- SCOTUS rejects ISPs' challenge to a New York law requiring ISPs to offer $15 or $20/month services to low-income users by not revisiting a lower court ruling arstechnica.com Broadband prices drop as speeds and competition climb...
- T-Mobile users can try Starlink-enabled phone service for free during beta arstechnica.com YouTube TV Raises Prices Again, Days After Hinting It Wouldn t techdirt.com AT&T user's erroneous $6,223 bill is reminder that AutoPay can wipe...
- US officials: hackers likely accessed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of Rhode Islanders, and there's a "high probability" sensitive info was stolen nytimes.com AT&T's copper retirement goals are 'realistic' - analyst...
- Report: AT&T, Verizon aren t notifying most victims of Chinese call-records hack arstechnica.com Vodafone and Three merger will further decimate UK telco jobs lightreading.com Trump FCC Commissioners, Cable Lobby, Use Lazy Soup And...
- Charter CEO: We need to do more to tell consumers that cable delivers better performance and reliability than fixed wireless access lightreading.com Vodafone Agreement With AST SpaceMobile Enables Space-Based Cellular Broadband Service...
- EchoStar, CWA, others move against T-Mobile's UScellular purchase lightreading.com FCC Responds to telecoms attack dubbed worst in our nation s history informationsecuritybuzz.com Senate Passes ACCESS Rural America Act, Intended to Ease...
- Cable ISPs compare data caps to food menus: Don t make us offer unlimited soup arstechnica.com Comcast expects to shed another 100K broadband subs in Q4 lightreading.com T-Mobile: What race? Convergence is already here fierce-network.com...
- Broadband Industry Tells FCC Their Customer Service Is Great, Nothing To See Here techdirt.com AT&T targets 50M fiber locations by end of 2029 lightreading.com US plan to protect consumers from data brokers faces dim future under Trump...
- Supreme Court To Decide Whether Helping Poor Rural Americans Get Broadband Is Unconstitutional techdirt.com On BEAD and rural broadband, don't lose sight of the goal lightreading.com These MVNO pioneers want locked phones to go away...
- FCC approves Starlink plan for cellular phone service, with some limits arstechnica.com Biden FCC Boss Rosenworcel To Step Down, Can t Be Bothered To Express Alarm At What Comes Next techdirt.com Cruz hates a lot of the Infrastructure...
- ISPs Say Their "Excellent Customer Service" Is Why Users Don t Switch Providers arstechnica.com The FCC approves a license for SpaceX and T-Mobile to use Starlink to offer supplemental coverage from space in a bid to extend internet...
- DirecTV Terminates Dish Merger lightreading.com Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement arstechnica.com/ Why Google's Chrome monopoly won't crack anytime soon theregister.com Verizon's latest DAS...
- Beavers chewing through fiber cable cause hundreds lose internet in a canadian remote community. ( CircleID ) An article from CBC earlier this year reported that beavers had chewed through an underground fiber and had knocked 900...
- Elon Musk recently announced that he was going to be providing cellular backhaul from the Starlink constellation of satellites. This makes a lot of sense from a financial perspective in that it avoids the costly wired fiber networks...
- Parks Associates recently announced its Home Services Dashboard release, a for-pay service that tracks consumer adoption of telecom services like Internet, pay-TV, and cellphones. As part of the announcement, the company released a blog...
- An artist's impression of the Exolaunch's Fingerspitzengefühl satellites deployment into orbit. Illustration: EXOLAUNCH Last week, I predicted that much of the Internet and most cloud datacenters would launch into space in the next ten...
- Every few years, I read something that resurrects the old question of whether ISPs should be dumb pipe providers or something more. Some ISPs have fought against the idea of being dumb pipe providers and want to believe they are far more...
- Unlike Bezos and Branson, they're going to stay there. Today we have space-based internet access and a terrestrial internet; within ten years, we'll have a space-based internet. Internet traffic will travel more miles in space than on...
- Over two years ago, an MIT research group ran a simulation of the low-Earth orbit broadband constellations of OneWeb, SpaceX, and Telesat, and last January they repeated the simulation updating with revised constellation characteristics...
- Most carriers don't order 200,000 5G base stations, so they will pay more, but that's the actual price for the joint procurement of China Telecom and China Unicom. The 200,000-300,000 cells the two jointly are upgrading are probably more...
