Blandin on Broadband

JUNE 17, 2025

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society reports … Tuesday, June 17, 2025 – 1:00pm to 2:00pm (CST) Join us on June 17th at 2 PM ET for a webinar on how poor broadband access and adoption can impact healthcare access and outcomes.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 16, 2025

  Today, cable broadband networks that provide Internet access to more Americans than anyone else have a new problem when service goes down. 2 broadband ISP in the U.S., In a press release issued Monday , Charter reported a 200 percent year-over-year increase in felony attacks on its broadband network in Missouri.

Network

Blandin on Broadband

JUNE 3, 2025

An invitation from Benton Institute for Broadband and Society … Join us on June 17th at 2 PM ET for a webinar on how poor broadband access and adoption can impact healthcare access and outcomes. Her reporting has demonstrated the real-world impacts of the digital divide on rural residents waiting for better broadband.

Broadband

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

AUGUST 13, 2024

It benefits from the Federal Communications Commission’s E-Rate program , which provides discounts to assist eligible schools and libraries in obtaining affordable internet access.  The region comprises 60 individual school districts and three charter schools with 226 campuses.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 6, 2025

6, 2025 – Reports that broadband costs always seem to rise don’t necessarily tell the full story. Take the middle-mile – a critical link between local networks and the global internet – where rural broadband providers are experiencing substantial cost reductions, according to a report released Jan.

Hospitality

Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Erie County, New York’s  ErieNet  broadband initiative is poised to begin construction in Buffalo, NY, after the Buffalo Common Council recently passed a resolution approving the Telecommunications License Agreement with ErieNet LDC. New York Get a snapshot view of broadband initiatives in New York.

Network

VoIP Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This collaboration combines ITS’s extensive fibre network with Sky Business’s core infrastructure to deliver faster and more reliable internet services. The partnership aims to significantly expand this coverage and offer businesses a stronger and more consistent internet experience.

Ethernet

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Wilderness Health has worked with its member hospitals and software Adaptive Telehealth to cut wait times and meet the needs of patients. Now, Ely-Bloomenson Community Hospital has access to a new resource, the Ambulatory Therapy and Diagnostic Assessment program, to support the Ely community. These include Aspirus St.

Hospitality

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

  “Not only does this impact home Internet, it impacts people with medical devices, critical medical devices at home, hospitals, post offices, and basically all facets of life to include your local coffee shop,” Sgt. According to AT&T, DFW was ranked second in the U.S.

Hospitality

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Under this model, multiple ISPs can offer services over the same broadband infrastructure. GFiber started in 2010 as a Google-driven experiment to catalyze the gigabit internet ecosystem, and has since pioneered the gigabit and multigig internet future. The Fiber Broadband Association is the voice of fiber.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Extreme weather patterns are increasing across the globe and operators of critical infrastructure like broadband must begin taking measures to meet this rising challenge.   However, even underground fiber isn’t completely invulnerable to disruption. But these cables can be susceptible to a wide variety of environmental dangers.

Network

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A medical-grade connectivity approach ensures that leading major hospital systems achieve their mission-critical goals. Direct cloud connectivity ensures secure, high-performance access to essential data via direct links to major cloud providers, bypassing the public internet for better reliability, low latency, and built-in redundancy.

Healthcare

Real Wireless

AUGUST 21, 2024

Put very simply, these are small satellites, in large constellations with orbits that are closer to the Earth than traditional GEO orbits – that can offer broadband-like services with less latency than satellites in higher orbits. One major development is the growth of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) systems.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In today’s digital age, seamless and reliable mobile internet is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. By eliminating the need for traditional SIM cards, vSIM transforms mobile connectivity, delivering a seamless, adaptive internet experience worldwide.  This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast.

Mobile

HCL Tech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

5G is a mobile communications standard, which allows wireless internet access and connectivity at much faster speeds. 4G and 5G are technology standards for broadband cellular networks. The fifth-generation technology standard is 10x faster than 4G and allows for faster download speeds and faster connection to the internet.

Aerospace

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.)

Connectivity

Telefrieden

MARCH 26, 2025

Universal service funding supports access to telephone and broadband service by subscribers in rural locales that commercial ventures will not serve absent a subsidy. Additional programs reduce the cost of access for low-income subscribers and specific beneficiaries such as schools, clinics, hospitals, and libraries. 8, 595-613 (Sept.

Telephone

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 31, 2025

White Paper Protecting The Nation's Critical Communications Infrastructure From Theft & Vandalism Learn More White Paper Provided by NCTA, CTIA, USTelecom, The Rural Broadband Association: The U.S. Education: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of internet connectivity for remote learning.

Communication

Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 17, 2024

17, 2024 – The absence of broadband can create serious health consequences for expectant mothers, according to new data from the Federal Communications Commission. Map from the FCC's Maternal Health Mapping Platform illustrates the intersection of Internet Adoption and Preterm Birth Rates across U.S. WASHINGTON, Dec.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 22, 2024

CHICAGO, August 22, 2024 – Rural representatives at the federal level raised concerns regarding the role that inadequate broadband access plays in the closure rate of hospitals across rural America. The absence of reliable internet is decimating hospitals in rural areas." " U.S. . "These " U.S.

Hospitality

Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

” – regarding Broadband Breakfast’s first editorial endorsement. If you want better broadband, this election is no contest: As President, Kamala Harris will achieve a far better result than Donald Trump. It has put us on a track for better broadband and better lives. We know that none of this happened.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Rumors circulated that Federal Emergency Management Agency   was raiding storm donations and withholding body bags, forcing local hospitals to stack the bodies of victims. “Will you all help STOP this conspiracy theory junk that is floating all over Facebook and the internet. " Corbin posted Thursday on Facebook.

Hospitality

Total Telecom

MAY 29, 2025

Upon completion, more than 10,000 residents and businesses will have access to the full suite of Xfinity and Comcast Business services, including built-in cybersecurity, affordable Internet plans, and a robust video offering spanning TV and streaming. It delivers multi-gigabit Internet speeds, 99.9 Through our network that delivers 99.9%

Construction

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 2, 2025

Steel South Works site has attracted plans for $300 million for construction of a new 52 bed hospital by Advocate Healthcare, a well-established hospital and clinic network. This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast. Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 8, 2025

Exploding internet traffic strains broadband providers globally, making it hard to recover network investment costs. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has reintroduced the  Lowering Broadband Costs for Consumers Act of 2025 (S. Meanwhile the price of broadband has fallen dramatically. Mark Kelly , D-Ariz.,

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 10, 2025

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2025 – A Minnesota broadband leader warned Thursday that imposing a per-location price cap under the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program would be “terribly detrimental” to the state’s progress toward universal fiber access.

Healthcare

Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 13, 2025

Office of Broadband Development and Digital Equity ; deployment data. Disclosure of deployment data provided by a broadband provider to the Office of Broadband Development and Digital Equity is governed by section 116J.397. 39 OFFICE OF BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT AND DIGITAL EQUITY. (a) 391, subdivision 1; 116J.394;

Broadband

Mark Goldberg

APRIL 30, 2025

Canadian consumers already benefit from healthy competition and declining prices for equivalent wireless and internet services. This will include improving rural broadband and reliable cell service that connects communities. of total consumer spending in each of those years. I suspect this one to cost more and take longer than planned.

Telecoms