State allocations for the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program that aims to extend high-speed broadband service to millions of unserved and underserved locations across the country were finally revealed this week Impact: In an event at the White House, President Biden introduced the BEAD program to the country as the federal government’s …
With the next version of the updated nationwide broadband map published on May 30, a review of the changes to availability and location data should provide a clearer picture as to how NTIA will use the map for the upcoming BEAD funding distribution. Impact: The latest iteration of the map that includes availability data reported …
Latest FCC Broadband Map Released, Will Be Used for BEAD Funding Read More »
The new Verizon 5G unlimited mobile plan structure the company has dubbed myPlan aims to simplify the company’s mobile offerings and help engineer a turnaround in the company’s consumer postpaid mobile fortunes. Impact: Starting May 18, potential Verizon mobile wireless customers have just two plan options from which to choose: Unlimited Welcome or Unlimited Plus, …
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According to CEO John Stankey, AT&T had already signed up its first Gigapower customer ahead of the company’s April Q1 earnings call and before the deal to establish the open-access fiber joint venture with BlackRock Alternatives has closed. Impact: Not only has AT&T gotten its Gigapower deployment off to a fast start, FierceTelecom recently found …
AT&T Moves Fast on Gigapower Deployments to Bolster Fiber Growth Read More »
Even before AT&T’s December announcement that it had formed a joint venture with BlackRock Alternatives to develop an open access fiber network to extend its fiber presence outside of its traditional wireline footprint, several open access providers were already quietly going about their business across the U.S. Impact: For example, the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure …
Ziply named Yakima, WA, as both its 100th fiber market and its first official edge-out market last month as CEO Harold Zeitz aims to move aggressively to deploy fiber in more edge-out locations.
For all the talk about how fixed wireless access service doesn’t represent a real threat to wireline broadband, wireline executives spend a lot of time talking about the wireless technology during earnings calls and investor conferences. Impact: In the most recent earnings cycle and ensuing investor conferences that inevitably follow every round of quarterly earnings, …
Specter of Fixed Wireless Seemingly Lives in Wireline Executives’ Heads Read More »
Google Fiber made good on one of its 2022 promises and launched a symmetrical 5 Gbps fiber Internet tier to four markets in mid-February. Impact: Last October, Google Fiber revealed it would roll out faster multi-gigabit broadband options in early 2023, in part to keep up with other fiber players that had launched multi-gigabit speeds …
Google Fiber Lights Up 5 Gbps Service in Four Markets Read More »
If it feels like a number of smaller and regional fiber overbuilders have picked up their deployment pace in 2023, that’s because in many cases they have. Impact: New research from the analysts at Wall Street firm Cowen indicates that some of the country’s large fiber players, including AT&T, Altice, Consolidated, Frontier, and Lumen, could …
Scrappy Fiber Overbuilders Pick It Up a Notch to Start 2023 Read More »
AT&T added 280,000 new fiber subscribers in Q4, a 3.3% increase from a year ago and the company’s 12th consecutive quarter with more than 200,000 net fiber adds. Impact: But the fiber gains AT&T made in Q4 were its lowest quarterly fiber net adds of the year and came in 17% lower than the 338,000 …
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