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The Divide: How the rural US could solve its middle mile problem; Centranet's Sachin Gupta on the need for more middle mile fiber networks in the rural US, and why telco and electric co-ops are the ideal partners to build them.

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Huawei says it will not work with local firm New East New Materials, which has offered $305 million for Nokia's 51% holding. The big Chinese vendor says it will not work with local firm?New East New Materials , which has offered 2.1 billion Chinese yuan (US$305 million) for Nokia's 51% holding.

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AllPoints Fibre is one of the many altnets wishing to carve out a piece of the UK's emerging fiber market for itself. Its CEO, Richard Jeffares, reckons it can stand out from the crowd and build a national network that eventually even Tier 1 companies like Virgin and BT will want to sell over.

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Jeff Baumgartner joins the podcast to discuss T-Mobile's fixed wireless access (FWA) strategy and why the company is focusing mainly on rural markets.

Jeff highlights new data by Opensignal, with?analysis by MoffettNathanson ?(registration required), that reveals T-Mobile faces a number of challenges in FWA, ranging from subscriber churn to capacity challenges and stiff market competition.

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Hundreds of small and midsized cable operators serving millions of US households will soon be able to market and sell mobile services following word today that the National Content & Technology Cooperative (NCTC) has signed an exclusive MVNO agreement with AT&T.

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