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Tim Stelzig: Explaining BEAD, Trying to Bridge the Digital Divide

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 FCC’s USF Fund was initially designed as a ratepayer cross-subsidy program to ensure all Americans had access to telephone service. in 1960, to 90.5%

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Industry Backs FCC’s Push to Eliminate ‘Outdated’ Regulations

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 14, 2025

Those “must be reformed as soon as possible,” NAB spokesman Alex Siciliano told Broadband Breakfast. While supportive of reducing regulatory burdens, NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association CEO Shirley Bloomfield emphasized the need for a thoughtful approach in a release.

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Dean Bubley: After Budget Bill, Do No Harm to CBRS and 6 GHz

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.

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Vermont’s Otter Creek CUD Finishes Fiber Expansion, Focuses On Customer Service

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 4, 2025

million grant by the Vermont Community Broadband Board. Otter Creek CUD Chair Laura Black tells the Institute for Local Self Reliance's Community Broadband Networks Initiative that the partnership involved 335 miles of new fiber passing 6,000 locations.

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Playing the long game in the fiber gold rush: Large investor owned provider overbuilding publicly owned network in small town that didn't initially pencil for private investment.

EldoTelecom

JULY 25, 2025

Fidium’s arrival has flummoxed local officials, partly because its parent company, Consolidated Communications, declined to build broadband infrastructure in Arrowsic years earlier, said Don Hudson, another commissioner. “It Consolidated Communications, Fidium’s parent, owns many of the telephone poles in town.

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Hurricane Season Resiliency Coordination – and Why it Matters

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 8, 2025

Alongside me were folks from Verizon, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, the head of 911 for the Louisiana Sheriff’s office in the Livingston Parish, Duke Energy, the cable industry and iHeartMedia. With Planters Telephone (Newington, Ga.)  With Washington, D.C.,

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Mobile Bundling Built For Rural Providers

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. With more cable companies and other broadband providers adding/bundling mobile, it is becoming an imperative offering to stay relevant in the marketplace.

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Charter Buying Cox for $34.5 Billion

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 16, 2025

Merger: Charter Communications under CEO Christopher Winfrey is buying cable broadband ISP Cox Communications , a privately held subsidiary of Cox Enterprises that serves more than 7 million homes and businesses across 18 U.S. states , Charter announced Friday. If not, Upgrade!

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Biden-Funded Maine Muni ISP Runs into a Problem – Competition

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 25, 2025

The results highlighted Charter's ongoing shift toward expanding its mobile service offering, despite a decline in its broadband customer growth. Policyband Unlimited Access to Broadband Breakfast and Policyband Broadband Breakfast Broadband Breakfast Maine : A Biden-funded broadband project is on the ropes.

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Small Texas City Losing Cable TV, Keeping Internet after Network Sale

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 3, 2024 – A small Texas city is finding out what it's like when the cable TV company cuts the cord. 6,000) will soon experience a shift in its media landscape as TDS Telecom plans to discontinue its cable TV service there by Sept. the parent company of Big Bend Telephone Co., Alpine, Texas (pop.

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First cables laid to bring fast, reliable broadband to South Wiltshire under government’s Project Gigabit

Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This work is part of Project Gigabit, a government-funded programme to enable hard-to-reach communities to get fast, reliable broadband. All the homes and businesses being connected across South Wiltshire and North Dorset will benefit from full fibre broadband, also known as Fibre to the Premises (FTTP). The contract is worth £18.8

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More info on Lismore Telephone Company and Woodstock Communications MN Broadband grant project in Nobles County

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The Globe reports… REGIONAL — The Lismore Telephone Company and Woodstock Communications will expand implementation of broadband fiber optic cables to give communities they serve better Internet access after receiving $209,598 and $2.9 million, respectively. The total project (cost) is $695,328,” Loonan said.

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Consolidated Telephone Company and Meeker Cooperative Light and Power launch MC Fiber

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 19, 2024

West Central Tribune reports … A new utility services company specializing in underground fiber construction, MC Fiber launched in late September, according to a news release from Meeker Cooperative Light and Power and Vibrant Broadband in Litchfield. The cooperative has been serving the area as a co-op for almost 90 years, starting in 1935.

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Kagan: Tarana Wireless helps US Cellular increase FWA capacity

RCR Wireless

AUGUST 26, 2024

FWA 5G wireless broadband may be the next competitive battleground Broadband seems to be gearing up to be the next competitive battleground. Traditionally, Cable TV and telephone companies offer wireline broadband. Suddenly, wireless carriers are starting to use FWA to offer wireless broadband.

