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

Broadband Breakfast

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.,

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First cables laid to bring fast, reliable broadband to South Wiltshire under government’s Project Gigabit

Total Telecom

This means a fibre optic cable goes all the way to each building, rather than stopping at a cabinet down the road. This delivers connection speeds of up to 10Gbps, with far superior speeds and reliability compared to old copper telephone lines.

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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.  Heading North, on August 29, 2024, the tiny cruise ship town of Sitka, Alaska suffered an undersea cable cut which required about two weeks to repair.

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1996 Telecom Act affords FCC clear, unambiguous authority for Title II rulemaking

EldoTelecom

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Investor owned telephone and cable companies and their trade associations hope the courts will put the U.S. That would conceivably bolster their case if the underlying statute here – the 1996 Telecom Act – was unclear or ambiguous or failed to grant the FCC authority for its rules.

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Nortel Networks Phone Systems – Support & Upgrades

NetWork Telecom

If you already have a Nortel telephone system in your office and would like to discuss how you can get more out of it, contact us today ! “Network Telecom assisted us in moving and upgrading our system when we moved into a new facility. They have been with us while we grew and made additional changes.

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How U.S. telecom policy derailed in early 1990s in slow motion train wreck

EldoTelecom

The legislation envisioned Internet telecommunications services being offered over the existing telephone network and would have required telephone companies to provide access to their networks for these services on a nondiscriminatory basis and on reasonable terms and conditions.

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AT&T’s suggestion that edge content providers contribute to funding universal service calls for new paradigm of U.S. advanced telecom

EldoTelecom

Stankey however raises a broader policy issue of how universal service is to be attained and specifically the high cost of the ownership, financing, and operation of its infrastructure in the digital IP era as it was for copper cable delivered analog voice telephone service in the previous century.