Fifteen Mississippi rural electric cooperatives have won a combined total of $65 million in rural broadband funding through the CARES Act passed earlier this year in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The money came indirectly through the state, which carved…
T-Mobile said today that it has launched standalone 5G service nationwide – an accomplishment that also increased the T-Mobile 5G footprint by 30%, according to the company. Although T-Mobile already claimed a nationwide 5G launch, the service initially relied on…
Greenville, Mississippi (August 3, 2020) – C Spire is teaming up with the Delta Regional Medical Center to debut a remote patient monitoring program in Mississippi for a broad array of chronic medical conditions that will help manage health care costs…
August 4, 2020 — Dickinson, ND – Consolidated Telecom in Dickinson North Dakota is on schedule to convert their video customers to the MG-TV video solution from Innovative Systems. CEO Paul Schuetzler says this project has been one of the…
Windstream said today that it will partner with rural electric co-op Colquitt Electric Membership Corp. on a broadband buildout in rural Georgia. In an interview with Telecompetitor, Jeff Small, president of Windstream’s Kinetic business unit, shared details about the partners’…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Pilot Program has invested $3.2 million to promote broadband services to unserved and underserved rural areas of North Carolina. The USDA ReConnect CARES Act grant goes to French Broad Electric Membership Corporation, which will…
Two rural wireless testbeds will each receive $300,000 from the National Science Foundation, NSF, to further their work. The two projects are considered finalists to become the fourth city-scale wireless research testbed in a program managed by the Platforms for…
A lot of hopes are riding on the auction of spectrum in the CBRS band, which has a Thursday start date. The spectrum is considered mid-band – and industry stakeholders increasingly see mid-band spectrum offering the optimum mixture of bandwidth…
The Universal Service Fund (USF) contribution factor has hit 26%, notes AT&T Executive Vice President of Regulatory & State External Affairs Joan Marsh in a blog post. As she explains, that means that telecom service providers pay an amount equal…
Alaska Communications broadband expansion is bringing high-speed internet to more than 16,000 rural Alaskans, the company announced today. The expansion was made possible, in part, by the Connect America Fund II, or CAF II. Alaska Communications hopes to double the…
Frontier has filed a waiver request with the FCC, the resolution of which could impact the company’s ability to participate in Phase 1 of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund RDOF auction, scheduled to begin in October. Frontier entered Chapter 11…