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Rural Tower Cooperative Launches Pre-Screened Rural Parcels for Broadband Deployment

Total Telecom

Indianapolis, IN – June 11, 2025 – Rural Tower Cooperative, a for-profit agricultural cooperative dedicated to bridging the digital divide, announces its portfolio of GIS-qualified rural parcels available for telecom companies seeking to expand broadband infrastructure.

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Investing in the North: How Virgin Media O2 is powering a more connected, inclusive future 

Total Telecom

Take our broadband network. This investment means that nearly ten million homes in the North can access our gigabit broadband, offering services 16 times faster than the national average. We have invested more than 1 billion to connect over 3.4 million homes and businesses in the North to our ultrafast network in the last ten years.

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Broadband Breakfast on July 2, 2025 – The New USF Working Group

Broadband Breakfast

Lawmakers launched the USF Working Group on June 12, 2025, aiming to work out the future of the multi-billion-dollar broadband funding program. This Broadband Breakfast live session will feature staff from the offices of USF working group members and include a lively discussion about the future of the subsidy program.

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Virgin Media O2 Teams Up with Perplexity to Offer Customers AI Search Engine Access

Telecom Talk

British telecommunications operator Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has teamed up with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to offer its customers one

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Broadband Breakfast on August 13, 2025 - What's Happening with Canadian Broadband?

Broadband Breakfast

Currently, 95 percent of Canadian households have access to broadband internet at speeds of 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) down and 10 Mbps up, the standard for “broadband” used by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. How is Canada measuring progress toward universal broadband access?

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Broadband Breakfast on March 26, 2025 - Broadband Programs Outside of the U.S.

Broadband Breakfast

continues its push for broadband expansion through government-funded initiatives like the BEAD program, other countries are pursuing their own strategies to bridge the digital divide. learn from international broadband programs? Clark also served as head of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois, a state broadband initiative.

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Tribal Nations Build Sovereignty Through Broadband Infrastructure, Panelists Say

Broadband Breakfast

WASHINGTON, July 4, 2025 – Open-access networks are actually a great fit for broadband projects on tribal lands, according to panelists involved in such projects. Tribal communities have long faced steep barriers to broadband access due to remote geography and historical underinvestment.