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Decorah, Iowa Moving Forward With Municipal Fiber Network
CBAN Community Member City of Decorah is turning a decade-long vision into reality — and they want residents ready when the first crews hit the ground. Residents of Decorah, Iowa are beginning to receive letters from the city urging them to take action and register for the community’s new municipal fiber internet service. The outreach is part of a pre-subscription push ahead of construction on the city’s long-anticipated $13 million fiber-to-the-home project, which will make gigabit internet service available to every home and business in Decorah.
Read MoreIowa Emerges as AI Backbone Hub with Midwest FiberPath’s 1,200-Mile Fiber Corridor
An Iowa start-up, Midwest FiberPath, LLC has announced plans for a 1,200-mile, multi-conduit long-haul backbone engineered to support the explosive bandwidth demands of artificial intelligence workloads and hyperscale cloud computing across the central United States.
Read MoreNextlink Expands Rural Service Bundle with New Mobile Offering
Nextlink Internet, a major fixed wireless and fiber provider serving rural communities across the Midwest and South, has launched Nextlink Mobile, adding mobile phone service to its broadband portfolio.
Read MoreA Million Satellites? Seriously?
Always one to “aim high,” Elon Musk has outdone himself with this latest venture. As Eric Urbach expertly detailed in his recent Broadband Breakfast article, SpaceX filed an application with the FCC on January 30th requesting authorization to deploy up to ONE MILLION satellites in low Earth orbit to function as orbital data centers for AI computing. Thats right, he wants to move SkyNet from fiction to reality (if it’s not already on its way).
Read MoreAT&T to Buy Lumen’s Home Fiber Business: What You Need to Know
AT&T has finalized a $5.75 billion agreement to acquire Lumen Technologies’ “Mass Markets” fiber business. The deal, which includes the Quantum Fiber brand, will see AT&T take over operations across 11 states, gaining access to millions of existing and planned fiber locations in major hubs like Denver, Phoenix, and Seattle.
Read MoreThe Sky Is Getting Crowded: Starlink’s $50 Pivot and the New Reality for Community Broadband
Has Starlink moved from a “boutique” broadband solution to a real competitor to community-focused providers?
Read MoreImOn Communications Upgrades Cedar Rapids Area Hybrid Network to 100% Fiber-to-the-Home Internet
ImOn Communications is finalizing its shift to a 100% fiber-to-the-home network in Cedar Rapids, Marion, and Hiawatha. The upgrade replaces legacy coax infrastructure to deliver the region’s fastest residential internet speeds of up to 5 Gbps.
Read MoreUTOPIA Fiber 2025 Survey
Reliability, Speed, and “No Contract Prison”: UTOPIA Fiber Unveils 2025 Survey Results
Read MoreCBAN Appoints Curtis Dean as First Full-Time Executive Director
CBAN has selected co-founder Curtis Dean as its first full-time Executive Director! Discover how this leadership transition will expand our capacity to support over 240 members nationwide as we navigate the future of broadband deployment and BEAD funding.
Read MoreWhen BEAD’s Satellite Solution Becomes a Single Point of Failure
The “CRASH Clock” stands at just 2.8 days. That is how close we are to a potential orbital catastrophe without active collision avoidance. Despite this fragility, new analysis reveals how NTIA’s BEAD funding rules have effectively forced states to bet rural America’s digital future on satellite infrastructure—against their own better judgment. Read how the “Benefit of the Bargain” became a devil’s bargain for broadband resilience.
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