About 17% of US broadband subscribers use fiber optic connections, a modest adoption rate compared to many European and Latin American markets like France (67%) and Brazil (75%). But US telco fiber subscribers grew double digits in 2023 and made up about 63% of the entire telco subscriber base, with the balance on legacy copper DSL. But fiber is not exclusive to telcos (defined...
READSix of the nine legacy multichannel distributors tracked by S&P Global Market Intelligence Kagan raised their broadcast TV fees from the first quarter of 2023 to January 2024. The upward pull resulted in a 12.8% increase in the group's weighted national average to about $21.48 worth of broadcast fees per monthly consumer bill. The slowed growth (versus 2023) comes during heavy ...
READUnsurprisingly, the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) federal program was the star of the Fiber Connect 2023 conference held in Orlando, Fla. on Aug. 20–23. The buzz for the $42.45 billion program highlighted the upcoming opportunities and challenges that internet service providers (ISPs) will have to effectively navigate as soon as dollars flow down to broadband o...
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