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Lightpath Expands Miami Network, Connecting New Cable Landing Station

Total Telecom

Lightpath will offer diverse, high-capacity connectivity options to the landing station, including dark fiber and wavelength services up to 800 Gbps. We will continue to invest in Miami and South Florida to meet customer demand for connectivity to data centers, cable landing stations, and other digital destinations.”

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One-in-ten UK farmers lack internet connectivity

Total Telecom

The Censuswide survey, commissioned by CityFibre, the UKs largest independent full fibre platform, found that although almost two-thirds of farmers surveyed * (60%) believe internet connectivity is critical [1] for day-to-day farming activities, nearly one-in-ten farms (8%) have no internet connectivity at all.

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SubOptic, Sparkle and University of Genoa team up for world’s first subsea cable degree

Total Telecom

The agreement includes among its main academic objectives the implementation the world’s first post-graduate course on submarine fibre optic cables. Education and research are core to the SubOptic Foundation’s mission” said Jayne Stowell, Board Member of the SubOptic Foundation.

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ITU, ICPC launch advisory body on submarine cable resilience 

Total Telecom

Submarine cables carry over 99% of international data, making them essential for everything from online shopping and financial transactions to digital health services and education. A physical meeting at the Submarine Cable Resilience Summit in Nigeria will follow in February.

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UK govt looks to satellite to solve rural connectivity woes 

Total Telecom

As such, these islands are often left to languish with little or poor-quality connectivity. The first of these projects takes place on Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland. Join us at next year’s Connected North, 23-24 April in Manchester. Get discounted tickets here! Get discounted tickets here!

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Recent study on consumer takes on various broadband technologies

Blandin on Broadband

Cable has the highest level of internet access (39%). The study found that 3% of consumers do not have a dedicated internet connection at home. This, Amdocs Research says, points to an education gap about the technology. It is followed by fiber (31%) and FWA (9%). Concerns about cost, reliability, and speed persist.

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MN House introduces HF1740 a bill appropriating money for community cable television programming

Blandin on Broadband

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