VoIP Review

MARCH 12, 2025

In a strategic move, Bharti Airtel has joined forces with SpaceX to bring Starlink broadband services to India. By partnering, both companies plan to offer reliable broadband, expanding coverage especially in remote regions. To facilitate this, Airtel plans to introduce Starlink equipment through its retail facilities.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 14, 2024

Press Release Thousands of rural homes and businesses now have access to lightning-fast broadband through Freedom Fibre and its Internet Service Providers (ISPs). These include LilaConnect, the retail internet service provider (ISP) owned by Freedom Fibre Group alongside other providers such as TalkTalk, Squirrel, Fusion Fibre, MTH and Beebu.

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Telecoms Tech News

JANUARY 27, 2025

The merger brings together FullFibre, a wholesale full-fibre network operator with its in-house retail ISP arm BeFibre, and Zzoomm, an established and fast-growing player. Read more » The post FullFibre and Zzoomm merger creates a UK full-fibre leader appeared first on Telecoms Tech News.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 16, 2025

16 JANUARY 2025 – High-speed broadband provider LightSpeed has joined forces with Neos Networks, one of the UKs foremost business connectivity providers, to expand its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) and wholesale services. ENDS About Neos Networks Neos Networks has the UKs largest business-dedicated network.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 3, 2025

Vodafone Spain will use FibreCo to deliver services to both retail and wholesale customers. FibreCo will use existing infrastructure, with nearly 40% of the combined FTTH network already in use by 4.5 million customers. It plans to deploy the latest technologies, such as XGS-PON, to improve service quality.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 6, 2024

In December last year, Ofcom proposed the introduction of stricter rules surrounding mid-contract price hikes for mobile, pay-TV, and broadband customers, after an investigation found that many customers were confused about inflation-linked price increases.

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RCR Wireless

MARCH 12, 2025

Jio also noted that it plans to distribute Starlink solutions through its retail stores and online platforms Indian operator Jio Platforms, which is part of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, has announced an agreement with SpaceX to bring Starlinks broadband internet services to its customers in India.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 7, 2025

Ogis investment in Cardiff is part of its ongoing commitment to revitalising urban centres and supporting communities with reliable, high-capacity broadband technology. This latest phase in its city centre rollout, equips the business, retail and residential zone for the digital demands of the 21st century. restoration.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 20, 2025

20, 2025 – The shockwaves from the first state law regulating retail broadband rates are still being felt. ” “As of the date of this filing, SpaceX provides broadband to [ Begin Confidential ] [ End Confidential ] residential customers in New York. WASHINGTON, Jan. ”

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In response, CEO Allison Kirkby outlined several measures to mitigate this impact, including potentially passing costs on to mobile and broadband customers. Reported profit before tax sits at £1 billion, down 10%.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 21, 2024

T-Mobile is set to acquire the majority of UScellular’s wireless operations, including its customers, retail stores, and around 30% of the company’s spectrum holdings, for $4.4 All of these transactions hinge on the closing of UScellular’s sale of wireless operations and select assets to T-Mobile, which was announced earlier this year.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

16, 2024 – Broadband ISPs have a request for the highest court in the land: Don't let the 50 states set the retail price of Internet access. Broadband industry groups including USTelecom and CTIA asked the high court to toss out the decision last month. WASHINGTON, Sept. The cable industry and the U.S.

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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. Which workers are ripe for recruitment?

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Contributed Article by Rajiv Datta, CEO of nexfibre In today’s digital age, full-fibre broadband is much more than a faster way to browse the internet; it is the backbone of our modern lives and a critical driver for economic growth. Connectivity has become an essential that touches nearly every aspect of our daily routines.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 13, 2025

million people without mobile broadband following the 3G sunsetting. Given handset distribution in the UK and the fact that retailers have been gradually taking 2G/3G-only devices off the shelves for a number of years it is likely that the majority of the phones reported in the do not know category are, in fact, 4G/5G ready.

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Telecom Talk

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Novos Fiber, a retail fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) internet service provider (ISP), and its sister company, Prime Fiber, a commercial open-access fiber

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The agreement significantly expands CityFibres addressable market, which now covers 49% of the UK broadband market. Also in the news: Vitrifis cloud technology transforms M&A in the global fibre broadband market French energy giant EDF offers up land for data centre projects Connected America 2025 is now less than one month away

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

ALICE workers include childcare providers, home health aides, cashiers, retail clerks, waiters, nonprofit professionals and others working low-wage jobs, with little or no savings, and one emergency from poverty.

