Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 3, 2025

million in construction costs will be paid via bonds, which would then be paid back by leasing fees by local competitors looking to access the network.  Construction of the network by Hometown Fiber is slated to begin later this year, and is expected to occur in six phases over three years.

Network

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 4, 2025

Topic #2: Regulatory Relief The regulatory burden imposed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on the BEAD program will unnecessarily delay construction, increase costs and diminish competition among ISPs for the funding.  They are struggling to meet the bandwidth needs of 2020, let alone 2055.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2025 – After years of planning, the remote island community of Isle au Haut, Maine, has completed its high-speed fiber broadband network, made possible by a newly installed undersea fiber cable. ” The one-inch diameter undersea fiber cable comes ashore near the island, and connects to a new central switch.

Network

Total Telecom

MAY 13, 2025

For instance, in 2022, one of the top digital network integrators in the country, STL unveiled India’s first multicore fiber and cable. For this reason, to connect their data centers, many ICPs are also choosing to construct fiber networks. This innovative breakthrough will transform India’s optical connection environment.

Marketing

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 14, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2025 – It’s been six months, but a damaged Alaskan fiber cable may soon be back online. Quintillion President Michael McHale announced Friday that the company will dispatch vessels this July to repair an undersea cable line severed by Arctic ice in January. That break took three months to repair.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 18, 2025

Carr claimed it takes more than four and a half years to get the paperwork done to be greenlit by NEPA to complete pre-construction tests.  The August FCC meeting will also include undersea cables, Carr said. There's a whole community behind your FREE membership.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 16, 2025

“Then we'll move to permitting and start constructing.” “It’s not lit, it’s dark fiber, but that’s what makes it ideal for carriers, hyperscalers, and potentially even federal and defense agencies that need secure, direct access to the cable landing station.

Network

Telecom Talk

JUNE 26, 2025

“From the spine of the internet running through Ashburn to the transatlantic cables that connect in Virginia Beach, the entire Commonwealth is engaged in supporting the technology which runs the world. .” Governor Glenn Youngkin welcomed the announcement, emphasizing Virginia’s global leadership in internet infrastructure.

Finance

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 1, 2025

Since each route mile of fiber contains hundreds if not thousands of fiber cables, the authors estimated that the U.S. Given the laws of physics, fiber remains the superior medium of interconnection cable used between data centers and users,” Deborah Kish , vice president of research and workforce development for FBA, said.

Construction

Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 9, 2025

Statistics tell the story: In 2023, telecommunications construction like broadband caused seven in 10 drilling-related damages to underground infrastructure in Minnesota. Now, they already see increases in the use of local Minnesota contractors, which will show great improvement for the new construction season.

Telecommunication

TDS Connect

JULY 1, 2025

As construction continues, it’s important to note the distinction between what TDS is building vs. what some other providers do. Other local providers may say they offer “fiber,” but often simply add fiber to their existing cable lines. TDS’ fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network offers symmetrical upload and download speeds up to 8 Gigabit.

Bandwidth

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 10, 2025

Several federal sources do not specify which broadband technologies (like fiber, cable, satellite, or fixed wireless), making it hard to correlate network performance and household internet use. Fourth, a lack of consistent impact assessments.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 25, 2025

The service provides 2 Gbps download / 1 Gbps upload internet speeds – delivered over cable coaxial lines upgraded with DOCSIS 4.0 Charter also added 89,000 subsidized rural broadband passings in Q1, bringing on 39,000 new rural customers and setting the stage for what the company called its largest rural construction year yet.

Internet

Blandin on Broadband

JUNE 30, 2025

Any shift away from fiber will have a definite impact on fiber cable vendors like Corning, CommScope, Lightera (formerly OFS), and Prysmian. Others are predicting that fixed wireless and satellite will sweep the grants. The reality is probably somewhere in between. These aren’t the only impacts of a shift away from fiber.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 12, 2025

WASHINGTON, May 12, 2025 – Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller (D) ordered Ezee Fiber to stop work on Wednesday, following a recent increase in complaints from city residents over property damage by workers laying fiber Internet cables.    Ezee Fiber published its response after the incident, saying: “We [.]

Construction

Tridon

JUNE 11, 2025

When people hear “ OSP fiber ,” they tend to picture buried cable, manholes, or pole lines. Sometimes, OSP fiber optic cable has to be installed, not “outside plant”, but inside buildings. How Code Affects Installation Canadian building codes typically require a transition to indoor-rated cable within 15 metres of entry.

Cable

AT&T Connects

JULY 16, 2025

Renita Pettigrew, AT&T Assistant Vice President of Construction & Engineering, also joined the conversation, sharing her perspective on how theft and vandalism break down infrastructure and impede access to essential services. Tips can be reported to local law enforcement or AT&T Global Security at (800) 807‐4205.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 13, 2025

Fixed wireless access uses high-frequency radio waves and antennas to deliver high-speed connectivity between two fixed locations, without the need for physical cabling infrastructure. Fixed wireless access Fixed wireless technology is playing a growing role in connectivity and is considered as an efficient and scalable alternative to fiber.

