Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

A California telecom and electrical cooperative says the state’s ongoing last-mile broadband grant program will help deploy affordable fiber to multiple communities across four heavily unserved and underserved California counties. One Plumas grant award is for a $14.5

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Telecoms Infrastructure Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

The race to provide global connectivity has seen remarkable innovation, and Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet service, has been at the forefront. By utilising a network of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, Starlink promises faster speeds and reduced latency compared to traditional satellite internet.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Mole ploughs broke the ground in Stapleford last week, as Wessex Internet began its physical work to deliver full fibre internet to 14,500 homes and businesses in South Wiltshire. This work is part of Project Gigabit, a government-funded programme to enable hard-to-reach communities to get fast, reliable broadband.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 5, 2024 – With billions of federal dollars earmarked to expand high-speed internet access across the country, local officials could get inundated with permitting requests, perhaps causing a bottleneck that slows the deployment of broadband infrastructure.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Though Northampton, Massachusetts residents still broadly support the construction of a city-owned municipal fiber broadband network, city officials are celebrating the arrival of Gateway Fiber, which will soon be delivering a more affordable fiber option, and more broadband competition, to the traditionally underserved city.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

“Our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will connect every Coloradan to reliable high-speed internet,” Hickenlooper said in a statement. “Resilient, efficient supply chains are essential to keeping prices low and ensuring Americans can get the products they need, and that includes broadband internet,” said Peters.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Project Gigabit is the government-funded programme targeting areas that would be too expensive to be connected to gigabit broadband through commercial rollout because of their remote location.   Residents and business owners in the region, many who struggle to carry out basic online tasks due to outdated broadband infrastructure, will receive major (..)

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

According to the state’s announcement , $61 million in new grants were awarded by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for five Last Mile FFA broadband infrastructure grant projects in Amador and Solano Counties, bringing affordable fiber Internet access to approximately 10,000 Californians.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The deal, which includes protections against throttling, data caps, and the sale of customer data, will expand high-speed, affordable internet access across the city, connecting 80% of the city by 2028 and 97% of the city by 2030. The $9 million deal allows ALLO – a Nebraska-based telecom company available to 1.2

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EldoTelecom

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

policymaking on Internet infrastructure began shortly before the Internet was decommissioned as a government-run network in the mid-1990s. Everyone else was essentially left off the new telecommunications “grid” of the Internet. Excerpted from Service Unavailable: America’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Crisis U.S

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Frustrated by years of substandard broadband service from regional telecom incumbents, Kendall County, Illinois residents have joined the growing chorus of Americans that are tackling the problem head on by building their own better, faster, more affordable fiber networks. “It’s tax exempt.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 – Minnesota is set to receive an historic $652 million for broadband expansion, but key requirements of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program could keep many in-state internet service providers from participating. WASHINGTON, Dec. billion broadband expansion program.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Think of a broadband network as a railroad, with the tracks representing a network of fiber cables, and trains representing internet services. Strategy The country boasts internet penetration with 98% served with Gigabit symmetrical speeds. Continuing on the analogy, with the vertically integrated model (in the U.S.), Now, the U.S.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

GFiber started in 2010 as a Google-driven experiment to catalyze the gigabit internet ecosystem, and has since pioneered the gigabit and multigig internet future. Their network provides blazingly fast Internet speeds, phone, and television services. The Fiber Broadband Association is the voice of fiber.

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Blandin on Broadband

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The Office of Broadband Development Team attended their annual staff training last week, held this year in Clearwater at the Telcom Construction Training Center. A huge thank you to Telcom Construction for hosting and our guest speakers for joining us! This federal funding comes from the $1.44

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

She currently serves as the Global Vice President of Wireless at Wesco, where she leads a team of experts who support the development and distribution of all wireless services within the enterprise and construction channels. Jonathan Chaplin  leads the US Communications Services research team.

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IEEE ComSoc

AUGUST 19, 2024

ZTE said demand from Chinese telecom operators had been constrained by “overall investment sentiments,” but it pointed to improved sales of indoor distribution, high-speed rail and metro networking equipment. The carrier unit, which accounted for 60% of the company’s total revenue , brought in RMB37 billion ($5.18

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Telecoms Infrastructure Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Link5G kiosks will bring better cellular service, increased opportunities to connect to free Wi-Fi, and improved options for in-home broadband internet access. Up to three times taller than the original LinkNYC kiosks, hundreds of new Link5G towers are set to crop up in neighborhoods with uneven internet access.

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VoIP Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Last week, Wessex Internet began laying the first cables in Stapleford to bring full-fibre internet to 14,500 homes and businesses in the region. million, involves expanding Wessex Internet’s network from the Wylye Valley, across Salisbury Plain, up to Chisbury and Little Bedwyn.

