Light Reading

AUGUST 20, 2024

Several small and midsized broadband and cable operators are exploring a possible move into the mobile arena, but other priorities, including network buildouts, are keeping some on the sidelines.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Telecom Argentina has said that it will continue to develop the country’s digital infrastructure and increase fixed and mobile broadband coverage, and accelerate the deployment of fibre optics and 5G. Keep up to date with the latest international telecoms news direct to your inbox with our newsletter!

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 7, 2025

reported a loss of 4,500 broadband subscribers in the first quarter of 2025, for a total of 465,900. The cable operator passes nearly 2 million homes in total. The company has a mobile product, but hasn’t been leaning into it as heavily as its cable operator peers. Last May, WOW!

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

News The funding cut could see thousands of rural communities miss out on connectivity coverage upgrades The UK government is set to significantly cut funding to the Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, a scheme designed to improve mobile coverage in remote areas of the country, according to a report from The Telegraph. Get tickets here!

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Light Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Cable One is piloting a new prepaid option for Internet customers that starts at $35 for 30 days of access. The operator continues to study whether to add mobile to the broadband bundle.

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Telecom Talk

JUNE 7, 2025

High spectrum costs are placing a growing burden on telecom operators and could hinder network investments, particularly in underserved regions, warned the GSMA, the global mobile industry association. He stressed the importance of early planning, global spectrum harmonisation, and inclusive innovation.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 9, 2025

News The deal is the latest in a string of deals for Starlink Telstra has announced a new partnership with SpaceXs Starlink to introduce Satellite-to-Mobile text messaging in Australia. Telstras mobile network already covers 99.7% That collaboration focused on providing faster broadband and home phone services for customers.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 7, 2025

April 7, 2025 – Charter Communications has officially acquired Bardstown Connect, the city-owned broadband and cable utility, for $49.5 Bardstown Connect had roughly 9,500 broadband and 5,000 cable TV customers at the time. million, ending nearly four decades of municipal ownership.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

These pilots, for instance, will help shape the next generation of connectivity, using a combination of satellite technology and mobile networks to test innovative new services that could be a real game-changer for remote and rural communities,” he added. Join us at next year’s Connected North, 23-24 April in Manchester.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 24, 2025

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2025 – Comcast reported 199,000 lost broadband subscribers in the first quarter of 2025, worse than the 150,000 analysts had been expecting. The new plan offers a five-year price lock, after which a customer’s monthly bill would increase by $28, plus a free mobile line for the first year.

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Total Telecom

MAY 1, 2025

The findings of the comprehensive survey reinforce the importance of accelerating the rollout of full fibre internet in rural areas through government initiatives like Project Gigabit, which is delivering fast, reliable broadband to mostly rural communities which would otherwise be left behind with slow speeds.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 24, 2024

24, 2024 – T-Mobile's growing fixed wireless access business is coming primarily at the expense of one competitor: cable broadband Internet Service Providers.   The company added 415,000 fixed wireless broadband subscribers in the third quarter, up from 406,000 in the second.  WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Light Reading

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Verizon says Frontier's lack of a mobile option puts Frontier at a 'competitive disadvantage' against cable. However, Frontier has historically placed a low priority on the need to add mobile to the broadband bundle.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 9, 2024

– Mobile Private Network The Startup of the Year Award The winner of this Award will be decided by a panel of judges live at Connected Britain Join us at Connected Britain 2024, the UK’s largest digital economy event.

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Blandin on Broadband

MAY 13, 2025

Globe News Wire reports … Mediacom Communications today announced the company has launched multi-gig and symmetrical speed broadband services to just over 1,000 households located in the rural Minnesota community of Arlington.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Back in April, a consortium led by telecoms mogul Xavier Niel’s NJJ Holding announced plans to purchase both Ukrainian TV and fixed broadband provider Datagroup-Volia and mobile operator Lifecell, with the intention of merging the two operators.

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 28, 2025

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Mark Goldberg

MAY 7, 2025

What is the future of fixed wireless broadband? In RCR Wireless News , we read that wireless providers are dominating broadband in the US. This is not so new, as Leichtman Research has reported that fixed wireless comprised 104% of broadband net adds in 2023, up from 90% in 2022, as seen in this March 2024 Light Reading report.

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 15, 2025

The cable operator spent more than $460 million on priority licenses in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band in 2020. He said that involved radios, chips, and mobile phone hardware and software that could take advantage of the airwaves. The company has said it offloads more than 90 percent of its mobile traffic via Wi-Fi.

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Rural Broadband Association

MAY 22, 2025

I marvel at how well and how often community-based broadband providers work together to address challenges, seize opportunities and improve the services they provide to their communities. Last year, we collaborated on a special mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) solution exclusively for NTCA members.