Bandwidth

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 2, 2025

Under BEAD’s current construct—and according to the infrastructure law that funds it—every dollar saved on deployments to unserved households can be used to connect others, to connect anchor institutions like libraries, or to fund adoption and digital upskilling initiatives.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 25, 2025

This Maserati like performance comes with significant drawbacks, however, including prohibitive deployment costs, years-long construction timelines and physical limitations that make connecting the entire country financially impossible. Fiber, cable and fixed wireless all excel in specific situations.

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 5, 2025

The company gained 8,300 subscribers from fiber markets, but lost 5,500 who were subscribed to DSL and cable technologies. Now that we have moved beyond the winter months, we expect construction activity and address delivery to accelerate.” TDS, based in Madison, Wis., serves about 555,800 broadband subscribers. ”

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 4, 2025

The company said that construction was currently underway, but did not specify when Lumos expects to complete the project. Providing symmetrical upload and download speeds, our 100% Fiber Optic technology will be life-changing for thousands of families and small businesses,” Standing said in a press release.

Construction

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 24, 2025

The United States imports a quarter of the world's fiber In 2024, the United States imported approximately 25% of the world’s fiber optic cables and 50% of aluminum for products manufactured here, with Canada, Mexico, China and Brazil supplying about 25% of the steel we import.

Broadband

Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 4, 2025

They include a little background (of a story I have also been following) This decision comes after Charter, which does business in the city under the name Spectrum and is the city’s largest provider of internet and cable television services, on Feb.

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 6, 2025

By requiring that all steel used in BEAD goes through each manufacturing step in the United States, this ensures that the steel supporting vital fiber optic cables and other broadband infrastructure is quality controlled [3]. Compliance with BABA is also vital to the American steel industry which faces increased global competition.

Manufacturing

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 3, 2025

” The companies said the 12-year buildout timeline was to “accommodate the construction of broader, more complex and higher capacity systems. That less complex networks or in-building systems could be constructed more quickly is beside the point.” Time is of the essence for Grain and its investors.”

Mobile

Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 25, 2025

Weve seen Starlink partner with T-Mobile, advancements in fixed wireless technology, cable entities claiming a stake in the rural broadband space, others using predatory pricing supported by their scope and scale to compete in NTCA member markets and of course, new entrants into the broadband space enticed by federal funding opportunities.

Broadband

Total Telecom

JUNE 19, 2025

The data regime will also ease the frustrations of traffic by creating a National Underground Asset Register, a map of the country’s underground pipes and cables, which will allow construction workers to instantly see their exact location – information which currently takes six days to access.

Media

Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 5, 2025

Michelle Benson Chamber of Commerce Supports the new bill Broadband is important Public and private investment has been made in broadband in MN These changes will remove barriers without removing the training Joel Hanson Assn of Builder and Construction We support the bill We have developed training. Should be operational by early spring.

Finance

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 15, 2025

The utilities contend that 30 days, a deadline sought by the cable industry to expedite builds, is not enough time to get a contractor onboarded to do dangerous work next to live electrical equipment. Utilities have maintained ISPs rarely propose new contractors, and the cable industry has pointed to instances where requests went unanswered.

Cable

Waveband Communications

JULY 8, 2025

While Bluetooth models provide enhanced mobility and eliminate cable management issues, organizations should verify their existing radio equipment supports this technology or budget for additional adapters to ensure seamless integration.

Radio

Telecom Talk

OCTOBER 19, 2024

EllaLink and SPLANG are extending the EllaLink subsea cable to French Guiana with the Lum@link system, providing low-latency, high-capacity connectivity.

Cable

Developing Telecoms

APRIL 6, 2025

The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) says that state-owned operator Libtelco and the Cable Consortium of Liberia (CCL) will relocate the countrys landing station for the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) subsea cable, which has been suffering from outages blamed on construction work at the current landing site.

Construction

Developing Telecoms

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Liberty Networks and Gold Data announced on Wednesday that Telecom Italia’s international telecoms arm Sparkle has joined their plan to construct a new subsea cable system – renamed MANTA – connecting the US, Mexico, Panama and Colombia.

Cable

Developing Telecoms

OCTOBER 29, 2024

OMS Group, a Malaysian subsea digital infrastructure company, has signed a contract with Dutch maritime firm Royal IHC for the construction of a series of cable-laying vessels. OMS is backed by KKR, a global investment firm investing across private markets in every asset class all over the world.

Cable

Telecom Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

NEC Corporation announces the completion of the Asia Direct Cable (ADC), a high-capacity submarine cable that enhances communication infrastructure across East and Southeast Asia.

Cable

Total Telecom

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Cable Landing Station will act as an interconnectivity node providing carrier and hosting facilities to anchor international subsea optical fiber cable systems from Europe and the Middle East crossing the Eastern Mediterranean, connecting Cyprus with Greece, Israel, Egypt and other East and West destinations.

Cable