The largest cable, telco and fixed wireless providers netted about 1.065 million new broadband Internet subscribers during the first quarter of the year. Broadband subscriber growth was down compared to the 1.12 million netted during the first quarter of 2021,…
Nearly one quarter (24.7%) of commercial buildings now are fiber connected to network services as fiber reached 1.3 million office buildings in 2021, according to the most recent ENS @Fiber Plus research from Vertical Systems Group (VSG). This is more…
Customer satisfaction with their wireless service has dipped slightly, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Wireless Phone Service and Cell Phone Study 2021-2022. The latest report said that customer satisfaction has slipped 1.4% to a score of 73…
Research from Opensignal finds that a crossroads is approaching as 5G cellular connectivity is supporting speeds that are more competitive with Wi-Fi in the U.S. But while 5G provides faster uploads than 4G, only mmWave 5G is faster than Wi-Fi,…
Market share, not households new to broadband, is the focus of “intense competition” between four types of service providers, according to Kagan, the media research unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence. The firm’s 2022 broadband forecast found that residential service…
U.S. households pay an average of $116 per month for home Internet, according to research from Parks Associates. This includes both standalone and bundled options. The study, entitled “Quantified Consumer: Fixed vs. Wireless—Consumers’ Shifting Broadband Preferences,” found that U.S. Internet…
Rural Douglas County, OR, has benefited greatly from broadband infrastructure, according to the first in an expected series of reports about rural broadband benefits released by the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA). The study, which was conducted on behalf of the…
T-Mobile had the fastest median mobile download speed and Verizon Wireless was tops in the fixed broadband category in Ookla’s first quarter Speedtest assessment of wireless speeds in the United States. T-Mobile’s median download speed was 117.83 Mbps. Verizon Wireless…
There is cause for optimism as well as the recognition that a lot of work needs to be done to make the metaverse a success, according to a study by Morning Consult. The metaverse is a virtual world that many…
Over 1 million people in Kansas live in a zip code where recorded average download speeds are below 100 Mbps downstream and 20 Mbps upstream, according to a new broadband speed test study conducted by the University of Kansas Institute…
Verizon average 5G speeds have increased substantially since the company launched service covering 100 million people in the C-band earlier this year, according to new research from Opensignal. AT&T, which has rolled out 5G C-band service only in portions of…
The financial market sees greater value in privately held broadband providers than in large publicly held cable companies, according to a new broadband provider valuations report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange Division. And while the disparity has existed for some time,…
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