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 …
Depending on their size, broadband providers have six or 12 months to come into compliance with the FCC’s Consumer Broadband Label guidelines. Impact: In an Oct. 10 press release, the FCC announced that most providers will have to start using the mandated broadband nutrition labels within six months, requiring full compliance by April 10, 2024. …
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Following a recent Bloomberg report that said T-Mobile has been in talks with new fiber player Tillman FiberCo to become an anchor tenant on its yet-to-be-built open-access fiber network, the question appears to be when T-Mobile will move deeper into fiber, not if it will. Impact: T-Mobile appears ready to get more involved in fiber …
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T-Mobile and Comcast recently agreed to a deal that will see the carrier lease 71 spectrum licenses in the 600 MHz band (covering 149 million people) from the cable operator to bolster its nationwide low-band 5G network. Impact: Both companies should benefit from the move, which materialized after Comcast conducted successful employee wireless trials using …
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After the FCC paused its efforts to establish consumer broadband labels for several months to address providers’ requests for changes, the labeling process appears to be moving forward again. Impact: The labels, more colloquially known as “Broadband Nutrition Labels,” have progressed to the point where they’re under review from the Office of Management and Budget …
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AT&T’s expansion of its Internet Air fixed wireless access service to 16 additional markets this month signals the company wants to join rivals T-Mobile and Verizon in 5G fixed wireless access service. Impact: After sticking to its all-fiber strategy for the past several years and downplaying its interest in FWA, AT&T rolled out its Internet …
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An exposé from the Wall Street Journal reported recently that legacy telecom cables covered in lead and belonging to AT&T, Verizon, and others have degraded and contaminated locations across the country. Impact: The investigative report found at least 2,000 old cables, used in both overhead and buried lines and dating as far back as the …
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