Broadband build activity continues to ramp. In this week’s issue, we’re tracking Lumen’s Quantum Fiber effort to expand service into over 30 cities while Windstream’s Kinetic is set to bring 2 Gbps services to 46 more residential markets.

As we wrap up Halloween and head into November, several new broadband builds were announced this week: WOW! Further Extends Alabama Footprint; Comcast Announces Network Construction in Whatcom County, Washington; TDS breaks ground on fiber expansion in New London, Minn. – and others.

The Great Broadband Build is a new weekly online news feature Broadband Communities is developing to track the ongoing last mile and middle mile deployments across the U.S.

Enabling Broadband is a new weekly online news feature Broadband Communities is developing to track the ongoing last mile and middle mile deployments across the U.S.

Cable MSOs saw their long-established lead in the broadband race slow in the second quarter as fiber and broadband wireless made headway. 

Telcos continue to see fiber broadband subscriber counts rise as their DSL copper base dwindles. 

During the second quarter, cable saw its decade-long hold on broadband subscriber growth slip. 

AT&T continues to dominate the managed SD-WAN market segment, but it is seeing growing competition from Comcast Business and other providers.

Telcos and cable operators continued to ramp up broadband expansions in the third quarter with new FTTH and higher speed HFC-based offerings. However, the subscriber additions turned back to pre-pandemic levels. 

Cable operators may have seen their collective broadband growth slow a bit in the third quarter to pre-pandemic levels, but the segment continued to add subscribers.

Telcos may still be trailing cable operators in the broadband race, but their ongoing FTTH builds could help narrow the divide. 

As the telcos, cable operators and vendors get ready to release their third-quarter earnings results, check in with Broadband Communities for relevant coverage and analysis. 

While the stay-at-home trend that drove up large-scale broadband gains has subsided, cable MSOs retained their leadership in the broadband subscriber race during the second quarter.

Telcos may still be trailing cable operators in the broadband race, but their ongoing FTTH builds could help narrow the divide. 

Telcos and cable operators continued to ramp up broadband expansions in the first quarter with new FTTH and higher speed HFC-based offerings.

Second-quarter Optical Communications sales were $1.08 billion, up 21 percent year over year.

Broadband revenue growth surpasses legacy copper-based legacy subscribers and revenue declines.

Broadband sub increase drives up Fios revenues by over 5 percent.

The second quarter 2021 earnings reporting season is upon us, and Broadband Communities is tracking how key players in the wireline broadband industry performed. 

Led again by Charter and Comcast, cable MSOs once again racked up broadband subscribers during the first quarter.