Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 16, 2025

Conexon Connect  has completed its first fiber to the home project in Florida, a 2,000-mile network launched in partnership with  Escambia River Electric Cooperative. Glades Electric Cooperative and Conexon Connect announced the connection of their first fiber customer back in  January of 2024.

Connectivity

Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Construction is almost done in the areas of Kimberly, Spencer, Jevne, Flemming, and Morrison Townships east of the city of Aitkin and west of the city of McGregor. Anyone in these expansion areas interested in getting connected to the all-fiber optic broadband network should sign up for service now before construction is done.

Communication

Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Construction is done in the Forbes Area SW of Eveleth and the city of Buhl. To check to see if a specific location is within an expansion area and learn more about the expansion construction process, visit [link] Anyone interested in getting connected to the all-fiber optic broadband network in these areas can still sign up for service.

Communication

Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

million and will see Wessex Internet expanding its existing network in the Wylye Valley, going across the Salisbury Plain, connecting villages surrounding Amesbury, and going as far north as Chisbury and Little Bedwyn. The first communities to be connected will be Stapleford, Wylye and Bapton. The contract is worth £18.8

Cable

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The construction project has been fueled by grants first from the Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Community, and the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development before getting a significant infusion from the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.

Broadband

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2024

No doubt looking for a little drama, he was surprised to hear everyone answer with varying versions of, “It’s actually very common” and, “We all share the same goal of connecting rural America.” Green Hills Telephone Corporation (Breckenridge, Mo.) Kingdom Telephone Company (Auxvasse, Mo.) Steelville Telephone Exchange, Inc.

Connectivity

VoIP Insider

OCTOBER 23, 2024

S33 DECT Handset : Offers exceptional voice clarity and reliable connectivity for uninterrupted conversations. With durable construction, secure features, and over-the-air updates, this handset meets all your needs. Enjoy seamless connectivity with a 3.6M CAT 5E LAN cable and reliable power from the NEMA 5-15 system.

Hardware

EldoTelecom

AUGUST 29, 2024

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said, “If we're going to connect every American, including the tens of millions of Americans who now don't have the internet, we're going to have to lay fiber all across this country.”

Telephone

USTELECOM

AUGUST 26, 2024

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.

Construction

USTELECOM

AUGUST 26, 2024

The story of broadband across the country is told one mile at a time, with hundreds of broadband companies painstakingly building out the capability to connect their customers. That’s exactly what Coon Valley Farmer’s Telephone Co., It wasn’t all smooth sailing, as construction was stopped by an April snowstorm!

Construction

Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 22, 2025

In 2015, Mille Lacs County developed a broadband feasibility study that included a brief statement on connectivity on the reservation; they were focusing fiber on their casino, tribal headquarters and a few other businesses. Tribal Area (25/3) 2024 (25/3) 2021 (25/3) 2019 (100/20) 2024 (100/20) 2021 (100/20) 2019 Mille Lacs 100 76.41

Broadband

EldoTelecom

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

These dominant Big Tech companies that benefit financially from the connectivity that USF makes possible should contribute to our shared goals of connectivity and affordability. And supporting its construction and operation by making low interest long term loans available as well as technical assistance grants to help them organize?

Telephone

TELCO

APRIL 22, 2024

MANSFIELD, MA March 22, 2024 – Telco Systems, the leading vendor of connected, intelligent edge solutions, today announced, that it has been awarded a further contract from CEMEX, S.A.B NYSE: CX), a leading global construction materials company, for Edgility, the company’s virtualized edge management and orchestration platform.

Platform

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

million dollars, will bring much-needed connectivity to a total of 94 units, including 5 anchor institutions, on the Reservation in Fresno County with 100 percent of the households served by this project qualifying as low-income. According to the announcement, the Tribe has elected to work with Ponderosa Telephone Company on the project.

Broadband

VoIP Insider

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Some environments utilize analog systems, and devices connected by hardwire, some use VoIP (IP), devices connected through ethernet/network, and some use a mixture of both, hybrid solutions. At the beginning of this process, it is important to evaluate your current systems.

