Light Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Cable One is piloting a new prepaid option for Internet customers that starts at $35 for 30 days of access. The operator continues to study whether to add mobile to the broadband bundle.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 8, 2025

By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Catch the full episode here: LiveOak Fiber has been expanding their footprint across rural North Florida and Southern Georgia. Yet, according to Steve Smith, the internet service providers chief revenue officer, the company maintains distinct advantages by keeping a local focus.

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Telecom Talk

AUGUST 29, 2024

Frontier Communications launches a 7 Gbps broadband service across its entire FTTH footprint, offering download and upload speeds up to 200 times faster than traditional cable.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 – Data provided by the top federal communications agency has highlighted the progress that providers have made in connecting every American to the internet during a recent 12-month period. NCTA – The Internet and Television Association, noted in a Nov. Cable broadband added 700,000 rural locations. 

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Limited by poor mobile signals and no direct broadband cable, the government’s £2 million pilot project aims to combine GEO and LEO satellite terminals with wireless technologies to deliver improved connectivity for residents, businesses, and tourists. The second project relates to Papa Stour, one of the most remote Shetland isles.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Mole ploughs broke the ground in Stapleford last week, as Wessex Internet began its physical work to deliver full fibre internet to 14,500 homes and businesses in South Wiltshire. This work is part of Project Gigabit, a government-funded programme to enable hard-to-reach communities to get fast, reliable broadband.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

News The heavy reliance on undersea cables remains a major risk as over 95% of global internet traffic depends on them UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer has urged European leaders for increased cooperation on subsea infrastructure defences at a European Council meeting in Brussels. Get tickets here.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 3, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2025 – Much of Southeast Alaska was without phone or internet service over the weekend after an Alaska Communications subsea fiber cable broke last Friday. “Our technical team has confirmed damage to the ACS subsea cable system connecting Juneau. We are dispatching a repair ship.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 9, 2024

– Mobile Private Network The Startup of the Year Award The winner of this Award will be decided by a panel of judges live at Connected Britain Join us at Connected Britain 2024, the UK’s largest digital economy event.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 7, 2025

Press Release Brightspeed, one of the nations largest fiber broadband builders focused on empowering more homes with ultrafast, reliable internet, today announced its multi-gig-speed network has passed approximately 1.82 million locations surpassing its year-end goal of 1.75

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

16, 2024 – Broadband ISPs have a request for the highest court in the land: Don't let the 50 states set the retail price of Internet access. The cable industry and the U.S. Broadband industry groups including USTelecom and CTIA asked the high court to toss out the decision last month. WASHINGTON, Sept.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 16, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 16, 2024 – In the second quarter, the pattern looked familiar among publicly traded broadband Internet Service Providers: The wireline variety as a group lost subscribers, while fixed wireless access providers posted solid gains. Comcast lost 120,000 subscribers ending the quarter with 32.1 4,700 subscribers.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2025 – Thousands of GCI customers in Sitka, Alaska, will lose most internet services starting Sunday because the company may need repair to its undersea fiber network, according to a statement on its website. However, he added that the company won’t have more information until the repair team arrives Sunday.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 - Internet delivered by fixed wireless access providers has its critics, but Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is not one of them. ” Rosenworcel said that the numbers suggest fixed wireless has become an alternative to landline broadband. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 – A key Alaska city and a popular port of call for cruise ships has not had landline internet and cell phone service for days, and it could be at least another week before the restoration of normal service. Subsea fiber cable breaks can happen for different reasons. WASHINGTON, Sept. Alaska's first capital as a U.S.

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All West Telecommunications

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In today's fast-paced digital world, small business internet and phone services have become indispensable tools for driving growth, enhancing customer interaction, and ensuring operational efficiency. Clear Understanding of the Essentials For small businesses, maintaining a reliable internet and phone infrastructure is critical.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Just last month, Kuiper confirmed it is preparing to launch a satellite broadband services in the UK to rival Elon Musks Starlink, with the launch of more than more than 3,200 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, which will deliver high-speed broadband to underserved areas around the world.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 5, 2025

Broadband, satellite, and subsea fiber  The markup also featured bipartisan support for expanding broadband and satellite connectivity, particularly for rural communities and agricultural producers. 1737, would direct NTIA to study the feasibility of a trans-Atlantic undersea fiber optic cable connecting the U.S.,

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ACT Corp

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Are you confused about the difference between broadband and satellite internet? In today's fast-paced world, having a reliable internet connection is essential for both personal and professional use. Understanding Broadband Internet What is Broadband Internet?