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How Reliable is Our Nation's – and the World's – Broadband Infrastructure?

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Were readers of this publication to present at a telecom conference on the topic of broadband reliability, outages might not be top of mind. More pointedly, in today’s technology-centric ecosystems, to not have broadband means the real potential for societal catastrophe.

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An Informed Citizens View of the Current Broadband Fiber Kerfuffle

Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Rural broadband Internet in this country for the most part remains monopolized, overpriced, insufficiently fast, hampering economic growth and resilience, as well as educational and healthcare opportunities. Rural citizens were not relegated to second class citizen status with electricity or telephone networks.

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NCTA Urges Caution in SES, Intelsat Transaction

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 - Cable operators that need satellite services to receive TV programming are concerned about SES's proposed $3.1 Their concerns involve not only video but also broadband. a critical platform that enables 35 million cable customers nationwide to receive TV programming. "As WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Fiber, Fixed Wireless Connections Rose in 2023: FCC Marketplace Report

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 3, 2025

3, 2025 – The Federal Communications Commission found fiber and fixed wireless broadband connections increased in 2023, while DSL fell and cable remained steady. The 314-page document took stock of the fixed, mobile, and satellite broadband markets, plus telephone, video, and radio broadcaster services.

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Senator Bill Weber celebrates MN broadband grant for Bigelow (Nobles County)

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Office of Broadband Development recently announced that a Nobles County broadband infrastructure project in Senate District 21 will receive a $208,598 grant through the Department of Employment and Economic Development’s (DEED) Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program. MN Senate Republican Caucus reports.

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MN Broadband Task Force September 2024 Notes & Video: Consequences and preparing for BEAD

Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The MN Broadband Task Force met Gardonville Cooperative Telephone Association in Brandon MN. Welcome + approval of minutes from August 19th, 2024, Task Force Meeting Teddy Bekele, Chair, Minnesota Governor’s Task Force on Broadband 10:10 a.m. – Challenges: 30 day lead time on payments to cable. 10:00 a.m. –

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Update on bills SF0883 and SF0735: taxation exemption for broadband providers

Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Senate Committee on Taxes heard two bills that talked about tax exemptions for broadband equipment. If its TV or telephone, they provider are exemption for taxes (for some equipment). As of Jan 2025, 395,000 households dont have broadband. Represents a wide range of broadband provides, We are for the bill.

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Understanding The True Meaning Of Broadband Internet

Airtel

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We all are well acquainted with the term broadband. But do you know the actual meaning of broadband? Broadband data transmission is the transmission of high-quality data over a large bandwidth. WiFi, DSL, fibre, and satellite connections are examples of broadband connectivity. Buy Airtel Broadband with exciting benefits!

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Minnesota is home to 7 exciting, planned or prospective Native Nation owned broadband networks

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Institute of Local Self Reliance (ILSR) has been tracking Indigenous Broadband Networks in the US. They provide a great history and analysis of broadband in tribal areas. When completed, the network will pass more than 3500 households and include nearly four hundred miles of fiber optic cable.

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Richard Bennett: The Curious Case of Wi-Fi 7

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

A killer app for 5G is clear: residential broadband over fixed wireless access (FWA) networks. The only parts of the broadband network market that are growing are Fiber to the Home (FTTH) and FWA , and FWA is growing fastest. Legacy networks built on telephone and cable TV wiring are actually shrinking.

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Conexon Connect Completes First Major Florida Fiber Deployment

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 16, 2025

million, two Broadband Opportunity Program grants totaling $5.9 million, and a Broadband Infrastructure Program grant of $9.6 In just eighteen months, we built a fiber broadband network to serve every member of the cooperative, a network that will last for decades to come,” Chambers added.

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Bill introduced in MN House: HF844 getting more data on broadband deployment from providers

Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

844, A bill for an act relating to telecommunications; modifying provisions governing broadband workforce plan data; modifying investigative authority; modifying provisions governing underground telecommunications infrastructure; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 116J.395, From the Minnesota House Schultz and Baker introduced: F.

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Survey: About half of all households passed by fiber in 2024 -- with less than half of those connected.

EldoTelecom

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Internet connectivity is regarded as a utility as was voice telephone service before it where most every address had service. Over the past few years, mobile providers like Verizon and T-Mobile have rolled out fixed wireless technology that some households are using instead of higher priced cable service.

