Adtran said today that it will invest up to $5 million in its Huntsville, Alabama manufacturing facility to support domestic manufacturing of fiber broadband equipment. The move should make it easier for broadband providers receiving funding in the $42.5 billion…
The high-cost thresholds that will be established on a state-to-state basis for the BEAD rural broadband funding program will determine how extensively fiber is deployed to unserved and underserved locations in each state. NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association and the Fiber…
The Tennessee Economic and Community Development Office (TNECD) will begin accepting applications for $60 million in Capital Projects Fund (CPF) dollars for rural broadband deployments next month. But not every county will be eligible for funding. Telecompetitor talked recently with…
Updated with a link to the video of VP Kamala Harris announcing the plans Nokia said today that it will begin manufacturing fiber optic broadband equipment at a facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin this year. The availability of U.S.-made fiber…
The enhanced A-CAM program established by the FCC last week could make nearly 583,000 locations – and possibly more — ineligible for funding in the BEAD rural broadband program, according to an analysis by telecom cost analyst Mike Conlow. The…
There is a lot of information to parse with broadband grant programs. Eligibility of costs, matching fund information, and reporting requirements are only a few, and support material is often written in an impressive amount of legalese. This is all…
Oregon faces a range of challenges on the route to making broadband available throughout the state, said Nick Batz, director of the Oregon Broadband Office, in an interview with Telecompetitor. “Our biggest challenge is the size of the state,” he…
It’s been a few weeks since President Biden officially kicked off the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. The same day, NTIA announced how much BEAD funding each of the 50 states would be allocated. What are…
New Street Research issued another revision to its telecom lead remediation cost estimate today. It follows an initial estimate of $60 billion prepared two weeks ago and a more recent one estimating costs at between $12 billion and $15 billion….
The earliest deployments funded through the BEAD rural broadband program are expected to begin no earlier than January 2024, according to a new report from Cartesian for provider association ACA Connects. At that point, there will be 4.7 million unserved…
Deployment cost estimates underlying winning RDOF bids are no longer accurate, representatives for a coalition of RDOF winners told FCC officials on Friday. The representatives suggested several possible remedies, including providing additional funding and other ideas. In a letter summarizing…
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…
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