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Frontier Reduces Digital Divide Frontier Communications spent much of 2017 tackling the digital divide, deploying rural broadband and reaching Connecting America Fund II (CAF) milestones in eight more states. Most recently, Frontier rolled out services in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. They join Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington and West Virginia as states with deployment in 40% of eligible locations, which Frontier was required to hit by year-end under the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) CAF II program. The service provider has moved quickly. "The Connect America Fund or CAF II program requires companies that accepted funds to deploy broadband to 40% of eligible locations by the end of 2017," said R. Perley McBride, chief financial officer at Frontier Communications Corp. (NYSE: FTR), during the provider's third-quarter earnings call on Oct. 31, adding that its goal is to pass 277,000 locations in its CAF II eligible areas by the end of 2020. CAF is designed to encourage providers to deliver voice and broadband to unserved and underserved regions of the United States. Operators receive funds to build new or upgrade existing networks, the FCC said. Nationwide, Frontier currently provides broadband to more than 331,000 residential and small-business customers in CAF-eligible areas; it's also improved speeds to over 875,000 more homes and businesses, the company said, through a combination of CAF and Frontier capital funds. Many newly served locations can receive speeds of 25Mbps or greater. Related posts:
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In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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