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"Customers shouldn't have to think about their WiFi: It should just work. By including eero devices with every new plan, we're making it easier for customers to get set up quickly and get strong, fast coverage throughout their homes."

"If the router Conditional Approval process follows a similar pattern, Chinese-origin manufacturers like TP-Link may face a presumptive denial, while companies with manufacturing in allied nations like Taiwan, Vietnam, or South Korea could find an easier path."

USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture is proud to partner with NSF on this national effort to ensure that every community - including the most rural - can benefit from the power of artificial intelligence. By investing in tools and training that meet farmers and ranchers where they are, we're helping build an agricultural future that is more resilient, more efficient and more accessible for all.

"In many major metropolitan areas and small towns, copper theft has escalated to levels that can only be described as systemic," Alcutt writes.

The letter argues that SpaceX is asking the definition of 'standard installation' as shipping in a box - not a working connection - and allowing Starlink to 'falsely demonstrate compliance' with the program's 100 Mbps download/20 Mbps requirements.

Charter Communications has agreed to modify the 'fiber-powered' claims in website and video advertising in response to a BBB National Programs' National Advertising Division (NAD) Fast-Track SWIFT challenge brought by AT&T.

The firm's study, 'North American Fiber Broadband Report: FTTH Review and Forecast 2026-2030,' indicates that nearly $200 billion will be spent on fiber over the next five years, highlighting a significant investment in fiber-to-the-home services.

Put together, the two companies pass ~7.1 [million] locations in 26 states. The two companies overlap in only three counties in Texas (109k locations). Texas and Illinois will have the largest footprint for the combined entity. Cable and Fiber will cover an almost equal share of locations for the combined company.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added all consumer-grade routers made outside the US to a list of equipment seen as not secure enough for use, putting them on par with foreign-made drones, which were banned at the end of last year.

The goal of the new USTelecom program is to show consumers, businesses, civic leaders, and policymakers why maintaining legacy copper for the small portion of end users is not an efficient approach. A key part of this is explaining why modern technology is better.

Google Fiber, now just GFiber, will merge with Stonepeak's Astound Broadband to create a new network provider. Stonepeak will hold a majority ownership stake, while the existing GFiber executive team will run the company. According to the pair, the move gives GFiber the external capital and necessary focus to drive its next phase of expansion, allowing it to buildout its fiber footprint across the US.

Both are using wireless as a broadband retention tool: a customer with both internet and mobile from the same provider is much harder to lose to a fiber overbuilder. Charter added 428,000 Spectrum Mobile net lines in Q4, pushing mobile service revenue up 13.1% to $973 million. Comcast had its best wireless year ever, adding 1.5 million net lines for the full year and ending 2025 with over 9 million total lines.

Eight of the municipal networks studied beat their local provider competitors in median upload speed. Sherwood Broadband - in the town of the same name in Oregon - was the only one to beat its local competitor in median download speed.

GFiber has always been about pushing the boundaries of what's possible for internet speed and service. This partnership with Astound and Stonepeak is the next step in our decade-long mission to redefine what customers can expect from their internet provider. It's a strategic opportunity to scale our customer-focused approach to connect more households to a truly different type of internet service.

A new rumor from a Chinese leaker suggests that Apple's C2 modem which is expected to be featured inside the iPhone 18 Pro series will support 5G satellite connectivity. The rumor claims the C2 modem will offer support for New Radio Non-Terrestrial Networks (NR-NTN) connectivity. This means devices with the new modem will be able to connect to low-Earth orbit satellites for direct internet access in areas without traditional cellular coverage.

Wholesale access has been inherently supported by the Broadband Forum's network architecture over the past 20 years, and this project takes the best practices from copper‑based broadband to reshape and evolve them for fiber and cloud networks.

Do owners of patents for which licensing declarations have been made enjoy more rights than other patent holders? Do such licensing declarations impose obligations on potential licensees rather than on patent holders? Should prospective licensees have no right to challenge such patents? In another responsive article, that is what one commentator claims our series of articles on IPWatchdog asserted, although we never wrote or suggested anything of the sort.

Ookla said the growing use of ChatGPT and other AI tools places much more demand on mobile networks than the typical activities of browsing social media and the web, watching videos, texting, and making the occasional phone call. As a result, more speed and expanded capabilities will be necessary. The report said advanced AI capabilities like AI-enabled glasses will put a particular strain on upload connections in the future.

Light-based internet provider Taara, which spun out of Alphabet's "moonshot" incubator last year, just launched Taara Beam to provide 25Gbps connectivity within cities over invisible beams of light - line of sight permitting. Unlike last year's Taara Lightbridge, which connects communities separated by water and mountains at distances up to 20km (over 12 miles), the shoebox-sized Beam can be mounted to street poles and roof tops for city-wide connectivity at distances up to 10km. The 8kg (less than 20 pounds) device typically consumes about 90W.