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Playlist: 'The Divide' on the Light Reading Podcast
Partner Perspectives 7/5/2022 Post a comment
Here's where you can find episode links for 'The Divide,' Light Reading's podcast series featuring conversations with broadband providers and policymakers working to close the digital divide.

Cable Next-Gen Europe returns online
Alan Breznick 5/31/2022 Post a comment
As we have for the past two years, Light Reading will present our Cable Next-Gen Europe conference as a free digital symposium on June 21.

Charter starts to book RDOF revenues
Jeff Baumgartner 4/29/2022 Post a comment
Charter has sparked RDOF work in all 24 states where it won bids. The cable op booked about $19 million in RDOF revenues in Q1, and expects to have about $9 million per month come in over the next ten years.

Cable Next-Gen event goes online again
Alan Breznick 2/10/2022 Post a comment
As we have for the past two years, Light Reading will stage the Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies conference as a free digital event over two half-days in mid-March.

AT&T lights up multi-gig fiber speeds in dozens of US markets
Jeff Baumgartner 1/24/2022 Post a comment
Launch of 2-Gig and 5-Gig FTTP tiers in 70-plus markets puts more pressure on cable ops to enhance their existing DOCSIS 3.1 network or accelerate their upgrade activity centered on the new DOCSIS 4.0 specs.

Ziply Fiber goes wide with 2-Gig and 5-Gig broadband tiers
Jeff Baumgartner 1/20/2022 Post a comment
Ziply Fiber, an operator that tangles with Comcast and Charter, has launched two multi-gigabit tiers in 60 urban areas, aiming for all markets by Q2 2022.

Starlink's daunting deployment plan 'leaves no margin for error' – analyst
Jeff Baumgartner 1/18/2022 Post a comment
Elon Musk's nascent broadband will need to radically accelerate the rate of satellite launches – and navigate tricky supply chain logistics – if it's going to come close to fulfilling its global ambition.

T-Mobile and Verizon's fixed wireless aggression doesn't add up – analyst
Jeff Baumgartner 1/12/2022 Post a comment
MoffettNathanson questions whether mobile operators will have the network capacity and the right business metrics to back their aggressive stance and forecasts for fixed wireless home broadband.

The year in DOCSIS 4.0
Jeff Baumgartner 12/29/2021 Post a comment
With early lab trials, a first wave of interoperability testing and collaborations between key suppliers, DOCSIS 4.0 made significant progress in 2021, even as deployments remain well out on the horizon.

Charter warns that pole access disputes could slow RDOF deployments
Jeff Baumgartner 11/30/2021 Post a comment
Charter tells FCC that 'timely and non-discriminatory access' to utility poles is critical for RDOF buildouts. Meanwhile, Charter and an electrical co-op don't see eye-to-eye on a pole-related issue that has surfaced in Kentucky.

Fixed wireless, LEO satellite broadband best suited for unserved and underserved areas – study
Jeff Baumgartner 11/22/2021 Post a comment
Performance data from Comlinkdata/Tutela indicate that T-Mobile Home Broadband and Starlink are as good as VDSL, stomp on DSL, but generally fall short of terrestrial HFC and fiber services.

Multiple forces fueling broadband's 'Great Deceleration' – analyst
Jeff Baumgartner 11/18/2021 Post a comment
Competition, depressed household formation, government stimulus dollars and the saturation of broadband penetration are all affecting the rate of broadband subscriber growth, says MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffett.

Consolidated boots up 'Fidium Fiber' brand as network upgrades expand
Jeff Baumgartner 11/15/2021 Post a comment
Launched in parts of northern New England, the new brand offering features symmetrical 1-Gig service starting at $70 per year paired with a whole-home Wi-Fi platform powered by Plume.

Altice USA touts big gigabit subscriber gains
Alan Breznick 11/9/2021 Post a comment
Big US cable provider reports that 13.3% of customers who can get it now take 1-Gig service, with 46% of new high-speed data subs signing up for it in Q3. Those numbers translate to 580,000 gig customers.

Frontier's fiber build ramps to a record, but revenues fall short in Q3
Jeff Baumgartner 11/3/2021 Post a comment
Frontier added a record 185,000 new fiber locations in Q3. The company's stock rose despite a revenue miss, illustrating the weight investors are putting into Frontier's aggressive FTTP buildout strategy.

Comcast bumps 'Gigabit Pro' to 3-Gig
Jeff Baumgartner 11/1/2021 Post a comment
Comcast confirmed it will soon upgrade all Gigabit Pro subs to symmetrical speeds of 3 Gbit/s. Gigabit Pro, an FTTP service for residential customers, originally offered symmetrical speeds of 2-Gig.

