If telecom providers are required to remove decades-old lead-sheathed cable from their networks, the total bill is likely to be in the range of $4.4 billion to $21 billion, according to a new estimate from New Street Research. That’s a…
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AT&T Pushes Back on Lead Contamination Allegations
In a filing with a U.S. District Court yesterday, AT&T pushed back against allegations made by the Wall Street Journal regarding decades-old lead-clad telecom cabling. In a series of articles published earlier this month, the WSJ alleged that those cables…
Telecom Lead Remediation Cost Estimated at $60B; Could Impact BEAD Plans
If action is needed to remediate alleged dangers posed by old lead-encased copper telecom cabling, the cost could be in the range of $60 billion, according to an estimate from New Street Research. This, in turn, could impact the government’s…
What Toxic Lead Cabling Allegations Could Mean for Telcos
The Wall Street Journal is accusing AT&T, Verizon and other major telcos of potentially posing a health threat from decades-old cables covered in toxic lead, including cables installed under water, in the soil and on poles. According to the WSJ…
Charter Grabs the Largest Share of NC Broadband Awards; AT&T, Brightspeed, Lumos Also Win
Charter bagged eight out of 33 broadband funding awards made by the state of North Carolina yesterday, making the company the biggest winner measured by number of awards. A total of nearly $80 million was awarded. Also winning funding were…
NCTC: 60 Members Plan to Use MVNO Option
Sixty members of the National Content & Technology Cooperative (NCTC) are in the process of being onboarded to offer mobile service via the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) offering that NCTC announced several weeks ago. NCTC President and CEO Lou…
AT&T Touts 5G, AI, MEC, SDN in Technology Progress Report
AT&T touted a range of network technology initiatives in a new blog post. Among the topics touched on were 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), mobile edge computing (MEC), and software defined networking (SDN). “While people keep asking what the killer app…
AT&T Jumps into Generative AI with Ask AT&T
AT&T has introduced Ask AT&T, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform base on Open AI’s chatGPT. Generative AI is an emerging form of AI that uses the patterns and structures it sees in the data to create – generate —…
AST SpaceMobile Achieves 10 Mbps LTE Satellite-to-Cellphone Calls
AST SpaceMobile said that it successfully tested satellite-to-cellphone service using LTE to support 10 Mbps connections. Supplemental coverage from space (SCS) service will use low earth orbit (LEO) satellites to support connectivity. The AST SpaceMobile test was conducted last month…
AT&T: We’ve Won Broadband Funding for 130K Locations in Past Year
AT&T says that it has leveraged public-private partnerships to bring its broadband fiber network to more than 130,000 locations during the past year. The funding for these projects includes funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and investment from…
AT&T CFO: We’re the Biggest US Fiber Provider and Adding More Than Anybody Else
AT&T is “largest fiber provider in the U.S. and we are adding more than anybody else,” said the company’s chief financial officer, Pascal Desroches, at an investor conference today. Just a few months after Desroches foretold the fall of fixed…
AT&T Taps Cisco For Mobile-First Workforce Offerings
AT&T announced a number of new solutions designed to meet the needs of business customers whose employees rely primarily on mobile phones for communications. The mobile-first offerings are underpinned by a new partnership with Cisco. The goal is to enable…
