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Three become one! Fierce Wireless, Fierce Telecom and Silverlinings have joined forces to form the new @FierceNetwork_. Make sure you follow our new handle to stay current with all the latest broadband, cloud and wireless news!
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NEW: After months spent pitching its comeback story, @Casa_Systems filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to allow the sale of its 5G core, RAN and cable assets to Lumine Group and Vecima. Here's what you need to know. 🔗silverliningsinfo.com/5g/cas…🔗

Casa Systems files for bankruptcy, sells assets to Vecima, Lumine

Casa Systems has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy A company representative said a drop in industry demand and investments made in new product offerings made the c | After months spent pitching its...

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Heads up, dear readers, @GoSilverlinings, @FierceWireless and @FierceTelecom will be part of the new Fierce Network portal, starting April 8th. Get pumped! We sure are! 🔗fierce-network.com/🔗
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The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation wants to give federal agencies a helping hand with the broadband permitting process. Here's what you need to know. fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Broadband permitting just got a little easier, thanks to feds

The ACHP released an amendment to its Program Comment for Communications Projects on Federal Lands and Property The amendment makes it more flexible for federal | The Advisory Council on Historic...

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“Nobody knows how to test with Ethernet right now," said @Spirent VP of Product Management Aniket Khosla. The company's trying to change that. fiercetelecom.com/ai/spirent…

Spirent lets telcos take Ethernet for an AI test drive

Spirent announced a solution to emulate AI workloads over Ethernet VP of Product Management Aniket Khosla said packet loss is a “death knell” for Ethernet on the | The core problem Spirent’s tackling...

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.@metronetfiber, GCI and ImOn Communications dished about deployment pet peeves at the @ACAConnects #summit2024 fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

‘Paint, poles and permitting’: What’s bugging broadband providers

At the annual ACA Connects Summit, a panel of regional operators discussed their biggest deployment challenges Unsurprisingly, broadband providers are peeved by& | At the ACA Connects Summit,...

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At the @ACAConnects #summit2024, NTIA chief Alan Davidson stated his expectations for BEAD plainly: to connect everyone in the country. fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

From BEAD to AI: NTIA chief unpacks top of mind issues

NTIA chief Alan Davidson spoke at the ACA Connects Summit about the agency's outlook on the BEAD program Expectation for BEAD is simple: to connect everybody in | Asked about his expectations for...

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Here's the scoop on @Meridiam's $230 million fiber project in Alabama, where it's partnering with Yellowhammer Networks. fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Meridiam rides fiber train in Alabama with $230M investment

Meridiam is investing $230 million to build an open access fiber network in Alabama The firm is teaming up with Yellowhammer Networks on the project | The infrastructure investment firm is kicking...

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Alabama is speeding broadband builds with another pot of grant money, with @GetSpectrum taking home $44.8 million. fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Charter takes home crown in Alabama’s $150M funding round

Alabama awarded $148.3 million in Capital Projects funding to 16 ISPs Charter bagged the most funding with 23 grants totaling $44.8 million

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While "Chaltice" has a nice ring to it, analyst Craig Moffett told Fierce, "I wouldn’t want to overestimate the odds of this actually happening." #charter #alticeusa #cable fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Could 'Chaltice' mount a cable comeback?

Analyst Craig Moffett said Charter considering a takeover of Altice underscores the decline in valuations across cable That being said, chances of a merger | “I wouldn’t want to overestimate the odds...

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Fiber vendor STL is giving @lumosfiber a hand to help the operator meet its deployment goals. It helps that the two are neighbors. #fiber #broadband #fibercables fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

STL lends its muscle to Lumos fiber build

Lumos will use STL's fiber optic tech to help meet its fiber deployment goals in three states STL last year opened its first U.S.-based fiber optic plant in Sout | With BEAD on the horizon, STL will...

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Fierce spoke with @lumentechco's Miriana Martinova about how the company has approached its enterprise strategy in the past year and the networking trends it’s noticed in the space. fiercetelecom.com/telecom/lu…

Lumen SVP dishes on enterprise strategy, networking trends

Lumen Technologies in the last year has doubled down on enterprise, launching its first network-as-a-service offeri | Lumen is helping enterprises achieve their “digital transformation plans,” said...

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Novos Fiber is expanding into its second fiber-to-the-home market in McKinney, Texas, a move fueled by a $20 million private equity-backed investment. fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Novos Fiber moves into second TX market with $20M investment

Nascent fiber-to-the-home provider Novos Fiber is expanding into its second market in McKinney, Texas, a move that is fueled by a $20 million private equity-backed investment. | Novos is expanding...

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.@AlticeUSA is raising its fiber passings goal for 2024 after touting its “best quarter” for fiber net additions. The operator added 46,000 fiber customers in Q4. fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Altice touts ‘best quarter’ for fiber net adds, targets 175K new passings in ‘24

Altice USA is raising its fiber passings goal for 2024 after touting its “best quarter” for fiber net additions. | Altice added 46,000 fiber customers in Q4 2023, ending the period with 341,000 total...

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Edge applications and processing are poised to play an increasingly important role in @Comcast’s network. Here's what Elad Nafshi told me during Comcast Converge this week. #cloud #cable 🔗silverliningsinfo.com/apps-s…🔗

Comcast’s future is on the edge (cloud)

Comcast hosted media and analysts at Comcast Converge this week Chief Network Officer Elad Nafshi said edge cloud is poised to play an increasingly important rol | Edge applications and processing...

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In my latest for @FierceTelecom, Gigapower CEO Bill Hogg told me about the company's expansion efforts and why it chose to run an open access fiber network. #fiber #OpenAccess fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Gigapower CEO says open access network is ‘picking up speed’ as JV expands to NM

Just over a year has passed since AT&T and asset management firm BlackRock formed Gigapower, a joint venture that’s providing a wholesale open access fiber network to AT&T’s out-of-footprin |...

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NEW: @googlefiber confirmed a Reuters report that parent company Alphabet is seeking outside investors on the operator's behalf. fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Google Fiber eyes outside investors to fuel expansion

Google Fiber is eyeing fresh capital to fuel its broadband expansion. | According to Reuters, Google Fiber has hired an investment bank to start the process of selling equity in the company.

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Analysts said a sale of @FrontierCorp is unlikely at this time. However, a JV or a sale of non-core assets may be on the table. fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Frontier formally launches strategic review, appoints M&A exec to board

Update 2/5/24 3:30 p.m. | Analysts from New Street and TD Cowen said a sale of Frontier is unlikely at this time. However, a JV or selling off some non-core assets may be on the table.

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What do regional and rural ISPs think about the ACP, and how do they plan to keep people online if the program shuts down? @FierceTelecom asked @TingInternet and others to weigh in. fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Here’s what regional, local ISPs are saying about an ACP shutdown

The fate of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) remains unknown, but with the FCC scheduled to halt new enrollments next month, ISPs are thinking about how a shutdown would impact the consume |...

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31 providers will receive funding to cover 55,000 locations in Oklahoma, including @ATT, @CoxComm and @DobsonFiber fiercetelecom.com/broadband/…

Oklahoma approves $374M for broadband infra projects

The Oklahoma Broadband Governing Board voted last week to authorize 142 broadband infrastructure expansion projects that will leverage a total of $374 million in grant funding. | AT&T, Cox and Dobson...

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