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Blandin on Broadband

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

The map provides a multi-layered look into the near future of community broadband networks. The darkest shaded layers show the footprint that is already built representing data from the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection. This layer is based on FCC Study Area Boundaries & HIFLD Retail Service Areas. (

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IEEE ComSoc

APRIL 1, 2025

This deal marks a major milestone in T-Mobiles broadband growth and builds on the Un-carriers success in delivering best-in-class connectivity. By bringing more value and choice to the millions of Americans who have previously been underserved, T-Mobile continues to deliver on its mission to change broadband for good.

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 31, 2025

883 :A bill for an act relating to taxation; sales and use; providing an exemption for fiber and conduit used in broadband and Internet access services; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 297A.68, new text end new text begin Fiber and conduit; broadband and Internet access. 68, by adding a subdivision.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

29, 2024 – With a federal court recently declaring the funding mechanism for a major low-income connectivity program unconstitutional, telecom policy experts are actively discussing alternative solutions to keep essential broadband programs funded. WASHINGTON, Oct. Indeed, there is already a bipartisan bill outlining a way forward, S.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 16, 2025

million, two Broadband Opportunity Program grants totaling $5.9 million, and a Broadband Infrastructure Program grant of $9.6 Conexon was initially known for rural fiber-optic network design and construction, but launched its own last mile public facing retail ISP, Conexon Connect,  in 2021.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 28, 2024

28, 2024 – A coalition of broadband advocates has urged the nation’s telecom regulator to abandon its proposal to regulate bulk billing for internet in apartment complexes, arguing the federal regulators lack the legal authority to enforce such a rule.  WASHINGTON, Oct. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Aug.1,

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VoIP Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Most notably, the UK giant’s revenue declined by 3%, affected by issues beyond the UK and a fiercely competitive retail market. In response, CEO Allison Kirkby mentioned measures to absorb these costs, such as passing them onto mobile and broadband users and intensifying cost-cutting through automation and AI.

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VoIP Review

AUGUST 19, 2024

LilaConnect, a retail ISP specializing in broadband services, has recently announced that it has surpassed 15,000 connected customers. Unlike traditional broadband connections that rely on copper wires, FTTP delivers highly competitive internet speeds by using fibre optic cables.

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Blandin on Broadband

DECEMBER 13, 2024

billion into a new joint venture that plans to acquire broadband internet company Metronet, a key move in a larger plan by the Bellevue, Wash.-based As part of the deal, T-Mobile will absorb Metronets residential fiber retail operations and customer base. MSN reports T-Mobile will invest $4.9

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Drilling down to info on each community, you can learn the population, provider and business model of the network (retail, open access, conduit, institutional and/or non-retail). I found 38 communities searching for Minnesota.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Airtel’s retail portfolio includes high-speed 4G/5G mobile broadband, Airtel Xstream Fiber that promises speeds up to 1 Gbps with convergence across linear and on-demand entertainment, streaming services spanning music and video, digital payments and financial services.

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Blandin on Broadband

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Minneapolis Star Tribune reports on digital aspects of farming with Land O’Lakes and their CTO (and chair of the MN Broadband Task Force) Teddy Bekele… Land O’Lakes appointed Bekele the company’s first tech executive in 2018 amid a growing need to connect agriculture with big data and insights.

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Telegeography

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Although many retail service providers, such as mobile operators, MVNOs, and cable broadband providers, rely heavily on wholesale carriers to transport and terminate their customers international calls, wholesale revenues are down 11% from ten years ago.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The opposition movement to Measure 118, largely financed by a PAC supported by grocery and retail giants like Kroger, Albertsons-Safeway, and Costco, raised over $16 million — more than 26 times what the Oregon Rebate Campaign PAC raised. However, tech and telecom companies remained silent on the measure throughout the campaign.

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Mark Goldberg

JANUARY 30, 2025

It’s pretty easy to spend fifteen million dollars building broadband infrastructure. Three years ago, I wrote “Building better broadband” and said that we need to be technology agnostic in picking solutions for rural and remote broadband. Starlink retails for $140 per month. That is $1680 per year.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

“We heard the stories about young people sitting on the stoops of the retail stores and McDonald's,” said Lee, noting that children were a particularly vulnerable group.  Programs that support disadvantaged populations were essential to achieving fair internet access.

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Telegeography

JULY 25, 2024

Today, Lizzie shares a touch of what she's learned about broadband markets Down Under while on the job. We loved having her cohort in the office to assist with large, data-intensive research projects throughout the summer. We'll hand it over to her.

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VoIP Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We achieved our first full year of profitability, signed a new strategic partnership with Sky, which doubled our retail sales capacity, and solidified our position as the UKs leading independent wholesale network. This agreement will notably increase CityFibre’s market coverage to 49% of the UK broadband segment.

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Blandin on Broadband

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Miller: The IT field in Minnesota is thriving, with strong demand across various sectors, including healthcare, finance, manufacturing and retail. Q: What is the state of the tech industry in Minnesota?

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