Tag: broadband access

November 23, 2021

What can you buy for $65 billion? That kind of money could purchase one Big Mac for every citizen of the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia combined — or build and upgrade the United States’ high-speed Internet infrastructure. According to […]

August 17, 2021

Focusing on enterprise communications, I don’t usually address topics involving the regulatory aspects of our business. Further, it has been my experience that IT pros are generally wary of communications services providers, looking at them more in terms of a […]

May 14, 2021

Republicans and Democrats in Washington are at each other’s throats, and that situation is replicated in many statehouses over many issues these days. But there’s at least one exception: broadband. The national debate on how to expand and speed up […]

January 22, 2021

The digital divide in the U.S. closed a bit more last year, but there’s still plenty of work to do, according to a quarterly report by BroadbandNow. For the fourth quarter of last year, BroadbandNow reported that 70% of U.S. […]

October 15, 2020

On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced its list of 386 companies that have qualified to bid in the first auction for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). Beginning Oct. 29, the qualified vendors will compete against each other in […]

June 29, 2020

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said he has asked Congress to increase funding for broadband in support of education, claiming that the agency has seen success with its Covid-19 Telehealth Program and could do the same with a program for remote […]

April 13, 2020

While AT&T’s core network traffic is still above its baseline levels, the increases actually dropped a bit last week. AT&T’s core network traffic, which includes business, home broadband and wireless usage, went from a 26% increase—compared to a similar day […]

January 11, 2018

As CenturyLink advances higher speed broadband into more areas via copper and FTTH, the service provider will focus on a multiuse deployment mentality where it will leverage assets that can serve not only consumers, but also wholesale and business customers. […]

December 8, 2017

Verizon says that the FCC should not force wireline broadband operators to develop reports of availability under the census-block level because such requirements would be challenging to support. At issue is the FCC’s Form 477 data collection program. This program requires broadband […]

May 26, 2017

Frontier has begun its G.fast journey in Connecticut, aiming the technology to increase in-building broadband speeds for customers that live in apartments and multidwelling units (MDUs) throughout the state. By using Nokia’s G.fast technology, Frontier can immediately satisfy its customers’ […]

April 25, 2017

Verizon has joined the ranks of AT&T and Google Fiber with its own low-priced Gbps Fios offering called Fios Gigabit Connection. However, it’s not quite a 1 Gbps service. Fios Gigabit Connection provides 940/880 Mbps speeds. After launching its Fios […]

April 12, 2017

AT&T is looking to provide its copper VDSL2 and fiber broadband customers an easier-to-understand view of their plans by whittling down its offers. Under the new structure, AT&T is now offering three main broadband speed plans: Internet 50: Customers can […]

November 22, 2016

The Federal Communications Commission has committed to improving broadband access, both wireline and wireless, to at least 245,000 Alaska residents over the next 10 years. But in a rare move, two FCC commissioners who often face off on opposite sides […]