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Hawaiian Telcom Launches $87 Million Fiber Broadband Infrastructure Project | Maui Now

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Hawaiian Telcom Launches $87 Million Fiber Broadband Infrastructure Project | Maui Now

Hawaiian Telcom launches $87 million fiber broadband infrastructure project, $37 million federal grant and $50 million corporate investment. PC: Hawaiian Telcom Hawaiian Telcom announced an $87 million fiber broadband project to expand the average mile infrastructure across the state. Middle mile infrastructure carries large amounts of data over long distances, increases the capacity of local … Read more

Two fiber internet providers join forces to ‘go faster’ in Livingston

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Rachel Gupte works at the Fowlerville District Library on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, as she has no Wi-Fi at home.

LIVINGSTON COUNTY A Howell-based high-speed Internet provider has been acquired by Surf Internet with plans to expand the service into Livingston County, officials from the two companies said. Since MiSignal was founded in Howell several years ago, the company has built new underground or pole-mounted fiber optic broadband cable Internet lines, reaching thousands of homes … Read more

Huge fiber loop planned around Tucson to boost Internet service for rural Pima County

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Huge fiber loop planned around Tucson to boost Internet service for rural Pima County

Pima County is slated to obtain a 134-mile line of fiber Internet infrastructure to create a ring encircling the urban core of Tucson, intended to provide high-speed Internet access to rural and historically underserved areas. The Biden administration on Friday announced more than $930 million in grants for high-speed Internet infrastructure across the country, of … Read more

Residents affected by fiber outage in rural Alaska turn to satellite internet, analog operations

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Residents affected by fiber outage in rural Alaska turn to satellite internet, analog operations

A cyclist crosses Front Street in Nome on June 28, 2019. (Bill Roth/ADN) Since a fiber outage last weekend left several communities in Northwest Alaska and the North Slope without Internet and cellular service, telecommunications service providers have been scrambling to get connectivity back up and some agencies, residents and companies are adapting to pursue … Read more

Internet and cellular outages in Northwest Alaska, North Slope caused by offshore fiber optic cutting

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Internet and cellular outages in Northwest Alaska, North Slope caused by offshore fiber optic cutting

This week, residents of several communities in North Slope and Northwest Alaska experienced outages in their Internet and cellular service caused by a cut to their undersea fiber optic network. The cut could take up to two months to fix, and telecom service providers are looking for short-term solutions to get service back online. Quintillion, … Read more