VoIP Review

MARCH 12, 2025

NTT Communications, a leading Japanese ICT provider and subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), has confirmed a significant data breach affecting 17,891 corporate clients. On February 5, suspicious network activity was identified, prompting an immediate disconnection of the compromised servers.

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Blandin on Broadband

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

The map provides a multi-layered look into the near future of community broadband networks. It not only shows where existing community-owned fiber networks are located but also highlights how those networks will expand in the coming years based on formally announced plans and secured funding to complete network builds.

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Ooma

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The Public Switched Telephone Network, or PSTN, has been the heart of global telecommunications since its humble beginnings in the late 19th century. Read about how it has evolved from copper wires and analog signals into a complex network, supporting not only voice but a variety of modern data services.

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Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 11, 2025

Jeannette and her husband Mike purchased Albion Telephone Company (now ATC Communications; Albion, Idaho) in 1929. Jumping forward a few years, we have Mildred Foster , the matriarch of Twin Valley Telephone (Miltonvale, Kan.). De Lamb and her husband Bill purchased Dubois Telephone Exchange in 1958, when it only had 140 subscribers.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 21, 2024

“And, importantly, that these agreements with multiple mobile network operators ensure that this spectrum will be put to work for consumers throughout the country. ” The sale has already been approved by UScellular’s majority shareholder, Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), which owns 82% of the company.

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Institute for Local Self Reliance has released their new version of our Community Network Map , showing where municipal networks operate across the United States and how they are acting to bring new service, competition, and more affordable connectivity to places around the country. I found 38 communities searching for Minnesota.

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TELCO

APRIL 23, 2024

MANSFIELD, MA April 5, 2024– Mountain Telephone, a leading telecommunications provider serving communities in Kentucky for nearly 75 years, announces the deployment of Telco Systems’ multi-100G solution to upgrade its network infrastructure.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 16, 2024 - Federal regulators have approved the sale of two TDS Telecom networks to RiverStreet Management Services. entered into a stock purchase agreement to transfer ownership of Amelia Telephone Corp. and New Castle Telephone Co., and New Castle Telephone Co., TDS, based in Madison, Wis.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 16, 2024

News The agreement will see BSNL take over the management of MTNL, with the former joining the latter as a management agency For many years now, India’s state-owned telecoms firms Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) have been haemorrhaging subscribers, struggling to compete effectively against the country’s two (..)

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Mark Goldberg

MARCH 5, 2025

At the time, I described an interesting CRTC proceeding underway to examine the future of voice telephone service to a total of 110 households and 5 businesses located in 8 communities served by 3 telephone exchanges located off the beaten track in British Columbia.

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Telecoms Infrastructure Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Backed by the UK’s fastest mobile network, EE claims to deliver superfast connections in more locations than any other mobile network operator in the country. Working in partnership with Nokia, EE uses advanced network analytics to identify areas where small cells will deliver a boost to network performance.

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Telefrieden

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Rarely does a week go by without a news report of a wireless network outage. Ironically, the vulnerability of wireless networks exceeds that of the electric power grid, even as most wireless subscribers appear surprised and angry that their handsets do not work. See, e.g, [link].

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TechAdvance

MARCH 10, 2025

By January 2027, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) will be completely switched off. While many businesses assume this wont impact them, the reality is that a wide range of essential services still rely on these ageing networks services that may not have been considered.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Daviess-Martin Rural Telephone Corp. "Unforeseen circumstances beyond RTC's control have made it unfeasible to deploy broadband to certain CBG locations much further away from the companies existing network," the company said in an Aug. Daviess-Martin Rural Telephone Corp. WASHINGTON, Sept.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 10, 2025

These grant funds will be made available to eligible applicants to construct broadband networks that provide service on a community-oriented connectivity basis in rural areas. Based on FY 2024 appropriated funding, the Agency estimates that approximately $26 million will be available, for FY 2025.

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Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Institute of Local Self Reliance (ILSR) has been tracking Indigenous Broadband Networks in the US. The Blandin Foundation has supported Native networks in Minnesota.) The partnership calls for CTC Communications to manage the operations of the network for a period of time before handing off management to the Tribe.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 14, 2025

We look forward to engaging with Chairman  [Carr] on this effort to lift burdens on small, rural providers and give them long-term certainty to invest in their networks.” ACA Connects CEO Grant Spellmeyer also endorsed the initiative, posting on X : “ACAConnects has a list for the FCC!

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 12, 2024

OzarksGo, a telecommunications subsidiary of Ozarks Electric Cooperative, said it services include high-speed internet and premium television and telephone services to northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma using an all-fiber-optic network.

