At the same time that the government is making unprecedented funding available for broadband, it also is considering setting more ambitious broadband goals. A new set of ambitious goals came this week from the FCC Precision Agriculture Task Force which,…
ALLO Communications will be delivering fiber-to-the-premise with 10 Gbps bandwidth to several additional Nebraska communities, with construction to begin in the spring of 2022, the company announced today. Once construction is complete, Ashland, Milford, Seward, Sidney, and York will join…
It’s an exciting time in the broadband industry. If you think it’s interesting and busy now, just wait. The next five years or so will take it up a few notches, to say the least. In the midst of this…
Charter is urging the FCC to act on pole attachment recommendations made by NCTA—The Internet & Television Association earlier this year. Several pole owners have imposed unreasonable requirements on Charter as it plans to deploy broadband to unserved rural areas,…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now accepting applications for ReConnect funding to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband to unserved or underserved rural areas. This round of the ReConnect program has a budget of $1.15 billion,…
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe in Virginia and the Sokaogon Chippewa Community Wisconsin the first three grants under the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program….
Apollo Management’s acquisition of Lumen ILEC operations in 20 states isn’t expected to be finalized until the second half of 2022. But that isn’t stopping the acquirers from making big plans, as today’s news that Brightspeed will be the name…
ViaSat sent a letter to the FCC last week urging the commission not to approve any Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) funding for ViaSat’s satellite broadband competitor SpaceX. SpaceX is in the process of deploying thousands of low earth orbit…
Eighteen of the smaller winning bidders in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) program have received full approval from the FCC, which means funding won in the RDOF auction can now be released to them. The RDOF auction, which was…
The FCC said today that it is ready to authorize over $709 million in Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) funding for 50 broadband providers. As a commission press release notes, the “bulk” of the RDOF funding will go to rural…
The majority of the $65 billion in broadband funding included in the newly passed infrastructure bill will go toward deployments in unserved and underserved high-cost areas through the newly formed BEAD program. But there are five separate programs with a…
Complying with the USAC’s requirements can be stressful. However, being non-compliant during the pre-testing phase isn’t the end of the world. In fact – it’s part of the process in most providers’ deployment journeys. As we jump into the fourth…
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