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 …
Smaller Providers Facing Problems Ahead of FCC Mapping Deadline Read More »
Cable operators struggled through a tough quarter of broadband subscriber growth in Q2, with Comcast reporting flat growth (negative on the residential side), Charter sliding into the negative, and Altice reporting its fourth consecutive quarter of losses. All three cable operators attributed some of their struggles to the same issues: low move activity combined with …
The FCC plans to unveil its long-awaited new and improved National Broadband Map sometime later this year, but in the meantime telecom providers and other interested parties can consult a new mapping option developed by Microsoft. Impact: It’s well known that the FCC’s broadband map has historically lacked accuracy on broadband availability because it depends …
Microsoft Seeks to Fill in the Gaps with New Broadband Mapping Tool Read More »
It seems like every day there’s a new headline proclaiming good news or bad news for low earth orbit satellite Internet provider Starlink, part of the SpaceX family of companies. Impact: The most recent evidence of that comes from a recent Ookla report using Q1 data from its Speedtest platform. On one hand, Starlink’s median …
Starlink Faces Headwinds — and Tailwinds, Depending on the Source Read More »
Ziply Fiber has been busily expanding its fiber infrastructure since it was formed out of WaveDivision Capital’s acquisition of its four-state Pacific Northwest footprint from Frontier Communications in May 2020. Impact: For the most part, Ziply’s fiber deployments have been all organic, with the company announcing a year ago that it would spend $500 million …
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Although the bulk of the federal broadband funding provided for in last year’s infrastructure legislation won’t be available until the FCC completes its overhaul of the country’s broadband maps later this year, the Biden Administration opened up the application process in May as part of its “Internet for All” initiative. Impact: The administration wants states, …
Federal Broadband Funding Train Starts Rolling Down the Track Read More »
