Telecom Talk

JULY 28, 2025

ARPU and Customer Experience The minister also highlighted several persistent challenges facing BSNL, including competition from private telecom players, outdated technology, slow 4G rollout, low average revenue per user (ARPU), and service quality concerns, particularly in fixed broadband. This is for next year.

Mobile

VoIP Review

JULY 4, 2025

It integrates AI-powered orchestration tools to automate network operations and support zero-touch provisioning. According to Moon, they enable high-quality, reliable connectivity and support the integration of AI and other emerging technologies by French operators. The collaboration has extended beyond Samsung and Orange.

Radio

AT&T Connects

JUNE 17, 2025

In 2024, Kansas lawmakers passed legislation that eliminated taxes on broadband equipment and otherwise streamlined provisions of the tax code. AT&T is the state’s largest provider of 100 percent fiber-optic connectivity, with service available to more than 370,000 customer locations in Kansas as of the end of 2024.

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 2, 2025

With the reauthorization would come a mandate to sell 600 megahertz of exclusive-use spectrum for mobile or fixed broadband, a pipeline the wireless carriers have been pushing to get included. ” Blackburn spoke at the Fiber Connect conference in Nashville. Learn more about Speeding BEAD Summit What is Broadband Breakfast?

Provisioning

Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 23, 2025

From bringing reliable telephone service to rural areas often overlooked by larger providers, to becoming a leader in fiber optic internet provisions, to the ever-changing landscape of technology, WCTA has grown into a cutting-edge telecommunications cooperative, delivering world-class fiber-optic services to homes and businesses across the region.

Telephone

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 9, 2025

Christopher Kessler , D-Portland, the main provision of the act states that “an Internet service provider shall provide net neutral service in the provision of broadband Internet to customers in the State.” The 2025 net neutrality bill simply expands those requirements to cover all users operating in the state.

Provisioning

AT&T Connects

JUNE 4, 2025

FirstNet was born from critical lessons learned during the tragic events of 9/11: our nations first responders need a reliable, dedicated communications network that allows them to stay connected when seconds matter most. In 2012, the FirstNet Authority was created as part of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act.

Communication

Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 17, 2025

Standford Social Innovation Review looks at why broadband has not reached some rural areas Broadband deserts exist largely because traditional finance and big-name ISPs do not build for communities too rural or too poor to hit their profit targets. Broadband is no different.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 25, 2025

What was missing, those executives told them, was broadband internet access. The Tobacco Commission paid for 3,000 miles of rural broadband. Ralph Northam would call on Feinman for another job, as the commonwealth’s chief broadband adviser. Commission members and their local partners wanted to know why, Feinman said.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 26, 2025

Three years and five months after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed, the BEAD Program still hasn’t connected a single person to broadband,  but  it is on the brink of being able to do so on a large scale, if Washington gives a green light.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 28, 2025

  The agency coordinates federal spectrum use, represents the executive branch in international telecom debates and before the Federal Communications Commission, and manages more than $48 billion in broadband grant funding from the Infrastructure Act. The bill still had bipartisan support Monday, with Reps. speaking in favor of it.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 9, 2025

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. billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment program.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 14, 2025

Wednesday, House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee passed communications provisions in a broader reconciliation budget package unchanged, defeating a series of Democratic amendments that would have redirected spectrum auction revenue toward broadband affordability, public safety, and cybersecurity initiatives.

Provisioning

IEEE ComSoc

MARCH 12, 2025

She pointed out that in 3GPP Releases 17, 18 and (forthcoming) 19 and 20, the work has progressed from IoT to broadband to low-earth orbit ( LEO ) satellites. To achieve this vision, NTNs represent a significant advancement by extending connectivity beyond the Earth’s surface.

Mobile

IEEE ComSoc

MARCH 17, 2025

In this session, leading telecoms industry stakeholders will outline how they’re advancing 6G research, with AI integration, to revolutionize connectivity, performance, and societal transformation. The AI-native 6G radio access network (RAN) embodies this expectation and makes AI a foundational element of the 6G stack.

Telecoms

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 16, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 16, 2025 – Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program Director Evan Feinman is no longer with the Commerce Department, he said on Sunday morning. Friday was his last day leading the $42.5 billion program. Notably, lawmakers did not seek to institute a per-location spending cap.

Provisioning

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 23, 2025

He said, “If Elon Musk had decided to be a ginormous Democratic donor , I have no doubt that the Biden administration would have pulled out a piñata and celebrated Starlink providing broadband.”   I understand why the new administration wants to speed up Broadband Deployment across the country.

Retail

Blandin on Broadband

JUNE 9, 2025

The Trump Administration said they would be making changes to federal funding going to states for broadband. The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society has a practical summary of the changes as well. There are a lot of changes. to digest what we know so far, with the help of a panel of national industry experts.

