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Fiber Broadband Association Spotlights Critical Conversations on Tribal Broadband at Fiber Connect 2025 
 
WASHINGTON, D.C.— (April 23, 2025)—The Fiber Broadband Association (FBA), led by its Tribal Broadband Roundtable, has curated a comprehensive program to address key issues as Tribal Nations leverage fiber broadband to enhance services, expand healthcare access, create jobs, and preserve tribal heritage. Tribal Broadband topics are integrated throughout the Fiber Connect 2025 program, which takes place June 1 – 4 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The Gaylord property occupies the ancestral hunting and traditional lands of the Cherokee, Shawnee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek peoples. 

 

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Sean Evans Turns Up the Heat at Fiber Connect 2025 with Exclusive Hot Seat Interview 
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (April 21, 2025) – The Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) is turning up the heat at Fiber Connect 2025, the world’s largest event for fiber deployment, expansion, and innovation. This year’s conference, taking place June 1-4, in Nashville, Tenn., is set to deliver a must-see, unscripted conversation on broadband’s biggest topics—hosted by Sean Evans, the Emmy-nominated host of Hot Ones. This exclusive main stage event, set for Monday, June 2, is sponsored by TAK Broadband and will feature their CEO Trent Edwards in the fiber broadband hot seat.  

 

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Telecom Leaders Unite  So Rural Communities Can Thrive

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Atlas Digital Group and GLDS Strengthen Partnership, Achieve Key Milestones in Broadband Innovation

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Omnitron Systems Introduces New Single Pair Power over Ethernet (SPoE) Switches 

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«Connectivity that matters» is also a mission for sustainability 

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Flagger Force Recognizes National Work Zone Awareness Week

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Surf Internet Welcomes Todd Weeks  Read More | Nears 1,000 Customers as Fiber Expansion Accelerates

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This week on Fiber for Breakfast, Eric Frederick, Michigan’s first Chief Connectivity Officer talks about the mission and goals of the Michigan High-Speed Internet Office (MIHI). He discusses the early challenges he faced stepping into the role, the team’s progress on Michigan’s Digital Equity Plan, and what’s ahead in their mission to connect every Michigander. 

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U.S. Home Fiber Deployments Top 88M homes passed

Fiber Forward Magazine| Doug Mohney | Q1 Issue

 

NTIA Issues Blanket 90-Day Extension for BEAD Plans

Broadband Breakfast | Jake Neenan | 4/22/25

 

Oklahoma Fiber-Only BEAD Pool Application Window Opens

Telecompetitor | Carl Weinschenk | 4/22/25

 

Youngstown State launches pre-apprenticeship broadband program

Broadband Communities | Brad Randall | 4/21/25

 

Here are the FCC rules that telecom wants to kill

Light Reading | Mike Dano | 4/18/25

 

Test and Measurement: The rural/urban digital divide is getting deeper

RCR Wireless News | Kelly Hill | 4/23/25

 

The broadband balancing act and the future of rural connectivity

Broadband Communities | Brad Randall | 4/22/25

 

The Divide: Why states want the feds to 'get out of the way' of BEAD

Light Reading | Nicole Ferraro | 4/22/25

 

Bandwidth Hawk: Death of BEAD is now possible (maybe likely)

Broadband Communities | Brad Randall | 4/19/25

 

Trump tackles permitting, but telecom ramifications unclear

Light Reading | 4/18/25

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