Hawk Networks hopes the Althea microtransactions platform it has built will be the secret sauce for the networks the company is establishing in rural areas to support precision agriculture. We talked to Althea CEO Deborah Simpier recently about the company’s…
The news last week about AT&T’s Gigapower joint venture with investment firm BlackRock was not a total surprise to anyone who heard or read comments from one AT&T executive earlier this month. Addressing investors at a conference, AT&T COO Jeff…
During a panel discussion on public-private broadband partnerships at Fiber Connect, being held this week in Nashville, David Finn of Google Fiber outlined the company’s embrace of the open access model for broadband. Finn, a director of corporate development at…
The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) Fiber has entered into a partnership with Golden State Connect Authority (GCSA) to develop and operate an open access network in rural California. Open access networks use a wholesale approach that allows other…
Construction has begun on the open access FTTH network that Yellowstone Fiber announced six months ago. The company, which was called Bozeman Fiber when the project started, is laying conduit and preparing to install fiber. The three-year plan is to…
Digital infrastructure investment firm Ubiquity says that it will invest $100 million in open access fiber networks in Hutto and Killeen, TX. FiberFirst will be the project’s first tenant on the networks. Ubiquity, which previously committed to a $75 million…
Underline, a network provider that offers a fresh spin on open access fiber networks, has announced plans to serve Fountain, CO and Salinas, CA. The markets will be the company’s second and third after Colorado Springs (CO), its first. Construction…
Underline, a network operator that was in stealth mode until now, plans to build open access networks with a twist, beginning in Colorado Spring, Colorado. We talked to Underline founder and CEO Bob Thompson about the company. Some open access…
SiFi Networks said today that it plans to begin deploying fiber networks in 30 U.S. communities by the end of 2022. The company also launched a digital inclusion program to be known as FiberCity Aid. SiFi Networks is a rather…
The APG Group NV has acquired 16.7% of SiFi Networks America and invested $500 million in a joint venture to build open access 10G FTTH networks in communities in the United States in which more than one-third of households do…
The City of Salem, MA and SiFi Networks have signed a $35 million contract for construction of a network using the open access approach that the builder says will break the monopoly providers hold on the communities in which they…
WASHINGTON, February 23, 2021—FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel today shared with her colleagues a proposal to open a formal discussion on Open Radio Access Networks—sometimes called Open RAN—the opportunities they present, and what the FCC should be doing to promote…
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