Nextlink started a $9M build in Newton County, TX: fixed wireless to 2,700+ households, backed by ~60 miles of fiber. First phase of a $51M, six-county East Texas program. #FixedWireless #RuralBroadband

BEAD in October: NM signed its first project, Michigan signed 23, Delaware fast-tracked permits for one. Signing gets a project money. Permits are what let crews start. #BEAD #FiberOptics

Delaware put Verizon’s $43.3M BEAD project (2,000+ homes and businesses) into its JobsFirst Permitting Accelerator. State agencies review its permits together on a shared timeline instead of one after another. #BEAD #Permitting

Doug Dawson this week: rural counties he talks to now rank cell coverage above broadband as their top concern. The FCC’s planned $9B 5G Fund for rural towers has stalled since 2024, and direct-to-device satellite is filling the gap for 911 and voice, not much more. potsandpansbyccg.com/2026/10… #RuralBroadband #Wireless

Stankey on fiber M&A yesterday: “I don’t want to just buy footprint for the sake of buying it.” He also wouldn’t rule out open access in legacy wireline markets “over the long haul.” Open access from AT&T in copper markets would change the math for every overbuilder planning around them. #FiberOptics #Telecom

AT&T Q3: 442K fiber adds (vs 288K a year ago), 13.31M fiber subs, 39.7M locations passed, 60M target by 2030. Fiber ARPU down 4% to $70.35. Fiber capex about $1B/yr lower than planned. Record growth, lower price, less spend. That’s the competition. #FiberOptics #Broadband

What “refurbished shelter” means at PSI: two new 3 or 5 ton HVACs, new Commstat4 controller, new roof coat, new tile floor, master bus bar and ground halo, new door lock, holes repaired, every electrical component tested. Sizes 10x16 to 12x30. psitec.com #OutsidePlant

New concrete equipment shelters are running 3 to 6 months. PSI also carries refurbished ones: two new HVACs, new controller, new floor and roof, everything tested. Sooner and cheaper. Plus BABA-certified cabinets from 16RU to 48RU, popular models shipping in 3 to 5 days. #OutsidePlant #FiberOptics

Most-opened item in PSI’s catalog this year: the Certes DPRM overview. Four pieces: Layer 4 payload protection, customer-held keys and policy, crypto-segmentation per data flow, and unified reporting of protected, blocked, and allowed flows for audit. psitec.me/Certes-DPRM #Cybersecurity #Utilities

Encrypting between sites without rebuilding the network: Certes CEP encrypts the Layer 4 payload and leaves the original IP and TCP/UDP headers intact. QoS, routing, and monitoring keep working. 10 Gbps, FIPS 140-2, AES-256. psitec.me/CEP520 #Cybersecurity #Encryption

931 of Kit Carson’s 1,035 BEAD fiber miles are aerial. Strand, hardware, closures, and splicing crews are the long pole on an aerial build, not the cable. Plan the materials before the permits clear. #BEAD #FiberOptics #OSP

New Mexico’s first signed BEAD project: Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, $27M grant plus $12M of its own money, 1,035 miles of fiber to 3,935 locations in five counties. Deployment expected to finish in 2030. 19 NM projects, 15 providers. One signed so far. #BEAD #FiberOptics

PSI carries BABA-certified climate-controlled cabinets with a 3 to 5 day lead time, and now new and refurbished walk-in equipment shelters. Cabinet when it fits, hut when it doesn’t. #OutsidePlant #FiberOptics

18 days to WISPAPALOOZA. PSI’s at Booth #219, Caesars Palace, November 2 to 5. #WISPAPALOOZA26 #WISP

REV Fiber, a locally owned Louisiana provider, broke ground on 2,840 BEAD locations around Central, part of a consortium with T-Mobile and Swyft Fiber that won about $378M. Louisiana’s target: 15,000 BEAD locations by end of Q1 2027. @Light_Reading #BEAD #Louisiana

Louisiana broke ground last week on what state officials call the largest BEAD-funded broadband project in the country, in East Baton Rouge Parish. Construction season is starting to look real. #BEAD #Louisiana

BEAD will fund 270,000+ miles of buried fiber, about 58% of the program’s total, per NY Law School’s ACLP. Researchers expect millions of 811 tickets to come with it. #BEAD #FiberOptics

Tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET: NTIA’s Arielle Roth on Fiber for Breakfast with Gary Bolton, as BEAD moves from planning into construction. @FiberBroadband #BEAD #FiberForBreakfast

E-Rate comments are due today at 11:59 p.m. ET, WC Docket 26-133. If you miss it, reply comments run through November 12. #ERate #Broadband

82% of rural operators have no defined AI strategy, per Innovative Systems’ survey of 132 providers. WISPAPALOOZA has two sessions on it Tuesday, Nov 3 at 2:30: The CEO’s AI Playbook, and Automation That Paid for Itself. #WISPAPALOOZA26 #AI