 states. The Nextlink American Tower deal involves sites in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana,…