Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 3, 2025

In its 4-3 vote in early March, the City Council opted to continue work on the  Connect Wilmar Initiative , something it says is an answer to the ongoing failures by regional incumbent telecom monopolies to provide uniform, high quality, high speed, affordable Internet access. According to a  network FAQ , the planned $24.5

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 6, 2025

home to 75,000 residents, may soon have a competitor to Comcast in the cable TV market, Mayor Paige G. The proposed agreement with Astound Broadband would give the company three years to build the local cable network at no cost to the city. Broadband revenue is exempt from the 5 percent fee. Cognetti (D) announced Wednesday.

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VoIP Review

MARCH 13, 2025

In a significant move, Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms has teamed up with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring Starlink’s satellite -based internet service to consumers in India. This collaboration aims to extend high-speed internet access across the country, particularly targeting remote and underserved areas.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 14, 2025

March 14, 2025 – Pennsylvania lawmakers are proposing new legislation aimed at ensuring fair and equal access across the Internet following a Jan 2 court decision that struck down federal net neutrality protections. In a memo Tuesday, Smith-Wade-El alleged that ISPs have too much control over the internet market. 

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 24, 2025

The funding round also includes the continuation of a pilot programme designed to improve internet access in smaller regions that have been left out of gigabit expansion so far. The criteria and rules for applying remain largely the same as last year, providing stability for states, municipalities, and applicants.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 14, 2025

News Heres a look at the five biggest stories over the last week from our sister publication, Broadband Communities Data center construction, booming in cities like Phoenix, is fueling demand for dark fiber in major American markets. PODCAST: ISP executive discusses how rural American ISPs can endure The marketplace is changing fast.

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Total Telecom

APRIL 3, 2025

About Total Telecom Since 1997, Total Telecom has provided the connection between the buyers and sellers in the global telecom market. Our award-winning event portfolio includes, Broadband Communities Summit , the World Communication Awards , Connected North , Connected Germany , and the UKs largest connectivity event Connected Britain.

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VoIP Review

APRIL 3, 2025

This strategic move marks an effort by the mobile operator to expand its fixed broadband offerings. Initially announced last April, this acquisition will see existing Lumos customers transition to T-Mobile Fiber, with T-Mobile assuming responsibility for customer experience, service delivery, and marketing.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 4, 2025

billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program, states were pushing forward with subgrantee selection — closing application windows, reviewing competitive bids, and releasing data on provider participation. WASHINGTON, April 4, 2025 — Despite growing uncertainty over potential changes to the $42.45

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Light Reading

APRIL 14, 2025

Spacecoin plans to launch affordable satellite Internet in India, Nigeria, and Indonesia in 2026, targeting 10 million subscribers with a $2 monthly plan.

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All West Telecommunications

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In today's fast-paced digital world, small business internet and phone services have become indispensable tools for driving growth, enhancing customer interaction, and ensuring operational efficiency. Clear Understanding of the Essentials For small businesses, maintaining a reliable internet and phone infrastructure is critical.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 4, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2025 – With millions of Americans at risk of losing access to affordable phone and internet service, a coalition of major telecom industry groups has launched a new effort to pressure Congress to act on the Universal Service Fund before it collapses. million students.    Additionally, 7.6

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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. ” Bardstown has about 14,000 residents.

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Telecoms Tech News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Recent satellite deployments have significantly enhanced Starlink’s performance in Europe, reinforcing its status as a viable broadband alternative in the region.

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Total Telecom

DECEMBER 4, 2024

billion (US$881 million) bid to acquire Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN), one of Hong Kong’s top internet service providers. According to stock market filing, this offer could increase to HK$7.8 HKBN currently serves roughly 932,000 broadband customers, with its full fibre network spanning 2.6

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 4, 2025

As states like Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Washington receive their BEAD funding and additional federal funds towards broadband expansion, creativity in implementation is ripe for the picking. For years, rural communities in the Mountain States region have faced a consistent challenge - lack of access to high-speed internet.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Press Release Aprecomm ( www.aprecomm.ai ), the intuitive network and customer experience platform provider, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Synnefo ( www.synnefoims.com ), an OSS, BSS, IMS, SMS supplier to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Multi-System Operators (MSOs) in India and across the globe.

