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“We're building at the highest pace we've ever built. And we've only been in existence for just over 30 months,” GoNetspeed President and CEO Richard Clark told Fierce Telecom. https://lnkd.in/gVX3ywjd

Frontier Communications parlayed its focus on fiber into solid results across the board as the telco gathered gains in fiber deployments, fiber subscribers and fiber revenues in the third quarter of 2023. https://lnkd.in/dNMQhuwn

NTIA will loosen the letter of credit requirements for the $42.5 billion BEAD rural broadband funding program, senior agency officials told reporters in a pre-briefing yesterday. The move came in response to service providers’ concerns that the letter of credit requirements were so burdensome that the providers would not be able to apply for funding through the BEAD program. Smaller service providers that already serve large parts of rural America were especially concerned about this possibility. https://lnkd.in/gJ9KsMjN

Delaware has successfully connected nearly 6,000 homes, businesses, and organizations to broadband in the last year and is on track to become the first state in the nation to be fully connected, according to Gov. John Carney. https://lnkd.in/gvk-6Eeu

The future looks bright! Should we wear shades? https://lnkd.in/gqrJZikB

Armstrong said Comcast is on pace to meet or exceed its goal to build its network to 1 million new homes and businesses in 2023 and accelerate that further in 2024. https://lnkd.in/gKtyYRvF

Coherent Optics market is predicted to reach nearly $13 billion by 2027. This growth will be driven by both form factors: Module/Embedded and Plug. Pluggable transceivers are projected to grow at the highest rate and contribute most of the volume growth for the next five years. https://lnkd.in/gqsQfiXd

Upping the ante...While others across the industry battle it out over 10-gig claims, Google Fiber is looking to go bigger, plotting the rollout of a symmetrical 20-gig service for select residential and business customers by the end of this year, executives told Fierce. It’s tapping into Nokia’s 25G-PON system to make the service a reality. https://lnkd.in/gyrwN5Bs

As Brightspeed moves into its second year as the fifth largest ILEC in the U.S., it’s shifting toward a “marketplace perspective,” where it can go into a particular market and see if it can grab a high penetration rate, which in turn can “help us deliver additional trends down the road.” https://lnkd.in/gCvc9Stc