Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 7, 2025

April 7, 2025 – Charter Communications has officially acquired Bardstown Connect, the city-owned broadband and cable utility, for $49.5 Bardstown Connect had roughly 9,500 broadband and 5,000 cable TV customers at the time. million, ending nearly four decades of municipal ownership.

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VoIP Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Air Wireless introduced a new twist to the DOCSIS technology, offering wireless broadband services to cable television and broadband providers. This innovation enables quick expansion for companies aiming to deliver data or broadband services to their customers.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 3, 2025

  Studies routinely find  that open access networks drive down entry costs, improve local competition, and result in better, cheaper, and faster broadband access. Stephen Conn The city’s broadband mapping efforts found that only a small segment of the city had access to affordable fiber at next generation speeds.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Interview Is the UK fibre market beginning to gain pace once again? At Connected Britain 2024 , we caught up with Telenco UK’s managing director Clement Lesur about the health of the UK’s broadband market and how operators are looking for increasingly tailored solutions to connect their end customers.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 14, 2025

households; and, local radio and TV station ownership rules, which limit how many stations a single company can own in a given market. Those “must be reformed as soon as possible,” NAB spokesman Alex Siciliano told Broadband Breakfast.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Fortunately, EU funding programme CEF-Digital plays a crucial role in addressing these connectivity challenges by supporting infrastructure development in those regions where market forces fail to address them. To date, the programme has awarded 420 million in grants to 51 projects, the majority of which focus on subsea cables.

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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. Cable One saw a decline of 3,700 subscribers, while Breezeline lost 7,897 and WOW!

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Viewpoint It’s all too easy to overlook the fact that the quality of the network depends on the quality of the fibre cable, points out Richard Moyes, Digital Solutions Business Director at Prysmian In building an effective digital infrastructure the hero of the network is (or should be) the fibre optic cable.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 1, 2024

1, 2024 - Point Broadband today said it had acquired the cable and broadband arm of Riviera Utilities, a public utility company in Alabama. “Point will be offering the fastest speeds in our market with the unmatched reliability of an all-fiber network and local customer service office.” WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Previously, landlords in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) could bundle cable TV services into tenants rent, meaning steady revenue for providers like Vodafone. Vodafones broadband business in Germany has also struggled, with a reduced customer base and pricing pressures causing a 10.7% Competition in the mobile market has also intensified.

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Light Reading

OCTOBER 9, 2024

US cable is on a path to re-stabilize its broadband sub base and generate some growth in 2026 as the impact of the ACP is cleared and growth from rural builds offsets losses in legacy markets, according to MoffettNathanson.

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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. ” One significant vulnerability included the global overreliance on Chinese cable repair ships.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 17, 2025

reported a loss of 10,200 broadband customers in the fourth quarter of 2024, the company announced Friday, for a total of 470,400. passed 11,600 new homes in the quarter: 9,300 in greenfield markets and 2,300 in “edge-out” projects in areas adjacent to WOW!’s WASHINGTON, March 17, 2025 – WideOpenWest (WOW!)

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 9, 2024

9, 2024 – Comcast expects to report more than 100,000 broadband subscriber losses in the fourth quarter, a top executive said Monday. The broadband market “remains competitively intense,” Comcast Cable President and CEO Dave Watson said. WASHINGTON, Dec.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Viewpoint At the 10th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF) 2024, the Autonomous Driving Networks (ADN) Summit was held under the theme of “Advancing Toward AN L4: Empowering Superior UBB Operations.” The solution will bring revolutionary value improvement to carriers through both premium broadband and premium transmission scenarios.

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Blandin on Broadband

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Post Bulletin reports … Charter Communications has picked its Rochester cable systems for the commercial debut of a TV set control box that can record and store programs, as well as images from a home computer. Why Rochester MN?