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

18, 2024 – Modern broadband should be considered a telecommunications service subject to utility-style regulation, a former Federal Communications Commission staffer told federal judges Tuesday. Broadband trade groups trying to strike down the rules had an early success invoking the Supreme Court’s major questions rule.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 10, 2024

but the cost of broadband is not to blame. That's the message recently delivered by NCTA – The Internet & Television Association – a trade group for major cable Internet Service Providers like Comcast and Charter. Consumers also have access to more broadband options than ever before, NCTA said.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 – A broadband Internet Service Provider out of the Pacific northwest is asserting that fiber internet provides a better platform for gamers. 29 article that the data usage habits of gamers were different from the majority of internet users. WASHINGTON, Dec. Ziply Fiber, based in Kirkland, Wash.,

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MHO

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It’s easy to see why some think of fixed wireless as a rural or hard-to-reach solution; after all, it was developed to bring internet service to areas where traditional broadband infrastructure like cable or fiber are tough to install.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

1, 2024 – Charter would have returned to net broadband subscriber growth in the third quarter if not for the shut down of the Affordable Connectivity Program, executives said Friday. Like other cable companies, Charter had been losing broadband customers this year. WASHINGTON, Nov. billion this year.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 15, 2024

15, 2024 - AT&T, one of the nation’s largest Internet Service Providers, announced that it intends to raise prices on its internet service plans.   AT&T’s price increase mirrored that of Cable One , which increased the cost of its high-speed broadband service by $5 monthly in July.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 24, 2024

24, 2024 – T-Mobile's growing fixed wireless access business is coming primarily at the expense of one competitor: cable broadband Internet Service Providers.   The company added 415,000 fixed wireless broadband subscribers in the third quarter, up from 406,000 in the second. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

13, 2024 – Comcast has announced a joint $55 million investment with the state of Indiana to expand high-speed internet to more than 10,000 rural homes and businesses.  WASHINGTON, Nov. In a statement , Indiana Lt. per month for eligible families who qualify for a variety of public assistance programs.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 15, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 15, 2024 – New York’s largest cable broadband provider has agreed to a settlement requiring it to offer a $15-per-month broadband plan to eligible low-income residents statewide. Charter is the second-largest internet service provider in the country, with 30.3 Based in Stamford, Conn.,

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 21, 2025

Now that the lengthy legal beef has been settled and New York’s  Affordable Broadband Act is set to take effect this month, it marks a potentially pivotal moment in a national effort to address one of the biggest barriers to broadband adoption:  Affordability.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 28, 2024

about Chinese technology infiltrating telecommunications networks, subsea cables carrying nearly 98% of global internet traffic have surfaced as the latest potential targets for sabotage, with China and Russia identified as primary threats. WASHINGTON, August 28, 2024 – Amid escalating concerns in the U.S.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 13, 2025

Winona Post reports In recent years, broadband expansion projects have reached thousands of homes in rural Winona County. Still, an estimated 2,100 homes are underserved or unserved in Winona County, Minnesota Office of Broadband Development Executive Director Bree Maki said. In 2022, Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

4, 2024 – Altice USA reported net broadband subscriber losses of 50,000 in the third quarter on Monday, with 10,000 of those coming from the shuttered Affordable Connectivity Program. million total broadband subscribers. WASHINGTON, Nov. ” MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffett wasn’t so optimistic.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

SK Telecom intends to leverage SK Group’s energy-efficient technologies to make these centres regionally and globally connected, supported by submarine cables. The company plans to build large AI data centres (AIDCs) in key regions, powered by renewable energy sources such as hydrogen, solar, and wind.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 24, 2024

24, 2024 – With 95% of the world's internet traffic flowing through undersea cables, the security of these digital lifelines has come under renewed scrutiny.  WASHINGTON, Oct.   A bipartisan group of U.S. "It is imperative that the U.S 21 letter to President Biden. "If "It is imperative that the U.S

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Think of a broadband network as a railroad, with the tracks representing a network of fiber cables, and trains representing internet services. Strategy The country boasts internet penetration with 98% served with Gigabit symmetrical speeds. Continuing on the analogy, with the vertically integrated model (in the U.S.),

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VoIP Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Ofcom has introduced new regulations to help consumers better understand their broadband options, tackling confusion caused by unclear jargon. Starting today, internet service providers (ISPs) must provide clearer and specific information about the type of network underpinning their broadband services.

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Airtel

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We all are well acquainted with the term broadband. But do you know the actual meaning of broadband? Broadband data transmission is the transmission of high-quality data over a large bandwidth. In its most basic form, it is a continuous high-speed Internet connection. Buy Airtel Broadband with exciting benefits!

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