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Massachusetts Invests $10.4 Million to Expand Statewide Broadband Access

Broadband Breakfast

  This funding, distributed through the Massachusetts Broadband Institute’s Residential Retrofit Program, will benefit 26 communities statewide. The program aims to improve broadband infrastructure by installing modern cabling, ensuring high-speed, reliable, and affordable internet for residents. "The

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Ely City Council supports HF1740 Equal access to broadband bill

Blandin on Broadband

The city is appealing to lawmakers to approve legislation that would make broadband subscriptions subject to the franchise fee. Currently, those fees are only collected for cable television service. Without franchise revenue from data subscribers there is no financial ability to provide access out of cable subscribers.

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The future evolution of ODN technologies

Total Telecom

Contributed Article The optical distribution network (ODN) is a point-to-multipoint passive optical network (PON), as shown in FIG. In traditional ODN construction, the feeder optical cables, distribution optical cables, and drop cables are stripped or terminated onsite for fiber connection.

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Tom Reid: Common-Sense Solutions to Closing the Digital Divide in Rural America

Broadband Breakfast

Here are three proposals for common-sense solutions to improve the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program of the U.S. Topic #1: Fiber Priority When we consider broadband infrastructure as a 30-year investment rather than focusing on speed targets, the case for building fiber networks in rural areas becomes clear.

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Cable ISP Trade Group: FCC Data Highlights Broadband Expansion

Broadband Breakfast

25 article that new Federal Communications Commission data showed considerable growth in broadband access across the country, particularly in rural areas. In the article, NCTA cited data that the number of locations served with broadband access at 100 * 20 Mbps or higher had increased by 2.6 million new locations.  

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MN House introduces HF1740 a bill appropriating money for community cable television programming

Blandin on Broadband

This bill is tangential to broadband but could relate directly to cable franchising, which does connect it to broadband. 1740, A bill for an act relating to arts and cultural heritage; appropriating money for community cable television programming. Minnesota House reports Nadeau, Norris and Carroll introduced: HF.

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CBRS Market to Exceed $1.3 Billion, Says SNS Telecom & IT

Total Telecom

GHz CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) band is experiencing a renewed wave of enthusiasm. The rest of the market comprises fixed wireless broadband networks built using non-3GPP equipment supplied by the likes of Cambium Networks and Tarana Wireless. Billion by the end of 2027. Billion in annual sales by 2027.

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