The new COVID-19 relief plan agreed to by Congress over the weekend includes several funding initiatives for important broadband issues. A total of about $7 billion was earmarked for broadband issues, according to several media reports. The $7 billion in…
Broadband boosts farm productivity, according to a new paper from the FCC Office of Economics and Analytics. The paper found evidence of crop yield improvements from increased adoption of broadband providing speeds of at least 25 Mbps downstream and 3…
Allen Township, a suburb of Marysville, Ohio will host a pilot of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband system, making it the latest Starlink satellite broadband trial customer — a small but growing group. The pilot trial is the largest in the…
The Georgia Public Service Commission yesterday approved new pole attachment pricing designed to spur rural broadband deployment in unserved areas. The new pricing includes the One Buck Deal proposed by rural electric membership cooperatives (EMCs) in the state that establishes…
Plainfield, CT – December 15, 2020… Tired of waiting for telecommunications giants to deliver promised high-speed internet services, a growing number of rural towns in the Northeast are taking back control by building publicly-owned last-mile fiber broadband networks in their…
Now that the dust has settled a bit, it’s time to do some RDOF analysis. And there is no shortage of things to analyze. RDOF is a historic shift in public policy for rural broadband. What was once the funding…
Rural telcos have made big gains in gigabit broadband availability and also have seen a big jump in customers who subscribe to gigabit service, according to the latest rural gigabit broadband data from NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association. The average NTCA…
The FCC today adopted rules for funding the replacement of telecom network equipment deemed to pose a security threat to telecom networks. In an order adopted today, the commission also addressed other responsibilities assigned to the commission in the Secure…
The USDA ReConnect program is investing $12.2 million to bring broadband to unserved and underserved areas of Louisiana. The Louisiana USDA ReConnect award goes to The Star Telephone Company. The investment will be evenly split between a grant and a…
Regional wireless and fiber provider C Spire has begun serving residents of neighboring Alabama. The first subscribers are in the northern portion of Jasper. Scattered Trussville neighborhoods will gain access by the end of the year. Pelham, Helena, Northport, Tuscaloosa…
Consolidated Communications announced a major fiber network expansion that will add 300K new gigabit capable locations. This Consolidated fiber expansion is funded in part by the recently concluded $9B RDOF auction. Consolidated won close to $59 million to bring broadband…
The top 10 winners in the recently completed Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase 1 auction will take home just over three quarters (76%) of the total $9.2 billion in funding awarded through the auction. As an RDOF winner map…
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