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Fiber Connect 2025 Wrap Up! 

 

I don’t know about you, but my experience over the past four days has been nothing short of epic. 

Fiber Connect has always been about the stories. The stories about how our companies are changing the lives in the communities each serves, to how we are collectively overcoming challenges and creating opportunities, and how we as an industry are helping create a brighter future.

From the last bite during the Fiber Broadband Hot Seat, to the ThoughtWaves first look, through the sessions, parties, and meet up, it is clear we are better together and good things are happening in our industry.

More to come and the team is already working on Fiber Connect 2026 so please join us in Orlando, May 17 – 20: Fiber Connect 2026 – Fiber Broadband Association

 

 

-Gary Bolton, President and CEO 

 

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Federal Broadband Program Sees First Completion with Visionary Broadband 

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Wisconsin Families and Businesses Can Now Access Brightspeed 

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Brightspeed Coming to Central Texas 

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Adtran: Meet FiberCX, the web platform built for broadband – launching at FC25

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NLconnect PCRs for Fiber Optic Products Now Officially Standardized in the Netherlands

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CommScope: Simplifying Fiber Termination for Smarter FTTH Growth

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Sumitomo Electric and Osaka Metropolitan University Successfully Fabricate GaN-HEMT on 2-Inch Polycrystalline Diamond Substrate

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ADB Strengthens National Subcontractor Partner Program to Support Wireless Infrastructure Growth

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Surf Internet to Bring High-Speed Fiber-Optic Internet to Muncie and Yorktown, Indiana

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RightFiber Expands Future-Proof Internet in Dyersburg

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City of Baltimore RFP

The City of Baltimore is seeking an internet service provider to deliver affordable, high-speed internet (250+ Mbps) to over 4,100 public housing units using existing City-built fiber infrastructure.

  • Proposal deadline: Wednesday, July 2, 2025
  • Must be registered in the City’s Workday procurement system

Email with Questions

 

📄 Learn more and access the full RFP

 

Smart Tech Challenge CF

Ready to flex your fiber skills? Clearfield invites fiber optic technicians across the U.S. to compete in the Smart Tech Challenge!  

 

The competition offers a chance to win one of three fabulous prizes valued up to $1,200 – testing knowledge, handiwork and ability to harness new installation tools like the BILT app. 

 

Dive into the first stage, a fiber quiz and questionnaire, before TOMORROW, for your chance to win. 

 

Compete in the Smart Tech Challenge 

 

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On this week’s episode of Fiber for Breakfast, During a live broadcast of Fiber for Breakfast during Fiber Connect 2025, James Feger, representing Lumen, shared key insights on how the company is doubling down on its AI-first strategy and reimagining the fiber and cloud landscape for an increasingly data-driven world.

 

Watch this week's Fiber for Breakfast 

 

Read the full summary

 

 

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States Hoping for Flexibility in Upcoming BEAD Rules

Broadband Breakfast | Jake Neenan | 6/4/25

 

BEAD uncertainty has state broadband chiefs advancing slowly, cautiously

State Scoop | Keely Quinlan | 6/3/25

 

FBA Announces Rise in Membership as Fiber Connect 2025 Gets Underway

Inside Towers | 6/3/25

 

The Fusion Of 5G And Fiber Broadband: Building The Nervous System Of A New Digital Era

Forbes | Abhishek Sigh | 6/2/25

 

Senate Democrats Sound Alarm Over Delays in $42 Billion Broadband Rollout

Tech Story | Harikrishnan A | 6/5/25

 

US gov't 'does not know best' when delivering broadband dollars: SHLB exec director

Fierce Network | Masha Abarinova | 6/4/25

 

Fiber Connect 2025 Wrap-Up with FBA, Omdia & Dell’Oro

Converge Network Digest | Jim Carroll | 6/3/25

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