Telecom Talk

JULY 28, 2025

Starlink is expected to start offering connections very soon in India. Further, in the price segment, Starlink will be way more expensive than what Indians pay for even the highest end broadband plans/connections. Starlink’s purpose will be to fill the connectivity gaps in rural and backward areas to most extent.

Retail

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 4, 2025

Here are three proposals for common-sense solutions to improve the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program of the U.S. Topic #1: Fiber Priority When we consider broadband infrastructure as a 30-year investment rather than focusing on speed targets, the case for building fiber networks in rural areas becomes clear.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 19, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2025 – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey called on the Federal Communications Commission Monday to return $177 million in defaulted broadband funding to the state. ” Bailey pointed to New York's success in reclaiming federal broadband dollars as precedent.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 17, 2025

Part 1: Explaining BEAD, Broadband Abundance? Part 2: Explaining BEAD, Trying to Bridge the Digital Divide As a brief recap, the nation has been working for decades to achieve universal access to broadband. Instead, Congress structured the BEAD program as a state and territory broadband grant program.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 5, 2025

July 5, 2025 – Maine officials discussed their collaborative approach to rural broadband challenges during a Wednesday webcast, highlighting ongoing infrastructure investments and digital equity programs across the state's diverse geography.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 5, 2025

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland, May 5, 2025 – A state broadband official, a fiber executive, and a data center operator spoke Monday about making tough decisions behind where and how to invest in digital infrastructure. Vaughn’s team manages a $2 billion portfolio aimed at connecting roughly half a million homes.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 1, 2025

WASHINGTON, August 1, 2025 – According to a study commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association and published Thursday, U.S. The authors predicted that 573 new data centers would be built in the next three years, and that most of those centers would require fiber connections to at least three different Internet connection points.

Construction

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 23, 2025

Connectivity is the backbone of our society. The question around connectivity therefore needs to evolve: it’s no longer just about speed or bandwidth, it’s about access and resilience. The middle mile is a critical link in the broadband chain.   The $42.5

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 3, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2025 – People’s Choice Communications, a worker-owned broadband provider established in 2020 by striking Spectrum employees, has connected thousands of low-income households across New York City to free or low-cost internet.  million New Yorkers who cannot afford Internet service. 

Broadband

AT&T Connects

JUNE 17, 2025

What’s new: In Washington, DC, we invested more than $275 million in our network infrastructure from 2020-2024 to connect more people to greater possibility. It’s this connectivity that’s powering economic growth and supporting job creation across America. million businesses, connect to greater possibility. Ballou High School.

Internet

Blandin on Broadband

MAY 28, 2025

AT&T reports AT&T agrees to acquire substantially all of Lumens Mass Markets fiber internet connectivity business in a deal thats expected to close in the first half of 2026 Transaction to stimulate investment, expand world-class connectivity in the U.S.,

Marketing

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 18, 2025

  EAS sends life-saving information using TV and radio outlets, and our Wireless Emergency Alerts distribute the emergency notices we receive on our mobile phones.” 

Cable

Fierce Telecom

JUNE 18, 2025

Solving the Indoor Coverage Challenge lbarrick Wed, 06/18/2025 - 15:42 Wed, 07/30/2025 - 11:00 Resource Type Webinar Matt Addicks Mitesh Patel Linda Hardesty As reliance on mobile connectivity grows, in-building cellular service has never been more critical or complex. Traditional DAS systems are no longer enough. Click here to login.

Radio

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 Machias-based internet service provider Axiom Technologies runs the town’s broadband service.

Distribution

AT&T Connects

MAY 14, 2025

billion in our network infrastructure from 2020-2024 to connect more people to greater possibility. Its this connectivity thats powering economic growth and supporting job creation across America. For less densely populated areas, were expanding our 5G network so people there can have access to reliable connectivity.

Connectivity

IEEE ComSoc

APRIL 16, 2025

35%) benefitting from its national brand and advertising, digital and retail distribution, ability to take advantage of the waiting list it has for FWA [fixed wireless access] in markets where demand outstrips supply,” the Evercore analysts added. Fiber 1 Gig (1000 Mbps): Blistering speeds for every device and user in your home. .

Mobile

Mark Goldberg

JULY 30, 2025

A year ago I wrote about a CRTC decision to award more than a quarter billion dollars to the Government of Nunavut to build a 1,300-kilometre fibre connection to four remote Inuit communities in Nunavut. Personally, I have never been crazy about the CRTC’s Broadband Fund. I find the whole arrangement somewhat remarkable.

Broadband

IEEE ComSoc

JULY 18, 2025

GEO satellite internet providers provide reliable connectivity across large land masses, but their distance from Earth presents challenges to delivering low-latency and high-speed satellite Internet services. HughesNet and Viasat have three satellites each in their fleet delivering fixed broadband service.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 2, 2025

billion investment in universal broadband internet access may be on track for a major overhaul. Three years into its meticulous planning and implementation process, and with  significant progress  already made, the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program may pivot from prioritizing fiber to satellite connectivity.

