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Exiting Ting Fiber Transfers Colorado Springs Business to gFiber
Colorado Springs Utilities will receive $670 million over the next 30 years through the lease with gFiber.
Ted Hearn
Ted Hearn is Managing Editor for Broadband Breakfast. He is also Editor and Publisher of Policyband, a website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the broadband communications market.
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FCC’s Carr Warns Broadcasters About Airing Fake Polls Ahead of the November Election
Some polls are ‘designed to do nothing more than interfere with the regular functioning of the electoral process and alter the normal patterns of voter turnout and enthusiasm,’ Carr says
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Debt-Plagued ISP Optimum Close to Handing the Keys to Lenders, Resolving Litigation
The fifth-largest U.S. wireline ISP will turn over control to Apollo, Oaktree, and JPMorgan Chase
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Michigan Signs BEAD Contracts with 23 ISPs as Part of $916 Million Funding Plan
ISPs Like Charter, Brightspeed, and Michigan Bell are in kicking in $531 million in private matching funds
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Nevada Shifts $52 Million Away from Broadband Projects That Couldn’t Meet Deadline
The pandemic relief money will instead go to support mental health care in jails, food‑insecurity programs, and multifamily housing efforts
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Cable One’s Stock Crash Costs Former Washington Post Owner Donald Graham About $1 Billion So Far
Graham, once CEO and Chairman of the Washington Post Co., notified the SEC that he might soon sell his entire 6.8% stake
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On Visit to Alaska, Carr Promises to Connect Entire State with $162M in New Mobile Broadband Support
‘We are committed to ... finish the job of getting every single person in Alaska connected to high-speed Internet,' Carr said
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Cable One, Escalating Debt Battle with CoBank, Challenges ‘Insolvency’ Allegation
Cable One says, ‘CoBank does not allege, nor could it, that Cable One has missed an interest or principal payment'
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‘Cable One Currently Is Insolvent,’ CoBank Alleges
U.S. District Judge blocks Cable One from buying Vyve Broadband parent Mega Broadband Investments
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Earthquake in the Sky – SpaceX Pays $8 Billion for Grain Management Airwaves to Advance Starlink Mobile
Wall Street dumps AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon shares on Grain transaction news
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BEAD Deployments to Flood 811 System Designed to Shield Buried Gas Lines from Damage: ACLP Study
Analysts say buried routes will generate about 1.4 million 811 tickets, triggering roughly 8.1 million facility locates, most of them for service drops
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Starlink Not a Threat to Big Cable – For Now, New Street Research Says
‘The data to date shows no major impact on the wired broadband operators in the U.S.,’ New Street Research says
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NAB CEO Warns ‘NFL is Playing with Fire’ by Moving Games to Streaming Platforms
‘We are seeing study after study that shows the mounting consumer frustration with needing to buy a new subscription service just to follow your favorite team,’ NAB CEO Curtis LeGeyt says
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ALLO Fiber Sells Joplin, Missouri, Network to Lumos Without Any Explanation
The deal comes after Lumos sought approval in July to build out Joplin, taking on ALLO and Cable One
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SpaceX Has Company – Consumers’ Research Urges FCC to Fold the $4.5 Billion High Cost Fund
In 2025, Consumers’ Research lost in the Supreme Court in attempting to have the FCC’s USF contribution scheme held unconstitutional under the nondelegation doctrine.
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Disney Is Fighting FCC ‘At the Wrong Time in the Wrong Court,’ Carr Says
Agency Chief Insists No Decisions Have Been Made about the License Renewal of Eight Disney-Owned ABC Stations
