January 14, 2021 — SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that TransWorld Network, Corp. (TWN) has selected end-to-end solutions and services from Calix to accelerate its fiber-network buildout across the U.S. The company plans to add a…
CARES Act broadband funding helped enable the town of Bristol, New Hampshire to deploy 24 miles of fiber to pass 400 Bristol residences and connect to Plymouth State University. The CARES Act funding was a $1.52 million grant. In a…
January 12, 2021 — The build now connects more than 5,000 addresses to 1Gig speedsThe TDS Telecom (TDS®) fiber network in Monona, Wisconsin is complete and available to all 5,175 addresses included in the build. The project connects residential and…
Regional fiber network operator Everstream is building out fiber in seven Midwest markets that will help to connect more than 2,000 macro cell towers. The fiber provider has been quite aggressive in its expansion efforts. The buildout helps fuels Everstream’s…
The USDA has made an additional $16.4 million in awards in three states through the ReConnect rural broadband program. The USDA ReConnect grants and grant/loan combinations went to telecommunications companies serving Illinois, Oregon and South Carolina. In all, the awards…
The weighted average advertised broadband speed among 10 of the largest U.S. providers was 146.1 Mbps as of September-October 2019, according to a new FCC report. That was an increase of more than 100% from the same period two years…
Regional broadband provider Smithville and electric cooperative Utilities District of Western Indiana REMC have formed a limited partnership to deploy broadband to a rural area in Indiana. It is the latest in a recent string of telecom electric broadband partnerships,…
The USDA ReConnect program has granted the Pembroke Telephone Company $4.6 million to build a FTTP network in rural Georgia. The grant will be used to deploy a network connecting 3,444 people living in 1,326 households, 73 farms and 19…
ALBANY, N.Y., Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — FirstLight, a leading provider of fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud, and unified communications services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, announced today that the Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium…
In what they say is a first, five electric cooperatives in three states have formed an association of broadband co-ops aimed at bolstering services in underserved rural areas. The Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Broadband Cooperatives (VMDABC) is structurally…
COLUMBIA, MO — January 5, 2021 — Bluebird Network – a communications infrastructure provider and data center operator – is excited to announce that effective December 31, 2020, it acquired the ColoHub Data Center—previously owned by Geneseo Communications—located in Bettendorf,…
To say that 2020 has not been a year of business as usual would be a supreme understatement, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted nearly every aspect of nearly everyone’s daily life. Nevertheless, the broadband and telecom industry managed not only…
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