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VoIP Review

MAY 19, 2025

This merger will create the largest cable and broadband provider in the United States, surpassing Comcast in subscriber numbers. This acquisition occurs amid intensifying competition as streaming platforms and mobile carriers leverage fiber and 5G technologies to claim broadband market share. Cox will receive $11.9

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rosenworcel noted in a wide-ranging interview with the San Francisco Examiner that the emergence of fixed-wireless broadband is providing significant competitive pressure on incumbent broadband providers. "(.) At the end of the second quarter, T-Mobile had 5.5 “ A lot of households are signing up ,” she said.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 6, 2025

Basic mobile voice and text are expected to remain intact. Josh Edge , a spokesperson for GCI, told Broadband Breakfast in an email that the company’s technical team detected what looked like damage to a strip of undersea cable. Sitka (pop. 9,000) sees about 600,000 cruise ship tourists a year.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 16, 2024 – T-Mobile’s purchase of the nation’s fourth largest wireless carrier won’t hurt consumers, the company told federal regulators Friday. billion deal would see T-Mobile acquire all 4 million of UScellular’s customers and about a third of the company's spectrum.

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 15, 2025

As with most other essential services, there are many places in the United States where no purely private business case will support investment in broadband networks. The value of mobile phone service has changed market dynamics and today more than 99.1% There also are more mobile devices in the U.S. in 1960, to 90.5%

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 16, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 16, 2024 – In the second quarter, the pattern looked familiar among publicly traded broadband Internet Service Providers: The wireline variety as a group lost subscribers, while fixed wireless access providers posted solid gains. Cable One saw a decline of 3,700 subscribers, while Breezeline lost 7,897 and WOW!

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 17, 2025

reported a loss of 10,200 broadband customers in the fourth quarter of 2024, the company announced Friday, for a total of 470,400. received an unsolicited buyout offer from investment firms DigitalBridge and Crestview – the latter being the cable company’s largest shareholder with a 38 percent stake.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

GHz CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) band is experiencing a renewed wave of enthusiasm. The rest of the market comprises fixed wireless broadband networks built using non-3GPP equipment supplied by the likes of Cambium Networks and Tarana Wireless. Billion by the end of 2027.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 5, 2025

the Understanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act, would direct NTIA to assess cybersecurity vulnerabilities in mobile networks. “Understanding the risks to our mobile infrastructure will allow us to stay ahead of emerging threats. Kat Cammack , R-Fla., Another key infrastructure measure, H.R.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Podcasts Ben Elkins, the CEO of AireBeam and Utah Broadband, joined the Beyond the Cable podcast to discuss strategy and AireBeams explosive growth in Arizona By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Since taking the helm as the CEO of an Arizona City-based AireBeam, Ben Elkins has overseen a 375 percent growth in fiber subscribers for the ISP.

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Light Reading

AUGUST 14, 2024

At next week's The Independent Show, NCTC will shed more light on 'Broadband TV,' an entertainment-focused streaming TV package of 30-plus channels, and discuss how it's easing cable's path into the mobile business.

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Total Telecom

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Previously, landlords in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) could bundle cable TV services into tenants rent, meaning steady revenue for providers like Vodafone. Vodafones broadband business in Germany has also struggled, with a reduced customer base and pricing pressures causing a 10.7% Competition in the mobile market has also intensified.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

4, 2024 – Altice USA reported net broadband subscriber losses of 50,000 in the third quarter on Monday, with 10,000 of those coming from the shuttered Affordable Connectivity Program. million total broadband subscribers. On the mobile side, Altice added 36,000 new customers in the quarter for a total of 420,000.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

23, 2024 – FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel wants to unlock mobile phones within 60 days of activation. But a major cable broadband association says that her plan does not provide mobile carriers sufficient time to cope with bad actors. million mobile customers and Charter with 8.8 WASHINGTON, Sept.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 30, 2025

30, 2025 – Comcast lost even more broadband subscribers than expected in the fourth quarter of 2024. Comcast reported a loss of 139,000 broadband subscribers, worse than the already unexpectedly high December forecast of 100,000 that sent its stock tumbling. It only needs to stabilize.”

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

1, 2024 – Charter would have returned to net broadband subscriber growth in the third quarter if not for the shut down of the Affordable Connectivity Program, executives said Friday. Like other cable companies, Charter had been losing broadband customers this year. WASHINGTON, Nov. billion this year.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 31, 2025

31, 2025 – Charter Communications lost 177,000 broadband subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2024, worse than Wall Street had expected but closer to expectations than the results reported by fellow cable Internet access giant Comcast on Thursday. Charter is the second-largest broadband ISP in the country with about 30.1

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