Provisioning

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 20, 2025

The unlicensed band is largely used for Wi-Fi and fixed broadband. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn , both Republicans from the state, to “consider the importance” of the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service band as they crafted the bill. The group’s members use the shared band to provide broadband.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 6, 2025

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program could result in years of delays, a former National Telecommunications and Information Administration official warned Wednesday. billion BEAD broadband expansion program was under “rigorous review” and would be “revamp[ed] to take a tech-neutral approach.”

Provisioning

Blandin on Broadband

JUNE 26, 2025

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Representative Jim Clyburn (D-SC) and over 40 of their colleagues called on Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to fully implement the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program as Congress intended to connect all Americans to high-quality, affordable internet.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 5, 2025

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2025 – In news that many in the broadband industry have been bracing for, the Commerce Department said Wednesday it was launching a sweeping review of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, and vowed to strip Biden-era requirements.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 11, 2025

billion in federal broadband funding, one of the state’s broadband officers said Tuesday. “The review is still ongoing,” said Thomas Tyler , deputy director of the state’s broadband office. He spoke at the Connected America conference in Dallas. Richard Hudson , R-N.C.,

Provisioning

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 25, 2025

billion broadband expansion program. “We made the decision to invest larger sums now in broadband infrastructure that would be resilient and capable of meeting Americans’ growing digital demands for decades.”

Provisioning

US Telecom

JULY 3, 2025

The following statement is from USTelecom President and CEO Jonathan Spalter: “Updating the nation’s tax code—including through 100% expensing and deductible interest, in combination with unleashing additional spectrum—will help ensure a more connected future for all American communities and families.

Provisioning

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 19, 2025

billion broadband expansion program. GOP  lawmakers have criticized various program provisions, like incentives for labor protections, efforts to promote diverse workforces and use women or minority-owned contractors, and BEAD’s preference for fiber. Maria Cantwell , D-Wash.,

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 3, 2025

Paired with the tax provisions in the bill, this legislation paves the way to restore America’s global lead in wireless technology through smart policy,” AT&T said in a release. He also emphasized that the bill’s tax provisions would “advance infrastructure investment, create jobs, and grow the economy.” 

Provisioning

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 14, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2025 – The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a $27 billion discretionary spending bill on Thursday, proposing more than $95 million in rural broadband investments for fiscal year 2026. Thursday’s Senate committee vote marks the latest in a turbulent budget season for rural broadband programs. 

Provisioning

Total Telecom

AUGUST 22, 2024

Woking, 20 th August 2024 – Strategic Imperatives, the UK’s leading provider of SaaS provisioning, connectivity, and monetisation solutions for the telecom industry, announced today that Netomnia, following its recent merger with Brsk and now the UK’s fourth-largest full-fibre network, has joined The Fibre Café platform.

Broadband

Telecoms Tech News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Nokia and ZCorum have developed a DOCSIS Provisioning Adapter (DPA) application for streamlining cable operators’ fibre transition.

Cable

Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The £58 million contract, awarded in January 2024 by the UK government, will see Connexin roll out lightning-fast, reliable broadband to rural communities throughout  Nottinghamshire and West Lincolnshire. Connexin will soon move onto the build stage, which will see the first premises connected by early 2025.

Provisioning

Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Connected Keynotes: Where is the UK connectivity sector headed? What obstacles lie ahead for delivering ubiquitous connectivity and how does the industry overcome them? Find out at the Connected Britain keynotes. Don’t forget, last minute tickets are still available – register here today!

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Tony Evers (D) seeking $750 million in state funding to supplement federal broadband dollars was removed during final stages from the state’s 2023-25 budget by Republican lawmakers on the Joint Finance Committee. Evers has expressed that he will continue to advocate for state broadband funding in the next budget cycle. 

Broadband

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. Smaller ISPs’ results also varied based on the technology they provision.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 21, 2025

Now that the lengthy legal beef has been settled and New York’s  Affordable Broadband Act is set to take effect this month, it marks a potentially pivotal moment in a national effort to address one of the biggest barriers to broadband adoption:  Affordability.

Broadband

Total Telecom

JANUARY 10, 2025

In traditional ODN construction, the feeder optical cables, distribution optical cables, and drop cables are stripped or terminated onsite for fiber connection. In both OSP and ISP scenarios, cable distribution boxes need to be opened before optical cable installation and connection.

Technology

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

has reintroduced a bill directing the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to develop a national broadband strategy. “The PLAN for Broadband Act would prevent wasteful spending and help streamline communication and coordination between the agencies tasked with rolling out broadband initiatives.

Broadband