US Telecom

APRIL 9, 2025

This crisis not only costs broadband providers millions of dollars, more importantly, it leaves consumers with disrupted service and costly downtime. The bad actors then sell this metal and other stolen communications equipment. Copper theft is on the rise, leading criminals to cut vital communication lines across the United States.

Telecommunication

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 1, 2025

WASHINGTON, May 1, 2025 – The California State Assembly's communications committee advanced two broadband bills Wednesday, both of which will now be taken up by the chamber’s appropriations committee. ” At least Vermont and Massachusetts are also considering affordable broadband legislation.

Broadband

Aatrox Communications

JUNE 19, 2025

For small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across Australia—whether you’re running a bustling café in Melbourne, a consultancy in Brisbane, or a retail shop in Sydney, effective communication is the key to thriving on a tight budget. For a Melbourne café or Adelaide tradie, this can cut communication costs by up to 50%.

Communication

All West Telecommunications

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

These digital utilities are not just communication channels but are rapidly transforming how small businesses operate in a competitive marketplace. Similarly, modern phone systems provide features like call forwarding, virtual receptionist, and integrated voicemail, ensuring professional communication with clients and stakeholders.

Phone

Aatrox Communications

JULY 9, 2025

As a leading provider, Aatrox Communications is helping Sydney SMEs—from retailers to startups—cut costs, empower hybrid teams, and access enterprise-grade features like video conferencing and live chat through 3CX hosted solutions. Outdated PBX systems are doing just that—slowing growth and frustrating customers in today’s digital world.

Phone

Aatrox Communications

JULY 17, 2025

In Brisbane’s competitive legal landscape, where firms manage complex cases and client communications, outdated phone systems can create bottlenecks and slow down operations. Scalability : Easily incorporate features like mobile broadband for expanding firms. Ready to Streamline Your Firm’s Communication?

Phone

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 22, 2025

At the hearing before California’s Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, proponents described AB 470 a long-overdue step to modernize California’s communications infrastructure. There's a whole community behind your FREE membership. “COLR is about a responsibility.

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Aatrox Communications

JULY 2, 2025

In today’s digital world, where seamless communication is key to serving customers, traditional PBX systems fall short. At Aatrox Communications , we’re helping Sydney businesses—retailers, startups, and service providers—cut costs, enhance collaboration, and thrive with 3CX hosted solutions.

Phone

Aatrox Communications

JULY 24, 2025

At Aatrox Communications , we specialize in integrating IVR systems into modern VOIP phone systems like 3CX , helping businesses in Perth, Adelaide, and beyond save time, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction. Test and Launch : Simulate calls to ensure routing works, then go live with mobile broadband for remote testing.

Voicemail

Aatrox Communications

JULY 2, 2025

In Melbourne’s fast-paced healthcare scene, where clinics juggle high patient volumes and administrative demands, effective communication is the key to success. Scalability : Easily add features like mobile broadband for growing clinics. Ready to Transform Your Clinic’s Communication?

Healthcare

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 21, 2025

CAIRO, June 21, 2025 (AP) — A breakdown in communications networks in central and southern Gaza has cut many Palestinians off from the outside world for the past week, further straining aid efforts and emergency services amid continuing Israeli bombardment. Free Broadband Breakfast News every morning, Mon.-Fri.

Internet

EldoTelecom

JUNE 11, 2025

billion Broadband Equity and Deployment (BEAD) program, authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA). Lutnick said the program requires retooling in order to ensure Americans can obtain the full “benefit of the bargain” Congress intended in enacting the IIJA: broadband deployment.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 24, 2025

Fiber optic technology enables particularly fast, energy-efficient and reliable data communication. With a simplified application process, this programme aims to develop these areas quickly, making use of both public and private funding to ensure the best results. Digitalisation requires high-performance, resilient and future-proof networks.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 - Internet delivered by fixed wireless access providers has its critics, but Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is not one of them. ” Rosenworcel said that the numbers suggest fixed wireless has become an alternative to landline broadband. WASHINGTON, Oct.

Broadband

Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

None of us should be under the impression that customer take-up of full fibre broadband will rocket from mid-September onwards. Using the word ‘fibre’ without qualification will now be banned by Ofcom, and according to them, consumers should also be informed about the technology used to deliver their broadband.

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Blandin on Broadband

AUGUST 10, 2024

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released the statement below following the unanimous Senate Commerce Committee passage of the bipartisan Rural Broadband Protection Act. As co-chair of the Senate Broadband Caucus, I’ll keep fighting to close the digital divide and ensure Minnesota families can reliably access the high-speed internet they need.”

Broadband

Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Mediacom reports via Global Newswire … Mediacom Communications announced completion of the first phase of construction on a fiber-to-the-home network funded with support from Minnesota DEED’s Office of Broadband Development. million of private capital to connect this previously underserved community with fiber broadband.

Communication

Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Department of Commerce approved Minnesota’s plan for broadband infrastructure deployment. This development advances Minnesota to the next step in their planned affordable broadband rollout across the state. However, many households in Minnesota currently don’t have a reliable broadband connection,” said Klobuchar.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 – A key Alaska city and a popular port of call for cruise ships has not had landline internet and cell phone service for days, and it could be at least another week before the restoration of normal service. Landline communications have not been affected, and the police department said 911 calls were getting through.

