Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 3, 2025

“Compelling AT&T to divert resources away from investment and toward maintaining an outdated TDM-based network would actively impede the deployment of fiber and wireless connectivity,” AT&T said in a Feb. 25 FCC filing defending its plan to grandfather copper networks and transition other locations to fiber.

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Blandin on Broadband

AUGUST 10, 2024

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released the statement below following the unanimous Senate Commerce Committee passage of the bipartisan Rural Broadband Protection Act. As co-chair of the Senate Broadband Caucus, I’ll keep fighting to close the digital divide and ensure Minnesota families can reliably access the high-speed internet they need.”

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Department of Commerce approved Minnesota’s plan for broadband infrastructure deployment. This development advances Minnesota to the next step in their planned affordable broadband rollout across the state. However, many households in Minnesota currently don’t have a reliable broadband connection,” said Klobuchar.

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USTELECOM

MARCH 25, 2024

Today, the march of progress has finally come for the old copper networks that long ago served as the primary conduit for landlines. High-speed broadband emerged from the pandemic as an essential bridge to economic opportunity, health care, education, and more. Almost all “home phones” today are already powered by broadband.

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AT&T Connects

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As we move forward through this next phase of technological advancement, keeping our customers connected is our number one priority. AP-A is a digital phone service that uses our reliable wireless network and any broadband connection as a backup. It’s with that in mind we developed AT&T Phone-Advanced (AP-A).

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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. Landline communications have not been affected, and the police department said 911 calls were getting through.

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All West Telecommunications

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A strong internet connection allows businesses to leverage cloud-based applications, enabling seamless collaboration and access to essential resources from anywhere. Improved Operational Efficiency: Internet-connected devices streamline operations by automating routine tasks and facilitating real-time communication between team members.

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Mediacom reports via Global Newswire … Mediacom Communications announced completion of the first phase of construction on a fiber-to-the-home network funded with support from Minnesota DEED’s Office of Broadband Development. Completion of phase one connects 135 homes in Biwabik Township in the Esquagama Lake area of St.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 27, 2025

The company has about 4,600 wire centers, central offices to which old copper phone lines connect. Copper networks are costly to maintain and can’t provide competitive broadband speeds, but regulators don’t want swaths of rural and low-income households to also lose access to 911 and voice services.

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AT&T Connects

JANUARY 15, 2025

Were also proud to offer AT&T Phone Advanced , a new product that meets FCC requirements to replace traditional landlines. It uses broadband or wireless service to connect customers like a landline would. In a globalized world, staying competitive means staying connected.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 5, 2024

I’ve often seen cellular touted as a backup when landline broadband is down – but when the fiber networks that feed cell sites are decimated, the wireless coverage leaves along with normal broadband. Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene.

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TechAdvance

JUNE 6, 2024

Initially set for 2025, this extension provides an essential buffer for consumers and businesses to transition from analogue to digital landlines seamlessly. This move is part of a broader strategy to build and connect customers to future-proof, full-fibre broadband. Why the Delay? Key Changes and Improvements 1.

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VoIP Review

MARCH 4, 2025

Recent research highlights that 22% of SMEs still use traditional systems like landlines and fax machines. According to Ofcoms Connected Nations report, network incidents on PSTN infrastructure increased by 45% last year. BT urges firms to adopt digital networks to ensure service continuity and harness advanced connectivity.

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US Telecom

OCTOBER 18, 2024

OUR TAKE The Universal Service Fund is essential to maintaining the nation’s commitment to universal connectivity over time. landlines and in urgent need of modernization. Companies across the internet ecosystem that benefit from universal connectivity should contribute to this national commitment. They invested nearly $2.2

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AT&T Connects

JUNE 18, 2024

And with the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) funding at an end, now is the time to find a sustainable and effective way to truly provide universal service – one that includes a revitalized ACP – for all Americans. The concept of universal service – the need for everyone to be connected – was introduced over a hundred years ago.

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US Telecom

JUNE 3, 2024

Over the weekend, the Affordable Connectivity Program, which helps over 23 million low-income households access high-speed internet at home, officially ran out of funding. Simply put; to secure the future of universal, affordable connectivity, Big Tech must take its seat at the USF table. This work cannot wait. This is the work ahead.

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EldoTelecom

AUGUST 29, 2024

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said, “If we're going to connect every American, including the tens of millions of Americans who now don't have the internet, we're going to have to lay fiber all across this country.”

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EldoTelecom

JUNE 27, 2024

AT&T CEO John Stankey said the goal of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program should be universal service, leveraging $42.5 billion in tax dollar subsidies appropriated in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021(IIJA) to attract private investment to attain it. Stankey also lamented the state of U.S.

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Mark Goldberg

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

I promised a look at this report in my recent post on rural broadband solutions. CMI estimates that in 2023, 95% of Canadian households had home internet connections, and 90% of households had smartphones. A new report looks at technology adoption and affordability through analysis of recent Statistics Canada data. Newspapers -27.3%

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IEEE ComSoc

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

With a market value of over $7 billion, Dallas, TX based Frontier provides broadband (mostly fiber optic) connections to about three million locations across 25 states. Frontier is in the midst of upgrading its legacy copper landline network to cutting-edge fiber. cellphone carrier that lacks a large landline business.

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IEEE ComSoc

AUGUST 2, 2024

AT&T and Verizon are spending billions of dollars to grow their existing fiber-optic networks and add to the millions of broadband clients they already serve, mostly in regions covered by their historical landline-telephone infrastructure. This is proving to be a winning strategy.

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Mark Goldberg

JANUARY 29, 2025

” The courts ruling confirms that broadband internet must be classified as an information service under Title I because it enables users to store, retrieve, and manipulate datanot just transmit it. households have a landline phone, down from nearly 50% a decade ago. Consider how we communicate today. Only a quarter of U.S.

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EldoTelecom

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program funded by Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 could see its appropriation reduced to $10 billion under the incoming Congress and Trump administration. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Longtime telecom blogger Doug Dawson speculates the $43.45

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Copper networks are costly to maintain and can’t provide competitive broadband speeds, but regulators don’t want swaths of rural and low-income households to also lose access to 911 and voice services. The company thinks a GOP-controlled Federal Communications Commission will probably speed up the process.

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EldoTelecom

DECEMBER 27, 2024

advanced telecommunications policy has been bandwidth focused: defining and delivering broadband speed and not modernizing the nations legacy metallic telephone and cable TV delivery infrastructure to fiber. For the past three decades, U.S. Blair Levin, a widely quoted analyst and former U.S.

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