Palmer, Alaska – September 13, 2022 – MTA, Alaska’s best choice for technology and communications, has completed the first and only all-terrestrial fiber route between Alaska and Chicago. The project, an extension of the historic AlCan ONE line, brings an additional secure, geographically diverse, high-speed…
Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC), a two-year school in northwest Louisiana, soon will offer the Fiber Broadband Association’s Optical Telecom Installer Certification (OpTIC Path) program, according to the FBA. OpTIC Path develops the workforce necessary to support increases in fiber…
Regional operator Lumos will deploy a fiber broadband network to serve about 35,000 addresses in Durham and Orange counties, North Carolina. The company is making an investment of about $50 million in the project, which will feature more than 600…
Kirkland, Washington (September 8, 2022) – Ziply® Fiber (“Ziply”) today announced $450 million in new funding to support its ongoing fiber network expansion in the Northwest. In its first two years of operation, the company upgraded its copper network to fiber…
TDS Telecommunications is expanding its broadband fiber footprint in Wisconsin with planned deployments to 85,000 homes and businesses in 18 communities. Communities that are part of the project are Sheboygan, Sheboygan Falls, Plymouth, Kohler, Fond du Lac, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson,…
Brightspeed, which is heading into the home stretch of announcements, says that it will deploy fiber broadband to more than 72,000 addresses in New Jersey. The first phase will bring the network to as many as 20,000 addresses in Hunterdon,…
Nextlink Internet and Wise County, Texas, have reached a $1.3 million agreement that will improve broadband available in the county. The agreement calls for 95% of households in the county to get services at 100 Mbps to 500 Mbps. The…
Brightspeed continues its methodical run of announcements with the news that it will pass more than 120,000 Indiana addresses with fiber broadband. As usual, the project will be executed in two phases. More than 50,000 passings in 20 counties will…
Corning announced plans to build a new fiber manufacturing facility in Gilbert, Arizona that should help meet burgeoning U.S. demand for fiber. AT&T reportedly is investing in the project, which will help it shore up its own fiber supply. The…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today awarded more than $143.6 million in funds from the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program in two states. The awards will provide funds for broadband internet infrastructure deployment projects for…
August 24, 2022 – In the Treasure Valley, TDS will build an all-fiber network in Caldwell that will serve about 12,000 addresses. Meanwhile, TDS will build networks in Hansen, Heyburn, and Kimberly in the Magic Valley, serving more than 3,000…
The city of Westfield, Massachusetts has seen job-related benefits of $88 million annually as a result of its municipally owned power company Westfield Gas & Electric (WG&E) having deployed gigabit fiber broadband in 2018, according to a new report from…
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