Internet

USTELECOM

MARCH 25, 2024

Today, the march of progress has finally come for the old copper networks that long ago served as the primary conduit for landlines. High-speed broadband emerged from the pandemic as an essential bridge to economic opportunity, health care, education, and more. Almost all “home phones” today are already powered by broadband.

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IEEE ComSoc

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Wall Street Journal reported today that Verizon is on the verge of buying Frontier Communications for as much as $7 billion in a deal that would bolster the company’s fiber network to compete with rivals notably AT&T. Frontier is in the midst of upgrading its legacy copper landline network to cutting-edge fiber. billion in cash.

Communication

Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The company thinks a GOP-controlled Federal Communications Commission will probably speed up the process. He spoke at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York.   The company is still in the process of securing FCC approval to use Phone Advanced as a landline replacement. WASHINGTON, Dec.

Landline

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 27, 2025

Copper networks are costly to maintain and can’t provide competitive broadband speeds, but regulators don’t want swaths of rural and low-income households to also lose access to 911 and voice services. The company has about 4,600 wire centers, central offices to which old copper phone lines connect.

Landline

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

21, 2025 – Pennsylvania broadband advocates pressed the state’s Public Utility Commission on Thursday to require state-specific consumer protections before approving Verizon’s proposed acquisition of Frontier Communications.   “Part of the question is, will there be public benefits?,”

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AT&T Connects

JANUARY 15, 2025

The answer is network providers have invested over $2 trillion in Americas communications infrastructure since 1996, incentivized by smart public policy and a new wave of American entrepreneurs building on top of it. Were also proud to offer AT&T Phone Advanced , a new product that meets FCC requirements to replace traditional landlines.

Network

US Telecom

OCTOBER 18, 2024

landlines and in urgent need of modernization. Congress should grant the Federal Communications Commission the authority to ensure all major online players pay their fair share. KEY POINTS Broadband Providers Invest Heavily in U.S. landlines, USF’s current funding mechanism is unsustainable. They invested nearly $2.2

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AT&T Connects

JUNE 18, 2024

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued yet another increase of the Universal Service Fund’s (USF) contribution factor, continuing to drown businesses and consumers with lofty fees. For years, we’ve been waving red flags – USF’s current system is broken.

Telephone

Mark Goldberg

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

I promised a look at this report in my recent post on rural broadband solutions. Communic@tions Management Inc. ” Looking at other data from the 2021 Survey on Household Spending, CMI found the following changes in average household spending on each of these items from 2010 to 2021: Landline telephone services -56.4%

Technology

AT&T Connects

MAY 22, 2025

Our mission: Were investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. As communities affected by the Los Angeles wildfires continue the recovery process, we are fully committed to supporting response and restoration efforts.

Phone

Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

19, 2024 – The rising market value of copper has driven a surge in theft and vandalism targeting America’s communications networks, causing widespread service disruptions, costing millions in damages, and threatening public safety.  WASHINGTON, Nov.

Telecoms

Aatrox Communications

MARCH 13, 2025

A well-structured business mobile phone plan isnt just about calls and dataits about optimizing resources, ensuring uninterrupted communication, and integrating with tools like VoIP systems, business phone systems, and CRM platforms. Offers high-speed 4G and 5G broadband for fast and reliable business communication.

Mobile

Aatrox Communications

MARCH 19, 2025

Australian businesses need communication tools that deliver reliability, affordability, and flexibility in todays fast-moving world. At Aatrox Communications, we bring the 3CX Phone System to Aussie firms, from startups in Brisbane to enterprises in Sydney. Slash Costs with VoIP Ditch expensive landlines. Definitely.

Phone

IEEE ComSoc

AUGUST 2, 2024

AT&T and Verizon are spending billions of dollars to grow their existing fiber-optic networks and add to the millions of broadband clients they already serve, mostly in regions covered by their historical landline-telephone infrastructure. There are other fiber based internet providers that mostly serve business customers.

Network

Aatrox Communications

MAY 21, 2025

For Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs), this is the power of 3CX hosted solutions , a cloud phone system for small business thats transforming communication. Unlike on-premise 3CX, which demands servers and in-house IT upkeep, the cloud version is managed by Aatrox Communications in secure Australian data centers.

Phone

VoIP MS

MAY 16, 2025

As businesses continue to migrate from outdated landlines to more agile, CRM-integrated, and cost-effective communication platforms, the demand for VoIP expertise is only accelerating. WhiteLabel Communications WhiteLabel Communications offers a reseller program designed for MSPs, VARs, telecom providers, and office technology dealers.

Provisioning

Mark Goldberg

JANUARY 29, 2025

” The courts ruling confirms that broadband internet must be classified as an information service under Title I because it enables users to store, retrieve, and manipulate datanot just transmit it. Consider how we communicate today. households have a landline phone, down from nearly 50% a decade ago. Only a quarter of U.S.

Telecoms

EldoTelecom

DECEMBER 27, 2024

advanced telecommunications policy has been bandwidth focused: defining and delivering broadband speed and not modernizing the nations legacy metallic telephone and cable TV delivery infrastructure to fiber. For the past three decades, U.S. Blair Levin, a widely quoted analyst and former U.S.

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