NTIA has thus far approved initial BEAD proposals from 51 states and territories, including the District of Columbia, but it’s still not clear when those states will finally get to the point where they can start distributing money to fund broadband deployments. Impact: The initial proposals include Volume I and Volume II and well as …
AT&T appears ready to make up with Nokia roughly nine months after it tossed the Finnish equipment maker to the side last year in favor of a $14 billion wireless open RAN deal with Ericsson. Impact: The new five-year agreement between AT&T and Nokia focuses on wireline fiber rather than wireless, however, and while analysts …
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Dish parent company EchoStar this month unveiled a plan to revamp Boost Mobile in an effort to turn the company’s wireless fortunes around after the less than successful Boost Infinite postpaid launch in late 2022. Impact: EchoStar CEO Hamid Akhavan previously alluded to the need to revamp its Boost Mobile service on the company’s Q1 …
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Verizon recently rolled out a brand refresh that includes a new logo and the debut of myHome, which offers Internet augmented by a suite of entertainment and connected home offerings. Impact: In a corporate communication, Verizon announced that it is refreshing its branding, “bringing forward the energy and vibrancy of how people live, work and …
The race to be the first mobile carrier to launch satellite-to-cellular connectivity should start to get pretty heated this summer after the news that AT&T signed a commercial deal last week with satellite connectivity partner AST SpaceMobile that runs through 2030. Impact: The deal is significant, because it means once AST SpaceMobile gets its first …
T-Mobile’s 5 million fixed wireless subscribers may find their speeds slowed if they consume too much data after the carrier updated its data prioritization strategy to give it the option to slow speeds for those it has designated as heavy users if the need arises. Impact: T-Mobile first implemented the soft cap on new fixed …
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Frontier continues its march toward 10 million fiber locations by year-end 2025, finishing the year at sixty-five percent of the way to that goal after adding more than 1.3 million passings for the full year in 2023. Source: Frontier Q4 earnings materials Impact: Frontier reported another strong quarter related to its fiber product in Q4, …
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Even though on the surface 2023 may not have seemed like a busy year for broadband mergers and acquisitions, the industry actually saw plenty of activity, most of which related to fiber and private investors. Impact: With the lure of billions in BEAD funding, investment firms and private equity groups spent the year circling fiber …
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Comcast first started rolling out its long-awaited DOCSIS 4.0 upgrades to select neighborhoods in Colorado Springs, CO, in October, announcing at the time that it planned to launch the technology to parts of the Atlanta and Philadelphia metro areas by the end of the year. Impact: Barely a month later, Comcast made good on its …
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The fiber speed wars have started heating up again as providers eye ways to differentiate themselves with double-digit multi-gigabit speeds and once again Ziply Fiber seems to be leading the charge toward even faster fiber offerings just as cable’s DOCSIS 4.0 technology starts to take off. Impact: Just as Ziply Fiber made waves in January …
