Last Mile / Middle Mile

Brightspeed has secured an additional $575 million in capital to boost its ongoing fiber network buildout across 20 states. The funding adds to the $3.7 billion raised in 2024 and...

Huawei and major telecom operators highlighted the rapid progress of F5.5G all-optical networks at the F5.5G All-Optical Industry Summit during MWC Shanghai 2025. Industry leaders—including China Telecom, China Mobile, China...

Liberty Global has selected CommScope to upgrade broadband access networks in several European countries with virtualized Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) and DOCSIS 4.0 capabilities. The rollout will impact key affiliates...

AT&T announced it has passed more than 30 million consumer and business locations with its fiber network, marking a major milestone in its strategy to build out America’s largest fiber...

T-Mobile is launching its fiber-based home internet service on June 5, expanding availability to more than 500,000 U.S. households and introducing a lineup of new fiber plans backed by a...

At Fiber Connect 2025, the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) reported that its members have invested nearly $650 million to comply with Build America, Buy America (BABA) requirements tied to the...

Lightera introduced two key innovations at Fiber Connect 2025 aimed at expanding fiber capacity in dense metro networks and simplifying in-home fiber deployment. The announcements include the RollR® 200 864...

Adtran has introduced its SDG 9000 Series, a new line of Wi-Fi 7 service delivery gateways aimed at bringing multigigabit connectivity to residential homes, small businesses, and multi-dwelling units (MDUs)....

Vecima Networks has unveiled its new Entra vPON Manager, a cloud-native XGS-PON platform designed to simplify subscriber and service provisioning, while also enabling scalable fiber network deployments. The solution integrates...

Nokia has introduced a new co-existence network element that enables broadband operators to run 10G, 25G, and 50G PON services simultaneously over the same optical fiber. Designed to support the...

GTA, Guam’s longest-serving telecom provider, has launched a new “Air Fiber” broadband service powered by Tarana’s next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) technology. In just 90 days, the network has passed...

Nokia introduced a 16-port high-density 25G PON line card aimed at enabling scalable, cost-effective delivery of multi-gigabit broadband services to residential markets. The solution is built on Nokia’s Quillion chipset...

Netomnia and Adtran have launched the UK’s first commercial 50G PON (passive optical network) service, marking a major step forward in the country’s broadband infrastructure. The rollout leverages Adtran’s SDX...