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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
AT&T Views Fiber Strategy As Key to Long-Term Success Read More »
The FCC has yet to reveal how many broadband availability challenges to its new broadband map were received by the January 13 deadline but given the number of concerns raised publicly about the process, we expect a fairly large number. Impact: Prior to the deadline last week, FierceTelecom reported that more than 300,000 challenges …
FCC Broadband Map Moves Into the Next Phase After Challenge Deadline Read More »
At an investor day this month, Charter Communications revealed a number of updates about its overall operational strategy, including details on a $5.5-billion network upgrade plan that it says will ultimately yield wireline broadband speeds up to 10 Gbps. Impact: Charter executives, including new CEO Chris Winfrey and product and technology head Rich DiGeronimo, described …
A series of trade publication articles over the last few weeks warn of a looming slowdown in the current U.S. fiber craze, variously describing concerns about a fiber bubble, a fiber bust, and fiber speed bumps. Impact: The concerns stem from some fiber operators failing to meet their quarterly buildout targets for both the third …
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