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Tim Stelzig: Explaining BEAD, Trying to Bridge the Digital Divide

Broadband Breakfast

Primarily, these are rural markets, although some suburban, exurban, and even urban areas suffer from poor coverage economics as well. The value of mobile phone service has changed market dynamics and today more than 99.1% Federal subsidies therefore are necessary for ubiquitous access to internet service. in 1960, to 90.5%

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Agentic AI and the Future of Communications for Autonomous Vehicle (V2X)

IEEE ComSoc

DSRC Safety Modem, Available at- “[link] VANETs and V2X Communication, Available at- “[link] Yu, K., Touzene, A., Alzidi, N., & Al Salti, F. 2025, July). Intelligent Handover Decision-Making for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) 5G Networks. In Telecom (Vol. Li, D., & Yu, J. arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.01720.

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Tariffs and Broadband: Every Day is a New Day

Broadband Breakfast

Networking equipment such as routers, hubs, switches, modems, chips, as well as essential plastics and electronic components used for broadband and 5G deployments, server racks, and data center infrastructure are likely impacted depending upon country of origin for manufacturing of parts and sub-assemblies for this equipment.

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What is an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)? 

VoIP MS

If you don’t believe us, read this: The landline phone market is projected to reach 247.1 The market is even projected to grow by 1.0% Connect to your Internet: Use an Ethernet cable to link the ATA to your internet router. Using a secure router and modem and strong passwords helps prevent unauthorized access.

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DOCSIS 3.1+ gets ready to roll

Light Reading

modems and gateways featuring new Broadcom and MaxLinear chips are quietly making their way to market. The devices will let cable ops ramp up downstream speeds to about 8 Gbit/s without major HFC network upgrades. Next-gen DOCSIS 3.1

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Does promotional broadband pricing make sense to broadband providers today?

Blandin on Broadband

Aside from the revenue, marketing costs are tricky to calculate. RCN prefers that users purchase a cable modem. Under today’s conditions, if your promo price is 50 percent off, your average price over the course of a customer’s two-year lease is only 75 percent full price. On the one hand, good promos bring in more customers.

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Key opponent of ACP extension claims subsidy will inflate prices

EldoTelecom

advanced telecommunications policy and its fraught evolution is fostering a commodity market of “broadband” bandwidth. Its roots date back to the early 1990s and sluggish dialup connections over screeching modems. Going on three decades later, the terms are used to describe a commodity market of bandwidth sold in price tiers.