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This week in broadband builds: Flume expands to California (and Connecticut), Kinetic connects Cooks County, Georgia, Spectrums GREAT grants, WOW! starts greenfield builds in Central Florida – and more.

Light Reading content partner Kurrant Insights presents an in-depth look at Comcasts smart cities business, focusing on the technology trail in its home city of Philadelphia.

The state said the initial iteration of the FCCs broadband map undercounts New Yorks digital divide by 31,000 locations. The FCC will debut a first draft of the new map this month.

The regulatory agency said it is bulking up to handle the surge of interest and investment in satellite broadband, space tourism and new services we cant yet imagine.

Linked to a broader expansion initiative, Google Fiber said it will build fiber networks in Lakewood, Colorado. The company already serves parts of Denver with its fixed wireless Webpass offering.

Faced with rising operating costs, some broadband service providers are concluding that higher prices are unavoidable, but that doesnt indicate a bona fide price war is brewing, says a top industry analyst.

The Danish developer thinks the field programmable gate array technology it specializes in has had a bad rap and is out to set the record straight.

Alan Breznick reviews the Leading Lights Awards categories he judged and examines surprising trends that appeared in the submissions, such as the marked increase in fixed wireless entries.

MobileX, a Verizon MVNO founded by Peter Adderton, released its pricing plans as part of a beta test of its service. The company said the response to its beta offering exceeded expectations.

Growth in mobile customers in the US isnt slowing down, and thats surprising some analysts. One factor at play is the number of new business customers signing up for mobile in a post-COVID world.