Great Plains Communications said today that it has acquired USA Communications. Great Plains, which is backed by investment firm Grain Management, has been expanding through acquisitions and by making its own fiber deployments. Its 13,500-mile fiber network reaches parts of…
A trial of fixed wireless technology in the small rural Missouri town of Turney aims to use machine learning to improve service. An intelligent router and a machine learning algorithm will be used to predict which household needs more bandwidth…
Facebook, Appalachian Power and GigaBeam are each playing a role in supporting a new broadband build in rural Grayson County, Virginia – an area in the Blue Ridge Mountains where 57% of citizens lack broadband access. GigaBeam will be making…
Shentel is hitting the gas on its Glo Fiber high-speed internet business in the wake of the sale of its mobile business to T-Mobile. In the past month, Shentel announced three separate fiber builds in the mid-Atlantic. The company announced…
In a continuation of its outreach to rural America, T-Mobile has announced grants to 25 communities in what the carrier says will be a continuing stream of grants. The communities receiving T-Mobile grants are Atmore and Wedowee, AL; Clarksville, AR;…
Regional operator Jade Communications lays claim to being the first company in Colorado to offer multi-gigabit broadband – and the company is doing it with fixed wireless technology. The company uses equipment from Cambium based on Terragraph technology originally developed…
The Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) has sent a letter to the governors of all 50 states asking them to ignore a prohibition against using American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) broadband funding for fixed wireless deployments. “This approach will…
Charter is planning a 1,910-mile fiber network in rural Virginia that will be funded, in part, through the Virginia Telecommunications Initiative (VATI). VATI is a state-funded program administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to help local communities…
In this episode of the Broadband Bunch, Brad and Craig chat with Joe Hickey, President and CEO of ROCK Networks. Listen in as we talk about the future of broadband in rural Canada.
The FCC has approved 13 smaller bidders to receive funding won in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction. The funding will go toward covering some of the costs of deploying broadband to unserved and underserved rural areas and had…
A new report recommends that the Universal Service Fund (USF) contribution base should be expanded to include broadband internet access service revenues. The current methodology is unsustainable, the report argues. The “USForward” report, from Carol Mattey, founder of Mattey Consulting…
Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom (WCVT), a broadband provider that started out as a rural phone company over 100 years ago, has won another deal to operate a broadband network in a rural Vermont communications union district (CUD). The concept…
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