Great Plains Communications is the latest broadband provider to make multi-gigabit news. The company said it has launched 2 Gbps symmetrical service in 10 communities, primarily in Nebraska. A spokesperson for the company said the offering is supported by XGS-PON…
Competitive provider Metronet has turned up multi-gigabit service in multiple Iowa markets. Symmetrical speeds up to 2 Gbps will be available to residential customers in the markets and symmetrical speeds up to 10 Gbps will be available to business customers….
Nextlink, which was one of the biggest winners in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, has big XGS-PON fiber broadband plans. The company said today that it will use equipment from Nokia to connect 200,000 homes in 12 states,…
Brightspeed will bring its all-fiber broadband network to 50,000 addresses in South Carolina. The first phase will focus on 14,000 addresses in Beaufort County and will be completed by the end of next year. The balance of the passings –…
Newly formed Archtop Fiber, which says it will bring multi-gigabit all-fiber broadband to homes and business in historically underserved communities in the Hudson Valley of New York, has provided details on its operations. The service provider, which is headquartered in…
Brightspeed, which continues to make announcements detailing its near and long-term future, says that it will bring fiber broadband to more than 130,000 addresses in Tennessee. The first 60,000 passings will be completed by the end of next year and…
The speed race continues as Lumen Technologies announces Quantum Fiber service that offers symmetrical speeds of 8 Gbps using fiber broadband in three markets. The new service is available now to residents and businesses in cities near Denver, Minneapolis and…
AT&T said today that it was successful in delivering symmetrical broadband speeds of 20 Gbps over its production network using 25GS-PON technology. Until now, the 25G-PON technology that has been available has supported 25 Gbps downstream but only 10 Gbps…
Broadband access equipment sales were strong for the first quarter of 2022, increasing 14% compared to the same period of 2021, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. And a large part of that growth was driven by XGS-PON…
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