- I remember that soon after the City of Chattanooga launched its citywide fiber network, the company held a competition seeking web applications that would benefit from gigabit speeds. I don't recall if anything useful came out of that...
- Photo of an 8-beam free space optics laser link. Source: Wikipedia I read an article on the Finley Engineering blog that talks about new research with free-space optics. For those not familiar with the term, this means communication gear...
- Elon Musk discussing Starlink Internet at MWC 2021 Elon Musk packed a lot about SpaceX and Starlink into a 32-minute interview at the 2021 Mobile World Congress and ended with a discussion of his motivation and the roles of his three...
- As U.S. Congress inches closer to an infrastructure bill, the industry is feverously speculating how a broadband infrastructure plan might work. There is still a lot of compromise and wheeling and dealing to be done, so nobody knows how...
- FIOS by Verizon , is a bundled Internet access, telephone, and television service that operates over a fiber-optic communications network with over 5 million customers in nine U.S. states — providing Fiber to the Home (FTTH). One...
- NTIA's Indicators of Broadband Need uses several different data sources to show broadband availability within the United States. (Source: NTIA ) The National Telecommunications and Information Administration surprised the broadband...
- I read a blog on the WISPA website written by Mark Radabaugh that suggests that the best policy for broadband speeds would be met by asymmetrical architecture (meaning that upload speeds don't need to be as fast as download speeds). I...
- Following on from the news about Crewe becoming a Zzoomm fibre town Cannock has now been added to the list.
- Crewe joins Ascot, Hereford and Thirsk as areas on the build list where Zzoomm is going to deliver its full fibre service.
- While the usual DOCSIS 3.1 and FTTP services rule the top of our speed table some 20% of the speed tests we saw in April were slower than 12.7 Mbps.
- In the BT Group results there is the big news that Openreach is planning to build a further 5 million premises of FTTP by December 2026 on top of its original 20 million ambition.
- The expected update to the transparency lists that Openreach update each quarter has taken place and the 27 new areas are confirmed.
- Our report on Openreach FTTP build progress set a record for the amount found and we have broken that again. With 204,301 premises versus the previous month of 192,905 premises added.
- BT Consumer is just one of many firms taking part in the migration to an all IP voice network but as the largest what it offers in terms of kit and help will set the benchmark to judge other voice providers by.
- The move from analogue phones to an IP based phone network in the UK is a step closer with the announcement of the next set of 77 exchanges where a stop sell order will apply in 2022.
- Another month and the numerous FTTP roll-outs continue to add a decent amount of coverage each month. The increased FTTP roll-out also means more overlaps between the various networks.
- Following on from Salisbury the second PSTN switch off location has had a stop sell notice placed for the old copper based products.
- 40% of UK premises now have the option of access to an FTTP connection or Virgin Media DOCSIS 3.1 connection.
- The rural areas around Coalisland are some of the first parts of Project Stratum to go live in Northern Island.
- KCOM has been busy expanding across the East Riding of Yorkshire but lack of retailer choice often gets mentioned, a new pilot from the operator may reduce that concern.
- Back in April Openreach said they had built FTTP to 530,000 premises and three weeks later our tracking is showing a footprint of 530,986 premises passed.
- BT has launched a new £15/m social tariff based around the 40/10 FTTC and FTTP products that includes 700 minutes of monthly calls.
- Being online and actually able to do things like shopping has been critical in the last year so the latest figures from Ofcom showing the digital divide has narrowed is very welcome.
- The benefits of full fibre may seem obvious to those who have been building it for years, but the scale of the benefits from much higher coverage than today does need restating.
- East Grinstead is one of many towns and villages Openreach is building to and after several months of relative inactivity the roll-out has numerous patches of live FTTP.
- Virgin Media and its Gig1 product tops the speed test table for March 2021 and that is a service that is not full fibre based.
- Little Easton in Essex is one of latest Gigaclear locations added to our broadband mapping.
- Build it and they will come is the dream of many projects and while people are signing up for full fibre the pace is very like the 2010 to 2012 era for partial fibre.
- Giganet who is one of the retailers for the CityFibre network in Portsmouth is celebrating a small milestone in terms of connecting customers.
- The UK full fibre roll-outs continue and that latest point of coverage has been added in just 35 days.