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Broadband Breakfast on August 7, 2024 - Live from Mountain Connect 2024

Broadband Breakfast

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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How Reliable is Our Nation's – and the World's – Broadband Infrastructure?

Broadband Breakfast

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. 

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Supreme Court to Decide Fate of $8 Billion Broadband Fund

Broadband Breakfast

billion program critical to expanding broadband access in rural and underserved areas. Rural Healthcare (RHC) : Support for broadband services for healthcare providers in remote areas, with FY 2023 funding at $468.2 WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2024 – The U.S. million in FY 2023.

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Small Texas City Losing Cable TV, Keeping Internet after Network Sale

Broadband Breakfast

6,000) will soon experience a shift in its media landscape as TDS Telecom plans to discontinue its cable TV service there by Sept. the parent company of Big Bend Telephone Co., "I was made aware of the sale when I received a notice in the mail from TDS indicating the upcoming changes," Mayor Eaves told Broadband Breakfast. "To

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An Informed Citizens View of the Current Broadband Fiber Kerfuffle

Broadband Breakfast

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.  Rural citizens were not relegated to second class  citizen status with electricity or telephone networks.

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Richard Bennett: The Curious Case of Wi-Fi 7

Broadband Breakfast

A killer app for 5G is clear: residential broadband over fixed wireless access (FWA) networks. The only parts of the broadband network market that are growing are Fiber to the Home (FTTH) and FWA , and FWA is growing fastest. Legacy networks built on telephone and cable TV wiring are actually shrinking.

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Eight Hundred Words to the Nattering Nabobs Of Negativism

Broadband Breakfast

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. My Grandfather's generation built the rural electrification grid, and the telephone network with the help of the first generation of immigrants.