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T-Mobile Selects Home Wi-Fi Vendor
T-Mobile Selects Home Wi-Fi Vendor Bellevue, Wash. — April 23, 2024 — T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) is shaking up the internet scene (again!) today, introducing two new plans to tackle broadband pain points – Home Internet Plus, the all-in-one plan with expanded home Wi-Fi coverage and Telecompetitor
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Texas Coalition Aims to Use Broadband, Digital Equity to Create a Smart Region
Texas Coalition Aims to Use Broadband, Digital Equity to Create a Smart Region A Texas broadband coalition aims to establish a smart region in the northern part of the state. Goals include bringing broadband to more households and improving digital inclusivity in the region. The North Texas Innovation Alliance (NXTIA), a 501(c)3 regional Telecompetitor
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BEAD Project Area Possibilities: Rules Vary a Lot from State to State
BEAD Project Area Possibilities: Rules Vary a Lot from State to State Rules for the $42.5 billion BEAD rural broadband funding program give individual states considerable leeway in how they define project areas – and broadband providers applying for funding should expect to see considerable variation from one state to the next. Telecompetitor
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Buy America: OFS Factory Creates 100 Jobs
Buy America: OFS Factory Creates 100 Jobs Fiber optic manufacturer OFS has announced that it is adding 100 jobs at its Georgia manufacturing facility, where products meeting Buy America requirements are built. Some of these are union jobs, according to the company. OFS also said it will Telecompetitor
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Great Plains Expands Fiber Network to Additional Nebraska Communities
Great Plains Expands Fiber Network to Additional Nebraska Communities Blair, Nebraska — May 09, 2024 — (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As part of its ongoing network expansion, Great Plains Communications (GPC), the Midwestern digital infrastructure provider delivering fiber-driven services over their 18,000 mile fiber network, announced network expansion to an additional 5,000+ Telecompetitor
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Twin Valley Expands 8 Gbps Service to Another Kansas Market
Twin Valley Expands 8 Gbps Service to Another Kansas Market May 9, 2024 — Twin Valley, Kansas’ largest privately-owned broadband and communications company, announces plans to extend its cutting-edge fiber network from rural Haysville, Kan. into city limits. As an industry leader, Twin Valley is transforming the digital landscape with one Telecompetitor
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New Offering Targets TDM-to-Cloud Migration
New Offering Targets TDM-to-Cloud Migration Pleasant Grove, Utah – May 8, 2024 – Alianza, Inc., the leading cloud communications platform for service providers, today announced CLOUDEDGETM with new capabilities for telecommunications service providers (telcos) to streamline migration of legacy voice infrastructure to the cloud. The Telecompetitor
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$9B Proposed for ACP and “Rip and Replace” Programs, with Changes to the ACP
$9B Proposed for ACP and “Rip and Replace” Programs, with Changes to the ACP A proposed amendment to a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration includes provisions that would make funding available for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and the Huawei “rip and replace” program. The amendment was introduced in Congress by three Telecompetitor
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Navigating the Pricing Landscape for Rural Broadband Service Providers
Navigating the Pricing Landscape for Rural Broadband Service Providers Rural broadband providers operate in a complicated landscape where they navigate competition, regulation, environmental factors, and other fluctuating circumstances. When setting prices for broadband, video, voice, and security products, decision-makers need to be able to sell at a profit without Telecompetitor
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State of Washington Awards Over $20M for Broadband Projects
The state of Washington Public Works Board has awarded over $20 million for broadband projects. The awards came in the form of loans and grants and will go to six entities. Awardees include two public utility districts, Okanogan County Electric
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NTIA to Award Up to $420M for Wireless Equipment Innovation
As much as $420 million in funding will be made available to build the radio equipment needed to advance the adoption of more open and interoperable wireless networks in the U.S. and abroad, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and
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Report: AI Could Drive Rural Data Center and Broadband Growth
Generative AI could drive rural data center and broadband growth, according to a new report from CoBank Knowledge Exchange. Data centers traditionally have been built in urban areas, where there is plenty of power and broadband connectivity. But according to