Total Telecom

AUGUST 22, 2024

In the Asia-Pacific region, the optical industry is booming, which promotes the popularization and quality improvement of broadband. The Asia-Pacific region is embracing F5.5G, bringing new growth opportunities for operators and promoting the construction of all-optical smart homes and premium networks.

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Telecoms Tech News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Nokia and AT&T have reached an agreement to construct a fibre network in the US. The announcement comes after Nokia lost a major deal with AT&T in December, when the US operator chose Nokia’s rival, Ericsson, to build a telecom network.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 9, 2025

Back in 2023, the Telstra and Starlink signed a deal to deliver fixed broadband and voice services to remote areas across the country. That collaboration focused on providing faster broadband and home phone services for customers.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 10, 2024

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program aims to connect 25 million Americans currently without high-speed Internet access. And so far, more than 30% intend to allocate nearly $350 million in BEAD funding to support broadband workforce development initiatives.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 11, 2025

million broadband and wireless customers. The updated report was released at the Telecom Industry Summit: Protecting Critical Communications Infrastructure in St. The report cited the rising market price for copper as contributing to an uptick in the targeting of utility poles, cellular towers, electric grids and construction sites. 

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 28, 2024

The rule that is going to cause the biggest delays is that no grants can be awarded in a State until a broadband office has lined up an ISP to reach every unserved and underserved passing. This process is very different from how State broadband grants have historically been handled.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The sale reflects the challenges smaller broadband providers face in scaling operations and competing with larger players in the UK’s full-fibre rollout. On Friday, a buyer was finally announced with civil engineering and utility construction contractor Harmony Networks agreeing to buy the altnet for £1.5

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Contributed Article by Rajiv Datta, CEO of nexfibre In today’s digital age, full-fibre broadband is much more than a faster way to browse the internet; it is the backbone of our modern lives and a critical driver for economic growth. Connectivity has become an essential that touches nearly every aspect of our daily routines.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 16, 2024 – In the United States, before there were extensive broadband open access networks, there were simply municipal broadband networks.   And more than a third of those municipal broadband communities offer open access networks to their citizens.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This work is part of Project Gigabit, a government-funded programme to enable hard-to-reach communities to get fast, reliable broadband. All the homes and businesses being connected across South Wiltshire and North Dorset will benefit from full fibre broadband, also known as Fibre to the Premises (FTTP). The contract is worth £18.8

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 16, 2025

“As you look at Northern Virginia, the Ashburn area [also known as Data Center Alley] has run out of usable land, power, and of course, water,” CEO Bill Major told Broadband Breakfast. “Then we'll move to permitting and start constructing.”

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

California’s $2 billion Last Mile Federal Funding Account Grant Program (FFA) has announced another $207 million in new broadband grants across Amador, Los Angeles, and Solano Counties. The FFA program is part of California’s broader California’s Broadband For All plan. The City of Vallejo will leverage $3.8

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

A California telecom and electrical cooperative says the state’s ongoing last-mile broadband grant program will help deploy affordable fiber to multiple communities across four heavily unserved and underserved California counties. million to upgrade 1,029 locations in Quincy from coaxial cable-based broadband to fiber.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 24, 2025

gigawatts of data center demand, which is more than six times what it was in 2020," said Kush Urs , managing director of telecom and digital infrastructure investment banking at Guggenheim Partners. "We . "In 2024, we're seeing something like 6.7

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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. Broadband Breakfast Jericho Casper The company’s move kicked off a land grab across Sweden, as infrastructure providers raced to compete for a share of the wholesale fiber market.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Erie County, New York’s  ErieNet  broadband initiative is poised to begin construction in Buffalo, NY, after the Buffalo Common Council recently passed a resolution approving the Telecommunications License Agreement with ErieNet LDC. New York Get a snapshot view of broadband initiatives in New York.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 5, 2024 – With billions of federal dollars earmarked to expand high-speed internet access across the country, local officials could get inundated with permitting requests, perhaps causing a bottleneck that slows the deployment of broadband infrastructure.   In anticipation of a $42.5

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 17, 2025

” Also in the meetings to express separate concerns about the deal were representatives from the Communications Workers of America, Public Knowledge, New America’s Open Technology Institute, the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, and EchoStar, according to ex parte filings.

