Tag: rural broadband investments

January 25, 2021

France’s Orange is splitting out and selling half of its interest in a new fiber-optics venture valued at $3.3 billion to goose the rollout of faster speeds across rural areas. Following a competitive process, Orange said Caisse des Dépôts, CNP […]

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 […]

January 19, 2018

CenturyLink has inched closer to meeting its FCC CAF-II program commitments, reaching over 600,000 rural homes and businesses with broadband over the past two years. In August 2015, CenturyLink accepted $500 million in CAF-II funding. This money, combined with its […]

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 12, 2017

TDS Telecom is a fan of deploying FTTH in the last mile, but as a telco that serves rural areas with copper facilities the service provider targets deployments in areas where it can make a business case work. As of […]

August 28, 2017

Frontier is facing accusations that the telco overcharged West Virginia $4.7 million in federal grant funds for a $126 million rural broadband expansion project via the FCC’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). According to the Office of Inspector General, AP […]