Wisper Internet and Microsoft have broadened the companies’ relationship in the Airband initiative to include the latter’s global skills initiaitive, which offers curated learning for subscribers in the wireless ISP’s six state footprint. Microsoft’s global skills initiative has elements from…
Windstream issued a press release highlighting its plans for using $147 million in funding that the company won for the state of Georgia in the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction. Georgia is one of multiple states…
The USDA said it is investing $42.3 million to help provide 5 million rural Americans with better access to health care and educational opportunities. The investment comes through the USDA Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) program. The USDA says that $24…
A group of winners in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund reverse auction have asked the FCC for the opportunity to review certain information contained in the long-form applications of other winners whose bids have come into question. The group, which…
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service has the potential to be a game changer for rural broadband, according to an analysis by PCMag of Starlink speeds. The analysis is based on beta tester data exclusively provided to it by Ookla Speedtest….
Consolidated Communications is closing in on completion of the latest in a string of public-private broadband projects. The company has completed construction of FTTP networks supporting speeds up to a gigabit in three New Hampshire towns and is working on…
Arlington, Va., (February 24, 2021)—NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association Chief Executive Officer Shirley Bloomfield announced the winners of the 2020 Smart Rural CommunitySM (SRC) Showcase Awards: Hill Country Telephone Cooperative (HCTC) in Ingram, Tex. Jefferson Telecom in Jefferson, Iowa LightStream in…
Dobson Fiber announced it has acquired Ft. Smith, Ark. -based Pinnacle Communications, which provides high-speed fiber to business and residential customers in parts of Western Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma, for an undisclosed sum. The Dobson Fiber-Pinnacle transaction increases Dobson’s fiber…
The FCC has begun to release information about companies that submitted long-form applications in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction. The commission has not said that the applications were approved, only that it has received them. The RDOF auction…
Telesat, a long-time satellite provider, shared details of its low-earth orbit (LEO) technology in a press release today, touting optical links as well as Ka-band wireless connectivity, data processing “in space” and phased array antennas. The company calls its LEO…
Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced 28 bills that aim to boost public and private broadband investment. Collectively, the bills are to be known as the Boosting Broadband Connectivity Agenda. “The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the challenges faced…
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW), the leading expert in wireless transport solutions, today announced that LTD Broadband, an internet service provider (ISP) and top recipient in the US government’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund…
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