Congress passed a big defense bill that includes full funding for the rip and replace program The legislation includes a provision for an FCC auction of AWS-3 licenses The spectrum is attractive to carriers because they already own equipment that...

Brightspeed isn’t yet applying to the FCC to retire large swathes of copper Instead it replaces copper automatically for customers who are having service problems It can replace copper with either fiber or a unique wireless technology Brightspeed is on...