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HunTel Launches Consulting Company to Drive Innovation & Growth

August 12, 2020

BLAIR, NE – HunTel, a provider of unified communications and management solutions, announced that it plans to expand its business to include a consulting company, HunTel Consulting Company. ...

County, Fairlawn and Akron Collaborate on Fiber Network Expansion in Courts and Jails

August 11, 2020

SUMMIT COUNTY, OH — Fairlawn City Council passed three pieces of legislation to accept federal CARES Act funding from Summit County to expand the City’s existing fiber network for use by ...

Cox Connects Customers to Official Answers with Yext

August 11, 2020

NEW YORK — Yext, the search experience cloud company, and Cox Communications, one of the largest private telecommunications company in the United States, announced their work to deliver ...

MaxCell introduces MaxCell Premise for Confined Space Applications

August 11, 2020

WADSWORTH, OH — MaxCell introduced its latest product innovation for in-building and confined space applications, MaxCell Premise. Improving on previous designs, the new MaxCell Premise products ...

Quanta's 2Q 2020 Revenues Dip Year-over-Year to $2.51 Billion

August 11, 2020

HOUSTON — Quanta Services’ second quarter 2020 revenues dipped year-over-year to $2.51 billion compared to revenues of $2.84 billion in the second quarter of 2019. "Quanta ...

TDS Telecom Adds 25,000 Fiber Service Addresses in its Out-of-Territory markets in Q2 2020

August 11, 2020

MADISON, WI — Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), reported total operating revenues of $1,263 million for the second quarter of 2020, versus $1,261 million for the same period one ...

TEC Takes 10G Pole Position Across Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi with ADRTRAN

August 11, 2020

HUNTSVILLE, AL — ADTRAN, a provider of next-generation fiber and fiber extension broadband access solutions, announced that TEC, a provider of residential and business services for rural communities ...

Upstream Broadband Usage, Faster Speeds Spike Higher in Q2 2020

August 11, 2020

HOBOKEN, NJ — Consumers are continuing to increase reliance on upstream bandwidth and are opting for faster speeds to meet dramatically changed usage habits, according to the Q2 2020 OVBI (OpenVault ...

Consolidated Communications to Partner with New Hampshire for $18 Million Broadband Expansion

August 7, 2020

MANCHESTER, NH — Consolidated Communications, a broadband and business communications provider, announced plans to partner with the state of New Hampshire and local towns to invest nearly $18 million ...

Dasan Zhone Revenue Dips 15.7% in Q2 2020

August 7, 2020

PLANO, TX — DASAN Zhone Solutions (DZS), an enabler of the emerging hyper-connected, hyper-broadband world, posted a net revenue for the second quarter of 2020 of $70.5 million, a 15.7% decrease ...

Clearfield, Utah to Become Next UTOPIA Fiber City

August 6, 2020

MURRAY, UT — UTOPIA Fiber, a community-owned open-access fiber optic network, announced a $13.8 million agreement with the City of Clearfield, Utah, to build a fiber-to-the-home network. The ...

L-com Launches Passive Optical Fiber Taps for Monitoring and Testing Fiber Optic Links

August 6, 2020

IRVINE, CA — L-com, a manufacturer of wired and wireless connectivity products, announced that it has just launched a new line of passive fiber optic taps to address telecommunications, test and ...

CommScope Announces Turn-Key AgileMax Field Solution for RFoG Deployments

August 5, 2020

HICKORY, NC — CommScope announced the FDH3000 AgileMax Cabinet for RF-over-Glass (RFoG) deployments. The solution combines CommScope’s proven AgileMax active optical distribution technology ...

Conexon Teams Up with Seven Mississippi Electric Cooperatives to Leverage $30M in CARES Act Funding

August 5, 2020

KANSAS CITY, MO — In the wake of CARES Act grant funding awarded through the Mississippi Public Utilities Staff, Conexon, a provider of rural fiber-optic network design and construction management, ...

C Spire Partners with Delta Regional Medical Center on Remote Patient Monitoring

August 4, 2020

GREENVILLE, MS — C Spire is teaming up with the Delta Regional Medical Center to debut a remote patient monitoring program in Mississippi for a broad array of chronic medical conditions ...

Windstream and Colquitt EMC Partner to Expand Kinetic Broadband Access in Georgia

August 4, 2020

LITTLE ROCK, AR — Windstream and Colquitt Electric Membership Corp. announced a joint effort to expand the coverage area of Windstream’s fiber broadband service to members of the electric cooperative. Under ...

Verizon Adds 10,000 Fios Broadband Subscribers During Q2 2020

August 3, 2020

NEW YORK — Verizon Communications added 10,000 Fios broadband subscribers during Q2 2020 as Fios installations were limited during the quarter due to temporary restrictions put in place on work inside ...

Mesh and Wi-Fi 6 Ushering In a New Era of Home Networking

August 2, 2020

REDWOOD CITY, CA — For many years now, the evolution of Wi-Fi has been focused on improving two key technical attributes: speed and range. Wi-Fi 6, however, is the first iteration to take a more ...

OCC Rural Development Webinar: Banks Finance Broadband in Rural Areas & Indian Country

August 2, 2020

WASHINGTON — Rural broadband infrastructure is often financed using public and private sources of capital. Private sources tend to be community banks. But not as much is known about bank financing ...

Proximus Partners with Eurofiber to Accelerate Fiber Roll-out in Wallonia, Belgium

August 2, 2020

MAARSSEN, THE NETHERLANDS — Proximus CEP Guillaume Boutin and Alex Goldblum, CEO of Eurofiber, have signed a memoranda of Understanding (MoU) at building a fiber network in Wallonia together. The ...