Broadband Breakfast

JULY 18, 2025

The August FCC meeting will also include undersea cables, Carr said.   Carr commented on how foreign adversaries, like China, “pose greater threats to submarine cable infrastructure than ever.” He said he wants to make for a cleaner and quicker approval process to motivate investors and innovation. 

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 23, 2025

T-Mobile also added 830,000 postpaid phone customers, for a total of 80.3 Cable MVNO T-Mobile announced Tuesday evening it had struck a mobile virtual network operator deal with cable giants Comcast and Charter, allowing them to provide mobile service to business customers with the carrier’s wireless network.

Mobile

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 21, 2025

“The weaker broadband trends, and particularly the weaker FWA trends, will be encouraging for cable,” New Street Research analyst Jonathan Chaplin said in a Monday investor note. “However, this also suggests slower market growth, which isn’t great for cable.” Vestberg was still positive.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 24, 2025

That point was the subject of fierce lobbying from electric companies and the cable industry. NCTA, which had asked for the deadline and represents the cable industry, was pleased with the order’s adoption. There's a whole community behind your FREE membership.

Cable

TDS Connect

JULY 1, 2025

Fiber-optic technology is the gold standard for internet, phone, and TV service – which is exactly why TDS is busy building fiber networks in many parts of our service area. Other local providers may say they offer “fiber,” but often simply add fiber to their existing cable lines. This is known as “Radio Frequency over Glass,” or RFoG.

Bandwidth

IEEE ComSoc

JUNE 26, 2025

are being driven down by fierce competition between mobile carriers offering Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and cable internet companies offering legacy Hybrid Fiber Coax connections. Fixed wireless can sometimes cost half as much as a cable-provided internet plan. Home internet prices in the U.S. million FWA customers in 2024.

Internet

Total Telecom

MARCH 27, 2025

Recycling the PCBs from a million discarded mobile phones can recover around 6,000kg of copper, 350kg of silver, 34kg of gold and 15kg of palladium25 million mobile phones discarded in the UK each year. The UK produces 6 million tonnes of e-waste a year.

Hardware

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 15, 2025

The cable operator spent more than $460 million on priority licenses in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band in 2020. He said that involved radios, chips, and mobile phone hardware and software that could take advantage of the airwaves. “Now that’s all done,” he said.

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 15, 2025

The value of mobile phone service has changed market dynamics and today more than 99.1% The USF Fund contributed significantly to increasing telephone service coverage from less than 50% of occupied housing units in the 1940s, to 78.3% in 1960, to 90.5% in 1970, to 92.9% in 1980, to 94.8% in 1990, and to 97.6%

Telephone

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 26, 2025

Verizon is separately offering free satelltie texting through Skylo on newer phones. The company is offering to pay early termination fees and pay off up to four phones at up to $800 each, and provide new phones at no cost if customers sign on for two years.

Mobile

AT&T Connects

JULY 16, 2025

These crimes have disabled streetlights, severed phone and broadband connections and created multi-million-dollar repair costs across the state. The public is encouraged to report suspicious activity, such as unmarked (non-AT&T) vehicles or individuals cutting and removing cables.

Cable

All West Telecommunications

JUNE 2, 2025

A 1-gigabit internet plan gives you download and upload speeds of up to 1,000 Mbpsthis is made possible by light pulses through fiber optic cables. Compared to older internet types like DSL or cable, gigabit internet is way faster and more reliable. Ethernet cables give you full gigabit speed.

Internet

VoIP Insider

APRIL 8, 2025

Most modern IP paging devices use Power over Ethernet (PoE) for power and data transmission over a single cable. If your organization uses a VoIP phone system , ensure that the new IP paging system is compatible with your Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) infrastructure.

Network

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 22, 2025

“Whether it's AT&T, Frontier or any other cable company, it is the key to guaranteed service.” ” “However, we have already seen phone companies start to back away from their COLR mandate. It's about a commitment,” said Frank Arce , international vice president for CWA.

Landline

All West Telecommunications

JUNE 9, 2025

DSL, short for Digital Subscriber Line, is a type of internet that works through copper phone lines. It uses fiber-optic cables that transmit data at the speed of light - literally. Let’s dive in! What Is DSL Internet? It’s one of the oldest forms of broadband internet, and chances are, it’s widely available in your area.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

JUNE 5, 2025

Lucero Mendoza-Briano , a human relations representative of Kelly Cable, asked for a time frame, hoping to resolve damages to the community when the order is lifted.  Some company representatives were asking for phone numbers of residents, promising to “reach out quickly to resolve issues.” ”

Construction

TDS Connect

MARCH 19, 2025

Phone, cable, water, or gas lines are also possibilities; thereare many hidden lines in the ground that need to be marked before you dig. There could be power lines from your home to your garage, for example.

Phone

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 4, 2025

states, Vermont was heavily dominated by private regional phone and cable monopolies that historically never tried very hard to compete. Fiber is going to help Vermonters age in place, it's going to have implications for our clean energy future, it is a tool that can help us revitalize Vermont communities now and in the future.”