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IEEE ComSoc

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

billion in 2023, with about 52% of total revenue from activities related to its fiber-optic products and bills itself as “ largest pure-play fiber internet company in the US.” New fiber-optic construction is expensive and time-consuming, making existing broadband providers attractive takeover targets. It reported sales of $5.8

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NetWork Telecom

AUGUST 29, 2024

Contact the cabling specialists at Network Telecom to help make your installation a success. Contact Network Telecom New Business Facility – What You Need to Know about Cabling 1. Internet Connection Points: Plan for sufficient cable runs to connect your internet service provider’s equipment to your network infrastructure.

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EldoTelecom

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And supporting its construction and operation by making low interest long term loans available as well as technical assistance grants to help them organize? The information technology companies mentioned in this article all pay income taxes that could help fund this. Follow on Twitter @eldotelecom

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IEEE ComSoc

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Microsofts AI doesnt come cheap.Alistair Speirs, senior director of Microsoft Azure Global Infrastructure told Newsweek: “Microsoft’s datacenter construction has been accelerating for the past few years, and that growth is guided by the growing demand signals that we are seeing from customers for our cloud and AI offerings.“As

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AWS Telecommunications

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

When Swisscom, Switzerlands leading telecom provider, began their AWS cloud journey, they sought to revolutionize networking through a fully automated, secure, centrally governed implementation. Outbound internet connectivity is achieved through an Internet Gateway (IGW) and NAT Gateway to limit usage of public IPv4 addresses.

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Rural Broadband Association

JULY 18, 2024

It was a great chance to speak before representatives from various media outlets, communications industry executives and a few NTCA members in town for the Women in Telecom Fly-In about NTCA and to highlight some of our important advocacy goals for this year and beyond. In 1996, these beneficiaries were telecom providers, right?

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Meanwhile, the neighboring city of Rexburg used ARPA funding to construct a 20-mile open-access fiber backbone to connect municipal facilities, with plans for residents and businesses to benefit from the new infrastructure by November 2023. In Ammon, Idaho, one of the early pioneers of open-access networks in the U.S.,

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Mark Goldberg

JULY 24, 2024

In rendering its determination in Teksavvy’s appeal of the CRTC’s 2021 reversal of its original 2019 wholesale internet rates , the Federal Court of Appeal delivered a sound rejection, with costs. The post Delivering a sound rejection appeared first on Telecom Trends.

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Mark Goldberg

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In early January, in my look at the year ahead , I said these items topped my telecom agenda: Driving universal broadband adoption Online harms Regulatory overreach Mandated wholesale access Impacts of investment on coverage and resilience Digital literacy How did we do? The Internet Code has been in force for nearly 5 years.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 13, 2025

Moreover, understanding those two “capability” benchmarks is critical to future debt and equity investments in the sector called broadband telecom. Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Infrastructure Funding, intended to grow Internet into every corner of the United States. Copyright 2025. Property of The Carmel Group.

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Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Communities and internet service providers contributed over $48 million in matching funds for this grant round and over $400 million for all grant rounds to date. This project will bring reliable, fast fiber internet to this area for the first time, opening opportunities for 113 locations, including 46 unserved and 67 underserved locations.

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VoIP Review

JANUARY 16, 2025

This collaboration will center on constructing solar-powered mobile base stations in rural regions, expanding connectivity for millions who remain underserved. Over a six-year span, Vodacom and Orange seek to construct up to 2,000 new base stations, drawing on 2G and 4G technology. of the population currently enjoys mobile internet.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

As federal broadband funding sources face  continued uncertainty , California’s massive last-mile grant program continues to plow ahead, looking increasingly like a vital lifeline for communities hoping to ensure that every individual has access to robust, reliable, and affordable Internet access. billion in grants.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 31, 2025

Education: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of internet connectivity for remote learning. Civic Engagement: The internet enables citizens to stay informed about public services, participate in community events, and engage in the democratic process. These thefts cost the company $500,000 just this year.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 2, 2025

The Quantum Park is slated for construction in 2025 and 2026, along with recruitment of other businesses. Steel South Works site has attracted plans for $300 million for construction of a new 52 bed hospital by Advocate Healthcare, a well-established hospital and clinic network. The overall 567-acre former U.S.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 22, 2025

Broadband advocates are proposing reforms on regulatory “shot clocks” that could help speed up high-speed internet infrastructure deployment. “Such extensive broadband construction will require extensive construction permitting, and construction permitting often happens at the local level.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Unlike many regional telecom monopolies, Metronet’s tiers don’t have usage caps, hidden fees, or long-term contracts. The CUC, alongside “several parallel initiatives and programs,” constructed more than 360 miles of fiber to over 2000 rural locations in Carver County, wrapping up late last year.

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

increase in Construction Employment compared to US 4.4% Federal FCC to move forward with 5G funds to target investments in rural communities 2024 Democratic Party Platform mentions broadband 3 times Could changes in E-Rate help close the ACP gap?

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