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Four million locations in sight for fiber builder Brightspeed

Total Telecom

The company rolled out more than 17,600 miles of fiber cable in 2024 bringing the total fiber deployed since the build launch to more than 103,000 miles. Brightspeed Fiber Internet service plans also include a Wi-Fi router, ensuring optimal speed and performance in every room of today’s device-dense homes and offices.

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Brightspeed Surpasses Fiber Milestone, Pioneering 2024 Expansion

VoIP Review

This expansion spanned across a 20-state area with over 17,600 miles of fiber cable deployed just last year, totaling over 103,000 miles since the project’s inception. Cloud platforms played a vital role in maintaining uninterrupted network construction, ensuring dependable connectivity for customers despite natural disruptions.

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High-Speed FWA Using mmWave With the Help of Li-Fi

Telecoms Infrastructure Blog

On a regular basis I keep reading about how Fixed Wireless Access ( FWA ) continues to gain ground at the expense of cable operators, especially in the USA (see articles by Ookla , OpenSignal ). One of the challenges with FWA is the need to (generally) install external antennas, especially when higher frequencies like mmWaves is involved.

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Connected to Wifi but No Internet? Here are 5 quick fixes for You

Airtel

Quick Fix If the weather conditions don’t improve, you can restart your router and modem. If the ‘no internet’ message still shows up, you can move your device closer to the router. Sometimes, you can fix a terrible network connection Just by moving your device closer to the router. Updates keep security tight.

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Showcasing the Endless Opportunities Through Connectivity

Rural Broadband Association

Once you plug a router into the wall, you have Wi-Fi in your home. Attendees of Fiber Field Day were treated to a hands-on demonstration of how to splice fiber and operate heavy construction equipment to dig trenches for fiber cable. All too often, the internet and broadband can seem like an abstract concept.

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'Lessons from the History of Wi-Fi': A Critique

Broadband Breakfast

  Claims that vendors 'no longer see value in the 6 GHz band' A rather confusing part of the report discusses some commercially-available Wi-Fi 7 routers, some of which split the 6 GHz band into two parts. Firstly, the majority of US homes with gigabit-grade connections rely on fiber or cable, not wireless or satellite access.

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State Broadband Leaders Speculate BEAD Future Under Trump Administration

Broadband Breakfast

These tariffs could dramatically increase the cost of critical broadband materials such as fiber optic cables, routers, and other network infrastructure components. When asked about their states’ timelines for network deployment, only 40% of state broadband directors revealed they expect construction to begin in 2025.

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