The 2021 FCC Broadband Deployment Report was released yesterday, just nine months after the 2020 report came out and just one day before today’s change in administration. The report found that “significant progress has been made to bridge the digital…
The FCC yesterday adopted additional rules for the Digital Opportunity Data Collection with the goal of gaining more accurate broadband availability data. It’s an important move, as several planned government broadband funding initiatives will not move forward until more accurate…
A broad coalition of Republican and Democratic senators and representatives have sent a letter to the FCC asking the commission to thoroughly vet RDOF auction winners. At stake is $9 billion in rural broadband funding awarded through the reverse auction,…
Frontier and CenturyLink told the FCC they may not have met all deployment deadlines for 2020 for the Connect America Fund CAF II rural broadband program. If so, that would mark the second time the companies have missed CAF II…
January 14, 2021 — SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that TransWorld Network, Corp. (TWN) has selected end-to-end solutions and services from Calix to accelerate its fiber-network buildout across the U.S. The company plans to add a…
CARES Act broadband funding helped enable the town of Bristol, New Hampshire to deploy 24 miles of fiber to pass 400 Bristol residences and connect to Plymouth State University. The CARES Act funding was a $1.52 million grant. In a…
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…
The USDA has made an additional $16.4 million in awards in three states through the ReConnect rural broadband program. The USDA ReConnect grants and grant/loan combinations went to telecommunications companies serving Illinois, Oregon and South Carolina. In all, the awards…
Regional broadband provider Smithville and electric cooperative Utilities District of Western Indiana REMC have formed a limited partnership to deploy broadband to a rural area in Indiana. It is the latest in a recent string of telecom electric broadband partnerships,…
The USDA ReConnect program has granted the Pembroke Telephone Company $4.6 million to build a FTTP network in rural Georgia. The grant will be used to deploy a network connecting 3,444 people living in 1,326 households, 73 farms and 19…
In what they say is a first, five electric cooperatives in three states have formed an association of broadband co-ops aimed at bolstering services in underserved rural areas. The Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Broadband Cooperatives (VMDABC) is structurally…
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,…
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