Total Telecom

MARCH 14, 2025

News By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities The Fiber Broadband Association CEO pushes back against rhetoric questioning the feasibility of subsidizing rural fiber at Connected America. Learn more about Broadband Communities Summit 2025 in Houston. Also, click here to subscribe to the Broadband Communities newsletter.

Connectivity

VoIP Review

JULY 16, 2025

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. This means faster, more reliable connections for both consumers and businesses in Costa Rica.

Network

VoIP Review

MARCH 13, 2025

The agreement aligns with Jio’s mission to provide reliable broadband internet to small businesses, enterprises, and communities in the country. Mathew Oommen, CEO at Reliance Jio, remarked, “Ensuring that every Indian, no matter where they live, has access to affordable and high-speed broadband remains Jio’s top priority.

Retail

Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 24, 2025

CMS.gov reports The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking action to preserve the core mission of the Medicaid program by putting an end to spending that duplicates resources available through other federal and state programs or isnt directly tied to healthcare services.Mounting expenditures, such as covering housekeeping for (..)

Healthcare

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 4, 2025

Established by the Federal Communications Commission in 1997, the fund helps deliver broadband and phone services at just, reasonable, and affordable rates to rural communities, low-income households, schools, libraries, and healthcare providers. million students.    Additionally, 7.6

Telecoms

Total Telecom

JUNE 12, 2025

These are now available via the DfE approved Everything ICT service including not only networks provision and professional services but also its wide range of market leading cyber, voice, cloud and broadband solutions.

Telecoms

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. Liberty Broadband, which owns GCI , is on track to spin the business off by the summer as part of Charter’s purchase of Liberty. WASHINGTON, May 7, 2025 – WideOpenWest (WOW!)

Broadband

US Telecom

MAY 9, 2025

At USTelecom, we believe broadband isnt just part of the AI futureits the backbone. Next-generation AI applicationsfrom data-rich models powering national security to personalized healthcare and smart citiesdemand ultra-fast, low-latency, super secure and scalable networks. Well need smart, national policies to get the job done.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 4, 2025

billion mostly used to bolster the finances of rural-based broadband providers. billion supporting rural broadband ISPs, $2.6 million on rural healthcare services. WASHINGTON, Apr. million Lifeline program, the USF spent $4.5 billion funding access to the internet for schools and libraries through the E-Rate program, and $531.7

Finance

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 27, 2025

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2025 – The broadband industry and consumer advocates hailed the Supreme Court’s decision Friday upholding the Universal Service Fund. The USF supports rural broadband networks and internet discounts for low-income households, schools and libraries, and rural healthcare centers. 

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 16, 2025

million state-funded project that seeks to connect over 22,000 homes and businesses to broadband internet in rural Sullivan County, N.Y.,   Archtop, led by Chairman and CEO Jeff DeMond , and Hudson Valley Wireless will serve as ISPs on the network, while the county will own the broadband infrastructure. The Kingston, N.Y.

Connectivity

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

JUNE 20, 2025

Kelly Hancock , a Republican lawmaker with ties to broadband expansion policy, has resigned from the Legislature to lead the Comptroller’s Office – just as the state prepares to distribute billions in federal and state broadband funds. billion broadband grant window. WASHINGTON, June 20, 2025 – Texas Sen.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 30, 2025

White Paper Connecting America: Are We There Yet in Broadband Deployment? Let’s explore the progress, challenges, and future of  broadband deployment in America. Let’s explore the progress, challenges, and future of  broadband deployment in America. In 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that  3.8

Broadband

Rural Broadband Association

JUNE 27, 2025

And thank you to our friends at CoBank and NCSC for their work getting folks in the lending, agriculture, education and healthcare communities to also submit a supportive amicus brief. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit which found that the Universal Service Fund contribution mechanism was unconstitutional. It took a village.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 28, 2025

With the program’s constitutionality upheld, the focus shifts to Congress to do what only it can—reform the fund for the broadband age and a $5 trillion digital economy. The bipartisan Senate bill Lowering Broadband Costs for Consumers Act of 2025  and the House version (H.R. and Deb Fischer , R-Neb.,

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 26, 2025

The roughly $9 billion-per-year subsidy funds programs supporting rural broadband networks and communications discounts for low-income households, schools and libraries, and healthcare centers. Joe Kane , director of broadband and spectrum policy at ITIF and a proponent of axing the current funding scheme, emphasized the uncertainty.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 9, 2025

June 9, 2025 – Clallam County, Washington and Astound Broadband have begun construction on a major new joint partnership that will bring affordable fiber access to more than 1,500 homes across the largely rural Northwestern part of The Evergreen State. Washington Get a snapshot view of broadband initiatives in Washington.

Broadband

VoIP Review

JULY 18, 2025

The RedCap standard places itself as a middle ground, between low-power IoT communications (mMTC) and standard 5G broadband (eMBB). This new adaptability opens the door for applications in different sectors including healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, energy, and automotive.

Network

Blandin on Broadband

JUNE 27, 2025

Broadband Breakfast reports. The Federal Communications Commission program supports rural broadband networks, plus internet discounts for low-income households, schools and libraries and healthcare centers.

Healthcare

US Telecom

JULY 22, 2025

Representing USTelecom and our nation’s broadband innovators, we shared a message that’s both urgent and optimistic: It’s time to reinforce America’s digital foundation by recommitting to our proven and effective public-private partnerships in cyberspace. Broadband providers are committed to being that steady hand.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 23, 2025

It powers everything from education and finance to healthcare and emergency response, not to mention our increasing conversations with AI agents recently. billion allocated through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program represents the largest broadband investment in American history.   The $42.5

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 27, 2025

The Federal Communications Commission program supports rural broadband networks, plus internet discounts for low-income households, schools and libraries and healthcare centers. Notice: This is a developing story, and Broadband Breakfast will update with additional details and reactions.

Healthcare

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 17, 2025

The future of broadband isn’t just about faster speeds or more towers—it’s about enabling your communities to tap into the AI economy. More importantly, your community will miss out—on education, job training, healthcare, small business growth, and so much more that AI can enable. Don’t wait.

Broadband

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

AT&T Connects

JUNE 16, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.

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AT&T Connects

JUNE 10, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.

Phone

AT&T Connects

JUNE 27, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.

Connectivity

AT&T Connects

JUNE 17, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.

Internet

AT&T Connects

JUNE 16, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.

Phone

AT&T Connects

JUNE 10, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. “AT&T’s We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.

Phone

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 12, 2025

“There’s a lot of data in the Library of Congress that could be used for training models,” Crowell noted, adding that datasets from the Department of Veterans Affairs could support AI-driven healthcare applications. Looming large throughout the discussion, however, were concerns over energy infrastructure.

Healthcare

AT&T Connects

JUNE 16, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.

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AT&T Connects

JUNE 13, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.

Phone

AT&T Connects

JUNE 13, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.

Phone

AT&T Connects

JUNE 9, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G. Learn more. Learn more.

Phone

AT&T Connects

JUNE 16, 2025

Our mission: We’re investing across the country not only to boost network reliability and capacity, but also to expand broadband nationwide to help bridge the digital divide. We’re working with businesses from manufacturing to healthcare to create new innovations and increase efficiencies with AT&T 5G.

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