NTIA has thus far approved initial BEAD proposals from 51 states and territories, including the District of Columbia, but it’s still not clear when those states will finally get to the point where they can start distributing money to fund broadband deployments. Impact: The initial proposals include Volume I and Volume II and well as …
AT&T appears ready to make up with Nokia roughly nine months after it tossed the Finnish equipment maker to the side last year in favor of a $14 billion wireless open RAN deal with Ericsson. Impact: The new five-year agreement between AT&T and Nokia focuses on wireline fiber rather than wireless, however, and while analysts …
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The complicated relationship between privately owned Windstream and publicly held Uniti has taken another turn, with the two companies announcing plans to reunite as one, with a focus on fiber deployments in Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets. Source: Uniti, Windstream Impact: The deal comes nine years after Windstream spun off Uniti in 2015 as …
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Frontier continues its march toward 10 million fiber locations by year-end 2025, finishing the year at sixty-five percent of the way to that goal after adding more than 1.3 million passings for the full year in 2023. Source: Frontier Q4 earnings materials Impact: Frontier reported another strong quarter related to its fiber product in Q4, …
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The fiber speed wars have started heating up again as providers eye ways to differentiate themselves with double-digit multi-gigabit speeds and once again Ziply Fiber seems to be leading the charge toward even faster fiber offerings just as cable’s DOCSIS 4.0 technology starts to take off. Impact: Just as Ziply Fiber made waves in January …
Following a recent Bloomberg report that said T-Mobile has been in talks with new fiber player Tillman FiberCo to become an anchor tenant on its yet-to-be-built open-access fiber network, the question appears to be when T-Mobile will move deeper into fiber, not if it will. Impact: T-Mobile appears ready to get more involved in fiber …
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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 …
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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.
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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