NEW: UTOPIA Fiber is putting the finishing touches on the second largest municipal broadband network in the U.S. Residents in West Valley City, Utah now have access to broadband speeds of up to 10 Gbps from 16 different residential ISPs. More, here: fiercetelecom.com/broadband/utop…

Our friends at Au Wireless used Preseem Plus to identify equipment issues and add AP capacity, while lowering latency and improving the subscriber experience. Find out how they did it! #preseem hubs.la/Q01gpHpW0

(NYSE:VZ) shares fell on Thursday as investment firm Bank of America downgraded the telecom giant, noting that the fixation on 5G has not resulted in any major advancements just yet" this is not just a VZ problem it's an industry problem the over hyping of 5G was a mistake.

Planned: We will be performing scheduled maintenance today from approximately 2:00pm to 4:00pm on the radio links to our Easley Rd towers and the Avery tower. Equipment was damaged in an electrical storm earlier this week auwireless.instatus.com/cl683byax0064v…

CenturyLink experiences major outage, bringing down Internet connectivity in the Mountain States dlvr.it/SWSV5P

Investigating: We are currently investigating this incident. We have lost power to all equipment not on battery backup. All customers are down in those two buildings indicating a power issue in the building. auwireless.instatus.com/cl6z0wfe83044k…

Hackaday: Bufferbloat, The Internet, And How To Fix It. hackaday.com/2022/08/18/buf…

Comcast Xfinity and Charter Spectrum are cleaning up on government subsidies after years of refusing to invest and passing laws to prevent others from doing so. al.com/news/2022/08/a…

Building a community-owned broadband network IS possible – and practical. We can help you set the table and consider your options. Check out our menu here: forms.gle/d3rtDmcxNdogaY… #LetsGetGoingBroadbandProgram #UrbanDigitalEquityBootcamp #digitalequity

Ars Technica: Comcast wants Internet users to pay more because customer growth has stalled. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Instead of a single router to wash your home in Wi-Fi connectivity, a mesh system combines the main router with one or more nodes that appear as a unified Wi-Fi network. Here are our favorites trib.al/2pADnXc

Nice to see a community that listens to its citizens and lobbies for fiber to all homes. Lakewood set to be first city in Colorado with Google Fiber network cbsnews.com/colorado/news/…

This Twitter account will no longer be maintained by Chad. If you wish to follow me personally, I am @ChadWachs (for as long as I stay on Twitter). Automated network updates will continue on the account for at least the next month or two.