Ziply Talks Edge-Out and FWA Plans
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.
Specter of Fixed Wireless Seemingly Lives in Wireline Executives’ Heads
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 Lights Up 5 Gbps Service in Four Markets
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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Scrappy Fiber Overbuilders Pick It Up a Notch to Start 2023
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 …
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AT&T Views Fiber Strategy As Key to Long-Term Success
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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FCC Broadband Map Moves Into the Next Phase After Challenge Deadline
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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Charter Unveils HFC Network Upgrade Strategy
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 …
Fiber Deployments Slow with Supply Chain and Other Disruptions
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 Makes Waves with Supposed Fiber Interest
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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New Study Reveals What Consumers Want in Broadband Labels
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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