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Industry Backs FCC’s Push to Eliminate ‘Outdated’ Regulations

Broadband Breakfast

households; and, local radio and TV station ownership rules, which limit how many stations a single company can own in a given market. Those “must be reformed as soon as possible,” NAB spokesman Alex Siciliano told Broadband Breakfast.

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UScellular sells spectrum to Verizon in $1 billion deal 

Total Telecom

” The sale has already been approved by UScellular’s majority shareholder, Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), which owns 82% of the company. We are continuing the process to opportunistically monetize the remaining spectrum assets not included in today’s announcement.”

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The high cost of serving high cost areas

Mark Goldberg

At the time, I described an interesting CRTC proceeding underway to examine the future of voice telephone service to a total of 110 households and 5 businesses located in 8 communities served by 3 telephone exchanges located off the beaten track in British Columbia. A court challenge could easily cost that and more.

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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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Understanding The True Meaning Of Broadband Internet

Airtel

We all are well acquainted with the term broadband. But do you know the actual meaning of broadband? Broadband data transmission is the transmission of high-quality data over a large bandwidth. WiFi, DSL, fibre, and satellite connections are examples of broadband connectivity. Buy Airtel Broadband with exciting benefits!

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Richard Bennett: The Curious Case of Wi-Fi 7

Broadband Breakfast

  Wi-Fi innovation has stalled On paper and in simulation Wi-Fi 7 is presumed to reach lofty speeds on every scenario thanks to its use of Multi-Link Operation (MLO,) two radios operating in parallel at different frequencies. A killer app for 5G is clear: residential broadband over fixed wireless access (FWA) networks.

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Survey: About half of all households passed by fiber in 2024 -- with less than half of those connected.

EldoTelecom

Internet connectivity is regarded as a utility as was voice telephone service before it where most every address had service. Also, given fibers high desirability for reliability and capacity. Another probable factor that began to take off in the following decade is the smartphone. Follow on Twitter @eldotelecom