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 20, 2025

Both cable companies provide mobile service through deals with Verizon, and have more than 17 million subscribers between them. Only Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9 phones can use the feature for now. T-Mobile has a simialr deal with SpaceX, and its satellite messaging service is in beta.

Phone

VoIP MS

JUNE 3, 2025

If you don’t believe us, read this: The landline phone market is projected to reach 247.1 These devices serve as a bridge between classic landlines and modern VoIP systems, combining the familiarity of traditional phones with the cost savings and features of Internet calling. Who still uses landlines in 2025? Impressive, right?

Telephone

VoIP Insider

MARCH 26, 2025

Poly CCX 505 Business Media PoE Phone for Microsoft Teams 82Z79AA Seamless integration with Teams for efficient communication. Simplifies installation with a single Ethernet cable for both power and data. Yealink WH67 Teams DECT Wireless Headset 1308040 Touchscreen base with speakerphone, USB hub, and wireless charging.

Video conferencing

Broadband Breakfast

MAY 28, 2025

💡 ◾ VTel: EchoStar 5G Extension Unlawful ◾ Rep Gill: House Will Defund CPB ◾ WSJ: States Getting with Starlink Program ◾ ImOn Has Cayman Islands ‘Control Chain’ ◾ Nispel: Lumen Deal Negative for Cable Alaska:  Say hello to  GCI Liberty.  That More after paywall.)

Broadband

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

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 1, 2025

Some Post-Loper Cleanup Needed ◾ Charter Holders OKs Cox Deal After Stock Plunge ◾ Cable One Drops 13,500 Broadband Subs in Q2 Shentel:  When Shentel last named a new leader,  President Reagan  was in his final year in the White House. Shentel in Edinburg, Va.,  More after paywall.)

Cable

Light Reading

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The NCTA is urging the FCC to adopt new rules requiring mobile operators to unlock phones 180 days after service is initiated. The org believes that period would spur mobile competition and help operators deter device fraud.

Phone

Total Telecom

OCTOBER 9, 2024

According to the study, these “drawers of doom” across the UK could contain up to 38,449 tonnes of copper in the form of unused devices and related cables. Anything with a plug, battery or cable can be reused and recycled and there’s somewhere near you to do it.” Is the telecoms industry doing enough to recycle its legacy networks?

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 3, 2024 – A small Texas city is finding out what it's like when the cable TV company cuts the cord. 6,000) will soon experience a shift in its media landscape as TDS Telecom plans to discontinue its cable TV service there by Sept. Alpine, Texas (pop. the parent company of Big Bend Telephone Co.,

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

25, 2024 – A group of 15 Democratic attorneys general want the Federal Communications Commission to move forward with its phone unlocking proposal. ” The agency proposed in July requiring mobile carriers to unlock phones after 60 days, meaning the phones could then be switched to another provider’s network.

Phone

Total Telecom

JANUARY 9, 2025

That collaboration focused on providing faster broadband and home phone services for customers. Beyond the Cable discusses Back in 2023, the Telstra and Starlink signed a deal to deliver fixed broadband and voice services to remote areas across the country.

Construction

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 22, 2024

22, 2024 – A major cable industry group is warning that a proposed 60-day mobile phone unlocking standard could open the door to billions of dollars in fraud. WASHINGTON, Oct.

Phone

Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This will allow customers to send and receive text messages globally, even in areas without traditional mobile coverage, using their regular phones, with no ad-ons or additional hardware.

Modem

Total Telecom

OCTOBER 11, 2024

SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus are accused of sharing internal information with each other between 2015 and 2022, allegedly to align their sales incentives paid to mobile phone retailers. billion on the nation’s three telco giants. According to local media , if the FTC’s decision is finalised, the regulator intends to charge SKT between $1.05

Distribution

Total Telecom

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Now more and more trains are being added to our fleet with mobile phone-transparent windows. Uninterrupted mobile phone reception is a basic need for our customers,” he continued. Telekom has strengthened its network for this purpose, and we at DB have equipped our vehicles. “We built a new mast every two and a half days.

Connectivity

Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Earlier this year, BCE announced it would cut 4,800 jobs, roughly 9% of the company’s 44,610 workforce, as the company reported “declining legacy phone and news business”. The deal will be financed through the proceeds from BCE’s sale of its Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment stake, alongside a discounted Dividend Reinvestment Plan.

Marketing

Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

  NTIA, a division in the Commerce Department, urged the FCC to expand the unlocking requirement beyond just mobile phones to include all wireless devices, including tablets, which have frequently been subject to carrier locks. 

Phone

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

29, 2024 - AT&T is offering a hefty reward to anyone who comes forward with information about the theft of its copper cabling and leads to an arrest and conviction. A spike in copper cable thefts in recent months has left AT&T customers in South Dallas, Texas, without phone and internet service on more than a few occasions. 

Cable

VoIP Insider

JANUARY 30, 2025

See the Snom D815 SIP Phone like never before in this exclusive Product Feature Video! In the video, you will get a chance to see what comes in the box with the phone and get a detailed look at its features and functionality. So sit back and get ready to experience the power of the Snom D815 SIP phone! How cool is that?

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