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how broadband speed is measured?

ACT Corp

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In a world where we game with pals, and juggle video calls faster than you can say “buffering,” understanding how broadband speed is measured has never been more crucial. Comprehending broadband speed is the foundation of all online enchantment. What Is Broadband Speed? Now, "What is a good broadband speed Mbps?"

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States must designate providers, service areas under FCC reclassification of Internet delivered services as telecommunications utility.

EldoTelecom

MAY 18, 2024

In the case of an area served by a rural telephone company, “service area” means such company’s “study area” unless and until the Commission and the States, after taking into account recommendations of a Federal-State Joint Board instituted under section 410(c) of this title , establish a different definition of service area for such company.

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Draft BEAD program update would give states more leeway to use LEO, FWA services using unlicensed spectrum when more economical than FTTP.

EldoTelecom

AUGUST 29, 2024

billion in construction subsidies appropriated in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 appears insufficient to bring fiber connections to most every American doorstep as with copper telephone lines in the previous century.

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Former FCC Chair Pai urges states to direct BEAD funds to sparsely populated counties as countywide projects

EldoTelecom

AUGUST 7, 2024

A “project” may constitute a single unserved or underserved broadband-serviceable location, or a grouping of broadband-serviceable locations in which not less than 80 percent of broadband-serviceable locations served by the project are unserved locations or underserved locations.

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Showcasing the Endless Opportunities Through Connectivity

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2024

The event, hosted by six Smart Rural Community SM (SRC) providers and NTCA members from across Missouri, served as a unique opportunity to highlight all things good about fiber broadband and the work of community-based providers in Missouri. Participating Providers Chariton Valley Broadband, LLC (Macon, Mo.)

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What is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) – Definition & Meaning

Airtel

OCTOBER 9, 2024

ISPs can give this access via a variety of methods, such as dial-up, DSL, cable, wireless, and fiber-optic connections. Buy Airtel Broadband with exciting benefits! Definition and Meaning ISPs are provided by a range of firms, including cable providers, mobile carriers, and telephone companies.

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Coon Valley Delivers High Speed Access to Rural Customers

USTELECOM

AUGUST 26, 2024

The story of broadband across the country is told one mile at a time, with hundreds of broadband companies painstakingly building out the capability to connect their customers. That’s exactly what Coon Valley Farmer’s Telephone Co., based in Coon Valley, Wisconsin, has been doing this year – and every year.

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Landline Vs Wireless Landline Connection – Comparison Guide

Airtel

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Buy Airtel Broadband with exciting benefits! The torchbearer of all phone connections, a landline is the oldest form of telephonic connection that allows users to transmit audio from one location to another. The traditional landline requires physical infrastructure including, telephone lines, cables, and switching stations.

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Mobile Bundling Built For Rural Providers

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. With more cable companies and other broadband providers adding/bundling mobile, it is becoming an imperative offering to stay relevant in the marketplace.

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End of ACP illustrates need for omnibus reform

EldoTelecom

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

link] Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Rather than trying to reform legacy subsidy mechanisms created for voice telephone service, wouldn’t public ownership of open access regional fiber to the premises (FTTP) provide a twin win of superior access and affordability? Congress should give the FCC a bright green light to proceed.

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Is it possible to combine and use multiple internet connections?

ACT Corp

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

DSL: Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) uses existing telephone lines to provide internet access. Cable: Cable internet uses coaxial cables to deliver high-speed internet access. Combining a cable connection with another type of connection can help boost your overall speed and bandwidth.

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Guide to Choosing the Right Internet Plan for Gaming

ACT Corp

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

ACT Broadband is one of India's main net carrier companies, and it is regarded for its excessive-velocity fiber net plans. In this guide, we'll explore the stairs to deciding on the pleasant internet plan for gaming and why ACT broadband internet plans are highly advocated. What Internet Plan Options Are Available?

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TDS Targeting 1.8 Million FIber Passings

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

21, 2025 – Telephone and Data Systems reported 13,400 additional fiber customers in the fourth quarter of 2024, for a total of 244,600. TDS lost 13,100 total subscribers from its copper and cable footprints, ending the year with 553,000 wireline residential broadband connections. WASHINGTON, Feb.

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Key opponent of ACP extension claims subsidy will inflate prices

EldoTelecom

MAY 8, 2024

advanced telecommunications policy and its fraught evolution is fostering a commodity market of “broadband” bandwidth. Faster, always on connections like DSL were dubbed “broadband” or “high speed Internet.” A primary failure of U.S. Its roots date back to the early 1990s and sluggish dialup connections over screeching modems.

