Telecom Talk

JUNE 17, 2025

GSMA, the association of global mobile network operators, has urged telecom operators in India and across the globe to prioritise realising the full potential of 5G before accelerating efforts toward 6G. India’s telecom sector is in “reasonable health” and the market structure enables investment despite low tariffs, he said.

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Telecom Talk

JUNE 26, 2025

” Governor Glenn Youngkin welcomed the announcement, emphasizing Virginia’s global leadership in internet infrastructure. “From the spine of the internet running through Ashburn to the transatlantic cables that connect in Virginia Beach, the entire Commonwealth is engaged in supporting the technology which runs the world.

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 25, 2025

   “Projects are planned three to five years out, allowing for priority adjustments if developers engage early,” said Robbie Nash , Vice President, OSP Engineering and Construction, MTA. Labor shortages remain a concern, and each operator discussed programs to address them.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 16, 2025

subsea cable landing station – located in Virginia Beach, which handles roughly 70 percent of all transoceanic internet traffic – to Richmond, with future plans to extend that route to the major government and hyperscale data centers of Northern Virginia. “Then we'll move to permitting and start constructing.”

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 11, 2025

NCTA - The Internet and Television Association, headquartered here, cited an April 9 update that tracked 5,770 reported incidents of vandalism and theft between June and December in 2024. The updated report was released at the Telecom Industry Summit: Protecting Critical Communications Infrastructure in St. Louis, Mo.,

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Broadband Breakfast

JULY 7, 2025

If the moratorium passes, broadband engineers will have a clearer path to constructing AI-centric networks. At the end of the day, the average consumer just wants fast and reliable internet in their homes/businesses, to be connected, and to get on with their lives. This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast.

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TDS Connect

JULY 22, 2025

At TDS Telecom, we have heard our customers want simple and predictable bills in their inbox or mailbox. We’re at an exciting time in our fiber expansion program, with construction projects ongoing in states including Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wisconsin. That means businesses must listen and follow through on its commitments.

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 5, 2025

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2025 – TDS Telecom said in an earnings call Friday that it added almost 3,000 broadband subscribers in the first quarter. Now that we have moved beyond the winter months, we expect construction activity and address delivery to accelerate.” ”

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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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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 21, 2025

Chittenden County prepares to begin construction In Chittenden County, Vermont, the  Chittenden County Communication Union District  (CCCUD) was formed in 2022 as a joint collaboration between Essex, Essex Junction, Jericho, Shelburne, South Burlington, Underhill, Westford and Williston. Last year, CCCUD was awarded a $2.1

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 21, 2025

The case will likely shape the future of the Universal Service Fund , which spends billions annually supporting construction and maintenance of rural broadband networks and offering internet discounts for low-income households, schools and libraries, and healthcare centers.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

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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Total Telecom

AUGUST 9, 2024

As part of the railway deployment plan for HS2, mobile and broadband providers would be offered access to spare capacity in the 2,000km of fibre cabling and 80 telecoms masts being constructed alongside the railway, which will connect London and Birmingham.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Asia-Pacific region is embracing F5.5G, bringing new growth opportunities for operators and promoting the construction of all-optical smart homes and premium networks. Huawei advocates that all industry players work together to construct F5.5G He stressed that NBTC plans to increase broadband penetration to 80% by 2025.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Turkcell, the leading comprehensive telecom carrier in the world, provides high-quality fixed and mobile communication services for more than 43 million subscribers in Türkiye. Therefore, the construction of fiber infrastructures and evolution of innovative technology must make strides to cope with the challenges of digital floods.

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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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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Contributed Article by Rajiv Datta, CEO of nexfibre In today’s digital age, full-fibre broadband is much more than a faster way to browse the internet; it is the backbone of our modern lives and a critical driver for economic growth. Connectivity has become an essential that touches nearly every aspect of our daily routines.

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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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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Erie County, New York’s  ErieNet  broadband initiative is poised to begin construction in Buffalo, NY, after the Buffalo Common Council recently passed a resolution approving the Telecommunications License Agreement with ErieNet LDC. “This includes telecom carriers, broadband providers, and Internet providers.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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Mark Goldberg

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In the olden days – before telecom competition got underway 30 or so years ago – the CRTC administered such a redistribution of wealth that effectively provided subsidies to lower the price of telecom services for certain classes of users. It isn’t just telecom revenues getting taxed to fund special programs.

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