Kwikbit is a network operator with a unique business model. The company focuses on providing fixed wireless internet service to manufactured home communities, more commonly known as trailer or mobile home parks. On a recent “Fiber for Breakfast” webinar from…
According to a Dell’Oro Group forecast, worldwide sales of PON equipment for fiber-to-the-home deployments, cable broadband access equipment, and fixed wireless CPE will all increase from 2022 to 2027, as service providers continue to expand their fiber, DOCSIS 4.0 and…
San Angelo, Texas & Milpitas, California – (BUSINESS WIRE) – VGI Technology, an experienced internet service provider (ISP) based in Texas, and Tarana, manufacturer of the Gigabit 1 (G1) next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform, today announced the exceptional progress…
Verizon increased wireless revenue nearly 6% year-over-year and added broadband subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2022, the company announced in its quarterly earnings release today. Total wireless service revenue grew 5.9% compared to the fourth quarter of 2021, driven…
Resound Networks has received final authorization from the FCC for winning bids in seven states in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) program. The company was the winning bidder for over $300 million in funding to cover some of the…
To date, T-Mobile has only offered fixed wireless access (FWA) where the company has excess capacity not needed to support its mobile business. But the company hasn’t ruled out a capital investment to enable FWA expansion, said T-Mobile Chief Financial…
There’s a lot going on in broadband these days, so I’ll skip the intro and launch right into the top broadband news of 2022. In no particular order, the big stories include: Telcos’ Broadband Turnaround Now that telcos are more…
Google Fiber hasn’t had much to say about fixed wireless access (FWA) since it acquired FWA provider Webpass in 2016. But in a blog post today, two Google Fiber execs offered some details about how the company is using Webpass…
The average downstream speed that fixed wireless subscribers are using increased 17% between 2021 and 2022, according to a report from Preseem, a company that specializes in fixed wireless analytics and that gathers anonymous data from fixed wireless subscribers located…
More than two years after the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction was completed, the FCC said today that it is ready to authorize funding for Resound Networks. The company, which plans to use a mixture of fixed wireless and…
This year marked a dramatic and largely unexpected rise in fixed wireless access (FWA) subscribers, so much so that T-Mobile and Verizon FWA garnered more than 78.3% of all new broadband subscribers, leaving just 21.7% choosing all other broadband alternatives,…
This year was an important one for Verizon fixed wireless access (FWA) as the company turned up the service using C-band spectrum and 5G in major metro markets. The company had one million customers for the service, known as Home…
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