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Dean Bubley: After Budget Bill, Do No Harm to CBRS and 6 GHz

Broadband Breakfast

In addition, enterprises in critical sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, logistics, hospitals and education increasingly rely on CBRS private LTE or 5G networks at their sites, with new installations ramping up fast. Cable ISPs including Charter and Comcast also offer 6 GHz routers.

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Vermont’s Otter Creek CUD Finishes Fiber Expansion, Focuses On Customer Service

Broadband Breakfast

“As well, a portion of our area was peeled off to allow the ILEC in three of the towns in our District to be served by the existing small ILEC business – Shoreham Telephone – under their own grant funding program.” ” CUDs: New alliances to solve very old problems Like so many U.S.

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How Reliable is Our Nation's – and the World's – Broadband Infrastructure?

Broadband Breakfast

Heading North, on August 29, 2024, the tiny cruise ship town of Sitka, Alaska suffered an undersea cable cut which required about two weeks to repair.     In outer space, adverse foreign countries and their agencies are a growing broadband threat.   David W.

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An Informed Citizens View of the Current Broadband Fiber Kerfuffle

Broadband Breakfast

Rural broadband Internet in this country for the most part remains monopolized, overpriced, insufficiently fast, hampering economic growth and resilience, as well as educational and healthcare  opportunities.  They attract businesses,  creating jobs, and support education. They just did what it took and got it done.

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Survey: About half of all households passed by fiber in 2024 -- with less than half of those connected.

EldoTelecom

Internet connectivity is regarded as a utility as was voice telephone service before it where most every address had service. Over the past few years, mobile providers like Verizon and T-Mobile have rolled out fixed wireless technology that some households are using instead of higher priced cable service.

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Senator Bill Weber celebrates MN broadband grant for Bigelow (Nobles County)

Blandin on Broadband

The Lismore Cooperative Telephone Company will establish and operate a Fiber to the Premise network aimed at bridging the digital divide in the rural City of Bigelow, Nobles County. miles of last-mile buried fiber and fiber drop cabling, serving 113 locations—19 of which are unserved and 94 are underserved.

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CentraCom Partners with Spectrum Academy to Help Students Reach Full Potential

USTELECOM

That’s certainly the case with CentraCom, which has been delivering phone, Internet and cable TV to central, north and western Utah since it was founded in 1903 as the first independent rural telephone company in Fairview, Utah. And promoting education has been a key part of that outreach.