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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. Comcast lost 120,000 subscribers ending the quarter with 32.1 million.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 14, 2025

In an evolving job market that increasingly values skills over traditional credentials, we have a unique opportunity to empower returning citizens with in-demand competencies. Securus's has invested in broadband infrastructure and the development of LTE and Wi-Fi-compatible tablets to continue expanding digital access.

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VoIP Review

MARCH 12, 2025

In a strategic move, Bharti Airtel has joined forces with SpaceX to bring Starlink broadband services to India. The alliance between Airtel and SpaceX aims to augment Starlink services through Airtel’s extensive market knowledge and infrastructure.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 17, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2025 – Maine’s broadband agency Thursday called on the Commerce Department to refine, but not delay, the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program.   Maine has been a leader in integrating multiple broadband technologies. The initiative, which sought to connect 1.5%

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 14, 2025

million from the General Fund for the Department of Agriculture, plus several other agencies and programs under the purview of the committee, including the Office of Broadband Development. million to the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute; and $2 million for broadband development. The funding request is $17.1

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

11, 2025) Thousands of Miami County residents and businesses will soon have access to faster, more reliable Internet with a joint investment from Comcast, the Indiana Broadband Office (IBO) and the Indiana Office of Community & Rural Affairs (OCRA).

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In 2022, the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program largely excluded satellite broadband from its Notice of Funding Opportunity, due to reliability concerns over the technology's nascent state. David Zumwalt  is President and CEO of WISPA – Broadband Without Boundaries.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2024 – In awarding grants to build new broadband networks, federal and state governments should require network owners to open their networks to multiple internet access providers to promote competition and avoid monopolization in rural markets.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 11, 2025

NCTA - The Internet and Television Association, headquartered here, cited an April 9 update that tracked 5,770 reported incidents of vandalism and theft between June and December in 2024. million broadband and wireless customers. These attacks reportedly disrupted service for more than 1.5

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 22, 2024

In the Asia-Pacific region, the optical industry is booming, which promotes the popularization and quality improvement of broadband. He stressed that NBTC plans to increase broadband penetration to 80% by 2025. Viewpoint On August 14, 2024, 200 industry leaders and experts from around the world attended the Asia-Pacific F5.5G

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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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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 13, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 13, 2024 – The broadband market is often described as robustly competitive. The organization also called an analysis of the impact on competition when a third provider enters a market. But some have their doubts.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 27, 2024

News Last week’s wholesale deal has divided opinions on what the future holds for the UK’s broadband market In the wake of last week’s news in which Sky and CityFibre announced a long-term partnership , various reports were published suggesting the deal would be a challenge for the UK incumbent BT.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

13, 2024 – North Carolina's Republican House and Senate on Friday agreed to inject new money into a program supporting broadband deployment projects. Broadband officials in Vermont, for example, decided to use leftover funds to connect low-income residents with fiber internet networks. WASHINGTON, Sept.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 2, 2025

Global satellite constellation Starlink is currently operational in roughly 118countries worldwide, where it aims to serve customers in regions where traditional internet infrastructure is limited. Service offerings will expand to include voice and data services in future phases.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 2, 2024

billion, marking its full exit from the pay-TV market. TPG, which already owns 30% of the business, will take full control of the company, according to an SEC filing on Monday. AT&T acquired DirecTV in 2015 for $67 billion (including debt), banking on the pay-TV market continuing to grow.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

13, 2024 – Two tech think tanks want the Supreme Court to block states from regulating retail broadband rates. It seeks “to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market … for the Internet … unfettered by Federal or State regulation.” WASHINGTON, Sept. ” 47 U.S.C. §§

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AT&T Connects

AUGUST 6, 2024

Getting high-speed internet with AT&T earlier this year marked a dramatic change for the entire community. According to Steve, “it was just like a wildfire” when his neighbors learned high-speed internet was coming to their neck of the woods. And, Steve notes, “broadband opens up a lot of opportunities for communities like ours.”

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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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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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