Tag: broadband

October 10, 2022

Verizon has announced an expansion of free broadband connectivity services for low-income households. The company’s new Verizon Forward Program promises home internet service for qualifying households using 5G, LTE or Fios at no cost. Customers enrolled in the program do […]

October 7, 2022

The demand for broadband communication services has soared, with an increased focus on fiber internet connectivity. Major countries around the globe are aiming to deliver full-fiber broadband to millions of premises in the next 5-10 years. Also, the global pandemic […]

October 7, 2022

Tiger Infrastructure Partners (“Tiger Infrastructure”) announced today a control investment of £75 million in Rural Broadband Solutions Holdings Limited (“RBBS”), a fast-growing provider of broadband services to residential and business customers in rural areas of the UK. RBBS initially provided […]

September 9, 2022

Keysight Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with IBM focused on supporting Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) deployments in Europe. IBM plans to use Keysight’s tools for Open RAN testing and emulation at its Open RAN center of […]

August 24, 2022

A new report on the status of U.S. broadband looks at how fiber deployments are correlated with several aspects of quality of life, and concludes that access to high-speed broadband is becoming increasingly influential in how people decide where to […]

August 23, 2022

TiVo contacted me to speak at their upcoming Pay TV Executive Summit. They wanted me to discuss the reemergence of Video over Broadband, and if done well, how it would help operators grow their business. While this is important, it […]

May 23, 2022

May greetings from five states. Lots of miles in the last month traveling through amazing parts of the Midwest and South. The opening picture is of the Apple Man at the Fontanelle Orchard in Nebraska. Celebrating their 16th year, they […]

March 3, 2022

U.K. telecoms tech developer Stratospheric Platforms announced this week a successful demonstration of 5G broadband connectivity using an airborne antenna. The company said it maintained a 5G signal for five hours from a “stratospheric 5G mast” operating at 45,000 feet […]

December 28, 2021

C Spire today announced completion of its acquisition of Troy Cablevision, Inc., including Union Springs Telephone Company, Inc. Finalizing the agreement and receiving the necessary regulatory approvals allows C Spire to meet the growing need for broadband access and other […]

November 17, 2021

Investment firm Apollo Global Management unveiled a plan to deploy fiber to 3 million locations across the 20-state ILEC footprint it acquired from Lumen Technologies earlier this year and installed a team of former Verizon executives to oversee the rollout. […]

October 21, 2021

AT&T executives hailed continued momentum in its fiber broadband business in Q3 as the operator added 289,000 fiber customers in Q3, but CEO John Stankey acknowledged deployments continue to be plagued by smattering of supply chain issues. “Are we seeing […]

June 23, 2021

As many telco carriers are decommissioning their copper cable infrastructure, end users are forced to seek alternative solutions for these services. Network managers who have a solid transition plan can find services to fit their business needs. For a bit of […]

June 3, 2021

Articles on the relatively low rank (between 15th and 24th depending on the report) for the percentage of U.S. homes served with broadband aren’t surprising given the free-market approach. It’s not an indictment of capitalism – just an explanation. Traditional […]

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 […]

March 9, 2021

Armed with new CEO Nick Jeffrey and incoming Executive Chairman John Stratton, Frontier Communications executives say the company is ready to complete its transformation into a data-focused provider of telecom services. During an update with investors, Frontier executives said that […]

January 25, 2021

Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic ramped up early last year, service providers and vendors have been fine-tuning their product and service offerings for small businesses. With shelter-in-place and quarantine policies, small businesses bore the brunt of Covid-19 as many of […]

January 11, 2021

Dielectric’s global business continues to expand through key customer wins, with the CALA region representing an especially strong region of activity for FM radio business. Educational Media Foundation (EMF) has added to Dielectric’s CALA business momentum with the installation of […]

December 8, 2020

Whether it’s fixed, wireless or fiber-based, AT&T CEO John Stankey said his management team is squarely focused on broadband as one of its three core areas. Speaking at the UBS Global TMT Conference Tuesday morning, Stankey said the other two […]

December 4, 2020

Globally, the average broadband speed requirement continues to rise and fiber access remains the first choice for high bandwidth performance, low latency, low maintenance and durability. However, unique times demand unique solutions, and where fiber is not available, Fixed Wireless […]

November 19, 2020

Nokia has laid claim to being the first vendor in the world to launch a commercial end-to-end 25 Gbps symmetrical PON broadband solution. The 25G solution works on Nokia’s existing next-generation PON hardware, including line cards and access nodes. Nokia […]