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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.   Altice finished the quarter with nearly 4.4

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 9, 2024

News Six separate Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA) rulings have been published this week regarding British telcos The ASA has cracked down once again on some of the UK’s biggest telcos for ads containing misleading broadband price information.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The difference couldn't be starker than between the United States and Sweden, where 98 percent of the Nordic nation’s population has access to gigabit speed downloads and uploads – with 60 percent of the market served by open access providers. Continuing on the analogy, with the vertically integrated model (in the U.S.),

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Additionally, BT’s 5G network expansion continues to lead the market, covering 80% of the UK population, more than any other operator. In response, CEO Allison Kirkby outlined several measures to mitigate this impact, including potentially passing costs on to mobile and broadband customers.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 30, 2025

30, 2025 – Comcast lost even more broadband subscribers than expected in the fourth quarter of 2024. Comcast reported a loss of 139,000 broadband subscribers, worse than the already unexpectedly high December forecast of 100,000 that sent its stock tumbling. It only needs to stabilize.”

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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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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 6, 2025

  For example, BABA applies to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, which aims to expand high-speed internet access across the United States and is currently funded at $42.45 This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast. and the head of its government contracts practice. 

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 31, 2024

31, 2024 – Comcast reported a mixed third quarter in its broadband segment, citing challenges from the end of the government’s Affordable Connectivity Program and increased competition.  Despite the dip in customer numbers, Comcast’s broadband revenue rose by 2.7% WASHINGTON, Oct. year-over-year to $6.54

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 31, 2025

31, 2025 – Charter Communications lost 177,000 broadband subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2024, worse than Wall Street had expected but closer to expectations than the results reported by fellow cable Internet access giant Comcast on Thursday. Charter is the second-largest broadband ISP in the country with about 30.1

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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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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The acquisition strengthens its position in Irelands wholesale and B2B telecom markets, expanding its network and service capabilities. Speed Fibre Groupparent company of Enet and Magnet+is owned by Cordiant Digital Infrastructure. Keep up to date with the latest international telecoms news by subscribing to our newsletter!

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 3, 2025

3, 2025 – The Federal Communications Commission found fiber and fixed wireless broadband connections increased in 2023, while DSL fell and cable remained steady. The 314-page document took stock of the fixed, mobile, and satellite broadband markets, plus telephone, video, and radio broadcaster services. million.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 16, 2025

“It’s not lit, it’s dark fiber, but that’s what makes it ideal for carriers, hyperscalers, and potentially even federal and defense agencies that need secure, direct access to the cable landing station.” ” Virginia Beach is also home to the largest defense installation outside the Pentagon.

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VoIP Review

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Rural broadband provider Quickline has launched its first telecoms apprenticeship program, marking a commitment to regional talent development. They shadow qualified engineers in installing full fiber broadband for rural homes and businesses in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

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Dell'oro

APRIL 30, 2024

This blog discusses T-Mobile's strategic foray into the fixed broadband market, highlighted by its acquisition of Lumos. T-Mobile's success in attracting over 5 million FWA subscribers and its transition to a wholesale model underscore its potential to disrupt traditional cable providers and shape industry dynamics.

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Broadband Communities writes about the conundrum of promotional broadband pricing… It’s time to rethink the way broadband deployers use promo pricing. Aside from the revenue, marketing costs are tricky to calculate. RCN prefers that users purchase a cable modem. Regulators are annoyed. Customers are fighting back.

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IEEE ComSoc

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

However, the outlook is improving, and the Ethernet Campus Switch market is expected to return to growth in 4Q 2024.” Varied momentum in activity in the first half was particularly significant in China – the total telecom equipment market in China stumbled in the second quarter, declining 17% Y/Y.

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The MN Broadband Task Force met Gardonville Cooperative Telephone Association in Brandon MN. Welcome + approval of minutes from August 19th, 2024, Task Force Meeting Teddy Bekele, Chair, Minnesota Governor’s Task Force on Broadband 10:10 a.m. – Challenges: 30 day lead time on payments to cable. 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. –

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 15, 2024

Televate has developed software that conducts detailed analysis of the FCC Broadband Data Collection (BDC) service data nationwide. Processing this data routinely (at least monthly) provides us with a tremendous amount of insight into broadband service throughout the country. which is capable of symmetric gigabit speeds.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

20, 2025 – Shenandoah Telecommunications Company added 5,879 broadband subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2024, the company reported Thursday. The net additions came almost entirely from Glo Fiber markets, with incumbent areas remaining flat.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The companies argued in addition to better mobile service for less money, the merger would allow T-Mobile to offer more rural households fixed broadband with its excess 5G capacity. Analyst Jonathan Chaplin wrote the deal would not dramatically change the mobile carrier market at a national level.

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