Giant news for Jackson County: C Spire Fiber home internet is moving into Pascagoula and Moss Point. Read the announcement to find out more about our planned expansion and what our blazing-fast fiber connectivity can do. http://cspi.re/rXBo50Srini
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Many communities are seeing a boom in fiber construction and some is coming from small businesses that need a good idea of how many customers are going to take their service before they build in an area. Lots of those areas already have cable Internet which means once you add fiber you will have two networks. Recently I have seen cable with introductory pricing of $29.95 a month for basic service. That price is designed to keep current customers from jumping ship. If the ultra-low prices keep a small fiber company from building in a neighborhood, then the cable company gets to keep their mini-monopoly and the fiber companies will go somewhere else. For the consumer this means that they will get cheap Internet for a couple of years and when those two years are up, they will be left to the tender mercies of the cable company and there will be no competition like a fiber connection that they could switch to for better connectivity and pricing. Consumers might think that 5G Wireless could save them, but they should realize that the more people use these services the slower they work. The truth is that 5G needs lots of fiber to be good. Today our company runs into some areas that I call DSL deserts. For whatever reason, cable never came. Maybe not enough people expressed interest or the builders were too cheap to add it. Today those areas suffer through DSL or sign up for wireless plans that can be expensive and frustrating. Homeowners who pass on signing up for fiber today, might someday find themselves in a cable desert with no other technology available. They could be like the DSL folks who have a connection that long ago stopped meeting their needs. If you are in a neighborhood where a company is trying to build enough interest in fiber to make it feasible to build, you should think long and hard before you say no. Many people who know a great deal about technology would do almost anything for a reliable symmetric fiber connection. Someday you might want to sell your house and end up with a buyer like I was three years ago. I walked out of every house that didn’t have a fiber connection because I needed one to do my job. I was not willing to settle for cable, I needed connectivity that was ready for the future. Today at my house I have a 2 Gbps connection. When I need more, all they have to do is switch out the equipment inside my house. The fiber can handle more than I would ever need. On top of that according to an October 2023, Business Journal article, fiber adds an average 3.1 percent, or $5,437 to the value of a typical home. Like many modern companies, we have a distributed workforce. I live in a different state from our headquarters’ location. The fiber to our house is done by another company, not our Blacksburg Company. What I hope this post does is help all those small companies trying to do fiber in the many places where we work.
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Broadband providers will spend $150 billion through 2028 to build fiber-to-the-home infrastructure, RVA predicts. Read more via Telecompetitor https://ow.ly/eGzT50R4AV1 #BroadbandProviders #InternetInfrastructure #DigitalConnectivity #BroadbandInvestment #DigitalTransformation #FiberToTheHome
Report: 42% of Rural/Small Town Homes Passed by Fiber - Telecompetitor
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Report: Providers will invest $150B to bridge fiber gaps Broadband providers will spend $150 billion through 2028 to build fiber-to-the-home infrastructure, RVA predicts. Fiber currently provides access to 42% of homes in rural areas and 55% in suburbs and cities.
Report: 42% of Rural/Small Town Homes Passed by Fiber
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AT&T Expands Fiber Network to Help Close Digital Divide in the Comptche Area AT&T Fiber, Super-fast Internet Speeds Now Available to More Locations in Comptche Comptche, CA., beginning February 21, 2023 — Continuing our efforts to help close the digital divide and connect people wherever they live and work, AT&T is expanding our superfast fiber network to serve more residential and small business locations across the Comptche area. This AT&T Fiber build in Comptche stems from the California Public Utilities Commission’s approval of AT&T’s plan to invest more than $6.2M in fiber builds in Petaluma, Sonoma, Dixon, Comptche, Truckee, and Fair Oaks. The expanded network will give more customers access to super-fast internet speeds up to 5 Gigs. You can sign up to be notified when AT&T Fiber is available to your address through att.com/notifyme. “We are continually working to help close the digital divide by expanding our fiber footprint and delivering ultra-fast internet that keeps residents and businesses connected,” said Tedi Vriheas, Vice President, External Affairs, AT&T California. “We are committed to investing in the modern, high-speed network infrastructure necessary in today’s economy, and we are also committed to supporting consumers to help remove connectivity obstacles for income-eligible homes.”
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Scotland to Require Gigabit Broadband for Almost All New Homes from 2025 📌 The Scottish Government has introduced new legislation, similar to that in England, requiring property developers to ensure that all new build homes are equipped to support gigabit-capable #broadband connections. This regulation, which will come into effect on January 1st, 2025, aims to future-proof homes and ensure high-speed 📈 #internet access for residents from the outset, enhancing digital infrastructure across Scotland. Read more on: https://lnkd.in/eq_r6tYN
Scotland to Require Gigabit Broadband for Almost All New Homes from 2025 - ISPreview UK
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Internet speeds have long been an issue for a number of our clients that live in such rural areas. With the governments roll-out of 'Project Gigabit', targeting to connect the country with gigabit fibre broadband by 2030. This news comes as a welcome boost to achieving their target and to bring our clients out of the Stone Age 😆 We always stress to customers and developers alike the importance of having a robust cable infrastructure in place when designing a build. To not only prepare the property for a full fibre connection but also 'future proof' AV distribution (which I will save for another post to elaborate). What may seem like an unnecessary and unwanted expense at the time, this area certainly pays to think ahead and cover all bases https://lnkd.in/dff3Qm-T
Over £1 billion awarded to roll out lightning-fast broadband in hard to reach towns and villages
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As we expand access to broadband in rural America, the last mile is getting a lot of attention. But the middle mile matters – a lot. In #TheSignalBlog, Corning’s Barry Walton explains why a robust #fiber optic middle mile infrastructure is critical to connecting rural America. http://ms.spr.ly/6047lnTqB
To Connect Rural America, Don’t Forget the Middle Mile
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The Colorado approved a fee schedule that makes the Colorado DoT’s property available for broadband development. Under the new fiber access fee schedule, broadband providers can pay $0.10 per foot of fiber optic line in urban counties >200,000 people and $0.03 per foot in rural counties. There is also a one-time charge of $0.05 per foot to cover permitting costs. The fee schedule is the lowest in the region and is 90% lower than the initially proposed version
Colorado slashes broadband expansion rates along roadways | StateScoop
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The next five years will be an unprecedented period of growth in Fiber deployment. Forty-six percent of locations — or more than half of U.S. households — had access to fiber as of June 2023, according to data from the Federal Communications Commission. "RVA's detailed analysis in "2024-2028 North American Fiber Broadband Report: FTTH and 5G Review And Forecast", shows the rationale for expecting $150 Billion spent on residential fiber (FTTH or Fiber to the home) in the United States over the next five years - more than all the capital spent to date on fiber." #GigabitLife #FiberNation #FTTH
RVA predicts $150B invested in U.S. residential fiber in next five years
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Despite fixed line-LTE still being by far the leading broadband medium in South Africa, the fibre sector continues to spark interest and competition, as the need for #data #consumption grows exponentially. “Long term winners will be those with the magic mix of technology, customer service and experience,” says Albert Oosthuysen, CEO of EVOTEL. Lower average revenue per user (arpu) areas should not be discounted either. “Among our largest users is one consuming 4TB monthly on a R379 a month line - which shows the demand for a good data service," he says. #connectingpeople #transforminglives #fibrebroadband #growthanddevelopment
25% of South African homes seeing fibre overbuild
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