Should smaller MSOs enter the wireless market? Maybe, says CoBank Fundamental changes in the wired and wireless landscape should lead small cable operators to look at the wireless market, according to a study by CoBank. The problem for the cable…
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Nokia Deal Brings Another Broadband Equipment Deal to NCTC Members
The National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) is partnering with Nokia to expedite member companies’ broadband service rollouts and expansions. The Nokia NCTC deal will make Nokia equipment available to NCTC members. NCTC represents more than 700 cable and broadband operators…
Vyve Broadband Completes Acquisition in South Carolina
June 1, 2020 — Vyve Broadband announced today that it has completed the purchase of FamilyView Cablevision in and around areas of Pickens and Anderson Counties of South Carolina. “I am excited for FamilyView to join the Vyve Broadband family,…
New ACA Connects Broadband Dashboard Reveals Small Cable Broadband Network Performance
Smaller cable operators’ broadband performance is standing up against the sudden and onerous demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to ACA Connects Broadband Dashboard. ACA Connects members number about 750 and collectively serve approximately 10 million residential and business customers…
Vyve Broadband Announces Acquisition in South Carolina
Rye Brook, N.Y. (April 20, 2020) — Vyve Broadband announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the FamilyView Cablevision asset in and around Clemsen and Central (Pickens and Anderson Counties,) South Carolina. “This is a very…
2019 Was a Big Year for Telecom Mergers and Acquisitions
As 2019 winds toward a close, the fate of the proposed Sprint/ T-Mobile merger is still uncertain. But whatever the fate of that deal, 2019 was a big year for telecom/ broadband mergers and acquisitions – and virtually no segment…
Cable One Completes Fidelity Acquisition
Cable One has completed the acquisition of the data, video and voice business and other assets from Fidelity Communications Co. Fidelity provides business and residential connectivity in Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. The provider passes about 190,000 homes…
One Rural Cable Consolidator to Buy Another in Vyve GTCR Deal
Rural cable consolidator GTCR said today that it plans to acquire another rural cable consolidator Vyve Broadband. The acquisition will be made through GTCR’s management partnership with Mega Broadband Investments and will double MBI’s previous footprint. The GTCR Vyve deal…
Independent Show: Small Cable Companies Are Bullish on Rural Broadband Expansion
Rural broadband was a hot topic for the opening session at the Independent Show in Chicago yesterday. The show, put on by cable industry organizations ACA Connects and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), is aimed at smaller cable providers….
Windstream Launches 300 Mbps Broadband Using HFC in Georgia Network Upgrade
Windstream has upgraded the broadband speeds it can provide over its cable TV infrastructure in northern Georgia. The company says that about 71,000 subscribers now have access to data speeds as high as 300 Mbps on its Kinetic platform. Windstream…
Rural Cable Company Midco Embraces Fixed Wireless, Targeting the “Donut of Discontent”
Midco may be best known as a cable company serving tier two and tier three markets that also provides broadband service using hybrid fiber coax/ DOCSIS architecture and technology. But since acquiring wireless internet service provider InvisiMax last year, Midco…
Cable ONE Fidelity Purchase Valued at $525.9 Million
Cable ONE’s plan to purchase Fidelity Communications, announced today, includes operations in Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri. Oklahoma and Texas. The Cable ONE Fidelity deal encompasses more than 5,100 plant miles and over 1,600 fiber route miles in a network that…
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