CommScope explores new option for DOCSIS 4.0
Jeff Baumgartner 10/22/2021 Post a comment
Key cable supplier has teamed up with two tech partners to develop silicon and a network architecture for DOCSIS 4.0. The move aims to expand the ecosystem for vendors and operators, but should also keep Broadcom in check.

FCC clears another $554M for RDOF, led by Windstream approvals
Jeff Baumgartner 10/21/2021 Post a comment
The Commission's latest round of RDOF authorizations, its largest so far from a dollar standpoint, pushes total approvals of funding past $1 billion.

Google Fiber rolls 2-Gig broadband to San Antonio
Jeff Baumgartner 10/20/2021 Post a comment
Expansion in that market makes the $100 per month offering available to all of Google Fiber's FTTP markets. Google Fiber's fixed wireless 'Webpass' markets still max out at 1 Gbit/s.

Vecima first out of the chute with standardized 'GAP' node
Jeff Baumgartner 10/18/2021 Post a comment
The Entra EN9000, a node based on SCTE standards for the Generic Access Platform, will be ready for lab tests in 1H 2022. GAP nodes will enable MSOs to snap in service modules for HFC, PON and wireless access services.

Comcast takes another step toward DOCSIS 4.0 and '10G'
Jeff Baumgartner 10/14/2021 Post a comment
Comcast says it has tested a 'network to modem' connection of DOCSIS 4.0 technology that had its virtual CMTS speaking to a DOCSIS cable modem configured to operate in the Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX) band.

Comcast touts progress on DOCSIS 4.0
Jeff Baumgartner 10/12/2021 Post a comment
With a near-term focus on integration, Comcast engineering exec Rob Howald says the operator's virtual CMTS now 'speaks' DOCSIS 4.0 as the company pushes ahead with deployments of a distributed access architecture.

FCC releases another $163M for RDOF as 'clean up' continues
Jeff Baumgartner 10/8/2021 Post a comment
RDOF bids spanning another 42 providers across 21 states were included in a second wave of funding authorization tied to phase I of the FCC's program.

Facebook touts advancements in connectivity
Jeff Baumgartner 10/7/2021 Post a comment
Facebook Connectivity provided updates on a set of projects, including the deployment of subsea cables, its 'Bombyx' fiber-building robot and Terragraph, a fixed wireless system that uses unlicensed millimeter wave spectrum.

Frontier, Ziply Fiber secure more funds for fiber buildouts
Jeff Baumgartner 10/4/2021 Post a comment
Frontier announced plans to offer $1 billion in notes to back its ambitious fiber build just days after Ziply Fiber raised $350 million in debt funding to do pretty much the same.

CableLabs unit adds new twist to DOCSIS device testing
Jeff Baumgartner 9/30/2021 Post a comment
CableLabs subsidiary Kyrio has introduced FlexTest, a service that enables DOCSIS modems and gateways vendors to run more granular, individual tests during various phases of the product development cycle.

The future of broadband and fiber as infrastructure
Fiber Broadband Association 9/29/2021 Post a comment
Since the 1970s, the idea that the telecommunications network would one day serve as an information superhighway has been part of our culture.

Frontier sees long upgrade path for XGS-PON
Jeff Baumgartner 9/24/2021 Post a comment
The XGS-PON platform Frontier selected from Nokia is upgradable to 25-Gig PON 'with basically an optics change,' says Scott Mispagel, Frontier's SVP of national architecture and engineering.

Frontier sizes up 10-Gig future with XGS-PON rollout
Jeff Baumgartner 9/23/2021 Post a comment
Frontier has hooked up with Nokia to connect about 100,000 homes to XGS-PON technology amid a grander plan to have FTTP deployed to 10 million locations by the end of 2025.

AT&T may go even bigger with fiber
Jeff Baumgartner 9/22/2021 Post a comment
AT&T CEO John Stankey has challenged his execs to explore what it would take to expand AT&T's plan to build FTTP to 30 million locations by 2025. 'Execution and performance' is all that stands in the way, he says.

'GAP' node standards are cleared for takeoff
Jeff Baumgartner 9/21/2021 Post a comment
SCTE, the cable industry's standards-setting organization, has approved standards for enclosures and modules for Generic Access Platform (GAP) nodes designed to support DOCSIS, PON and wireless access technologies.

FCC stamps another 466 winning RDOF bids
Jeff Baumgartner 9/17/2021 Post a comment
Financial support for winning bids from more than a dozen smaller broadband players will be disbursed in 120 monthly payments, starting at the end of this month.

Comcast shares slip on broadband growth warning
Jeff Baumgartner 9/14/2021 Post a comment
The cable operator is seeing a 'little bit of a slowdown in the net adds in the cable business' in the current quarter, but still expects 2021 growth to beat pre-COVID 2019 levels, CFO Mike Cavanagh told investors.