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EldoTelecom

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Emphasis added) [link] There is a logical flaw in this reasoning that suggests modernizing the legacy copper voice telephone lines to fiber to the premises (FTTP) has and is occurring because customers demand it. Hence, the logic goes, there is no need to keep the copper landlines. The issue isn't customer demand but rather FTTP availability.

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Once the network is operational this winter, those who have signed up will be contacted to schedule services to be installed. The cooperative will return to bring the network up to locations with no construction fee when feasible.

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VoIP Review

JANUARY 27, 2025

BT is spearheading a push for the rapid phasing out of the outdated copper landline network in response to increasing faults. Recently, BT has called on the UKs critical national infrastructure providers to hasten their transition from the ageing Public Switched Telephone Network ( PSTN ).

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Critics also argue that fiber networks are too expensive and unnecessary, promoting wireless, and satellite  alternatives instead. Initial costs are high but Open Access community networks recoup investments by avoiding  profit-driven ISPs (quarterly Wall Street expectations) to offer affordable pricing.

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Anyone in these expansion areas interested in getting connected to the all-fiber optic broadband network should sign up for service now before construction is done. The fiber splicing phase will follow that in November and service installations are expected to start over the winter.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

11, 2024 – The Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge are supporting EchoStar’s extended deadline for rolling out a new 5G wireless network. and serves more than 978,000 subscribers with internet access through Hughes Network Systems, a satellite operator subsidiary. WASHINGTON, Nov.

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Sangoma

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A portion of the telephone network that dates back several decades is often called Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS for short. In recent years, Telecommunications Service Providers have been retiring these older POTS lines, which use analog technology, but a portion of the POTS network is still in use.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 5, 2024

Panelists Chris Bailey , Director of Sales, Wesco Allen Meyer , VP of Strategy, Corridor Network Construction Inc. Chris has been involved in numerous deployments with telephone companies, cooperatives, municipalities, and other entities, launching fiber broadband networks.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

million and will see Wessex Internet expanding its existing network in the Wylye Valley, going across the Salisbury Plain, connecting villages surrounding Amesbury, and going as far north as Chisbury and Little Bedwyn. The contract is worth £18.8

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VoIP Review

MARCH 4, 2025

UK telecommunications giant BT is calling on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the nation to transition from analogue to digital networks by the end of 2025. The countdown is due to the impending retirement of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), which has been key but is now outdated technology.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 16, 2025

Conexon Connect  has completed its first fiber to the home project in Florida, a 2,000-mile network launched in partnership with  Escambia River Electric Cooperative. The company wouldn't provide information on whether Conexon or EREC would own the finished fiber network, calling the information “proprietary.”

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Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 3, 2024

They also look specifically at Bemidji , broadband and the impact of cooperatives, Paul Bunyan Communications and Beltrami Electric Cooperative… Paul Bunyan Communications’ growth from a local telephone cooperative to a leading broadband provider reflects a broader trend of community-driven infrastructure development.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Land-based examples of infrastructure damage include trenchers and tractors that inadvertently slice through underground wiring, or Acts of God such as hurricanes and tornadoes that tear apart wireline telephone poles or telecom towers everywhere.  Ubiquitous software and hardware malfunctions are another challenge.

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Sangoma

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A portion of the telephone network that dates back several decades is often called Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS for short. The post How to Successfully Migrate from Traditional Telecom to Modern Packet-Based Phone Networks appeared first on Sangoma Technologies. In recent years.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Right now, the exemption relies on how people are using the network. If its TV or telephone, they provider are exemption for taxes (for some equipment). If you take out the work primarily, it would only cover telephone or television based services. (To If its something else, they are not. click to view video S.F.

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EldoTelecom

JUNE 27, 2024

Anybody not involved in the telephone business will probably be surprised to find that the old TDM telephone networks are still very much alive and in place. The old technologies were supposed to be phased out and replaced by digital technologies. The FCC started talking about this before 2010.

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VoIP Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This show will gather over 1,200 industry professionals from across the Asia-Pacific region, providing a unique opportunity for networking and collaboration. The ITW Asia 2024 expo is scheduled for the 4-5 December and will take place at the Shangri-La Singapore Hotel, Singapore.

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Blandin on Broadband

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Now the cooperative broadband installation supervisor is coming full circle, helping build a fiber-optic network for the popular retreat with donations and volunteers. NRECA reports… Lake Beauty Bible Camp in central Minnesota is where Josh Carlson learned the value of giving back.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

The 2024 awards exemplify the program’s commitment to partnering with a diverse range of local organizations, including rural telephone cooperatives, public utilities, municipal broadband providers, and private companies. million to expand fiber broadband to Groton and parts of South Ryegate.

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