BROWSING: Broadband
‘Broadband is essential to full participation in modern life’: Senate passes $1 trillion infra bill
“Access to affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband is essential to full participation in modern life in the United States," reads the bipartisan infrastructure bill that was just passed by the U.S. Senate.
Broadband industry groups largely welcomed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which dedicates...
New GAO report calls on FCC to analyze small business broadband needs
For years, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) considered the broadband minimum benchmark speed for small businesses to be 25 megabits per second (Mbps) for downloading and 3 Mbps for uploading. However, a recent report published by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed...
Telstra, Optus, TPG under investigation for misleading customers over NBN speeds
Telstra, Optus and TPG have all said that the National Broadband Network Co has not provided 'timely and accurate speed information'
Three Australian operators — Telstra, Optus and TPG — are under investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over allegations of making...
The Sunday Brief: Q2 Earnings Wrap – ABC (Apple, Broadband, C-Band)
August greetings from Nebraska, Missouri, Louisiana, Iowa, Illinois, and North Carollina. Pictured is the Capital One Tower in downtown Lake Charles (pre-hurricane pictures here). Yes, those are boards, not an artistic glass mosaic. It’s been nearly a year since Hurricane Laura took dead aim on...
The smart home and the need for better broadband (Reader Forum)
Our reliance on high-speed broadband connectivity is showing no sign of letting up as digital lifestyles increasingly become the norm.
And even though lockdown restrictions have eased, our consumption of data continues to speed up, not slow down.
The smart home revolution and shifting lifestyle habits...
Nice link, if you can get it: Starlink outpaces other satellite providers, and sometimes even fixed broadband
Starlink speeds surpass local wired broadband networks in multiple countries, Ookla finds
Starlink's low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite-based broadband service can provide download speeds faster than average wired broadband in a number of countries, new numbers from Ookla show -- although its upload speeds and latency still...
Arianespace launches satellites for improved internet and mobility services
The launch included the Star One D2 satellite and the Eutelsat Quantum satellite
Last week, Arianespace successfully launched a pair of communications satellites — Star One D2 and Eutelsat Quantum — into geostationary orbit around the Earth for two of the company’s customers: Embratel, the...
Elevating the customer experience with FWA and Nokia FastMile 5G (Sponsored)
Do you remember opening your last home router? Chances are, the process was as utilitarian as the router itself: Nondescript brown cardboard box, with a nondescript black rectangle inside, miscellaneous cords and a nondescript instruction card to follow … before you stuff the whole...
Virgin Media O2 officially launches in the UK
The merger between UK operators Virgin Media and O2 has officially been completed, following recent regulatory approvals in the country.
The new Virgin Media O2 is one of the U.K.’s largest operators with 47 million connections including broadband, mobile, TV and fixed lines.
The new business...
FCC: In the first week of EBB subsidy program, one million households have enrolled
The Emergency Broadband Benefit program, which provides subsidies of $50-$75 per month for internet service, has enrolled more than one million U.S. households in the first week of the program being available, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
“The high demand we’ve seen for...
Proximus, Nokia double speed and capacity of VSDL infrastructure with new tech
Belgian mobile operator Proximus hopes to cover 70% of the country’s households with fiber by 2028, a plan that involves extending the life of its copper-based VDSL, or very high bit-rate digital subscriber line, broadband infrastructure using a technology it has developed in partnership...
The Sunday Brief: Q1 earnings preview—setting expectations
Tax Day greetings from the middle of Texas (the iconic Underwood’s Cafeteria sign is pictured – it’s definitely a Texas thing) and from Davidson/ Lake Norman. Feels good to be on the road again.
This week, we will divide our time between first quarter earnings...
Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan includes high-speed internet for every American
WISPA exec called the infrastructure plan 'right on target'
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden introduced a monumental $2.3 trillion infrastructure and jobs package that aims to reshape the American economy. The infrastructure plan is far reaching, and includes, among many other things, $174 billion for electric vehicles,...
The Sunday Brief: Happy days are here again?
Greetings from the farm in Williard, MO, and the lake in Davidson, NC, as we took some time away to celebrate four birthdays over a single weekend (ages 11, 14, 23, and old enough). The farm is a terrific place to clear your mind...
C Spire to invest $1 billion in 5G, fiber broadband in Alabama, Mississippi
C Spire CEO: 'Fiber networks are a must to deliver speed'
C Spire, a Mississippi-based service provider, revealed its largest capital spend in the company’s history: a $1 billion investment plan to accelerate the deployment of 5G — which is began rolling out in October...
#TBT: 25 Mbps, too fast?; Predictions for IoT’s next phase; Sony buys Altair … this week in 2016
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
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FCC moves forward on $3.2 billion emergency broadband program
Program will reimburse companies for discounts to low-income customers for broadband services and devices
Congress created a $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit Program aimed at helping more low-income customers get access to broadband during the coronavirus pandemic, and the Federal Communications Commission now has to...
Well, technically… fixed access broadband has been our lifeline: Nokia’s Sandy Motley (Ep. 23)
Nokia's President of Fixed Networks Sandy Motley discusses the role that fixed access broadband has played during the COVID-19 pandemic and how Nokia and other industry leaders have responded to the crisis. She also shares what her favorite piece of technology is. (Spoiler: It's...
KDDI selects Ericsson cloud-native dual-mode 5G Core
Japanese carrier KDDI has selected Ericsson to deploy a cloud-native dual-mode 5G core in its 5G Standalone network in Japan, the latter said in a release.
The solution, consisting of the Ericsson Cloud Packet Core, will support KDDI’s focus on accelerating the digital transformation of...
Verizon to expand broadband access in NYC as years-long lawsuit settles
Verizon has pledged to provide high-speed internet service to 500,000 additional NYC households
A lawsuit involving Verizon and the city of New York, which originated in 2017, was quietly settled over the Thanksgiving holiday, resulting in the operator pledging to provide high-speed internet service to...
CommScope to power in-home connectivity with 10G broadband
10G promises to deliver speeds up to 100 times faster than what most consumers experience today, says CommScope
CommScope demonstrated its vision for 10-gigabit, or 10G, and virtualized networks at this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo earlier this week, focusing on the in-home experiences that will...
The Sunday Brief: What pandemic? Telecom 3Q earnings preview (Part 2)
October greetings from Virginia Beach and Davidson/ Lake Norman. Fall has arrived in the Piedmont, but that has not kept us (and pets) from enjoying our kayaks. Hopefully you are finding time to enjoy the outdoors.
Many thanks to Jennifer Fritzsche for her terrific column...
Copper Valley Telecom brings broadband to remote Alaskan village
Thanks to the broadband project, the village can now receive speeds of up to 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream
Copper Valley Telecom (CVT) has completed a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband deployment in Tatitlek, an off-grid indigenous village in Alaska, improving connectivity speeds from 10...
Cambium 60 GHz fixed wireless fabric extends access to multi-gigabit broadband
The development of Cambium’s 60 GHz fixed wireless solutions was supported closely by Facebook and Qualcomm
Cambium Networks announced the release of new solutions based on 60 GHz millimeter wave technology the reportedly delivers a multi-gigabit performance that was previously only achievable by fiber. The...