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Blandin on Broadband

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

From the Office of Broadband Development… Broadband Matters: Office of Broadband Development Updates Digital Equity Capacity Grant, $12 million approved for Minnesota Digital Opportunity update BEAD Challenge, resources + update OBD, out of office! Office of Broadband Development team members, October 2024.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Beyond Telecom Law Blog reports In March 2022, we published a blog post explaining that broadband grants are apparently subject to federal income taxation. As discussed in 2022, the taxability of broadband grants seems to be an unplanned quirk of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Three years later, and with $42.5

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Though Northampton, Massachusetts residents still broadly support the construction of a city-owned municipal fiber broadband network, city officials are celebrating the arrival of Gateway Fiber, which will soon be delivering a more affordable fiber option, and more broadband competition, to the traditionally underserved city.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Press Release Thursday September 26 th , 2024: A further 4,500 homes and businesses across rural West Yorkshire and the York area can now access the fastest, most reliable broadband on the market, thanks to broadband provider Quickline Communications.

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Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 11, 2025

And we will continue tell their stories throughout the year through the Women in Telecom program. That includes Patsy Bigbee , who recently retired after 49 years at Taylor Telephone (now Taylor Telecom; Merkel, Texas). Therefore, I am going to try to do my best to briefly recognize each of these women over the next few weeks.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Frustrated by years of substandard broadband service from regional telecom incumbents, Kendall County, Illinois residents have joined the growing chorus of Americans that are tackling the problem head on by building their own better, faster, more affordable fiber networks.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

As federal broadband funding sources face  continued uncertainty , California’s massive last-mile grant program continues to plow ahead, looking increasingly like a vital lifeline for communities hoping to ensure that every individual has access to robust, reliable, and affordable Internet access.

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 29, 2025

Today the MN Seante Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development heard from the Office Broadband Development, Minnesota Telecom Alliance and MN Cable. Broadband is the first topic discussed about 15 minutes into the livestream.) We need to incentivize rural providers to build broadband.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 – Minnesota is set to receive an historic $652 million for broadband expansion, but key requirements of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program could keep many in-state internet service providers from participating. billion broadband expansion program. WASHINGTON, Dec.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

13, 2025 – A bipartisan group of senators reintroduced legislation Tuesday that would increase oversight of broadband supply chains to prevent disruptions that could slow federal broadband deployment efforts. WASHINGTON, Feb. The bill was led by Sen. John Hickenlooper , D-Colo.,

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 27, 2025

billion in federal funding flows into broadband network deployment through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, telecom strategists emphasized the need for applicants to think beyond network construction. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2025 – As $42.5

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Under this model, multiple ISPs can offer services over the same broadband infrastructure. The Fiber Broadband Association is the voice of fiber. Using an active ethernet infrastructure and operating at the wholesale level, UTOPIA Fiber supports open access and promotes competition in all broadband and telecommunications services.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

20, 2025 — The nation’s major wireless carriers are increasingly investing in fiber infrastructure, recognizing the economic and technical advantages of converging mobile and broadband networks, industry experts said at a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event Wednesday. WASHINGTON, Feb.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The $9 million deal allows ALLO – a Nebraska-based telecom company available to 1.2 The council first committed to community broadband in 2018 but faced funding challenges for a municipally owned utility. Construction and service rollout are expected to begin in 2025.

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VoIP Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The rollout of fast and reliable broadband in South Wiltshire has taken a significant step forward under the government’s Project Gigabit initiative. Project Gigabit, a government-funded programme, aims to equip hard-to-reach communities with high-speed broadband. The contract for this project, valued at £18.8

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 22, 2024

22, 2024 – A small Vermont wireless provider is fighting to prevent a telecom giant from tightening its hold on dozens of megahertz of critical 5G spectrum. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Telecoms Infrastructure Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

According to Banham, “getting outside signals in” has become ever more difficult as radio technologies have climbed the frequency range and adopted complex encodings, such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), while the materials used to construct buildings have become less permeable to radio signals.

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Real Wireless

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The SRN programme uses a mixture of MNO and government investment into shared infrastructure (>£1B), employing a conventional ‘old-school’ approach – i.e. by constructing new ‘High-Power-High-Tower’ mobile network sites using sub 1 GHz spectrum to achieve extended coverage.

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Rural Broadband Association

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These sentiments were not grounded solely in that historic legislative development but had rather been simmering since the first COVID relief bills implicated potential broadband buildouts. At an industry meeting in the spring of 2021, a contractor confided that if he were fully staffed, he could secure enough work for the next two years.

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