Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 3, 2024

From the FCC … The Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Education, with input from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, today released a resource guide to help schools and libraries evaluate their cybersecurity risks and identify the most impactful cybersecurity solutions.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Partner2Connect Digital Coalition aims to accelerate global digital inclusion, particularly in regions where traditional broadband infrastructure is unavailable. Reaching this milestone means 1 million people now have access to vital information, education, and communication resources through our Konnect solution.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Broadband workforce discussions often focus on “starting early” by recruiting high school students. Broadband employers need to act now to create on-ramps into the industry for working adults who want to change careers or upskill into a higher-level broadband occupation. Adult education programs.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 7, 2025

Ogi – Waless home-grown full service telco has today completed work on a multimillion-pound programme to connect Cardiffs city centre economic gateway to its 10 Gigabit-capable high-capacity full fibre network. restoration.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 5, 2024

Join Broadband Breakfast Live Online and other guests attending Mountain Connect 2024 in Denver for a discussion about the themes raised at this year's conference. This year marks the Colorado-based conference's 10th year as an independent broadband event, and Broadband Breakfast has covered the event regularly in the past.

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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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VoIP Review

JANUARY 8, 2025

These contracts will help deploy high-speed broadband in remote areas such as the Dee Valley, Isle of Anglesey, and beyond, enhancing internet speeds and reliability for around 131,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses. Currently, more than 85% of UK households can access gigabit-capable broadband.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Rural broadband Internet in this country for the most part remains monopolized, overpriced, insufficiently fast, hampering economic growth and resilience, as well as educational and healthcare  opportunities.  They attract businesses,  creating jobs, and support education.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program was poised to be a major force in closing the digital divide in the United States. billion allocated to expand broadband infrastructure in underserved regions, the initiative held great promise for connecting millions of Americans to high-speed internet.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 25, 2024

It’s clear we need more resiliency in our broadband policy. Going forward, we could mitigate this risk by designing our networks with resiliency in mind—like by constructing  overlapping networks  where possible. broadband networks will never be able to weather the  increasing intense  storms.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 23, 2024

Interview Following rural ISP Quickline’s recent success in securing its fourth round of government funding earlier this month, Total Telecom sat down with CEO Sean Royce to discuss all things rural broadband Founded in 2006, Quickline’s mission is to get rural communities connected “to a world of possibilities,” according to the website.

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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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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Were readers of this publication to present at a telecom conference on the topic of broadband reliability, outages might not be top of mind.  More pointedly, in today’s technology-centric ecosystems, to not have broadband means the real potential for societal catastrophe.    David W.

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Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Fierce Network reports … Joseph Wender, director of the Capital Projects Fund, said at last week’s Broadband Nation Expo that the program has awarded all the states and territories their portion of the $10 billion fund, and the awardees have decided to spend $8 billion on broadband infrastructure projects. Wender said the U.S.

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Also a great example of a rural provider that is successfully providing world class broadband to their members… Paul Bunyan Communications is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the groundbreaking GigaZone all fiber optic network. Our commitment to innovation and customer service has never been stronger.”

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Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Lakes Area Radio reports … Otter Tail Telcom (Park Region) is expanding its fiber broadband network in Otter Tail County, providing high-speed internet access to 286 homes and businesses in six townships near Fergus Falls. Townships included in the project are Aastad, Buse, Carlisle, Orwell, Oscar, and Western.

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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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Blandin on Broadband

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society reports This week, Congress passed the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 , this year’s version of theNational Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Institute for Local Self Reliance has released their new version of our Community Network Map , showing where municipal networks operate across the United States and how they are acting to bring new service, competition, and more affordable connectivity to places around the country. I found 38 communities searching for Minnesota.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The intention was never to build commercial software, but the combination of our background in technology together with a deep understanding of fibre network deployment, ultimately lead to OciusX becoming a very powerful tool, built by fibre guys, for fibre guys. market, onboarding more major fibre network operators and contractors.

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Light Reading

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

John on the platform provider's Broadband Academy and Broadband Success Playbook for Tribes, and how these resources are helping people fund, design, build, operate and market broadband networks. This week: Calix's Claudia Tarbell and Mary St.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 25, 2024

25, 2024 - The Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition announced this week that it was endorsing the nominations of two school representatives to the Universal Service Administrative Company’s board of directors. WASHINGTON, Oct. billion High Cost program and the now-defunct Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP).

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 24, 2025

The National Conference of State Legislatures has a slick Broadband Policy Toolkit … This NCSL toolkit covers the state policy landscape and considerations to address broadband deployment, adoption and affordability, and provides a wide variety of resources for policymakers, including legislative tracking, issue briefs and podcasts.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

7, 2025 – With the Universal Service Fund facing a legal threat at the Supreme Court, the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition was ramping up its efforts to protect the critical broadband funding source. billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program stays on track despite shifts in federal leadership. "States

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 13, 2025

The Minnesota 2024 Broadband Task Force report is available on the Office of Broadband Development site.From the letter from the chair… While Minnesota has made significant progress toward expanding broadband access, challenges persist. 395, ensuring jobs created are family-supporting with fair wages and benefits.

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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. Addressing these costs, he said, would be essential for the long-term viability of networks.

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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.   Establishing partnerships as well as initiating and administrating education and training that prepares individuals to be effective across this spectrum of jobs can take between 9 months to 1 year.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 6, 2025

6, 2025 – Reports that broadband costs always seem to rise don’t necessarily tell the full story. Take the middle-mile – a critical link between local networks and the global internet – where rural broadband providers are experiencing substantial cost reductions, according to a report released Jan.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 30, 2024

The  California Public Utilities Commission  has announced another $237 million in new grants that will help fund broadband expansion across 21 different California towns, cities, counties, and tribal communities. million hybrid last and middle mile network to connect 451 currently unserved addresses.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 11, 2025

To all the persistently negative and noisy broadband fiber network naysayers, I want to follow up on my previous article on the deployment of a fiber broadband Internet infrastructure. They say that you can’t get people to temporarily work and live in these remote areas to build this network. What do miners do?

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A new provider named  Halo Fiber  is hoping to leverage hundreds of millions in  recent Alabama middle mile broadband network grants  to extend affordable fiber broadband to state residents long stuck on the wrong side of the digital divide.

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 22, 2025

Mille Lacs Reservation has seen steady progress toward ubiquitous broadband over the years. In 2015, Mille Lacs County developed a broadband feasibility study that included a brief statement on connectivity on the reservation; they were focusing fiber on their casino, tribal headquarters and a few other businesses.

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Rural Broadband Association

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Back to School: The Broadband Bookmobile Send to all affiliates Off user_1150556 Mon, 09/16/2024 - 10:36 Byline By Joshua Seidemann, Vice President, Policy and Industry Innovation Associated Date Mon, 09/16/2024 - 12:00 Advanced Content Section One in five U.S. students attends K-12 school in a rural district.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

and Ian Heath Gershengorn argued that any unilateral attempt by the Commission to treat broadband internet access service (BIAS) as a common carrier service under Title II of the  Communications Act of 1934  would be a “wasted effort.” This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast. Verrilli Jr.

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AT&T Connects

OCTOBER 16, 2024

billion in our network infrastructure from 2019-2023 to connect more people to greater possibility. We’re working to expand access to broadband to as many residents as possible. billion in our wireless and fiber network, including Long Beach, Anaheim and Los Angeles. In California, we invested nearly $14.4 1 Read more. “We

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