Small telcos struggle to transition from TDM to IP, claim large ILECs are price gouging
Ribbon is helping MGW Telephone transition from TDM to IP
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Don’t Be Fooled
When low-income households drop service, it is not because they don’t want it or because the market is rosy
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Agreed, But Not Done: The Broadband To-Do List Federal Agencies Keep Not Finishing
What Congress's watchdog has asked NTIA to do, how long the requests have been pending, and what would count as done
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Why Carolina West Wireless is calling it quits now
Carolina West Wireless gave it a good run, but the economics of rural wireless finally caught up with it
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A cost-effective answer to some of the biggest problems for some of the nation's smallest ISPs
What happens when powerful technology becomes accessible to smaller broadband providers?
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Oregon Broadband Office Announces Preliminary Awardees for Reassigned BEAD Projects, Preserving Broadband Expansion Across the State
As a result of the two-round replacement process, every eligible location included in the declined awards has been reassigned to a preliminary awardee
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Three big AI trends collide
Three AI trends are accelerating and colliding
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OpenAI bets voice will become AI's primary interface with new models
Company sees a future where voice is the primary way people interact with AI
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“Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?”: Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
Findings highlight adolescents' perceptions of caregiver attentional availability in the context of device use as a potentially important relational context associated with attachment insecurity
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Rural Cooperatives Frustrated With NTIA BEAD Changes
NTIA BEAD changes not sitting well with rural cooperatives
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Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”
Development highlights some considerable shortcomings that satellite-based internet has over physical broadband infrastructure back on the ground, including fiber
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Oracle does damage control after New Mexico data center backlash
Oracle is pitching fuel cells as a cleaner fix for its massive $165 billion Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico
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Virginia has approved what appears to be the nation’s first tax on data center electricity use
The tax emerged from negotiations during a recent General Assembly session, as Virginia lawmakers struggled to reconcile competing views on how to tax one of the state's fastest-growing industries
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