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1 week ago | 
benton.org | Ian Doescher
Tribal Ready—a Native-owned company that helps deploy broadband networks—recently announced its partnership with Aqualinq to bring fiber broadband to Native communities. The partnership was a product of Tribal Ready’s desire to make the funding from the federal Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program “go as far as possible,” said Tribal Ready President Joe Valandra, and Aqualinq’s persistence in making their case.
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1 week ago | 
telecompetitor.com | Ian Doescher
Earlier this month, Tribal Ready — a Native-owned company that helps deploy broadband networks — announced their partnership with Aqualinq to bring fiber broadband to Native communities. Telecompetitor spoke about the partnership with Tribal Ready President and CEO Joe Valandra and Aqualinq Business Development and Communications Business Line Lead Ian Deacon.
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2 weeks ago | 
telecompetitor.com | Ian Doescher
Brightspeed was the biggest winner, measured by number of grants, in the latest round of North Carolina broadband funding. The company won awards for seven counties. The state didn’t reveal the amount of funding going to each of the 12 providers that won grants. But the total funding awarded was $33 million, with an additional $14 million to be provided by the selected providers.
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2 weeks ago | 
telecompetitor.com | Ian Doescher
“If we go this route, who else can be served by that?” That simple question is the driving force behind a new push for public-private partnerships in Maryland through the state’s Digital Infrastructure Group (DIG). Telecompetitor spoke with Eric Bathras, Chief Technology Officer for Infrastructure at the Maryland Department of Information Technology and one of the leaders of DIG.
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3 weeks ago | 
telecompetitor.com | Ian Doescher
Today, Charter Communications and Cox Communications announced that they have reached a merger agreement.
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3 weeks ago | 
benton.org | Ian Doescher
More than $53 million in middle-mile broadband expansion grants were recommended for approval by the Oklahoma Broadband Governing Board. The Oklahoma middle-mile projects, recommended for approval by the Grants Review Committee, are funded by the American Rescue Plan Act’s State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.
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3 weeks ago | 
telecompetitor.com | Ian Doescher
More than $53 million in middle-mile broadband expansion grants were recommended for approval this week by the Oklahoma Broadband Governing Board. The Oklahoma middle-mile projects, recommended for approval by the Grants Review Committee, are funded by the American Rescue Plan Act’s State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.
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3 weeks ago | 
telecompetitor.com | Ian Doescher
In the past months, several national and regional broadband service providers (BSPs) and mobile providers have introduced new plan features to help enhance their customer experience (CX) efforts. Most prominent among these CX initiatives are service guarantees and price locks. Before price locks became the CX trend of 2025, two national providers introduced service guarantees.
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3 weeks ago | 
telecompetitor.com | Ian Doescher
States are receiving notifications that President Donald Trump is pulling the plug on the Digital Equity Act, a $2.75 billion program that is part of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law, according to a CNET report. According to CNET, the Digital Equity Act is being halted after President Trump called it “racist” and “unconstitutional” on social media.
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1 month ago | 
benton.org | Ian Doescher
The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) offered an update this week on the first round of their Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program applications. In total, providers requested $704,316,251.14 in funds. Tennessee was allocated about $813 million in BEAD funds. According to the update, Tennessee received 298 BEAD applications in the first round that cover 174 of the state’s 178 Project Area Units (PAUs).
