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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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

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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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 5, 2025

We want to keep people safe and have broadband. Q: The bigger question is can we meet the broadband building deadline? We struggled to come up with 40 hours of training for broadband deployment Q: What are you planning for training now? Q: The bill before us doesnt define jobsite does this bill meet your need?

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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

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

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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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

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

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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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

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

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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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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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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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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ersi

MARCH 4, 2020

So we set out to ask a few geographically enlightened participants in the telecom and cable industry for their thoughts about resource optimization. Here are some of their insights: What does resource optimization mean to you as a telecom professional? Traditional telecom operations are very siloed. I used GIS.

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Rural Broadband Association

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Panel discussions about broadband grants, esports, workforce retention strategies and more also helped attendees learn about the latest industry trends. That evening, the NTCA Rural Broadband PAC hosted an event at St. NTCA Board Chairman Mike Grisham, president and CEO of Shawnee Communications (Equality, Ill.),

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

MN has good broadband. The certification program set to start this year could bring broadband deployment to a halt. We are working with energy companies on their concerns Brent Christensen from MN Telecom Alliance We support the bill This bill is not anti-union, not a repeal of last years bill, not about safety its about training.

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AWS Telecommunications

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Introduction In “Your Telecom Cloud Journey on AWS: Part 1 – Establishing a Foundation” and “Accelerating Your Telecom Cloud Journey: A Technical Roadmap with AWS” we covered the transformation journey that many Telcos are embarking on when running complex and critical Telco workloads on AWS. have been slower.

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IEEE ComSoc

AUGUST 19, 2024

ZTE said demand from Chinese telecom operators had been constrained by “overall investment sentiments,” but it pointed to improved sales of indoor distribution, high-speed rail and metro networking equipment. The carrier unit, which accounted for 60% of the company’s total revenue , brought in RMB37 billion ($5.18

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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. New fiber-optic construction is expensive and time-consuming, making existing broadband providers attractive takeover targets. billion in cash.

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Telecoms Infrastructure Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Link5G kiosks will bring better cellular service, increased opportunities to connect to free Wi-Fi, and improved options for in-home broadband internet access. Multiple telecom companies could pay CityBridge to house their 5G equipment inside the chambers of a single structure. More than 1.3 million New Yorkers lack both.

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Rural Broadband Association

AUGUST 15, 2024

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program lately and find myself feeling the same way. For example, in May, NTCA sent a letter to NTIA following a visit that a number of our Women in Telecom leaders had with Secretary Gina Raimondo’s team at the Commerce Department.

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