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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., Alpine, Texas (pop.

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Consolidated Telephone Company and Meeker Cooperative Light and Power launch MC Fiber

Blandin on Broadband

MC Fiber is a collaborative effort between Meeker Cooperative Light and Power and Consolidated Telephone Company, based in Brainerd. To do this, the company will utilize their expertise in plowing, cable pulling and blowing as well as directional boring for mainline and drop fiber projects, according to the news release.

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Kagan: Tarana Wireless helps US Cellular increase FWA capacity

RCR Wireless

Traditionally, Cable TV and telephone companies offer wireline broadband. FWA 5G wireless broadband may be the next competitive battleground Broadband seems to be gearing up to be the next competitive battleground. Suddenly, wireless carriers are starting to use FWA to offer wireless broadband.

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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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More info on Lismore Telephone Company and Woodstock Communications MN Broadband grant project in Nobles County

Blandin on Broadband

The Globe reports… REGIONAL — The Lismore Telephone Company and Woodstock Communications will expand implementation of broadband fiber optic cables to give communities they serve better Internet access after receiving $209,598 and $2.9 million, respectively.

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NCTA Urges Caution in SES, Intelsat Transaction

Broadband Breakfast

2, 2024 - Cable operators that need satellite services to receive TV programming are concerned about SES's proposed $3.1 a critical platform that enables 35 million cable customers nationwide to receive TV programming. "As WASHINGTON, Oct. billion purchase of Intelsat. Their concerns involve not only video but also broadband.

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How Reliable is Our Nation's – and the World's – Broadband Infrastructure?

Broadband Breakfast

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.     In outer space, adverse foreign countries and their agencies are a growing broadband threat.

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