Broadband Breakfast

MAY 8, 2025

WASHINGTON, May 8, 2025 – Altice USA reported a net loss of 37,000 broadband subscribers in the first quarter of 2025, worse than analysts had been expecting. The cable operator gained 68,700 fiber subscribers for its best quarter yet on that front. million-location footprint. The company said more than 6 percent of its 4.3

Broadband

Dell'oro

JULY 11, 2025

Cable broadband is under pressure. But mobile subscriber growth offers a lifeline. cable operators are adapting to fierce competition from FWA and FTTH with mobile bundling, aggressive promotions, and smarter network strategies. Analyst Jeff Heynen breaks down how U.S.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 14, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2025 –  A cable industry trade association wants cable operators to be able to contact subscribers using text messages and mobile apps in addition to email. In a filing Wednesday , NCTA said cable operators wanted to contact subscribers with a range of modern communications tools, not just email.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 16, 2025

billion acquisition of Cox Communications would allow the combined company to better compete for fixed and mobile broadband subscribers, the companies told federal regulators Tuesday. “Overlaps between Charter’s and Cox’s mass-market broadband footprints are extremely limited, covering well below 0.1

Cable

Telecom Talk

JUNE 10, 2025

Also Read: TRAI Backs Proposal to Merge DoT, I&B, and IT Ministries AirFiber Services of Airtel and Jio TRAI has raised questions about whether 5G FWA services—marketed under names like Jio AirFiber and Airtel AirFiber and designed for fixed-in-location usage—should be classified as mobile broadband.

Broadband

VoIP Review

JULY 9, 2025

US cable company Comcast has reported a significant 76% increase in its network traffic from 2019 to 2024. Comcast has introduced virtualized, cloud-based technologies enabling faster broadband while minimizing equipment usage and conserving energy. Remarkably, electricity consumption per byte went from 18.4 kWh/TB in 2019 to 9.3

Video conferencing

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 23, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2025 – Comcast and Charter have reached a deal with T-Mobile to offer wireless services to businesses on the mobile carrier’s network. The annual cash from cable’s existing MVNO deal is essential for Verizon, analysts say, making up billions in free cash flow. on Wednesday.

Mobile

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.

Mobile

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2025 – The Federal Communications Commission approved two major deals Friday: T-Mobile’s $4.3 The T-Mobile deal will see the carrier take on UScellular’s 4.4 The agency also approved this week T-Mobile’s purchase of fiber provider Metronet via a joint venture with investment firm KKR.

Mobile

VoIP Review

JULY 16, 2025

Additionally, the enhanced Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) offers high-speed internet options in areas currently without fiber or cable connections. The vendor highlighted that the 5G SA network is engineered to handle the surge in IoT devices’ demand while enhancing critical service areas like mobile broadband.

Network

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 31, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2025 – Comcast reported 226,000 lost broadband subscribers in the second quarter of 2025, the most the company has seen since subscriber growth turned negative in 2022, but fewer than Wall Street had expected. “The reversion of mobile-only to pre-pandemic levels is weighing on broadband market growth.

Broadband

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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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.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 4, 2025

WASHINGTON, August 4, 2025 – T-Mobile’s purchase of UScellular’s wireless operations closed on Friday, two days after rural carriers and consumer groups asked federal regulators to rescind their approval. T-Mobile purchased UScellular licenses in the 2.5 billion deal.

Mobile

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2025 – The Rural Wireless Association pushed back Thursday against Verizon’s efforts to deny it access to its mobile service agreement with Mediacom. The spat between Verizon and RWA comes in the midst of an ongoing FCC review of the merger between T-Mobile and UScellular.

Mobile

Total Telecom

APRIL 22, 2025

Take our broadband network. This investment means that nearly ten million homes in the North can access our gigabit broadband, offering services 16 times faster than the national average. Our mobile network is also growing and improving rapidly. We have invested more than 1 billion to connect over 3.4

Media

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.

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 26, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 26, 2025 – T-Mobile’s satellite service with Starlink is officially launching July 23, the company said at a livestreamed event Monday. It will include messaging at launch and a broadband data-based service starting in October. T-mobile painted the beta as a success, saying nearly 1.8

Mobile

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%

Telephone

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.

Telecoms

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.

Bandwidth

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.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 20, 2025

The United States faces a persistent challenge: nearly 24 million Americans, particularly in rural and underserved areas, lack access to high-speed broadband. My work in the United States focuses on creating next-generation telecommunications hardware to strengthen broadband infrastructure. The economic ripple effects are profound.

Hardware

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 21, 2025

“The weaker broadband trends, and particularly the weaker FWA trends, will be encouraging for cable,” New Street Research analyst Jonathan Chaplin said in a Monday investor note. “However, this also suggests slower market growth, which isn’t great for cable.” Vestberg was still positive.

Cable

Total Telecom

JULY 28, 2025

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Connectivity

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!

Telecoms

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 22, 2025

WASHINGTON, April 22, 2025 – The Federal Communications Commission is requesting additional information from major and competitive mobile carriers as part of its evaluation of T-Mobile’s purchase of UScellular. The agency wrote that it would “appreciate” responses to both sets of inquiries before May 13.

Mobile

IEEE ComSoc

JUNE 26, 2025

are being driven down by fierce competition between mobile carriers offering Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and cable internet companies offering legacy Hybrid Fiber Coax connections. They’re seeing churn rise in their broadband subscriber base. Fixed wireless can sometimes cost half as much as a cable-provided internet plan.

Internet

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.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 30, 2025

   However, the new law does not offer similar specific protections for two other bands desired by the cellular carriers: the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band between 3.55-3.7 Furthermore, most leading home broadband providers now sell routers using 6 GHz in conjunction with gigabit-grade broadband.

Router

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 4, 2025

  Charter CEO Chris Winfrey purchased $1 million of the cable operator’s stock on Thursday. Much of the drop came after the company reported 117,000 lost broadband subscribers in the second quarter, worse than the 74,000 Wall Street analysts had estimated.   Cox offers a mobile service, but it has very few subscribers.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 18, 2025

The August FCC meeting will also include undersea cables, Carr said.   Carr commented on how foreign adversaries, like China, “pose greater threats to submarine cable infrastructure than ever.” He said he wants to make for a cleaner and quicker approval process to motivate investors and innovation. 

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 25, 2025

The service provides 2 Gbps download / 1 Gbps upload internet speeds – delivered over cable coaxial lines upgraded with DOCSIS 4.0 Charter also added 89,000 subsidized rural broadband passings in Q1, bringing on 39,000 new rural customers and setting the stage for what the company called its largest rural construction year yet.

Internet

Total Telecom

JUNE 19, 2025

He has also held leadership positions at iD Mobile, Dixons Carphone and Cable & Wireless. The changes follow APFN’s successful launch of aquila, a transformative new wholesale fibre platform designed to give Communication Service Providers (CSPs) seamless, scalable access to full-fibre broadband across the UK, last month.

Retail

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.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 10, 2025

The combined cable operator, which will also be called Cox Communications, would be the largest ISP in the country, with 35.9 That owes in large part to Charter’s mobile service , which Moffett called “overwhelmingly Charter’s most important growth engine.” billion acquisition of Cox Communications.

Cable

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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