The government funding that Charter has received for rural broadband deployments generates revenue opportunities for the company beyond the funded areas, Charter CEO Chris Winfrey told investors today. Winfrey noted that while the company has cited rural internal rates of…
When Chris Stansbury joined Lumen as CFO just under a year ago, he didn’t come from the telecom industry. And the biggest surprise to him about the industry was the telecom mindset, he told participants in an investor conference today….
To date, T-Mobile has only offered fixed wireless access (FWA) where the company has excess capacity not needed to support its mobile business. But the company hasn’t ruled out a capital investment to enable FWA expansion, said T-Mobile Chief Financial…
Frontier, less than two years after its emergence from bankruptcy, says that it is halfway to its goal of providing access to fiber broadband to 10 million homes and businesses. The company announced the target in late 2020 and said…
In Telecompetitor’s latest Broadband Industry Innovator series, we talk with Finley’s Vice President & Professional Engineer, Dean Mischke, about what’s going on with the supply chain and how it is affecting the industry. This innovator series has three parts. If you…
In part II of Telecompetitor’s latest Broadband Industry Innovator series, we talk with Finley Engineering’s Vice President & Professional Engineer, Dean Mischke, about the different supply chain issues and how those issues affect the industry. This is part two of a…
In Telecompetitor’s latest Broadband Industry Innovator series, we talk with Finley Engineering’s Vice President & Professional Engineer, Dean Mischke, about the supply chain issues and its effects on the industry. This is a three-part interview series. Stay tuned for the next…
Now that AT&T’s divestiture of WarnerMedia is imminent and the company has revamped its strategy, a key element of that strategy is to be “America’s best broadband provider,” said CEO John Stankey on a virtual investor conference webcast today. Expanding…
Is the broadband industry approaching mutally assured destruction, also known as a “Convergence Apocalypse”? It’s a question explored in a new research note from MoffettNathanson Research. According to advocates of the Convergence Apocalypse theory, telcos’ increasingly ambitious fiber deployments pose…
Two mantras emerged from Frontier’s Investor Day webcast today: “Our future is fiber” and “Do what cable can’t.” These mantras are driving the company’s plans, announced today, for fiber expansion through 2025 and beyond. The company’s strategy, now that it…
A new residential community in Granger, Indiana is offering homeowners a unique broadband option – gigabit internet over a dedicated fiber for a single upfront payment of $5,000 for five years or $9,250 for 20 years. The service comes from…
Verizon is selling its media division, which housed its Yahoo, AOL, and advertising tech business units. The company appears to have given up on any media ambitions for now and to be putting its sole focus on its communications business….
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