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UTOPIA Fiber Reports Strong 2025 Growth
UTOPIA Fiber made great progress in 2025, connecting more than 9,000 homes and 1,000 businesses to fiber.
Read MoreCalifornia’s digital backbone gets its first connection
The State of California’s multi-billion dollar middle-mile network is now active
Read MoreUSF Reform Is Moving: What Community Providers Need to Watch This Summer
Will Congress finally take action to fix the Universal Service Fund? The next few months may prove critical.
Read MoreDecorah, 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.
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