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Lightpath Enters Phoenix Market with New AI-Grade Fiber Network

Total Telecom

Construction of the network has already commenced with priority routes targeted for completion in Q2 of 2025. Lightpath will be offering a full range of infrastructure and connectivity services on its Phoenix network, including high-count dark fiber, conduit services, wavelengths up to 800 Gbps, Ethernet, Internet, and more.

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Startup Stories: Introducing construction management platform OciusX

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The telecom construction industry has traditionally relied on outdated, fragmented tools for project management, leading to inefficiencies, delays, and miscommunication. After witnessing these pain points firsthand whilst building a construction company in Sweden, we started building an internal tool to manage these problems.

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Willmar, Minnesota Moves Forward With Open Access Fiber Network

Broadband Breakfast

In its 4-3 vote in early March, the City Council opted to continue work on the  Connect Wilmar Initiative , something it says is an answer to the ongoing failures by regional incumbent telecom monopolies to provide uniform, high quality, high speed, affordable Internet access. According to a  network FAQ , the planned $24.5

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Data centers fuel US fibre demand and other top stories from across the pond

Total Telecom

News Heres a look at the five biggest stories over the last week from our sister publication, Broadband Communities Data center construction, booming in cities like Phoenix, is fueling demand for dark fiber in major American markets. PODCAST: ISP executive discusses how rural American ISPs can endure The marketplace is changing fast.

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Four million locations in sight for fiber builder Brightspeed

Total Telecom

Press Release Brightspeed, one of the nations largest fiber broadband builders focused on empowering more homes with ultrafast, reliable internet, today announced its multi-gig-speed network has passed approximately 1.82 million locations surpassing its year-end goal of 1.75 million fiber-enabled premises across its 20-state footprint.

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North Carolina Announces $22 Million in Broadband Grant Awards

Broadband Breakfast

Most awarded projects are slated to finish construction in 2026. “No matter where you live in the state, you should have access to high-speed internet,” North Carolina Gov. The program requires speeds of at least 100 megabits per second download and upload. Josh Stein said in a statement.

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Ramping Up the BEAD Workforce: 5 Things States, ISPs, and Construction Firms Can Be Doing Now

Broadband Breakfast

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program aims to connect 25 million Americans currently without high-speed Internet access. To that end, NTIA has outlined a series of steps that SBOs can consider implementing now to get ahead of a potential broadband construction labor shortage: 1.