Liberty Communications is an example of a company that started out decades ago as a rural phone company but has transitioned to being a fiber broadband provider offering highly competitive multi-gigabit speeds and expanding beyond its traditional local service turf….
Fixed wireless access (FWA) provider Starry Group Holdings, Inc., has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a smaller, more narrowly focused privately held company. The implementation of Starry’s reorganization plan completes a process that began in February when the company…
Nextlink Internet today announced the acquisition of Echo Wireless for an undisclosed price. The acquisition expands Nextlink’s market into the state of Indiana, specifically, the rural communities in Knox, Davies, and Lawrence counties. Nextlink was one of the biggest winners…
Faster fixed wireless came a step closer with the news late last week that the FCC has approved testing of automated frequency coordination (AFC) systems for the 6 GHz band. That band will be available for commercial full-power outdoor use…
AT&T said today that it is launching a new fixed wireless service, dubbed Internet Air, in parts of more than a dozen markets. The service will be delivered over the company’s cellular network using an approach that has had considerable…
Wireless and broadband provider Vistabeam last month acquired Airbits, which served the towns of Estes Park and Pole Hill, which are in Colorado’s Front Range area. Vistabeam also established a digital empowerment Center in Yuma, Colorado. The move into Colorado’s…
If UScellular were to sell some of its wireless assets, “under most scenarios that’s an opportunity and apositive for where we’re trying to go,” said Charlie Ergen, chairman of the board of DISH Network andEchostar today. His comments came on…
Element8, a broadband provider with a focus on fixed wireless access (FWA), said today that it has made a “transformational” investment in Wisper ISP, another broadband provider with an FWA focus. Element8 will invest $151 million in Wisper, said Element8…
EarthLink is acquiring One Ring Networks, Inc., one of the largest fixed wireless providers of voice and data services in the country, for an undisclosed price. The deal is effective today, EarthLink said. Earthlink expects the acquisition to enable it…
While some fixed wireless access (FWA) providers are shifting more toward fiber broadband, one FWA provider that continues to have big plans for FWA is Watch Communications, a Microsoft Airband partner that was also the biggest winner in the 2018…
Declaration Networks first appeared on the Telecompetitor website five years or so ago, when the company was deploying fixed wireless access (FWA) to unserved and underserved areas. But as the company’s CEO Bob Nichols told us in a recent interview,…
Fiber-to-the-premises provider GigFire has acquired Rural Comm, a service provider headquartered in Farina, IL. GigFire, which now operates in ten Midwestern states, was known as LTD Broadband until earlier this year. The company says that it will serve more than…
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