Providers Get Serious About 5G Laptops Laptops with cellular connectivity have been around for several years. Until recently, they were a limited market, but that’s beginning to change as providers are getting more serious about promoting them. Less than one million cellular laptops have been sold in an average year, but the forecast for the...

TDS Aims to Protect Consumers Post-California Disasters June 13, 2024 — As California residents continue to monitor storms and natural disasters, TDS Telecommunications LLC (TDS®) will abide by several post-disaster consumer protection measures. ​In the event the Governor of California or the President of the United States declare a state...

SpaceX Cutting Starlink Dish Prices: PCMag SpaceX’s Starlink is significantly cutting the price of its newest satellite dish in two ways, according to an article posted by PCMag on June 11. The first move is an across-the-board reduction in price from $599 to $499. The company also is offering a $200 “regional” reduction for new subscribers...

Report: Paying Doesn’t End Ransomware Crisis Forty-one percent of an organization’s data is comprised during a ransomware attack and only 57% of that data is recovered, according to a report from data protection and ransomware recovery firm, Veeam. The company called ransomware the largest single cause of IT outages and downtime in its report,...

CBRS Band Coverage Poised to Improve for 72M People CBRS spectrum band coverage is poised to improve, potentially enhancing service on mobile and fixed wireless networks for 72 million people in the U.S. The NTIA, the U.S. Navy and the FCC have worked to expand the unencumbered portion of the spectrum band, which wireless service providers shared...

Brightspeed Confirms This Month’s $5.6M Indiana Funding Win Charlotte, N.C. — June 13, 2024 — Brightspeed, the nation’s fourth largest fiber broadband builder focused on empowering more homes with ultrafast, reliable internet, announced that it has been awarded $5,638,989 to expand its state-of-the-art fiber broadband network to even more Indiana...