WideOpenWest is expanding its fiber network into Minnesota, with construction to begin in Anoka and Ramsey counties in coming months, it said Tuesday. It said it expects to pass 85,000 homes in Minnesota, and is expanding the number of total homes to be passed as part of its current Greenfield expansion initiative to 345,000. The expansion is part of the company's overall goal of reaching 400,000 additional homes by 2027.
Cable ISP Vyve Broadband closed on its purchases of the commercial arm of Georgia's ATC Broadband and Oklahoma's Community Cable and Broadband, it said this week. Vyve said the ATC deal strengthens its presence in east-central Georgia. It said it plans a network upgrade for CCB to allow faster internet speeds.
Breezeline's Stream TV platform, available in seven states, is expanding to the cable company's Maryland, Virginia and Delaware markets, it said Wednesday. A company spokesperson told us it expects to introduce Stream TV in South Carolina in October, making it available in all Breezeline markets. The company is gradually migrating subscribers of its video legacy service to the cloud-based Stream TV platform, while new video subs are all on Stream TV, he said.
Cable modems successfully linked to cable modem termination system equipment in a test of DOCSIS 4.0 technology interoperability, CableLabs Principal Architect Doug Jones blogged this week. The event, at CableLabs last month, "passed high-speed traffic. Very high speed, as in gigabits-per-second downstream and upstream," he said. Another interoperability session is scheduled for later this month as the cable industry and suppliers "keep pushing a more rigorous and deeper understanding of the DOCSIS 4.0 specifications and product maturity," he said.
Charter Communications has fully rolled out use of citizens broadband radio service band spectrum in one market for offloading mobile traffic from its mobile virtual network operator agreement with Verizon, with plans for a broader CBRS rollout next year, CEO Chris Winfrey said Friday as the company announced Q2 earnings. Charter ended the quarter with 6.6 million residential and small-business mobile lines. Winfrey said more than 11% of its internet customers have its mobile service, and the mobile penetration should sizably grow over the next several years. It ended Q2 2022 with 4.3 million total mobile lines. Charter hopes to land "significant" broadband equity, access and deployment program funding, Winfrey said. BEAD rules are notably different from broadband programs in states where Charter operates, and the company will work with governments on rules "still conducive to private investment," he said. Charter is doing trials of its Xumo video platform, offering unified search across linear and direct-to-consumer offerings, with deployment later this year, Winfrey said. Chief Financial Officer Jessica Fischer said Charter remains on track for 300,000 additional state-subsidized rural passings this year. She said Charter expects to spend $4 billion this year on line extension work, with similar spending likely in 2024 and 2025. Charter had Q2 revenue of $13.7 billion, essentially flat year over year, with internet and mobile service revenue growth offset by declines in video and voice service revenue. It ended the quarter with 28.5 million residential internet customers, up about 300,000 from the same quarter a year earlier; 14.1 million residential video subs, down 780,000; and 7.2 million residential voice subs, down 1 million.
Zoom Telephonics successor Minim dropped Zoom's 2016 petitions to have the FCC reconsider its approvals of Altice's buy of Cablevision (see 1606140015) and of Charter Communications' buy of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks (see 1606100043), per dismissals Wednesday in docket 15-257 and docket 15-149.
Altice's Optimum brand launched 8 Gbps symmetrical fiber service to more than 1.7 million addresses in its footprint, with it to be available to nearly 3 million passings by year's end, Altice said Monday.
Cable operators filing FCC Form 1240 can adjust the non-external portion of their rates by 4.14% in Q1 2023 to account for inflation, the Media Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics said Friday.
Cox Communications closed on its buy of Missouri-based fiber communications infrastructure services provider Unite Private Networks, Cox said Thursday. It said Unite and Cox-owned fiber infrastructure provider Segra will be a stand-alone fiber company focusing on growing in the commercial fiber market. Cox had been majority owner of Unite since 2016.
CableLabs and the Telecom Infra Project community validated version 2.9 of the open-source OpenWiFi platform and launched CableLabs' OpenWiFi Community Lab for testing and demonstration, CableLabs said Wednesday. The OpenWiFi platform is for enabling multivendor managed Wi-Fi networks.