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 …
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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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T-Mobile dominated the news over the past week with its potential interest in getting into the wireline fiber business, another 5G Home Internet expansion, and the launch of standalone 5G into its mid-band Ultra Capacity 5G network. Impact: We’ll start with the most surprising news first: T-Mobile may be looking to get into the wireline …
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The findings of a new study from the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University on the topic of the coming FCC broadband “nutrition” labels got a lot of attention last week, with the deadline for the FCC to reveal the labels fast approaching in November. Impact: The FCC first unveiled a …
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After the debacle surrounding the launch of C-band spectrum into the 5G networks of AT&T and Verizon earlier this year amid concerns about airplane interference, the FCC and the FAA (under guidance from the U.S. Department of Transportation) have worked hard to keep discussions between the two camps productive. Impact: But now a new …
Aviation Industry Pushes to Make C-Band Restrictions Permanent Read More »
Cable executives at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo provided a glimpse into how the industry plans to compete with multi-gigabit speeds even as it works to counter fiber’s high speeds with speed increases of its own. Impact: At the conference, executives from Comcast, Charter, and Cox emphasized how much customer expectations for their broadband service have …
Cable Industry Hints at Competitive Strategy to Counter Fiber Read More »
Anyone expecting a third quarter turnaround in Verizon’s mobile fortunes likely wasn’t happy with CEO Hans Vestberg’s recent admission that the carrier expects to lose phone customers again in Q3. Impact: For those counting, that means Verizon will have lost wireless retail postpaid phone customers in all three quarters so far in 2022 after losing …
Verizon’s Mobile Business Not Likely to Turn Around in Q3 Read More »
With $450 million in new funding in hand, Ziply Fiber will look to edge-out and greenfield opportunities to expand its fiber network beyond the existing footprint it acquired from Frontier Communications two years ago. Impact: For the past two years, Ziply Fiber has been busy executing a fiber expansion strategy designed to upgrade roughly 85% …
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Concerns are rising among smaller broadband providers that they won’t be able to meet the FCC’s September 1 deadline to submit their coverage data in order to be eligible for participation in the upcoming Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment program. Impact: The first hint that anything was amiss with the FCC’s broadband mapping schedule came …
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