Education

EldoTelecom

APRIL 1, 2024

The consortium will finance fiber construction and operations with cash contributions and long term bonds backed by the consortium members along with participation private equity firms. State and local governments and railroads will be offered fiber connectivity at no cost in exchange for right of way access and waiver of all permitting.

Telecommunication

US Telecom

AUGUST 26, 2024

REV/REV Business is making connections in their local community though more than just the wires – continuing their efforts to support under-resourced school children by partnering with a local nonprofit, Volunteer Ascension. Contributions are collected, counted, and divided as equally between the primary and secondary schools in the area.

Distribution

Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

e) “Last-mile infrastructure” means broadband infrastructure that serves as the final leg connecting the broadband service provider’s network to the end-use customer’s on-premises telecommunications equipment. (f) (d) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of employment and economic development. (e)

Telecommunication

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 18, 2024

And one of the things that I think has been really top of mind for a lot of people these days has been the Affordable Connectivity Program, or the ACP, which came out in the Infrastructure Act. NTCA members were very active, as were a number of others of you in this room, in terms of getting folks connected under the ACP program.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 31, 2025

” Today, the nation’s communications infrastructure powers modern society, providing essential connectivity for a broad range of activities and critical functions. They provide vital connections for coordinating emergency services, directing resources, and operating critical public alert systems including 911 systems.

Communication

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

Department of Agriculture has called rural innovators to apply for its 2025 Community Connect Grants. The Community Connect program defines areas eligible for awards as those receiving Internet service below 10 Megabits per second (Mbps) * 1 Mbps. million to expand fiber broadband to Groton and parts of South Ryegate.

Connectivity

EldoTelecom

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It called for the construction of an “advanced National Information Infrastructure (NII),” described as “a seamless web of communications networks, computers, databases, and consumer electronics that will put vast amounts of information at users’ fingertips.” A generation later, it is painfully apparent that it didn’t play out that way.

Telephone

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Investing in broadband infrastructure benefits businesses and communities across the state,” said Governor Walz.  “ By connecting thousands of Minnesotans to businesses, education, and health care through broadband, we’re making Minnesota the best place to work, live, and do business.”

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The county currently has ownership and use of nearly 1,200 miles of fiber throughout Carver County and southern Minnesota connecting more than 280 last mile public and community support locations. Many of these markets have no connectivity; many others are stuck on dated, sluggish, patchy connectivity from regional monopolies.

Construction

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

“When it reversed the Chevron precedent that gave broad discretion to regulatory agencies, the Supreme Court instructed lower courts to interpret the law according to its plain meaning, applying ordinary tools of statutory construction,” John Bergmayer , legal director at Public Knowledge, said in a statement.

Common Carrier

IEEE ComSoc

JANUARY 2, 2025

The decision is a win for broadband service providers along with several organizations, including ACA Connects, CTIA, NCTA and USTelecom , that had argued against the rules, holding that the market has been thriving under a “light-touch regulatory framework.” “Accordingly, the FCC’s contrary conclusion is unlawful.”

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 6, 2024

By signing the bill, Walz ensured that local governments in his state can compete with Comcast and Mediacom for federal broadband grant money supplied by the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to connect unserved and underserved households.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 2, 2025

  The Quantum Corridor, connecting with many AI-related applications, is designed to expand the heart of North America as an engine of American competitiveness in our 21st century world. The Quantum Park is slated for construction in 2025 and 2026, along with recruitment of other businesses. The overall 567-acre former U.S.

Broadband

Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 4, 2025

e) “Last-mile infrastructure” means broadband infrastructure that serves as the final leg connecting the broadband service provider’s network to the end-use customer’s on-premises telecommunications equipment. (f) (d) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of employment and economic development. (e)

Provisioning

EldoTelecom

MAY 19, 2025

Importantly, Congress directed that each state and territory must ensure every broadband serviceable location in its jurisdiction gets connectivity as a condition of receiving the bulk of BEAD funding. billion deployed over a five year period. The likely outcome of this debate as far the as the IIJA is concerned will favor the later.

Telecommunication