Kinetic by Windstream has announced two projects in a public/private partnership with Greene County, Pennsylvania funded, in part, through the CARES Act. The Windstream CARES projects have brought gigabit speeds to 7,300 homes in six communities. The consumers – most…
The Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative (ATMC) has completed the first of four phases of a broadband deployment project in rural North Carolina funded, in part, through the USDA ReConnect program. Broadband services reaching gigabit speeds now are available to residents…
Trussville, Ala. (April 1, 2021) – C Spire continued its expansion in Alabama by recently connecting its first customers in Trussville to its ultra-fast, fiber-based Gigabit broadband internet and related services. Trussville becomes the second Alabama city – following Jasper…
SAN JOSE, CA – April 1, 2021 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that it has completed more than 20 million tests—one million for speed—with its comprehensive Broadband Performance Testing solution, comprised of Calix Support Cloud (CSC), GigaSpire® BLAST…
Circle Fiber is building a FTTP network supporting 10 gigabit speeds to Cape Girardeau County, Missouri using funding from the USDA ReConnect program. Circle Fiber, which is an operating unit of 30-year-old Big River Communications of Missouri, will eventually pass…
Regional cable operator Midco is in the midst of expanding its fiber broadband reach into several communities in northern Minnesota, the company says. Plans include providing service at speeds capable of up to 5 Gbps with an upgrade path to…
Cincinnati Bell has inked a broadband public private partnership deal with Boone County in Kentucky, which is a part of suburban Cincinnati. The $43.6 million deal will expand gigabit capable fiber to 40K addresses. Terms of this latest broadband public…
If at least 200 MHz of point-to-point mid-band spectrum were made available for fixed wireless, the U.S. could reduce the need to subsidize rural broadband deployments, said Claude Aiken, president and CEO of the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA),…
The Accessible, Affordable Internet for All (AAIA) Act, introduced by Democrats in the House and Senate, would make $80 billion available for gigabit broadband in areas where such service is not available today. The act also includes an additional $14…
March 18, 2021 — BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. today announced a significant expansion to its infrastructure in Vancouver, British Columbia with two key projects: a network upgrade to 100 gigabytes (100G) capacity, now complete, and an increase in…
The city of Augusta, Arkansas has chosen Ritter Communications to deploy a gigabit broadband project funded, in part, through the CARES Act. The city is receiving a $2.3 million Arkansas Rural Connect (ARC) Broadband Grant to deploy FTTH infrastructure and…
March 09, 2021 — LITTLE ROCK, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Windstream, a privately held communications and software company, has submitted its application to receive $43 million over 10 years in the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction to bring fiber-to-the-home…
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