Republicans are split on how to fund the USF Reforming the USF could include bringing back the Affordable Connectivity Program But given the nature of politics, it’s hard to gauge what direction reform will take, if any The Universal Service...

Lumen recently won an additional $3 billion in Private Connectivity Fabric (PCF) sales The company’s CEO Kate Johnson said there’s no future for Lumen in traditional telco But she’s pivoting the company to two key growth areas related to the...

Trump’s “America First” policies could push global partners to pursue digital sovereignty, reducing U.S. tech competitiveness Starlink is positioned to benefit as a solution for rural broadband expansion under Trump’s new administration Fierce Network editors went all-out analyzing what the...

USCellular agreed to sell choice bandwidth to AT&T for $1.018 billion All three major mobile operators “have taken a chunk” of the rural carrier’s assets, an analyst says The deal includes highly versatile 700 MHz bandwidth, as well as 3.45...

Doxo provides insights into mobile phone spending trends  The online bill payment company is the subject of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit Doxo says the suit is a publicity stunt and it’s causing “incalculable harm” to the company Doxo is...

Charter pushed back its DOCSIS 4.0 deployment schedule for the second time this year But that’s not surprising, said Dell’Oro’s Jeff Heynen, as Charter has a lot going on with hurricane recovery and its rural buildout Regarding broadband expansion, Charter...

Cloud revenue growth has finally returned to healthy levels after suffering declines in 2022 and much of 2023 thanks to a boost from AI Google Cloud and AWS saw the biggest growth rate gains Tier-2 providers and GPU specialists are...

4G and 5G private networks don’t do spectrum sharing well A professor at the Brooklyn 6G Summit suggested that spectrum sharing will be important for a 6G private networking specification The 3GPP isn’t going to be starting a 6G specification...

Nokia is pushing to develop the digital mine of the future with mining company Vale An SNS analyst said that other pit operators involved could include Rio Tinto, BHP and more The mine development work could take 3 or 4...

Consumers have told the FCC they’re not too happy about having data caps on their internet plans But providers usually set their caps high enough that most customers are unlikely to go over the limit, said OpenVault The challenge is...