Atherton, CA – May 18, 2022 – Atherton Fiber has launched into the San Mateo County, CA, market with a new approach to providing broadband service. Founded by a disgruntled former Comcast and AT&T customer, Atherton Fiber is finding receptive customers…
Frontier plans to deploy fiber broadband to at least 100,000 more locations than originally planned this year, said Frontier Chief Financial Officer Scott Beasley at an investor conference yesterday. The company’s original build target for the year was one million…
Nearly one quarter (24.7%) of commercial buildings now are fiber connected to network services as fiber reached 1.3 million office buildings in 2021, according to the most recent ENS @Fiber Plus research from Vertical Systems Group (VSG). This is more…
DENVER, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Magellan, the leader in providing turnkey services and developing next-generation fiber networks, is bringing lightning-fast broadband to rural and urban communities across six states. A combination of utilities, municipalities, tribes and independent telco clients are using…
NTIA released the eagerly awaited notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program early this morning. Rules for the program call for individual states to establish selection criteria and other rules for…
EDINBURG, Va., May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Glo Fiber, powered by Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (“Shentel”) (NASDAQ: SHEN), announced today that construction of their all-fiber network will begin late this summer in the Rockingham County, Virginia towns of Broadway, Bridgewater, Dayton, Grottoes, Timberville, and Elkton. The company will launch services in late 2022, offering blazing fast…
As fiber sees record-setting deployment levels, the demand for fiber optic technicians is stronger than ever. To meet this demand, we’re seeing a slew of training programs nationwide. We outline a few below. Community colleges will play an important role…
WOW! said today that it will double the number of locations targeted for what the company calls “greenfield” expansion plans. Although WOW! traditionally was a cable company and has used traditional cable HFC/DOCSIS infrastructure, the company increasingly is deploying fiber…
TDS Telecommunications is serving 33% of its 1.4 million customer addresses with fiber, a calculation that includes cable markets. The company grew those serviceable addresses by 7% year-over-year. TDS added 22,000 fiber-enabled addresses to its footprint and announced markets in…
TDS Telecommunications and the city of Janesville, Wisconsin have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on plans to build a symmetrical 2 Gbps FTTH network. The network will reach about 30,000 addresses. In addition to connectivity, the network will offer…
Altafiber and the Butler Rural Electric Cooperative are expanding an existing partnership to deploy broadband infrastructure to 5,000 more addresses in Butler, Preble and Montgomery counties, Ohio. The availability to these addresses will begin during the first half of next…
AT&T and Corning will create a program to help train a workforce capable of supporting the massive investments that are being made in fiber broadband networks. The Fiber Optic Training Program will provide training on optical fiber and networking, network…
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