Broadband

AT&T Connects

JUNE 27, 2025

What’s new: In New Mexico, we invested more than $225 million in our network infrastructure from 2020-2024 to connect more people to greater possibility. It’s this connectivity that’s powering economic growth and supporting job creation across America. million in Las Cruces More than $10 million in Roswell More than $8.1

Connectivity

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 31, 2025

Our defense of the Universal Service Fund (USF) over several years of court challenges— including before the nation’s highest court—was successful, but of course our work to make sure rural Americans can get connected and stay connected does not stop there. These gaps must be addressed.

Broadband

AWS Telecommunications

MAY 1, 2025

Telecom workloads consist of multiple domains such as RAN, packet core for mobile broadband Internet, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for voice communication, and Operational Support Systems/Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) for management and operations. The distributed UPFs follow standard redundancy models to handle routine failures.

Network

Gap Wireless

JUNE 23, 2025

From executive leadership changes and new distribution centers to expanded broadband solutions and public safety initiatives, this issue highlights how NWS continues to deliver measurable value through partnership, expertise, and execution.

Distribution

Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 7, 2025

Light Reading reports Criticism is mounting against the 5G Fund, a long-gestating US government program that would distribute billions of dollars to wireless network operators, with the goal of funding the construction of 5G networks in rural areas. “Indeed, the auction may not be necessary at all.”

Construction

AT&T Connects

MAY 28, 2025

billion in our network infrastructure from 2020-2024 to connect more people to greater possibility. Its this connectivity thats powering economic growth and supporting job creation across America. Whats new: In Illinois, we invested nearly $4.8 Throughout this transition, no customer will lose voice or 911 services.

Phone

Light Reading

JULY 28, 2025

Hyperscalers, led by Meta, are adopting 800ZR+ modules to interconnect geographically distributed data centers using IP-over-DWDM. This website is owned and operated by Informa TechTarget, part of a global network that informs, influences and connects the world’s technology buyers and sellers. d/b/a Informa TechTarget.

Finance

AT&T Connects

MAY 20, 2025

billion in our network infrastructure from 2020-2024 to connect more people to greater possibility. Its this connectivity thats powering economic growth and supporting job creation across America. Whats new: In Michigan, we invested nearly $2.4 Throughout this transition, no customer will lose voice or 911 services.

Phone

AT&T Connects

JUNE 16, 2025

billion in our network infrastructure from 2020-2024 to connect more people to greater possibility. It’s this connectivity that’s powering economic growth and supporting job creation across America. When public entities team up with trusted providers, more Americans are connected to greater opportunity.

Distribution

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 21, 2025

Israeli strikes damaged a main connection, cutting off communications in large areas of the strip since Tuesday, according to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Free Broadband Breakfast News every morning, Mon.-Fri. Want top news about tech, politics, and infrastructure?

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 1, 2025

demanding she get New Mexico its broadband money. “I urge you to fulfill your commitments to Congress that you will ‘follow the law,’ ‘act impartially,’ and ‘deliver the best broadband service possible for all Americans,’” Luján wrote to Roth.

Broadband

AT&T Connects

JUNE 30, 2025

What’s new: In Nevada, we invested more than $650 million in our network infrastructure from 2020-2024 to connect more people to greater possibility. It’s this connectivity that’s powering economic growth and supporting job creation across America. Throughout this transition, no customer will lose voice or 911 services.

Distribution

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 13, 2025

Because broadband throughputs and speeds – meaning how much data the system is capable of carrying, and how quickly data is actually delivered, respectively – are constantly changing (and consistently improving), tracking those toe vital metrics is critical to the future of both enterprise planning and governmental policymaking.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 28, 2025

  Representatives also passed a bill aimed at criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate images made with artificial intelligence. billion effort to expand broadband infrastructure, over the strenuous objections of Democrats – and some Republicans – in Congress. speaking in favor of it.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 9, 2025

The Trump Administration nominee who will oversee distribution of $42.45 billion in broadband subsidies has pledged to move away from an 'extreme tech bias in favor of fiber' toward technology neutrality—a welcome shift that could bring transformative connectivity to rural America.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 13, 2025

called for more efficient deployment of rural broadband through the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program in the luncheon keynote address Thursday. What is Broadband Breakfast? The reasure is designed to address broadband program duplication. The reasure is designed to address broadband program duplication.

Broadband

Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 7, 2025

billion broadband deployment program, a change that is expected to reduce spending on the most advanced wired networks while directing more money to Elon Musk’s Starlink and other non-fiber Internet service providers. Ars Technica reports … The Trump administration is eliminating a preference for fiber Internet in a $42.45

Distribution

Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This bill is tangential to broadband but could relate directly to cable franchising, which does connect it to broadband. Minnesota House reports Nadeau, Norris and Carroll introduced: HF. 1740, A bill for an act relating to arts and cultural heritage; appropriating money for community cable television programming.

Television