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Powered by RouteThis Certify, Kinetic Surpasses Half a Million Whole-Home WiFi Installs KITCHENER, Ontario– February 13, 2025 – RouteThis, a…

Current partner at Searchlight Capital and former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman and Ajit Pai made his feelings clear on…

Midwest Energy & Communications Connects Its 30,000th fiber internet customer and celebrates with a contest CASSOPOLIS, Mich. — Midwest Energy…
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Powered by RouteThis Certify, Kinetic Surpasses Half a Million Whole-Home WiFi Installs KITCHENER, Ontario– February 13, 2025 – RouteThis, a…

Midwest Energy & Communications Connects Its 30,000th fiber internet customer and celebrates with a contest CASSOPOLIS, Mich. — Midwest Energy…

Dobson Fiber Continues to Invest in Oklahoma’s Largest Privately Owned Fiber Network Oklahoma City, OK, U.S.A — February 10, 2025 – Dobson…
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The broadband industry is sitting on the precipice of a historic moment. Over the past three years the NTIA has…

Build America, Buy America (BABA) purchasing requirements are an essential part of the $42.45 billion BEAD program, designed to “onshore”…
Over the summer and through the fall this year, NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association and the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) have…
Regulation

Build America, Buy America (BABA) purchasing requirements are an essential part of the $42.45 billion BEAD program, designed to “onshore”…
Over the summer and through the fall this year, NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association and the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) have…

Sorensen and Riggs said they ended up in broadband leadership positions without a formal background on the issue. (Source: FBA)The…
Impact

Current partner at Searchlight Capital and former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman and Ajit Pai made his feelings clear on…

Broadband Market Outlook This week, Peter Supino, Senior Analyst, Managing Director at Wolfe Research, joined Fiber for Breakfast and…

While it seems counterintuitive, a significant amount of Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) are making the leap to fiber, replacing existing last-mile technologies in their networks to provide connectivity from core to customer using fiber from end-to-end. It’s a shift that the premiere association for wireless service providers is unafraid to discuss.

Fiber broadband delivers economic benefits to communities, but how much of an uplift does the technology deliver to rural areas? A peer-reviewed economic study released on September 30, 2024, “Beyond Connectivity: The Role of Broadband in Rural Economic Growth and Resilience” by the nonprofit Center on Rural Innovation (CORI) provides evidence that fiber-fed broadband experiences enabled by local providers in those communities deliver a significant economic impact to better connected areas while enabling access to additional services that allow users to effectively leverage that resource. Meanwhile, comparable unserved communities experience economic stagnation with a loss of jobs, businesses, and population.
Innovation

Current partner at Searchlight Capital and former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman and Ajit Pai made his feelings clear on…

Broadband Market Outlook This week, Peter Supino, Senior Analyst, Managing Director at Wolfe Research, joined Fiber for Breakfast and…

The Smart Home in 2025: Outlook and Opportunities This week, Jennifer Kent, Vice President of Research at Parks Associates, joined…
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