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No Permission Needed: Unlicensed Spectrum, Wi-Fi, and America’s Competitive Advantage

Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A key part of internet service is Wi-Fi, which provides Americans broadband access in countless locations, including homes, schools, hotels, coffee shops, offices, airports, and airplanes. Cable companies are now important competitors for mobile service and have more than 15 million subscribers. And the highly successful 802.11

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Consortium to bring fiber to every American doorstep

EldoTelecom

APRIL 1, 2024

Cable companies, publicly owned and coop networks and smaller fiber network owner/operators will be offered buy outs of their existing footprints on highly favorable but time limited acquisition terms, according to sources close to the negotiations leading up to the deal. “We

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Bill introduced in MN House: HF974 related to definition of provider and role of franchise and permitting and more

Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

974, A bill for an act relating to broadband; establishing the Equal Access to Broadband Act; modifying provisions governing broadband services and broadband infrastructure; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 116J.39, From the Minnesota House … Freiberg; Lee, F.; Carroll; Koegel and Clardy introduced: H.

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Telecommunication Community Antenna Television Construction Broadband

Tim Stelzig: Explaining BEAD, Trying to Bridge the Digital Divide

Industry Backs FCC’s Push to Eliminate ‘Outdated’ Regulations

Trending Sources

Dean Bubley: After Budget Bill, Do No Harm to CBRS and 6 GHz

Vermont’s Otter Creek CUD Finishes Fiber Expansion, Focuses On Customer Service

Playing the long game in the fiber gold rush: Large investor owned provider overbuilding publicly owned network in small town that didn't initially pencil for private investment.

Hurricane Season Resiliency Coordination – and Why it Matters

Mobile Bundling Built For Rural Providers

Charter Buying Cox for $34.5 Billion

Biden-Funded Maine Muni ISP Runs into a Problem – Competition

Small Texas City Losing Cable TV, Keeping Internet after Network Sale

First cables laid to bring fast, reliable broadband to South Wiltshire under government’s Project Gigabit

More info on Lismore Telephone Company and Woodstock Communications MN Broadband grant project in Nobles County

Consolidated Telephone Company and Meeker Cooperative Light and Power launch MC Fiber

Kagan: Tarana Wireless helps US Cellular increase FWA capacity

How Reliable is Our Nation's – and the World's – Broadband Infrastructure?

An Informed Citizens View of the Current Broadband Fiber Kerfuffle

NCTA Urges Caution in SES, Intelsat Transaction

Fiber, Fixed Wireless Connections Rose in 2023: FCC Marketplace Report

Senator Bill Weber celebrates MN broadband grant for Bigelow (Nobles County)

MN Broadband Task Force September 2024 Notes & Video: Consequences and preparing for BEAD

Update on bills SF0883 and SF0735: taxation exemption for broadband providers

Understanding The True Meaning Of Broadband Internet

Minnesota is home to 7 exciting, planned or prospective Native Nation owned broadband networks

Richard Bennett: The Curious Case of Wi-Fi 7

Conexon Connect Completes First Major Florida Fiber Deployment

Bill introduced in MN House: HF844 getting more data on broadband deployment from providers

Survey: About half of all households passed by fiber in 2024 -- with less than half of those connected.

how broadband speed is measured?

States must designate providers, service areas under FCC reclassification of Internet delivered services as telecommunications utility.

Draft BEAD program update would give states more leeway to use LEO, FWA services using unlicensed spectrum when more economical than FTTP.

Former FCC Chair Pai urges states to direct BEAD funds to sparsely populated counties as countywide projects

Showcasing the Endless Opportunities Through Connectivity

What is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) – Definition & Meaning

Coon Valley Delivers High Speed Access to Rural Customers

Landline Vs Wireless Landline Connection – Comparison Guide

Mobile Bundling Built For Rural Providers

End of ACP illustrates need for omnibus reform

Is it possible to combine and use multiple internet connections?

Guide to Choosing the Right Internet Plan for Gaming

TDS Targeting 1.8 Million FIber Passings

Key opponent of ACP extension claims subsidy will inflate prices

No Permission Needed: Unlicensed Spectrum, Wi-Fi, and America’s Competitive Advantage

Consortium to bring fiber to every American doorstep

Bill introduced in MN House: HF974 related to definition of provider and role of franchise and permitting and more

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