{"id":37802,"date":"2025-07-26T03:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T03:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37802\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T03:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T03:05:13","slug":"biden-funded-maine-muni-isp-runs-into-a-problem-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37802\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden-Funded Maine Muni ISP Runs into a Problem \u2013 Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udca1<\/p>\n<p>\u25fe Charter Drops 117K B&#8217;band Subs \u25fe FCC OKs Purchase of CBS News \u25fe Carr Good with Court on TV Rules \u25fe NextGen TV Gets TV Owner\u2019s Pushback \u25fe Who is Array Digital Infrastructure? \u25fe USDA Gutting DC Staff<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Charter, parent company of\u00a0Spectrum,\u00a0today released its financial and operational results for the second quarter and first half of 2025. For the quarter ending June 30, 2025, Charter saw a decrease in its total Internet customer base, which fell by\u00a0117,000, bringing the total number of Internet customers to\u00a029.9 million. On a positive note, the company reported significant growth in its mobile segment, adding\u00a0500,000 new mobile lines\u00a0during the second quarter. As of June 30, 2025, Charter served a total of\u00a010.9 million mobile lines. The results highlighted Charter&#8217;s ongoing shift toward expanding its mobile service offering, despite a decline in its broadband customer growth. During the second quarter, Charter agreed to buy\u00a0Cox Communications for $34.5 billion\u00a0in a deal pending before federal regulators.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/broadbandbreakfast.com\/policyband\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Policyband<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited Access to Broadband Breakfast and Policyband<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo-1519922838705-9d6cb8bcfaea-49.jpeg\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maine: A Biden-funded broadband project is on the ropes. In tiny\u00a0Arrowsic, Maine,\u00a0the risks of government-funded broadband networks are on full display. The\u00a0Arrowsic Broadband Authority,\u00a0formed in 2020, sponsored a locally built broadband network that has been up and running since March, 2024. The\u00a0$1 million\u00a0project (which included federal\u00a0American Rescue Plan Act\u00a0support) delivers high-speed Internet to about\u00a0500 area residents\u00a0for the first time after private providers declined to offer service. But now there\u2019s a problem, and it\u2019s called competition.\u00a0Fidium Fiber,\u00a0owned by\u00a0Consolidated Communications, has entered the market offering one-year starter rates 40% below the monthly fees on the\u00a0Arrowsic Broadband Authority\u00a0rate card.\u00a0\u201cNow, local officials are urging residents not to switch to maintain their business model,\u201d according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/themainemonitor.org\/arrowsic-broadband-challenge-fidium-fiber-network\/?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a July 23 article<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Maine Monitor. The Arrowsic system, operated by\u00a0Axiom Technologies, has 85% penetration. \u201cLosing even 20% of its customer base would be a \u2018critical problem,\u2019\u201d said Arrowsic Commissioner\u00a0Vince Capone.\u00a0Fidium\u2019s entry was unexpected based on past decisions to stay away. \u201cIt came as some surprise when all of a sudden we started seeing, essentially, a duplicated system being built on top of ours. If it wasn\u2019t actually happening, it would be laughable,\u201d said Arrowsic\u00a0Commissioner\u00a0Don Hudson. Fidium can roll out service quickly in Arrowsic because Consolidated owns the telephone poles \u201cThe local group had\u00a0to pay tens of thousands of dollars\u00a0to put its cables on them. That ownership has made it simple for Fidium to begin installing its own fiber without any approval from Arrowsic officials,\u201d the Maine Monitor reported.<\/p>\n<p>        For Unlimited Access, Join Breakfast Club<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#65a5d6\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udca1 \u25fe Charter Drops 117K B&#8217;band Subs \u25fe FCC OKs Purchase of CBS News \u25fe Carr Good with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-37802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}