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Earlier this year, Shentel disclosed plans to cover up to 215,000 households with its Beam-branded fixed wireless Internet service. Now its halting those plans and will instead build out fiber.

Divestiture covers WOWs service areas in Evansville, Indiana, and Anne Arundel, Maryland. WOW recently completed a sale of its Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, systems to Atlantic Broadband.

CableLabs Mariam Sorond offers fresh insight about the genesis of the Convergence Council and the Mobile Convergence Committee, two important projects kicked off by the organization earlier this year.

Comcast will soon upgrade all Gigabit Pro customers to symmetrical speeds of 3 Gbit/s. Gigabit Pro, a residential FTTP service introduced in 2015, originally offered symmetrical speeds of 2 Gbit/s.

Big Canadian telecom operator also boosts revenue and net income in fiscal Q4, thanks to its strong wireless performance, even as its wireline sub losses continue to pile up.

If confirmed, Bidens pick for FCC Commissioner, Gigi Sohn will bring a strong voice for open, affordable Internet and public networks, just as the administration prepares for the largest federal broadband investment in history.

Meanwhile, investors grow concerned as broadband sub growth at Charter slowed in the third quarter amid a decline in sales activity and record low churn. But one analyst believes such concerns are overblown.

The Light Reading editorial team gathers for a recap of the of some of the issues that were scattered, covered and smothered at Mobile World Congress Los Angeles 2021.

This week in our WiC roundup: Working from home has career progression downsides; the FCC makes gender equality waves; social media potentially a bright spot for women in tech; and more.

The long-term trajectory for Comcasts connectivity business remains undimmed, and the company intends to accelerate the growth of its mobile business, Comcast Cable CEO Dave Watson says.