Jan 20, 2021 – PHILADELPHIA, PA – Customers can now take advantage of advanced Wi-Fi technology that is capable of delivering Wi-Fi speeds faster than a Gig to support the ever-increasing number of connected devices in their homes. The speed…

Jan 20, 2021 – PHILADELPHIA, PA – Customers can now take advantage of advanced Wi-Fi technology that is capable of delivering Wi-Fi speeds faster than a Gig to support the ever-increasing number of connected devices in their homes. The speed…
Windstream finished 2020 with a net gain of 60,000 broadband customers and with its gigabit services available to 589,000 locations, the company says. Ultimately, Windstream wants to get gigabit to50% of it’s ILEC territory within ten years. The year 2020…
We’re less than two weeks into 2021 and two telco electric broadband partnerships already have been announced. The latest one comes from Comporium and York Electric Cooperative for a deployment in rural South Carolina. Last week, Indiana-based telco Smithville and…
January 6, 2021 — TDS® is now offering 1Gig internet speeds in Seminole, Texas. Residential and business customers can now go faster than ever with a variety of high-speed internet packages from TDS. “If speed is what you want, 1Gig…
NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association and the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) have asked the FCC to use a broadband speed definition of one gigabit per second (Gbps) symmetrical for the commission’s next annual broadband deployment report. As a fallback,…
How suitable is gigabit fixed wireless for rural areas? It’s no longer an academic question, thanks to the recently completed Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, a reverse auction that awarded funding to provide high-speed broadband to areas where such…
The ultimate goal of a Cincinnati Bell 2 Gbps pilot in the greater Cincinnati area is to extend the offering across the company’s entire network footprint. The carrier has spent more than $1 billion upgrading during the past decade and,…
Now that the dust has settled a bit, it’s time to do some RDOF analysis. And there is no shortage of things to analyze. RDOF is a historic shift in public policy for rural broadband. What was once the funding…
Rural telcos have made big gains in gigabit broadband availability and also have seen a big jump in customers who subscribe to gigabit service, according to the latest rural gigabit broadband data from NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association. The average NTCA…
Regional wireless and fiber provider C Spire has begun serving residents of neighboring Alabama. The first subscribers are in the northern portion of Jasper. Scattered Trussville neighborhoods will gain access by the end of the year. Pelham, Helena, Northport, Tuscaloosa…
The top 10 winners in the recently completed Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase 1 auction will take home just over three quarters (76%) of the total $9.2 billion in funding awarded through the auction. As an RDOF winner map…
North Dakota fiber provider MLGC, based in Enderlin, North Dakota is introducing a 5 Gbps broadband tier to several rural markets in the state. The 100+ year old provider operates an all-FTTP network to several communities across east-central North Dakota….
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