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Tim Stelzig: Explaining BEAD, Trying to Bridge the Digital Divide

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Federal subsidies therefore are necessary for ubiquitous access to internet service. The FCC’s USF Fund was initially designed as a ratepayer cross-subsidy program to ensure all Americans had access to telephone service. of occupied housing units have a fixed and/or mobile telephone service subscription.

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Playing the long game in the fiber gold rush: Large investor owned provider overbuilding publicly owned network in small town that didn't initially pencil for private investment.

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Consolidated Communications, Fidium’s parent, owns many of the telephone poles in town. The local group had to pay tens of thousands of dollars to put its cables on them. Machias-based internet service provider Axiom Technologies runs the town’s broadband service.

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Vermont’s Otter Creek CUD Finishes Fiber Expansion, Focuses On Customer Service

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“As well, a portion of our area was peeled off to allow the ILEC in three of the towns in our District to be served by the existing small ILEC business – Shoreham Telephone – under their own grant funding program.” ” CUDs: New alliances to solve very old problems Like so many U.S.

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What is an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)? 

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Surprisingly, it remains more relevant than you think hence the popularity of Analog Telephone Adapters (ATAs). However, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is increasingly replacing traditional systems. What is an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)? What does an Analog Telephone Adapter do? Who still uses landlines in 2025?

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Charter Buying Cox for $34.5 Billion

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Merger: Charter   Communications  under CEO  Christopher Winfrey  is buying cable broadband ISP  Cox Communications , a privately held subsidiary of  Cox Enterprises  that serves more than  7 million  homes and businesses across 18 U.S. states , Charter announced Friday.

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Biden-Funded Maine Muni ISP Runs into a Problem – Competition

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For the quarter ending June 30, 2025, Charter saw a decrease in its total Internet customer base, which fell by  117,000 , bringing the total number of Internet customers to  29.9 But now there’s a problem, and it’s called competition.

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

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WASHINGTON, September 3, 2024 – A small Texas city is finding out what it's like when the cable TV company cuts the cord. 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., Alpine, Texas (pop.

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