The state of Wisconsin announced broadband funding awards totaling $16.6 million today. Winners include Charter, TDS Telecom, Frontier and 21 other service providers. Many of the other providers were smaller local companies, including Washington Island Electric Cooperative, which was the…
Since its big RDOF win several years ago, Charter has received funding to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband to 260,000 more rural locations from state and “other” sources, said Charter CEO Chris Winfrey at an investor conference…
Charter Communications’ Spectrum Enterprise has added two security products that aim to provide secure access applications and information on private networks or public clouds. The products, which come from Cisco, are Secure Access with Cisco Duo and Cloud Security with Cisco+ Secure…
“We’re the largest rural provider today,” said Charter CEO Chris Winfrey on the company’s first quarter earnings call today. It’s a surprising revelation, considering that Charter only recently became serious about rural buildouts. The company realized a few years ago…
Charter and Comcast added more state broadband funding to their coffers as the state of Maine announced $20 million in awards to nine providers in its Reach Me line extension program. The program pays some of the costs for providers…
The state of Florida has awarded $22 million in funding to three providers for deployments in areas where high-speed broadband is not available today. The biggest winner is Conexon Connect, which will take home over $13.3 million. Suwanee Valley Electric…
Blackfoot Communications, a provider serving rural areas of Montana and Idaho, is getting set to begin work on seven fiber deployment projects for which the company was awarded $60 million through Montana’s ConnectMT program. Blackfoot will contribute an additional $16…
Charter Communications has introduced Advanced WiFi for Businesses across its service area. The service is targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses. Highlights of the upgraded service, which is available now, include Charter’s Red Dot design advanced Wi-Fi router, which delivers…
Virtualized broadband equipment supplier Harmonic said today that Charter will use the Harmonic virtualized cable modem termination system (vCMTS) to support the cable company’s DOCSIS 3.1, DOCSIS 4.0 and distributed access architecture (DAA) plans – which are all part of…
In an effort to grab market share, Charter Communications is offering new and existing small business customers one free line of Unlimited Spectrum Mobile service for a year. The carrier, which launched the free mobile line promotion for residential customers…
The government funding that Charter has received for rural broadband deployments generates revenue opportunities for the company beyond the funded areas, Charter CEO Chris Winfrey told investors today. Winfrey noted that while the company has cited rural internal rates of…
The cable rural broadband funding explosion continues, as two cable companies took home the lion’s share of awards of awards announced in Alabama on Friday. Mediacom was the big winner in the announcement. The company was awarded $13.4 million in…
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