As it looks to expand its footprint in Alaska, GCI will continue to spend money on improvements to telecommunications infrastructure statewide. “It does take a significant investment,” the company’s senior director of corporate communications told the Chugiak-Eagle River Chamber of Commerce at its luncheon Jan. 17 in downtown Eagle River. Heather Handyside said GCI has a $170 million capital budget for 2018, plans $50 million in network upgrades in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau over the next four years. Read More

Source: Alaska Star | Jan. 24, 2018

Add WideOpenWest to the list of major cable operators speeding to wrap up 1-Gig rollouts to nearly its entire service area. WideOpenWest Holdings -- a long-time cable overbuilder that's now the sixth-largest U.S. MSO with more than 780,000 total customers spread across the Midwest and Southeast -- announced that it has started deploying DOCSIS 3.1 in a number of new markets, including such major ones as Charleston, S.C., Cleveland, Columbus and Detroit. Read More

Source: Light Reading | Jan. 25, 2018

Cable ONE Business was recently awarded the opportunity to build a new 1 Gigabit fiber optic Wide Area Network (WAN) with Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) for the Yavapai County Education Service Agency, which encompasses more than 50 schools and libraries and 100 businesses within Yavapai County, Ariz. Stan Goligoski, Executive Director of Yavapai County School Superintendent’s Office, said this new network means students, businesses, and residents in the more rural Yavapai County communities will now have additional resources available to expand their educational opportunities. Read More

Source: Press Release | Jan. 23, 2018

Atlantic Broadband has inked a deal to acquire all of FiberLight’s South Florida fiber network, more than doubling the cable operator’s fiber footprint in the region. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The purchase includes about 350 route miles of fiber, expanding Atlantic Broadband’s network to cover 7,000 route miles and 25,000 on-net buildings reaching from Maine to South Florida Read More

Source: CED | Jan. 25, 2018