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Competing Against Big Cable Companies
I’m asked at least twenty times a year how a small ISP can compete against the big cable companies. The question comes from several sources – a newly-formed ISP that is nervous about competing against...
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Getting Serious About Satellite Texting
One of the more interesting telecom announcements at the CES electronics show in Vegas was the announcement from the partnership of Qualcomm and Iridium of plans to bring satellite texting capability...
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How Good is FWA Wireless?
T-Mobile got some bad news recently when the the National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs informed T-Mobile that it could not use the words “fast” and “reliable” when advertising...
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Price-for-Life
I recently noticed in the T-Mobile pricing for FWA cellular broadband that the company is claiming that the price is locked-in and will never be raised. In the pricing world, that kind of offer is...
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Final 2022 Statistics from Ookla
As a numbers guy, I’m always intrigued by the Ookla Speedtest Global Index since it provides an interesting look at broadband speeds in the U.S. and around the world. This report shows the median and...
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Will Cellular Companies Pursue BEAD Grants?
Several people have asked me recently if cellular companies will be pursuing BEAD grants. It’s an interesting question that I don’t think anybody other than the cellular carriers know the answer. But...
View Article2022 Was a Year of Change for the Big ISPs
There was a sea change among the big ISPs in 2022. The big news is that most of the growth in the industry came from the T-Mobile and Verizon cellular FWA broadband product. Cable company growth...
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FWA Mapping and BEAD Grants
There is one mapping issue that unfortunately messed up the NTIA’s count of eligible passings for BEAD, grants and that is going to be a real concern for folks who file BEAD grants. Over the last year,...
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Outlook for FWA Cellular Wireless
Mike Dano at LightReading published a recent article looking at the future of FWA (cellular fixed wireless). For those not familiar with the technology, this is broadband delivered to homes and...
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FWA Cellular Speeds
One of the most interesting things about getting access to a lot of speed tests is that it provides a way to test broadband issues you always suspected but couldn’t prove. If you can collect enough...
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Labor Downsizing
I’ve been mystified for most of my career when large ISPs and carriers have significant layoffs at a time when they seem to be doing well. It’s a pattern that we’ve seen over and over during the last...
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Upgrades for FWA Cellular Wireless
In the recent third quarter earnings call, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg expressed strong support and belief in the future of the company’s FWA wireless broadband product. This product provides home and...
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Where is FWA Finding Customers?
Several people have asked me where the cellular carriers are finding the millions of customers they are adding to FWA cellular broadband. T-Mobile added 550,000 customers in the third quarter to reach...
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What’s Up With Comcast and Charter?
The two biggest cable companies in the country have clearly bogged down. In the third quarter of 2023, Comcast lost 18,000 broadband customers while Charter gained 63,000. To contrast the extent of the...
View ArticleWill FWA Wireless Peak Soon?
This almost sounds like a silly question when looking at the recent growth of FWA wireless, where the big cellular carriers are selling home broadband using cellular spectrum. But I find myself having...
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Wireless Carrier Aggregation
T-Mobile recently announced that it was able to aggregate six channels of spectrum into one bandwidth signal to a customer. The ability to wed channels together was one of the promises of the original...
View ArticleTelcos Shedding Jobs
I heard a chilling story recently. AT&T apparently notified a bunch of employees in Los Angeles that their jobs are being eliminated and that they need to report to other cities like Dallas or lose...
View ArticleAre There Two Broadband Markets?
In a recent survey of 8,000 broadband customers nationwide, Parks Associates found that FWA cellular wireless customers feel better about the price they pay for broadband than subscribers of other...
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First Look at Broadband Labels
The FCC’s Broadband Labels were implemented by ISPs with more than 100,000 customers on or before April 10. Not surprisingly, many ISPs waited until the last day. I think the FCC hoped that the labels...
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The Trajectory for FWA
Mike Dano, in LightReading recently quoted Sowmyanarayan Sampath, the EVP and CEO of Verizon’s consumer business, as saying that Verizon expects to have 4 to 5 million FWA customers at the end of 2024,...
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