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GCI Customers In Sitka, Alaska to Lose Service for Days Amid Fiber Maintenance

Broadband Breakfast

The company said it will provide alternate, third-party connectivity for low-bandwidth services via satellite and radio wave during the 8-day maintenance period.    “Home internet service will be available in a very limited capacity and will only support very low bandwidth activities like email.

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Can Telecoms Stop Fixed Wireless Fraud and Bandwidth Abuse?

Broadband Breakfast

An Ericsson report revealed that Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) data traffic reached 19% of global mobile network data traffic by the end of last year. So, are carriers up for the task of stopping FWA bandwidth hogs? bandwidth hogs) connect to the network, they can cause significant disruptions.

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Improving Network Resiliency in the Face of Extreme Weather

Broadband Breakfast

Other solutions for network providers to consider include: Bury where possible For communities building their own broadband networks or incumbent telcos expanding their coverage, the ideal method is to place the cabling underground.   In these circumstances, your only option is likely placing cable on utility poles.

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Charter Broadband Losses Better Than Expected

Broadband Breakfast

Like other cable companies, Charter had been losing broadband customers this year. The cable losses have been driven in part by wireless carriers offering home internet on excess 5G capacity. Winfrey maintained that “cell phone companies will face challenges as customer bandwidth demands continue to grow.”

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Reflections on the World Communication Awards

Total Telecom

The worlds largest-scale 5G Redcap low-bandwidth pilot for IOT devices did form part of the entries.Various global e-SIM connectivity solutions were also touched upon. The entries embraced many different areas and audacious solutions: smart parking analytics; granular mobile coverage maps; autonomous networks of network etc.

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TechCrunch: Meta to build $10 billion Subsea Cable to manage its global data traffic

IEEE ComSoc

Meta , the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp , is reportedly planning to build its first fully owned, large-scale fiber-optic subsea cable extending around the globe. Meta accounts for 10% of all fixed and 22% of all mobile traffic and its AI investments promise to boost that usage even further.

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Richard Bennett: The Curious Case of Wi-Fi 7

Broadband Breakfast

While this is vastly more bandwidth than anyone knows what to do with, it’s a chimera. This is likely because the rest of the world is trending toward allocating the upper half of the 6 GHz band for licensed mobile use. Legacy networks built on telephone and cable TV wiring are actually shrinking.

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