Charter Communications, Inc., yesterday announced a new pricing plan for Spectrum Mobile customers that starts at $29.99/month per line for customers with at least two Spectrum Mobile lines. The newly unveiled plan provides further savings over the Unlimited Plus service…
As the RDOF program gets underway, there’s a lot of clean up taking place with the rural broadband funding program. As the largest winning bidder by number of locations to be funded, cable MSO Charter is participating in this clean…
Charter is planning a 1,910-mile fiber network in rural Virginia that will be funded, in part, through the Virginia Telecommunications Initiative (VATI). VATI is a state-funded program administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to help local communities…
High-split network upgrades are “the more up and coming expenditure in parallel with DOCSIS 4.0” as Charter looks toward future capex plans, said Charter CFO Chris Winfrey on a virtual investor conference webcast today. Winfrey also noted that Charter believes…
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is deploying Spectrum Enterprise’s Stay Connected K-12 platform. The program, which delivers broadband at no charge directly to participant’s homes, initially will be provided to more than 5,300 families. The Stay Connected K-12 service…
Charter Communications’ Spectrum Enterprise and unified communications provider Webex by Cisco have introduced a collaboration platform. Spectrum Enterprise UC with Webex is aimed at the mid-market and enterprise companies that are modernizing their communications services to support workplace transformation. It…
The FCC today said it is ready to authorize $311 million in rural broadband funding to 48 companies that had winning bids in the RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) auction. Also today, the commission released a list of RDOF defaults…
Gibson Technical Services has been selected by Charter Communications to build out 8,600 miles of full service construction across Louisiana, Alabama and North Carolina in an initiative partially funded by the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) program. Gibson, a subsidiary…
Spectrum Mobile offered the fastest overall speeds than other providers in its area during Global Wireless Solutions, Inc. cellular and WiFi speed test conducted in the company’s seven-state service area, the carrier announced this week. It marked the seventh straight…
Charter expects to have a mobile radio access network “fully deployed across one of our larger markets . . . by the end of this year and going into next year,” said Charter Chief Financial Officer Chris Winfrey at an…
Charter expects to charge the same price for broadband service in RDOF-funded areas as in metro areas, said Charter CEO Tom Rutledge in a discussion about Charter RDOF plans at an investor conference today. The company was tentatively awarded over…
Charter financials are looking good – for now and for at least the near-term future, said financial analysts at Moffett Nathanson in a research note issued on Friday. Charter broadband buildouts are contributing to that success, as are improving economics…
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