Amazon to FCC: Make SpaceX follow the rules
Jeff Baumgartner 9/13/2021 Post a comment
Kuiper Systems, Amazon's satellite broadband unit, counters that concerns about SpaceX's 'Gen2' plan for Starlink has nothing to do with slowing competition, but is about holding SpaceX to FCC rules.

AT&T connects with OneWeb
Jeff Baumgartner 9/8/2021 Post a comment
Providing OneWeb with a big-name tenant, AT&T plans to tap into OneWeb's developing low-Earth orbit satellite broadband platform to serve businesses in remote parts of the US.

Amazon, SpaceX wage war over Starlink's 'Gen2' system
Jeff Baumgartner 9/3/2021 Post a comment
Amazon's Kuiper Systems wants the FCC to dismiss SpaceX's next-gen satellite broadband plans while SpaceX calls the complaint a delay tactic to slow competition and help Kuiper can catch up.

Mediacom sheds light on new 'Bolt'-branded, CBRS-powered fixed wireless service
Jeff Baumgartner 9/1/2021 Post a comment
Currently offered in parts of Alabama, Iowa and Florida, Mediacom Bolt features three speed tiers and is underpinned by 4G and 5G RAN products from Ericsson.

Frontier set to weather the supply chain storm – analyst
Jeff Baumgartner 8/31/2021 Post a comment
The markets for material and labor should respond to handle demand, particularly by the time Frontier 'reaches its peak deployment cadence' for FTTP upgrades in the 2023-2025 timeframe, analyst predicts.

Cable vet Jay Rolls gets in on the broadband transaction action
Jeff Baumgartner 8/25/2021 Post a comment
Rolls, a former CTO at Cox and Charter, has joined Broadband Success Partners as senior advisor, where he'll help the firm provide tech-focused due diligence on proposed deals involving network operators.

Starlink terminal shipments pass the 100K mark
Jeff Baumgartner 8/24/2021 Post a comment
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk notes that Starlink's satellite broadband service reaches parts of 14 countries, with license applications pending 'in many more countries.'

Infrastructure bill presents 'monumental and transformative' phase for DZS, CEO says
Jeff Baumgartner 8/23/2021 Post a comment
While the minimum speeds supported by the broadband piece of the $1 trillion US infrastructure bill sets the bar too low, it will power a new wave of fiber-based services, Charlie Vogt says.

SpaceX sizes up more powerful 'Gen2' system for Starlink
Jeff Baumgartner 8/20/2021 Post a comment
Elon Musk's SpaceX says the next-gen system, to be delivered into orbit via the company's Starship rocket, will substantially increase capacity and reach using a constellation of almost 30,000 satellites.

Reach of low-priced broadband plans hits record high in Q2 – study
Jeff Baumgartner 8/19/2021 Post a comment
Some 87% of Americans had access to 'affordable' wired broadband in the second quarter of 2021, up from 77% in Q1 2021, according to a fresh report from BroadbandNow.

SES's new 1-Terabit satellite constellation takes a step toward the launchpad
Jeff Baumgartner 8/18/2021 Post a comment
SES showed off its new high-capacity, medium-Earth orbit satellite, which will form its 11-satellite O3b mPower constellation. SES plans to hook into Microsoft Azure to establish an aggregated, multi-orbit network.

T-Mobile, Pilot Fiber appear to connect on Manhattan fiber broadband project
Jeff Baumgartner 8/13/2021 Post a comment
T-Mobile is conducting a small fiber-based pilot in NYC that delivers symmetrical speeds of 940 Mbit/s. T-Mobile stresses that its fixed wireless service is still its 'flagship home Internet offering.'

CableLabs sets first wave of DOCSIS 4.0 interops
Jeff Baumgartner 8/12/2021 Post a comment
Taking a step toward full certification and qualification testing, CableLabs has set plans to run DOCSIS 4.0 interoperability tests in October and December of 2021, and ten more in 2022.

Senate blesses $1T infrastructure bill
Jeff Baumgartner 8/10/2021 Post a comment
Bipartisan bill, which earmarks $65 billion for broadband, now heads to the House.

Cable One: Most Emergency Broadband Benefit participants upgrade to faster speeds
Jeff Baumgartner 8/10/2021 Post a comment
Just 10% of the customers enrolled in the FCC's EBB program, which offers temporary discounts on household Internet bills during the pandemic, are new to Cable One, says CEO Julie Laulis.

Viasat looks for new global satellite fleet to beef up bandwidth
Jeff Baumgartner 8/9/2021 Post a comment
Residential fixed satellite broadband subs dipped in Q2 2021 but customers continue to consume capacity as they move to faster tiers.

Frontier unleashes faster fiber buildout plan
Jeff Baumgartner 8/6/2021 Post a comment
After ending 2021 with 4 million fiber locations passed, a new 'Wave 2' plan will have Frontier deploy FTTP to another 6 million locations by the end of 2025. But the company is not yet fully funded to pull it off.

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