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BT urges SMEs to go digital  

Total Telecom

With 73% of UK businesses now relying on high-speed broadband and mobile connectivity, digital transformation is becoming essential. The UKs analogue copper telephone network has a proud history, but its no longer up to the task for businesses. Keep up to date with the latest telecoms news by subscribing to our newsletter!

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Women’s History Month: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Rural Broadband Association

And we will continue tell their stories throughout the year through the Women in Telecom program. Jeannette and her husband Mike purchased Albion Telephone Company (now ATC Communications; Albion, Idaho) in 1929. Jumping forward a few years, we have Mildred Foster , the matriarch of Twin Valley Telephone (Miltonvale, Kan.).

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BT pushes for accelerated withdrawal from “outdated” copper landline network as faults rise 

Total Telecom

Faster broadband speeds, better security, and features like scam prevention and integrated calling across devices. The move to digital networks offers a range of benefits. Is the UKs rollout of next-generation moving quickly enough to support the UKs digital economy?

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Smaller broadband providers are bigger winners of MN Broadband grants

Blandin on Broadband

Telecompetitor reports … This week, Minnesota announced $52 million in grants to expand broadband throughout the state, with the majority of awards going to small telecom providers. Other awards included Garden Valley Telephone Company, $4.6 million; Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative, $3.9 million. .

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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.” said said LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.,

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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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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.