Lumen finally appears ready to move forward with a potential sale of its consumer fiber operations, according to a Reuters report that broke on December 20 and said the company has hired Goldman Sachs to gauge potential interest in Lumen’s consumer fiber assets. Impact: For now, Lumen is mostly in the exploratory phase of a …
Debate around the question of what to do with CBRS spectrum continues, as wireless carriers and other interested parties recently filed a variety of responses to the FCC’s request for comments on proposed reforms of the 3.5 GHz band. Impact: Stakeholders like AT&T and Verizon want the rules guiding CBRS operations revised or thrown out …
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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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