Saturday, September 06, 2025

Futurist Alvin Toffler foresaw ubiquitous fiber to the home -- in 1990

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Like phones and VCRs, faxes will begin to appear in even the humblest homes, driven by the Law of Ubiquity. And so will fiber optic cables a...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Not too late to build Al Gore’s “information superhighway.”

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If Congress could turn back the calendar to the 1990s when then Vice President Al Gore envisioned a digital “information superhighway,” it c...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

U.S. telecom policy split: broadbanders versus infrastructuralists

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Lacking a global policy to support the modernization of legacy copper analog telephone infrastructure to fiber to support modern Internet pr...
Saturday, August 02, 2025

Quantum enabled SDN

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The company operates over a million miles of fiber and cable that deliver internet to 31.5 million homes and businesses. That means that for...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Playing the long game in the fiber gold rush: Large investor owned provider overbuilding publicly owned network in small town that didn't initially pencil for private investment.

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Fidium’s arrival has flummoxed local officials, partly because its parent company, Consolidated Communications, declined to build broadband...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Lutnick’s right. Americans aren’t getting the benefit of the bargain -- of universal service.

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced June 6 that the Trump administration would be revising the program rules for the $43.45 bi...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Multiple factors align against universal FTTP over near term

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Each state and territory then must set up and administer its own broadband infrastructure grant program using the statutory framework to dis...
Thursday, March 06, 2025

Origin of “tech neutral” shift for BEAD subsidies lies in 2021 infrastructure bill

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This week’s policy shift on the advanced telecommunications infrastructure subsidy component of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ...