The OX Factor

3 Reasons Subsidy-Free Builds Are Winning

Plus: 2 Shifts That Will Leave Grant-Chasers Behind

3 Moves That Actually Accelerate Field Work

Plus: 2 Shifts too Many People are Ignoring

Smart Fiber Moves: Southbound Gold, Faster Builds, and Backbone Battles

Plus: Why Permits (Still) Suck and Power is the New Population

Fiber Plays That Actually Scale: AI, Adjacency, and Deployment Grit

Plus: When Your Conduit Goes Swimming (and Shouldn't)

Strategic Expansion, Funding Opportunities & AI's Fiber Evolution

Plus: When a Fiber Crew Played Connect-the-Dots (and Lost)

BEAD Battles, Rural Rewards & Last-Mile Land Grabs

Plus: When a Coke Bottle Became a Fiber Fix

Deep-Sea Cables, Lasers & Muni Revolts

Fiber's Next Big Wins: Rural, Cities & Data Centers

$42B BEAD Program Hits The Ice

Plus: AT&T exits NY over affordable broadband mandates

Broadband Affordability in Action — What New York Just Changed

The End of Net Neutrality — What Broadband’s New Era Means

The Broadband Reckoning: 2025 Will Belong to the Bold